book8Unit4Reading教程分析.ppt

Unit 4 Pygmalion 1. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. Reading This play, Pygmalion, was also made into a film called My Fair Lady. Pre-reading The play by Shaw has the same theme as the Greek Story. Theme of the Greek story: Pygmalion, an artist create a statue from stone and make it have a 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. What’s the main characters? 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, 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. 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 C Choose the best answer. 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 A 3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______. 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 A 4. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______. A. his appearance B. his action C. his conversation D. his manners C 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 D 1. Eliza was selling s