故事出自于希腊神话。皮格马力翁（ Pygmalion ）是塞普勒斯国王，也是雕塑家。她用象牙雕了一座女人像后不能自己地爱上了这座雕像。美神阿佛洛狄忒（就是罗马神话的 Venus ）有感于他的痴情，施法力让雕像变成活人，使有情人终成眷属。这个由雕像变成的女人叫迦勒提阿（ Galatea ）。受到这个神话的启发， 1912 年英国剧作家肖伯纳创作了同名剧 Pygmalion 。剧中的语言学教授 Higgins 在伦敦街头找到了一个卖花女Eliza ，加以训练，使其成为谈吐涂高雅的贵妇，和皮格马力翁凿出一个完美的雕像并赋予新生命如出一辙。1956 年百老汇将该剧改编为《窈窕淑女》（ My Fair Lady ），成为百老汇有史以来最轰动的剧作之一。 1964 年又被改编为电影上演，由著名女影星奥黛莉 · 赫本主演，非常卖座。 Pygmalion 皮格马力翁，醉心于自己创作的人 此张幻灯片仅供各位老师了解文章的背景

Pygmalion,the play by George Bernard Shaw, is an adaptation of a Greek story.

                          

       

According to the myth, Pygmalion ,a prince of Cyprus, created an ivory statue of the ideal woman, Galatea. Because Galatea was so beautiful that Pygmalion fell desperately in love with his own creation. He prayed to the goddess Venus to bring Galatea to life. Venus granted his prayer and the couple lived happily ever after.

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.

                          

       

This is what we call Pygmalion Effect or Rosenthal ( 罗森塔尔 )effect. It refers to the phenomenon that the greater expectation we place upon people, children or students, the better they will perform. From this effect, we can see that we can get we are dreaming of or what we are expecting. And then, from this, we can go to our education. That is we can expect something of our students. And our students can adjust themselves to what we expect them to be.

Such is the essence of the self-fulfilling prophecy: what we expect tends to come true.

• How much do you know about George Bernard Shaw?

The author-----George Bernard Shaw,who is

an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. His main works:

Immaturity

Widowers' Houses

Pygmalion

Man and Superman (1902),

John Bull's Other Island (1904),

Major Barbara (1905)

George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money . He was a very humorous playwright.

• The play has been made into the film My fair lady.

Do you know the famous actress? She is regarded as the one of the most elegant ladies in the world. What’s her name? Can you name some films which she acted in?

罗马假期 (R

oman Holid

ay)

1953 年

龙凤配 (Sa

brina)

1954 年

战争与和平(War and Peace)

1956 年

修女传 (The Nun‘s St

ory)

1959 年

第凡内早餐 (Breakfast at

Tiffany‘s)

1961 年

窈窕淑女(My Fair Lady)

1964 年

1. This text is mainly about the first

experience of Eliza meeting with ______.

A. Professor Higgins

B. Colonel Pickering

C. Professor Higgins and Colonel

Pickering

D. a gentleman

Act One 主旨大意

2. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in

order to _______.

A. ask him to buy some flowers from

her

B. talk with him

C. ask him to teach her

D. beg some money from him

3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because

_______.

A. she thought Professor Higgins

would arrest him

B. the gentleman didn’t give her some

money

C. Pickering beat and scolded her

D. there was no reason

4. Professor Higgins believed that he

could judge a person by _______.

A. his appearance

B. his action

C. his conversation

D. his manners

5. From the text , we can infer that

Professor Higgins is a man described

below EXCEPT _________.

A. he doesn’t care about money

B. he is an expert in phonetics

C. he is proud

D. he is greedy

推理判断

Character Position in society

Evidence in the play

ElizaLower class Language: calls

gentleman “sir” and ___________ (or captain) which is a compliment

Behaviour: _______ to people of higher class

Comprehending

respectful

“cap’in”

Character Position in society

Evidence in the play

Henry Higgins Language: calls Eliza

“___________” and Pickering “________________”

Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper class

Middle class

rudepolite

you silly girl

my dear man

Character Position in society

Evidence in the play

Colonel Pickering

Upper class

Language: prepared to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him

Behaviour: generally confident and ______; but _______ Eliza

politeignores

conversation

Choose adjectives to describe each character

in the play.

Henry Impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-important

Colonel Kind, polite ,generous,

enthusiastic, eager, confident

Eliza Anxious, eager, emotional

ambitious, unsure