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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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”

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

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

11. 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

12. The requirements for dubbing语调 语气

13. You have 5 minutes to prepare for the dubbing!

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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!

18. 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!

19. Thank you！