Unit 4 Pygmalion Speaking By Ni Xu, May 4, 2014

Contents 1 2 3 4 Lead-in Dubbing Competition Summary Homework www.themegallery.com

How to know one’s status? Money clothes The way one speaks

Act one Fateful meetings Eliza Doolittle Colonel Henry Pickering Review Fateful meetings Eliza Doolittle Henry Higgins Colonel Pickering

Main characters 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.

Fill in the chart. Lower class Character Position in society Evidence in the play Eliza Behaviour: _________ to people of higher class respectful Lower class Language: calls gentleman “sir” and _________ (or captain) which is a compliment “cap’in”

Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper class Character Position in society Evidence in the play Henry Higgins Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper class rude Middle class polite Language: calls Eliza “___________” and Pickering “____________” you silly girl my dear man

Character Position in society Evidence in the play Colonel Pickering Behaviour: generally confident and ______; but _______ Eliza polite Upper class ignores Language: prepared to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him conversation

Try to dub! Five groups are chosen for the 5 scenes in Act One of Pygmalion. Each group consists of 2 or 3 students. Each group has 5 minutes for the preparations. Play the video clips.

Have fun Dubbing! Scene One Scene Three Scene Two Scene Four Scene Five

Try to express your feelings with following expressions: Conjecture I think it’s because … Perhaps/Maybe, but … Is it possible that …? Emotions How do you feel about…?/ What do you think of …? Surprised, disappointed, sobbing, weeping, upset, kindly… Judgment and evaluation You have made such progress and … I think you look perfect, but … I think you need more practice. All in all, you did very well. 推测 情感 判断 评价

The requirements for dubbing 语调 语气

You have 5 minutes to prepare for the dubbing!

START Dubbing Competition Scene One Scene Three Scene Two Scene Four Scene Five

Summary Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Correct all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly.

1. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl. 2. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I haven’t done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman.

4. How do I know whether’ ou took down right? 3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise. I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise. 4. How do I know whether’ ou took down right? How do I know whether you wrote down what I said accurately? 5. A shop assistant? Now that’s sommat I want, that is! A shop assistant? Now that’s something I would like to be!

Homework Since you have a basic understanding of how to speak English and are quite familiar with dubbing now, you are assigned the task of acting it out!

Thank you！