Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading

(PYGMALION)

Aims

To help students read and act a play

To teach the past participle as adverbial

Procedures

I. Warming up by leaning about Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Pygmalion (1938) - the non-musical film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play

Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a lady within three months. To do so, he must transform her thick-accented voice, by coaching her to speak proper English, teaching her manners, and drilling her so she will be educated. "We were above that in Convent Garden... I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me; I'm not fit to sell anything else." "I'm a good girl, I am."

At a tea party, in her first public testing, she blurts out, "Not bloody likely." However, she makes a spectacular debut at a society ball proving him right. The movie drastically diverges from Shaw's play at the end by indicating that Higgins falls in love with Eliza. This is really not a love story.

II. Pre-reading---about My Fair Lady

A priceless classic, My Fair Lady has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, the film swept the Academy Awards.

《窈窕淑女》可谓无价经典之作，是有史以来最受欢迎的音乐剧之一。该片以萧伯纳1913年的剧作《皮格马利翁》为蓝本，夺得了多项奥斯卡奖。

It tells a tale of a waif who was educated into being a lady.

该片讲述一个流浪者被教育成一位淑女的故事。

Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering, that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a lady in time for an important society ball.

自负的语言学教授亨利·希金斯（奥斯卡奖获得者雷克斯·哈里森饰）同他的好友休·皮克林上校打赌，他能及时将伦敦穷人区的卖花女伊莱扎·杜利特尔（奥黛丽·赫本饰）变为一位淑女，以便她能参加一个重要的社交舞会。

His gamble could pay off but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her.

他的打赌也许会赢--但是活泼的伊莱扎远比教授想象的要难对付。随着她慢慢地变得越来越优雅，越来越独立于他，希金斯困惑地意识到自己已离不开她。

The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.

该部影片获得12项奥斯卡奖提名，最终赢得8项，包括最佳影片和最佳导演奖。

III. Reading for forms

Read the text to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the