2018-2019学年高二英语人教版选修八课件：Unit 4.pptVIP

Unit　4 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳是英国现代杰出的现实主义剧作家，是世界著名的擅长幽默与讽刺的语言大师。他的作品总是让人先笑，然后陷入沉思。 George Bernard Shaw (1856～1950) was an Irish playwright.Although his first career was in music and literary criticism，his main talent was for drama，and he wrote more than 50 plays.Nearly all his writings address general social problems，but have a little humor which makes their serious themes more impressive.He was the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)．He died at the age of 94. Bernard Shaw was born in Synge Street，Dublin.His father was an unsuccessful grain merchant (粮商) and civil servant，and his mother a professional singer.He ended his formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.He held a lifelong negative attitude toward schools and teachers.In 1876，Shaw joined his mother’s London household while he frequented public libraries and the British Museum reading room where he studied hard and began writing novels.However，his novels were rejected.Shaw’s plays were first performed in the 1890s.His output as a novelist，critic，essayist and private correspondent (通讯员) was fruitful.He was known to have written more than 250,000 letters. His classic works include：Widowers’ Houses，Saint Joan，Pygmalion，The Devil’s Disciple，Mrs Warren’s Profession，Major Barbara and so on.Let’s enjoy some of his beautiful lines： ◇Behind every successful man，there is a woman and behind every unsuccessful man，there are two. ◇The wise never marry and when they marry they become otherwise. ◇The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. ◇Imagination is the beginning of creation.You imagine what you desire，you will be what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ◇If all economists were laid end to end，they would not reach a conclusion. ◇There are two tragedies in life.One is not to get your heart’s desire.The other is to get it. 谢谢观看！ * * * *