选修八 Unit 4 Warming up and reading.ppt

Company Logo His wish is granted and they get married. He fells in love with the statue, so he asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life and make her wife. Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman Pygmalion is the hero of a Greek myth. What is the Pygmalion myth? Pygmalion, a king of Cyprus（塞浦路斯 ）, was a famous sculptor. He made a beautiful ivory statue of a woman and gave it the name of Galatea（加拉泰亚 ）, and fell in love with it. At his prayers ,Aphrodite—the goddess of beauty and love (爱神阿芙洛狄忒), gave it life. And Galatea ,now a woman in flesh and blood, became Pygmalion wife. Aphrodite, came to their wedding. Are you interested in psychology? If yes, have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion Effect ”? 罗森塔尔 “皮格玛利翁效应” 我们的启示：赞美、信任和期待具有一种能量，它能改变人的行为， 当一个人获得另一个人的信任、赞美时，他便感觉获得了社会支持，从而增强了自我价值，变得自信、自尊，获得一种积极向上的动力，并尽力达到对方的期待，以避免对方失望，从而维持这种社会支持的连续性。 What we expect tends to come true. Robert Rosenthal Effect “罗森塔尔效应”或“期待效应” “说你行，你就行，不行也行； 说你不行，你就不行，行也不行。” The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw has the same theme as the Greek myth. This play was also made into a film called My Fair Lady in 1964. Company Logo Reading Pygmalion Fateful meetings Act one Company Logo Skimming 2 Who are they? 1 How many characters are there in this act? 3 What are they doing at the beginning of the play? They are sheltering from the rain outside a theatre. Professor Higgins Eliza Doolittle Colonel Pickering Company Logo Comprehending Find out all the incorrect/improper use of Eliza’s words. Try to correct all of them in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly. 1. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl. 2. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I haven’t done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise. 4. How do I know whether’ ou took me down righ