高中英语unit 4 pygmalion-warming up名师公开课市级获奖课件（新人教版高中英语选修8）.pptVIP

Warming up Get some knowledge about: 1. the Greek story of Pygmalion. 2. the story in three stages. (using pictures) Please enjoy some pictures about Greek stories. Warming up 地神该亚 海神波塞冬 火神赫淮斯拉斯 太阳神阿波罗 农神得墨忒耳 天神宙斯 天后赫拉 智慧女神雅典娜 战神阿瑞斯 First American (serialized) publication, Everybodys Magazine, November 1912 心理学家莫顿（Robert Merton）将此现象名之为“自我实现的预言”。这也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)中为人所熟知的“皮格马利翁效应”（Pygmalion effect）。 Have you ever heard of the “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 to even try, they probably won’t. This play by George Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳) is an adaptation of a Greek story. Do you know this story? Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman. He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life. His wish is granted. The author-----George Bernard Shaw An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. His main works: Immaturity Widowers Houses Pygmalion Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905) Plot (Pygmalion) of Act I Covent Garden - 11.15p.m. A group of people are sheltering from the rain. Eliza drops her flowers into the mud of Covent Garden, the flowers she needs to survive in her poverty-stricken world. Shortly they are joined by a gentleman, Colonel Pickering. While Eliza tries to sell flowers to the Colonel, a bystander informs her that a man is writing down everything she says. The man is Professor Henry Higgins. Indeed, Pickering has come to meet Higgins and Higgins was planning to go to India to meet Pickering. Higgins tells Pickering that he could turn the flower girl into a duchess. Preview the 2 reading materials in SB. Homework * * *