Titre : My Fair Lady

Langue(s) : Anglais

Références : CD 5139 + LIV 5139 (50 p.)

Editeur : Pengui Readers

Année : 1998

Auteurs : Alan Jay Lerner

CRL : CRL Sciences 2

Compétences : Lire, Parler

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Descriptif : A BOOK + AUDIO CD

Résumé : My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, who is a poor girl selling flowers on London streets until she meets Henry Higgins, a professor of linguistics.

Sommaire : Chapter 1: Higgins hears Eliza shouting in her harsh ‘Cockney’ accent in Covent Garden. He says to his new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering, that after six months of lessons with him, he could teach Eliza to speak with such a pure upper-class accent that no one would be able to tell where she came from. Chapter 2: Eliza’s father, Alfred Doolittle was thrown out of the pub as he hasn’t got enough money to pay for his drinks. Eliza gives him some money. Chapter 3: Eliza finds her way to the professor’s house and offers him money to give her lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to pay for the cost if Higgins can really back up his claim. Higgins is interested in the experiment, and agrees. An intensive makeover of Eliza’s speech, manners, and dress begins in preparation for her appearance at the Embassy Ball. Chapter 4: Eliza’s father comes to Higgins to extract some money from him. Higgins is impressed by the way he speaks. Meanwhile, Eliza goes through many forms of speech training. Just as things seem hopeless, Higgins softens his harsh attitude and she suddenly ‘gets it’. Chapter 5: Higgins takes her on her first public appearance to Ascot Racecourse. She makes a good impression, but shocks everyone by her Cockney accent and slang when she gets excited. She captures the heart of a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Chapter 6: Finally, Higgins takes Eliza out to the Embassy Ball, where she stuns everyone. After the ball, Higgins is so excited about his triumph and his pleasure that the experiment is now over. Eliza feels used and abandoned. Chapter 7: She walks out on Higgins and goes back to Covent Garden, but nobody recognises her now. She sees her father there and finds out that he’s getting married. Chapter 8: After Eliza is gone, Higgins soon realises that he has ‘grown accustomed to her face’. Higgins finds Eliza at his mother’s house, and he attempts to talk her into coming back to him. Eliza rejects him and leave.

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