Pygmalion Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Sketching the Characters

Read the descriptions of the characters Liza, Pickering, Higgins, Mrs. Higgins, and the Eynsford Hills as given in the stage directions of the play when each character first appears onstage. Then, sketch the characters as you envision them. Be sure to represent their manner of dress and physical appearance according to how it is described in the play, but use your imagination to fill in the details not provided by Shaw.

2. Tabloid Gossip

Imagine that you are a...
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