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Welcome
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Fill in the blanks with the proper words
pronunciation

1. You should look up the right ________ (??)
   of this word in the dictionary.
2. A police o_______ came to our help when our car
   broke down on the way.
3. If you ____________(??)too much, youll lose the
   game.
4. The law has been c___________ as an attack on
   personal liberty.
5. The new____________(?? ) is highly experienced in
   international diplomacy.

fficer
hesitate
ondemned
ambassador
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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.
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similarities

1. Pygmalion A. Pickering
2. Statue B. Higgins
3. Greek God C. Eliza

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Fast reading
when
where
who
what
1115,PM in 1914
London, England
Eliza, Professor Higgins, Colonel Pickering
fateful meetings
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Detail reading
Read the play aloud with your group members,
then finish the following exercises.
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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
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2.The flower girl was worried when she found
Higgins making notes because A. She thought
she did something wrong. B. She thought she
didnt have the right to sell flowers. C.
She didnt want Higgins to write down what she
said. D. She thought Higgins was a policeman
in disguise.
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3. Professor Higgins believed that he could
judge a person by _______. A. his
appearance B. his action C. his
conversation D. his manners
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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

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Pair work
Use some adjectives which best describe each
character in the play.
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impatient kind polite
rude confident anxious eager enthusiastic
emotional selfimportant ambitious
generous unsure superior
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impatient, rude, confident, superior,
self-important
kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic, eager,
confident
anxious, eager, emotional, ambitious, unsure
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Individual work
Suppose you are a character of the play, imitate
the character you like.
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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
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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 ambassadors
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
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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
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competition
What other things can show ones status in
society?
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speaking or behavior
clothes
how many foreign languages spoken or countries
visited
status
attitude
expensive possessions
education level
(like cars and jewellery)
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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?

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Thank you