高二英语Fateful-meetings-reading课件

Character
Position in society
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Evidence in the play Behaviour: generally confident and polite; but ignores Eliza Language: prepared to begin a conversation with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him
e over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl. 2. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentlemen. I haven’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentlemen. 3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise. I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise. 4. How do I know whether’ou took me words down right? How do I know whether you wrote down what I 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!
Thinking:
1.How many characters are there in the play? 2.When and where does the play happen? 3.What are they doing?
While-reading
Task 1: Scan the play and choose the best answers!
Main information of Colonel Pickering:
An officer in the army He was very curious about their talk and after a while, he became Higgins’
friend
Post-reading
Main information of Professor Higgins: His profession and hobby was to study and people from their own classify speech. He was hiding from the rain but phonetics watching people’s and reactions, busy making . language In his opinion, once educatednotes to speak , in three months the girl could herself properly as a duchess(女公爵) at an ambassador’s garden off party, and even find pass her as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant. employment
Group work:
Task 2: work out the characteristics of each social group in the play.
Character
Position in society
Eliza
Lower class
Evidence in the play Behaviour: respectful to people of higher class
sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, the girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. Perhaps I could even find her employment as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.”
Post-reading
• What other things show one’s status in society apart from how one speaks?
Homework!
• 1. Finish Exercises 2 on page 31; • 2. Retell the play by using your own words; • 3. Listen to the tape and imitate the pronunciation, intonation and then roleplay (角色扮演)the play in groups of three; • 4. Preview language points and Making the bet (Act Two)
We find that he is nice to Pickering and rude to Eliza.
Group work
Task 4: Describe the characters in the play with those adjectives in the list. • • • • • • • impatient, rude, confident, superior(优等的), self-important kind, polite, generous(慷慨的，大方的), enthusiastic, eager, anxious, emotional(易激动的，易动感情的), ambitious(有雄心的，野心勃勃的), unsure(缺乏 自信的，无把握)
The author-George Bernard Shaw
• An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Main works： Widowers' Houses Pygmalion Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905)
Eliza Doolittle
Anxious, eager, emotional ambitious, unsure
Task 5: Skim the play quickly and fill in the blanks
When it happened? On a rainy night in 1914 Where it happened? Outside a theatre in London What was the main matter? Eliza Doolittle, who spoke terrible English, caught a professor’s attention.
• 2. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______. • 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
• 主旨大意题： • 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ______. • A. Professor Higgins • B. Colonel Pickering • C. Professor Higgins and Colonel • Pickering • D. a gentleman
Language: calls gentleman “sir” and “cap’in” (or captain) which is a compliment
Character Position Evidence in the play in society Behaviour: rude (to lower class; polite to same or upper class Middle Henry Language: calls class Higgins Eliza “you silly girl” and Pickering “my dear man” (an equal and friend)
Confident, selfimportant
“But,
Example:
Professor Higgins
Impatient, rude, confident, superior self-important
Colonel Pickering
Kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic eager, confident
Revision
• 1.Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to take responsibility, they probably will. If you expect them not to even try, they probably won’t. • 2.Pygmalion Effect: 心理学家莫顿（Robert Merton）将此现象名之为“自我实现的预 言”。这也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》 (My Fair Lady)中为人所熟知的“皮格马利 翁效应”（Pygmalion effect).