人教版高中英语选修八课件：Unit 4 Reading(共69张PPT)

Unit 4 Pygmalion Reading This play, Pygmalion, was also made into a film called My Fair Lady. Have you seen the film? If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons. Pre-reading The play by Shaw has the same theme as the Greek Story. In pairs discuss what this theme might be. 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. Pygmalion Acting Act one Fateful meetings : Try to act it out. 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