connectives and underline all the useful expressions.
IV. Copying and making sentences
You are asked to copy all the useful expressions into your notebook after class as homework. You may make your own sentences with each of these expressions.
Expressions from PYGMALION a poor flower girl卖花女, be ambitious to improve oneself立志要改善自己, an expert in phonetics语音学专家,the quality of a person's English一个人的英语水平, decide one's position in society决定某人的社会地位, an officer in the army一个军官, set...a task给......一个任务, outside a theatre在剧场外, pour with rain下倾盆大雨, hide from the rain躲雨, make notes做记录, shelter from...躲避......, hesitate for a moment迟疑片刻, buy flowers off...从......处买花, take...for three pence花三便士买......, hold up...举起......, sound friendly听起来友好, some small change一些零钱, be disappointed at ...对......失望, get worried担心, have a right to do...有权利做......, take...for...把......看作 ......, a policeman in disguise便衣警察, take down...for...为......记下, hand over...,递......过去, be covered with...被.......覆盖, push... back at...把......推回给......, in one's own voice用某人自己的声音, come from the west end of...来自于......西边, look confused困惑不解, be classified from...对......分类, make an income有收入, the age of the newly rich致富的年代, begin one's working life in a poor neighborhood of...从......的穷人区开始工作, with 80 pounds a year年收入80英镑, end in a rich life with 100 thousand最终年收入10万英镑, betray oneself无意中露出本性, condemn one to the gutter to the end of one's days注定要在贫民窟里呆一辈子, speak properly正确的讲,find... employment为......找份工作, require better English要求更好的英语, make one's acquaintance结识某人, throw a handful of...into...扔一把......到......里, have a celebration庆祝一下, look at the collected money看着收集起来的钱, in amazement惊奇地, a whole pound整整一英镑 V. Transferring information
You are going to read the play once again to fill in the chart with necessary information.
VI. Closing down by having a dictation
To end this class, we are going to take a dictation. To make the task easy for you I will give you some more background information, in Chinese.
说话不饶人的语言学家贺勤(Henry Higgins)与友人打赌,要在六个月之内,将满口乡音、在伦敦街头卖花的少女伊丽莎(Eliza Doolittle)(柯德莉夏萍饰)改造成大家闺秀,出席上流社会的舞会而不被揭发。伊丽莎得知受改造之后有望斩断穷根,便欣然接受贺勤一连串的发音及仪态训练。六个月后,伊丽莎成为舞会上的全场焦点,富家子弟纷纷拜倒石榴裙下,可是她发现自己办是贺勤眼中的赌具而已,遂毅然离开。贺勤发现伊丽莎不知所踪,既愤怒又不安,因为若你已明白Pygmalion 的意思,相信也知道接下来的故事会如何发展。
Now the dictation:
The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.
Additional Materials Complete the summary of the story with one word in each blank.
Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl who was 1______ to improve herself, came from the west 2______ of London. She made a living selling 3______ in the streets. One day, she met with Professor Higgins who was an 4______ in phonetics, 5______ that the quality of a person's English decided his or her 6_____ in society. Professor laughed at Eliza's 7______ English and promised proudly that once 8______ to speak properly, the girl could 9______ herself off in three months as a 10______ at an ambassador's garden11______. Eliza thought that it was a 12______ for her to change her life. So she went to Higgins' house and asked him to teach her but was 13______. At that time, professor's friend Colonel Pickering, an 14______ in the army, was interested in the girl's education. He bet with the professor that he might not educate Eliza 15______, which made the pound professor accept Eliza as a student and decided to teach her not only 16______ but also grammar.
(Key:1. ambitious 2. end 3. flowers 4. expert 5. convinced 6. position 7. terrible 8. educated 9. pass 10. duchess 11. party 12. chance 13. refused 14. officer 15. successfully 16. pronunciation)