Using Language (I)Reading and acting Do you still remember Act One of My Fair Lady? Can you retell it? Eliza Doolittle is a poor, dirty ________ seller. The Pygmalion in this film is Henry Higgins, a _________ and _________ expert who believes that speech is what really sets the classes apart.flowerlinguistphoneticPreview of Act Two Henry’s friend Colonel Pickering makes a bet with him. If Henry can turn Eliza into a lady in three months, Pickering will consider Henry the greatest teacher alive, and he also agrees to pay all the costs himself. Read the passage and tick out the speeches of Eliza and figure out the meanings and then rewrite them. I wanna is a common mispronunciation of I want to. ’stead shows how Eliza does not say her words correctly. It should be instead. o’ is the same mistake and should be of.1. I wanna be lady in a flower shop ’stead o ’selling flowers in the street.”Correct sentence: I would like to be a lady (working) in a flowershop instead of selling flowers in street.2. Now yer talking .... You wouldn't have the face to ask me for the same for teaching me as yet would for French. The word yer is a bad pronunciation for you are. When you shorten you are to you’re, it can soon become yer.Correct sentence:Now you’re talking … You wouldn’t dare to ask the same (amount) for teaching me (my own language) as you would for (teaching me) French.3. I can't. I dursn't. It ain't natural and it'd kill me.Correct sentence:I cannot. I daren’t. It isn’t natural and it would kill me. 1. This text is mainly about Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering _____ about teaching Eliza. A. making a conversation B. quarreling C. making a bet D. fightingRead the te...
