Unit4 Fateful meetings reading(人教版选修8 )课件

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Character Position Evidence in the play in society
Colonel Pickering
Upper class
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
While-reading
Task 1: Scan the play and choose the best answers!
• 主旨大意题：
• 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ______.
• 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),
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Character Position Evidence in the play in society
Henry Higgins
Behaviour: rude (to lower class; polite to same or upper class Middle class Language: calls Eliza “you silly girl” and Pickering “my dear man” (an equal and friend)
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Thinking:
1.How many characters are there in the play?
2.When and where does the
play happen?
?
3.What are they doing?
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• 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).
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The author-George Bernard Shaw
• A. Professor Higgins
• B. Colonel Pickering
• C. Professor Higgins and ing
• D. a gentleman
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• 2. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.
Unit 4 Fateful meetings (Act one)
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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.
A. his appearance B. his action C. his conversation D. his manners
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推理判断题：
5. From the text , we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________.
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Character Position Evidence in the
in society
play
Eliza
Lower class
Behaviour: respectful to people of higher class
Language: calls gentleman “sir” and “cap’in” (or captain) which is a compliment
• 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
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3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______. A. she thought Professor Higgins
A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy
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Group work:
Task 2: work out the characteristics of each social group in the play.
would arrest him B. the gentleman didn’t give her
some money C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason
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4. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
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