【公开课课件】高中英语选修八Unit 4 Pygmalion Reading

3. show sb in e.g.Wait a minitue , I will show you in.
show off 炫耀
show… in(to) show
show… out
show up 出现(通常在耽搁一段时间后
3. (be) resigned to…
be resigned to one’s fate 4. the other day a few days ago
in amazement He is in amazement.
He said in amazement. 6. pass … off as pretend to be sb/doing sth
The cheats passed themselves off as weavers. 7.make one’s acquaintance get to know sb from a
Pygmalion
Based on classical myth, Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.
Pygmalion effect is one of the social psychological effects . Pygmalion was the king of Cyprus in the ancient tale of Greece, who fell in love with a sculpture of a young girl and expected to be accepted sincerely . The real love and expectation moved the Goddness of love called Venus, Aphr . Active expectation makes people develop towards the good direction while passive expectation makes people develop towards the worse direction. Only by sending active expecation can make a person develop well .

1. What is the name of the man hiding from the rain?
Henry Higgins
2. Why is Eliza frightened of him at first? She thinks he is a policeman in disguise.
2. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to ___A____. A. ask him to buy some flowers from her B. talk with him C. ask him to teach her D. beg some money from him
Language: calls Eliza “_y_o_u__si_ll_y_g_ir_l_” and Pickering “_m__y_d_e_a_r_m_a_n__”
Character
Colonel Pickering
Position in society
Upper class
Evidence in the play
Unit 4 Pygmalion
Reading
Pre-reading
This play, Pygmalion, was also made into a film called My Fair Lady. Have you seen the film? If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.
Henry when he talks
about Eliza in front of her
(which is very rude)

Houses(1892) Man and Superman (1902), • Major Barbara (1905) • Pygmalion(1912)
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My Fair Lady adapted from
Pygmalion by George Bernard
2 Shaw
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Reading Pygmalion
(1856-1950)
An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.
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• main works • Widowers'
Colonel Pickering(P): an officer in the
army and later a friend of Higgins’ who
sets him a task.
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True or False?
1. Eliza was selling some flowers when Higgins first met her. T
said accurately?
5. A shop assistant ? Now that’s sommat I want, that is!
A shop assistant? Now that’s something I would
like to be!
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Role-play reading
disguise.
I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.

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Ⅱ.高频词汇(汉译英)
1．adaptation n．
适应(性)；改编本
2． classic adj.
经典的；第一流的
n. 3． professor n.
经典著作 教授
4． fateful adj.
重要的；决定性的；命中注定的
5．woollen adj.
毛纺的；纯毛的(〈美〉woolen)
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阅读单词
情节；阴谋 (一件)衣服(外套、裙袍等) 服装 手帕；手绢；纸巾 大使；使节 长袜 饼干
7．cream n. 8．waist n. 9．referee n. 10．laundry n． 11．alphabet n. 12．antique adj.
n.
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奶油；面霜 腰；腰部；腰围 裁判员；仲裁者 洗衣店；洗衣房；(待洗的或洗好的)衣服 字母表 古时的；(因古老、稀少而)珍贵的 文物；古董；古玩
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[语境活用]
1．We need to hold back global warming and prepare for its _o_u_t_c_o_m_e_ (后果)．
2．Friends are not books, yet books are friends. Friends may _b_e_t_ra_y__ (背叛) you, while books are always loyal.
n．强盗；盗贼 15．musical adj.音乐的；喜爱音乐的 n．音乐喜剧→ music n．音
乐→ musician n．音乐家 16．horrible adj.可怕的；恐怖的→ horror n．恐怖 17．disgusting adj.使人反感的；令人厌恶的→ disgust vt.使反感