1. Welcome

2. Fill in the blanks with the proper words :
You should look up the right ________ (发音) of this word in the dictionary.
A police o_______ came to our help when our car broke down on the way.
If you ____________(犹豫)too much, you’ll lose the game.
The law has been c___________ as an attack on personal liberty.
The new____________(大使 ) is highly experienced in international diplomacy.
pronunciation
fficer
hesitate
ondemned
ambassador 3

3. Compare:
Theme of the Greek story: Pygmalion, an artist created a statue from stone and made it have a new life .
Theme of My fair lady: Higgins, a phonetics created a new girl Eliza from lower class to upper class by teaching her English. 3

4. similarities Pygmalion A. Pickering Statue B. Higgins
Greek God C. Eliza

5. Fast reading when where who 11:15,PM in 1914 what London, England
Eliza, Professor Higgins, Colonel Pickering
fateful meetings 6

6. Detail reading
Read the play aloud with your group members, then finish the following exercises. 5

7. Choose the best answer
1. 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

8. 2.The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because
A. She thought she did something wrong.
B. She thought she didn’t have the right to sell flowers.
C. She didn’t want Higgins to write down what she said.
D. She thought Higgins was a policeman in disguise.

9. 3. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
A. his appearance
B. his action
C. his conversation
D. his manners

10. 4.From the last sentence of the play, we can conclude that Eliza felt ____ about what Higgins said.
A. confident
B. optimistic
C. certain
D. doubtful

11. Pair work
Use some adjectives which best describe each character in the play. 3

12. impatient kind polite rude
confident anxious eager
enthusiastic emotional self—important
ambitious generous unsure
superior

13. impatient, rude, confident,
superior, self-important
kind, polite, generous,
enthusiastic, eager, confident
anxious, eager, emotional,
ambitious, unsure

14. Individual work Suppose you are a character
of the play, imitate the character you like. 5

15. Summary
At the beginning of the act, these main characters were _________from a heavy rain. When Eliza realized Higgins was taking notes she mistook him for ___________ ________. She asked to look at the note, only to find the writing unreadable. Then Higgins read it _______ her in his voice and decided where Eliza came from. Colonel Pickering, who had been watching Eliza, cut in and asked Higgins how he was able to do that.
sheltering
a policeman in disguise
imitating

16. Higgins said he was studying and ______ phonetics and was making an income by
teaching people to improve their _______. Then Higgins said Eliza, if educated to speak properly, could _____________ as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party or as a shop assistant .Eliza pleased at his remark but he _______her. As the two men left to ________their unexpected meeting,
classifying
speeches
pass herself off
ignored
celebrate

17. Eliza was determined to find Higgins the next day to ask him to teach her to speak“_______ English”. So act one of the play is an account of the ______ meetings of the poor flower girl Eliza Doolittle, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering.
authentic
fateful

18. competition
What other things can show one’s status in society? 5

19. status speaking or behavior clothes how many foreign languages spoken
or countries visited
status
attitude
expensive possessions
education level
(like cars and jewellery)

20. Home work Read the passage again. Group work: Act the play
3. Discover some useful language points in the passage.
4. Think: What can we learn from the play?

21. Thank you