高二英语Fateful-meetings-reading课件

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
3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______. A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason
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
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)
Colonel Pickering
Upper class
Task 3: Look again at how the three characters treat each other in the play.
• Look first at Henry. Discuss in groups: 1.Who does he say nice things to? 2.Who does he do kind actions to? 3.Who is he rude to? 4.Who does he do unkind things to?
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.”
4. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______. A. his appearance B. his action C. his conversation D. his manners
推理判断题：
5. From the text , we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________. A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy
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
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.
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)
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!
Character
Position in society
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
• 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
Confident, selfimportant
“But,
Example:
Professor Higgins
Impatient, rude, confident, superior self-important
Colonel Pickering
Kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic eager, confident
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!
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).
• 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
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)
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)