英语选修8 unit4 pygmalion reading

gentleman “sir” and “cap’in” (or captain) _________ which is a compliment
Character Position Evidence in the play in society Henry Higgins
Middle class
Fill in the chart.
Character Position Evidence in the play in society Behaviour: _________ respectful Eliza Lower class Language: calls
to people of higher class
new life . Theme of My fair lady: Higgins, a phonetics create a new girl Eliza from lower class to upper class by teaching her English.
Pygmalion
Acting : Try to act it out.
Relationships between characters Eliza 1. Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H) 2. Attitude to Henry (H)
6. Can you recognize each character’s social position by their behaviour and language? Is he or she from the upper class, middle class or lower class? Give your reasons.
Evidence from the play
expertise 1. Appreciates his _________; praises _______him; asks his opinion; Happy to be friends ignores stop 2. _______her; does not ______ Henry when he talks about Eliza in front of her (which is very rude) Yes 2.______ Yes Is the statement true? 1._____
5. What is Eliza’s ambition and what does she decide to do about it? Her ambition is to be a shop assistant. She decides to take lessons from Professor Higgins to achieve her aim.
4. Professor Higgins believed that he
could judge a person by _______. C
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 _________. D A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy
Pickering
D. a gentleman
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

Upper class
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 address. F 4. Huggins was good at judging people from their own speech. T
Behaviour: _____ rude to lower class; _____ polite to same or upper class
Language: calls you silly girl Eliza “___________” and Pickering my dear man “____________”
Act one
Fateful meetings
Eliza Doolittle
Henry Higgins
Colonel Pickering
Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is
ambitious to improve herself.
Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics,
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 didn’t know each other. T
Relationships between characters Henry Higgins:
Evidence from the play
professional 1. respect his _____________ phonetician calls 1. Attitude to Colonel work as a ____________; him sir and my dear man Pickering (H) notes 2. watches her; _______her 2. Attitude to Eliza (L) reactions; talks about her in front of her; calls her ___________ silly girl
convinced that the quality of a person’s English
decides his/her position in society.
Colonel Pickering(P): an officer in the army
and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task.
The play by Shaw has the same theme as the Greek Story. In pairs discuss what this theme might be.
Theme of the Greek story: Pygmalion, an artist
create a statue from stone and make it have a
3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______. A A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason
Character Colonel Pickering
Position in society
Evidence in the play Behaviour: generally polite confident and ______; ignores Eliza but _______ Language: prepared conversation to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him
Yes 2. ______ Yes Is the statement true? 1. _____
Relationships between characters Colonel Pickering 1. Attitude to Henry Higgins (H) 2. Attitude to Eliza (L)
2 The social position of each character influences the way they behave 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.