人教课标版高中英语选修8Unit4Reading（20）.pptVIP

Unit 4 Pygmalion * 2 Have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion effect”? 心理学家莫顿（Robert Merton)将此现象称之为“自我实现的预言”。这也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fairy Lady)中为人所熟知的“皮格马利翁效应”(Pygmalion effect) * * The 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 even try ,they probably won’t. * * Pre-reading 1.This play was written by George Bernard Shaw.Do you know anything about him? * * 萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日—1950年11月2日），爱尔兰剧作家。1925年因作品具有理想主义和人道主义而获诺贝尔文学奖，他是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家，是世界著名的擅长幽默与讽刺的语言大师，同时他还是积极的社会活动家和费边社会主义的宣传者。他支持妇女的权利，呼吁选举制度的根本变革，倡导收入平等，主张废除私有财产。 * * 2.Do you know some of his works?What are they? * * 电影《窈窕淑女》(奥黛丽·赫本主演) （My Fairy Lady） ●《鳏夫的房产》(Widowers Houses) ●《圣女贞德》(Saint Joan) ●历史剧 《卖花女》(Pygmalion) (1964年改编成电影《窈窕淑女》，当年获奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳改编音乐等八座小金人。) ●《魔鬼的门徒》(The Devils Disciple) ●《人与超人》(Man and Superman) ●《伤心之家》(Heartbreak House) ●《华伦夫人的职业》(Mrs Warrens Profession) ●《巴巴拉少校》(Major Barbara) ●《苹果车》(The Apple Cart) ●《医生的两难选择》(The Doctors Dilemma) ●《长生》或《千岁人》(Back to Methuselah) ●《凯撒和克娄巴特拉》(Caesar and Cleopatra) * * Fast- Reading 1. How many characters are there in the play? There are 3 characters in the play.They are Eliza, Professor Higgins, and Colonel Pickering. * * 2. What’s the weather like when the play begins?  When the play begins, it is pouring with rain. * * 3. Do you think Eliza a well-educated woman? Why? No. She is poor-educated. We can know it from what she said and what she did. * * 4. Why did professor Higgins want to make notes of what Eliza said? He wanted to make a speech, because it’s his profession. * * 5. What’s the meaning of “the age of the newly rich”? It means people begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand. * * Careful-reading 1. what is the main idea of the play? A. The poor flower girl, Eliza, found Higgins to buy some flowe