选修8第四单元Reading.ppt

Unit 4 Pygmalion;Reading;This play by George Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳) is an adaptation of a a classic Greek story. Do you know this story? ;When he finishes the statue, he falls in love with it and goes to the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, to ask her to make the statue into a real woman.;His wish is granted. ;The author —— George Bernard Shaw;In Shaw’s play, Professor Higgins is a man who does not like women either and is very rude to them. For a bet he agrees to teach a poor young woman so that she can be passed off as a rich lady in high class society. So, like Pygmalion, Higgins creates a perfe