最新高中英语选修8导学案Module8Unit4Pygmalion(reading)导学案(教师版)

Module 8 Unit 4 Pygmalion
Warming Up
Pygmalion
1.Are you interested in Psychology? If yes, have you ever heard of the “
Effect”？
2.Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw, is an adaptation of a Greek story.
Do you know some information about the author----George Bernard Shaw?
His main works:
Immaturity
Widowers’ houses
Pygmalion
Man and supperman (1992 )
John Bull’s Other Island (1904 )
Major Barbara (1905 )
George Bemard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a
leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women’s r ights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money. He was a
very humorous playwright.
3.look at the pictures on page 28 and try to work out the story and tell it to your
partner.
Pre-reading
1 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.
2 Do you know the famous actress? She i s regarded as the one of the most elegant
ed in?
ladies in the world. What’s her name? Can you name some films which she act (Roman Holiday) 1953 (Sabrina) 1954
(War and Peace) 1956 (The Nun’s Story)1959
(My Fair Lady) 1964
(Breakfast at Tiffany’s) 1961
Reading
Task 1
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
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
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
4. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by .
A. his appearance
B. his action
C. his conversation
D. his manners
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
6. Why did Higgins make notes while he was watching the flower girl?
A. Because he wanted to study something about phonetics from the girl.
B. Because he was really a policeman in disguise.
C. Because he wanted to know what the girl wanted to do.
D. Because he was going to teach the girl to speak properly.
7.From , Higgins got to know the flower girl was born in Lisson Grove.
A. her clothes
B. her language
C. her look
D. her job of selling flowers
8. According to Higgins, if the flower girl was educated well to speak properly, she could do the following things EXCEPT .
A. passing herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden par
B. serving as a lady’s maid
C. becoming a shop assistant
D. selling dead flowers to gentlemen
9. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The poor flower girl, Eliza, asked Higgins to buy some flowers from her.
B. Higgins found Eliza proper for his phonetics study.
C. Colonel Pickering found Higgins outside a theatre of London.
D. Higgins made his acquaintance with Colonel Pickering.
Task 2 (True or False)
1.Eliza was selling some flowers when Higgins first met her. T
2.She succeeded in selling some dead flowers to Huggins for some small change.
F
3.Huggins wrote down her name and addres s. F
4.Huggins was good at judging people from their own speech. T
5.Huggins could earn a lot for his job. T
6.Huggins promised to find her a good job. F
7.Either man had planned to meet the other although they didin’t know each other.
T
Task 3
Evidence in the play
Character Position in
society
Eliza Lower class Behavior: respectful to people of higher
class
Language: calls gentleman “sir”and cap’in
(or captain ) which is a compliment
Henry Higgins Middle class Behavior: rude to lower class; polite to
same or upper class
Language: calls Eliza “you silly girl ”and Pickering “ my dear man ”
Colonel Pickering
Opper class
Behavior: generally confident and polite , but ignores Eliza.
Language: prepareed to begin a conversation with Henry, whom he does not know, generous with praise to him.
Task 4 The social position of each character influences the way they bahave to each other.generally speaking, people are more polite to those who they think are of a higher social class (H) and less polite to those they consider are members of a lower class (L). Is this true of the characters in Shaw ’s play?
Give your evidence in the chart below. Relationships between characters Ecidence from the play Henry Higgins:
1. respect his professional
work as a
phonetician ; calls him sir and my dear man
2.watches her; notes
her reactions;
talks about her in front of her; calls her silly girl
1. Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H)
2. Attitude to Eliza (L)
Is the statement true? 1. yes
2. yes
Colonel Pickering
1. Appreciates his expertise , praises him; asks his opinion; Happy to be friends
1.Attitude to Henry Higgins(H)
2.Attitude to Eliza (L) 2. ignores her; does not stop Henry when he talks about Eliza in front of her (which is very rude)
Is the statement true? 1. yes 2. yes
1. Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H) 1. anxious , eager not to do the wrong
things; ambitions to improve herself;
respectful curious about Henry’s
expertise
Attitude to Henry (H) 2. feel upset not being included in the
conversation when talked about
Is the statement true? 1. yes 2. unclear
Task 5 Finish the Ex4 and Ex5 on page 31
Task 6 Close reading
One night in London, England in 1914, it was pouring with rain and cab 1 were blowing in all directions. Outside a theatre a man called Higgins was hiding from the rain listening to people’s
language and watching their reactions. While watching, he made notes. At the same time, a flower girl nearby was also 2 from the rain. A gentleman passed and 3 for a moment. Then the girl asked the gentleman to buy flowers from her, but he had no change. The girl was disappointed at the 4 , but thought it was better than nothing. When the flower girl found Higgins made notes of the 5 between the gentleman and her, she was worried because she thought Higgins was a policeman in 6 . higgins talked with the girl and judged that she was was born in Lisson Grove, and that made the girl ver 7 . colonel Pickering was surprised and wanted to know how Higgins could 8 a man by just a few remarks. Higgins was an expert in phonetics and he said that if the flower girl could be taught to speak 9 by him, she could 10 herself off
in three months as a duchess. They got into conversation with each other, and Higgins found the man was the person he wanted to meet in India, and Colonel Pickering found Higgins was the very man he wanted to know. They left happily after Higgins gave the girl a pound, which made the girl very excited.
Key: whistles; sheltering; hesitated; outcome; remarks; disgnise; confused; place; properly; pass.。