Learning about Language教案（名师）

Unit 4 Pygmalion

皮格马利翁

Reading PYGMALION MAIN CHARACTERS: Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is __________ (ambition) to improve herself Professor Higgins (H): an expert ___ phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person's English decides his/her position in society Colonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins' who sets him a task

Act One

FATEFUL MEETINGS(决定性的会面) 11 :15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing ____ all directions. A man is hiding from the rain listening to people's language and watching their reactions. ①While _________ (watch) , he makes notes. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a _________ (wool) scarf is also sheltering from the rain. A gentleman (G) passes and hesitates________ a moment. 1. while watching为while he was watching省略句。在以once, though, when, while, if, unless等引导的状语从句中, 如果从句中的主语与主句主语一致且从句谓语动词含有be动词的形式, 往往将从句中的主语及be动词省略。

① After ________(finish) the work, he went home.

②While _________(cross) the street, you should look out for cars passing by.

③When _______ (offer)help, one often says “Thank you.” or “It’s kind of you.”

④—

What’s the matter with you?

— _____ the window, my finger was cut unexpectedly.

A. Cleaning

B. To clean

C. While cleaning

D. While I was cleaning

E: Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.

G: I'm sorry _______ I haven't any change. E: I can giv’ou change, cap’in.

G: (surprised) For a pound? I'm afraid I've got nothing less. E: (__________ (hope)) Oah! Oh, do buy a flower off me, Captain. Take this for three pence. (holds up some dead flowers) G: (____________ (comfort)) Now don't be________ (trouble), there's a good girl. (looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly) But, wait, here's some small change. Will that be of any use to you? It's raining _________ (heavy) now, isn't it? (leaves) E: (disappointed at the outcome, but thinking it is ________ (good) than nothing) Thank you, sir. (sees a man taking notes and feels worried) Hey! I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers, I have. I ain’t no thief. I'm an honest girl I am! (begins to cry) H: (kindly) There! There! Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me_____ ? (gives her a handkerchief) E: I thought maybe you was a policeman② in disguise. 2. in disguise 乔装

本单元还有不少in引导的介词短语：

1)_________________ 需要某物

____________处于困难（穷困）中

2)_________________

就…来说；从…角度；根据, 依照; 以…..的措辞

H: Do I look like a policeman? E: (still worried) Then why did 'ou take down my words for? How do I know whether 'ou took me down right? 'ou just show me what 'ou've wrote about me! H: Here you are. (hands ______ the paper covered in writing) E: What's that? That ain't proper writing. I can't read that. (pushes it back at him) H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) "Come over' ere, cap'in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl." ( _______

his own voice) There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I'm not_________ (mistake). E: (looking confused) What if I was? What's it to you? CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) That's quite_________ (brilliance)! How did you do that, may I ask? H: Simply phonetics studied and ③classified from people's own speech. That's my profession and also my hobby. You can place a man by just a few ④remarks. I can place any ___________ conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes. 3. classify

vt.

编排, 分类, 归类

_____________ adj. 表示“分类的, 机密的”;

___________________

n.

“分类、类”。

________________ “被分成…(部分)”

_________________________“被分为……”

1)Such people should be _______________ (classify) as middle peasants.

2)People who work in libraries spend a lot of time _________________(classify) books.

3)He classified the books _________ five parts.

4.remark

n&v 谈论；评论

___________________ adj. 引人注目的；不寻常的；非凡的

make a remark / remarks on/ about…对…发表意见；对…品头论足

remake on/ upon/about 谈论，评论

翻译：评论别人的外表是不礼貌的。

___________________________________________________________

CP: Let me congratulate you! But is there an income to be made in that? H: Yes, indeed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the _____ (new) rich. People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one ____ 100 thousand. But they ⑤betray_________ every time they open their mouths. Now once _______ (teach) by me, she'd become an upper class lady ...

5. betray oneself意为“暴露本来面目”

1)He likes to dress up as a woman on the stage, but he betrays ______every time he opens his mouth. 2) She would not betray his secrets _________ me.

CP: Is that so? Extraordinary! H: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible English: the English that will ⑥condemn her ____ the gutter to the end of her days. But, sir, (proudly) once ________ (educate) to speak properly, that girl could ⑦pass herself off in three months _____ a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady's maid or a shop assistant, _________ requires better English.

6. condemn

vt. 谴责；宣判；使……注定；宣告……不宜使用

condemn sb. ____________(doing) sth. 因…而谴责某人

condemn sb. ____sth. 迫使某人处于某种状态；使人注定…

be condemned to do sth. 迫使…接受（困境）；注定

be condemned/ sentenced to death 被判死刑

1) The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking honesty. 2) His disabled legs condemned him to a wheelchair all his life. 3) Terrorism is condemned by people all over the world. 4) The man was condemned to six years in prison for treating his wife cruelly.

7.________________

“把（某人）改变或冒充成……

1) She passed ___________ off as an American. 她冒充是美国人。

2) He passed his secretary off _________ wife.

他让秘书冒充他的妻子。

E: What's that you say? A shop assistant? Now that's sommat I want, that is! H: (ignores her) Can you believe that? CP: Of course! I study many Indian dialects myself and ... H: Do you indeed? Do you know Colonel Pickering? CP: Indeed I do, for that is me. Who are you? H: I'm Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you. CP: And I came to England to ⑧make your___________ (acquaintant)!

8. 结识;与…相识______________________________________ 与某人绝交_________________________________________ 对…熟悉___________________________________________

E: What about me? How'll you help me? H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a ________ (hand) of money ______her basket) We must have a celebration, my dear man. (leave together) E: (looking at the collected money in amazement) Well, I never. A whole pound! A __________(fortunate) ! That'll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow I'll find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see! All that talk of (imitates him) "authentic English" ... (in ___ own voice) I'll see whether you can get that for me ... (goes out)

过去分词练习

1. Linda worked for the Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining Company, _____ as 3M.

A. knowing

B. known

C. being known

D. to be known

2. ________more attention, the trees could have grown better.

A. Given

B. To give

C. Giving

D. Having given

3. When first ______ to the market, these products enjoyed great success. A. introducing

B. introduced

C. introduce

D. being introduced

4. It shames me to say it, but I told a lie when ______ at the meeting by my boss. A. questioning

B. having questioned

C. questioned

D. to be questioned

5. ______ with the size of the whole earth , the biggest ocean does not seem big at all. A. Compare

B. When comparing

C. Comparing

D. When compared 6. The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ______ as the plane was making a landing.

A. seat

B. seating

C. seated

D. to be seating 7. ______ with excitement, the children couldn’t fall asleep.

A. To fill

B. To be filled

C. Filling

D. Filled 8. Even if ______, I won’t go.

A. invited

B. inviting

C. I invited

D. he invites 9. ______ to train his son in English, he put an ad like this in the paper ,“______, an English teacher for a ten-year-old boy.”

A. Determined;Wanted

B. Determined;Wanting C. Determines;Wanted

D. Determining;Wanting 10. The shy girl never speaks unless ______. A. speaking

B. spoken

C. speaking to

D. spoken to 11. Many young teachers，Ms Zhou ______，were chosen as model workers in this city. A. to include

B. including

C. included

D. being included 12. ______ by Yang Liwei’s speech，the students are determined to study even harder. A. Deeply moved

B. Having deeply moved C. To be deeply moved

D. Moving deeply 13. Though ______ badly，the fighter continued to fire at the enemy. A. he wounded

B. was wounding

C. wounding

D. wounded 14. If ______ green, the door might look more beautiful. A. paint

B. painted

C. painting

D. to paint 15. Though ______ of the danger, he still went skating on the thin ice. A. warning

B. to warn

C. warn

D. warned

【综合练习】

Before 1. ________ (travel) to New York, Elena heard a lot of awful things about this city. 2. ________ (frighten) by the stories her friends had told her before she left Athens, she had been worried about her future school life there. 3. ________ (seat) on the plane to New York, Elena was both excited and nervous. However, she saw the city quite different from what she had expected. Pleasantly 4. ________ (surprise), she saw a delightful mixture of people when she walked around the area where her school was located. As long as she didn't go out alone at night, she felt safe. It was not much different from her own city of Athens.

过去分词练习参考答案：

1-5 BABC D

6~10C DA AD

11~15C ADBD【综合练习】

1. travelling 2. Frightened 3. Seated 4. surprised