Lecturer: Yang Xiangrong Place: Class (3) Time: Oct.22, 2003
Tasks: Word-study
silver/hero/scene/law/career/drama/role/actress/award/prize/choice/degree
2. Oral speech building practice.
a. Talk about the pictures on Page 29.
b. Talk about two film stars. (Meryl and Keanu)
3. Difficulty points.
silver/law /role/choice/degree
4. Important points:
a. Discussion about some famous films.
b. Interview Activities
Working Steps:
Step1 Go over the following word-study
1. silver---gold★★★He won first prize and won the ______ medal.(奖牌)
He was in the second place in the competition, and was given a ________ medal.
silver screen silver coins
2. hero ★ hero (pl)_______ heroine---- heroin
3. scene ★ the scenes of a film/movie seen
scenery
4. law /lawyer ★★★★★
我中学毕业后，要上法学院攻读法律，做一名律师。
After my ______ ______ high school, I will go to a______ school to study_____ and I want to be a _________.
make a law------ pass a law
break the law------ obey the law
5. start one’s career★
6. role ★★★★★ play a role ====play a part
play an important role
______________________________________________________________
7. act ★ actor actress
(host hostess prince princess)
8. be awarded a medal/ a prize★
give sb. a award The 100-Flower Award
The Best Actor Award The Best Actress Award
9. prize ★★ win a prize win first prize
price What’s the price of the dress?
10. choice ★★★★★
make a choice === choose (chose / chosen)
If you chose Huapei School, you made a wise choice.
If you chose Toronto School, you made a foolish choice.
11.degree★★★ college degrees: bachelor master doctor
I’m so near-sighted! My glasses are of 900 degrees!
Water boils at 100 C. (100 degrees centigrade)
Step2. Talk about the pictures on Page 29.
Science Fiction Films:
Cartoon Film:
Kongfu Film:
Picture1. Bicentennial is about a robot _______ helps Man with housework and work for Man.
(Paradise Lost is about a robot ________kills MAN )
(They are science fiction films about different ideas on robots.
With the development of computer technologies, we are puzzled(迷惑) and worried: will robots help us or kill us? )
Picture2.Jurassic Park is about the fight between the strongest( dinosaurs) and the wisest(man)
(How could it be possible that man, who appeared on the earth
at most 2 million years ago, met and fought with dinosaurs, which disappeared from the earth at least 50 million years ago?
This science fiction appeared in the early 1980s with the research of the Genome Project(基因工程). Now Scientists have successfully cloned sheep and cows. Some of them are trying to clone human beings.)
Can DNA really make dinosaurs come back again?
Would you like to stay with those monsters?
(Picture3&4: After-class work.)
Step 3. Ask the students to read the passages on page30.
Step 4. Discussion
Passage A. About Meryl Streep
1. When and where was she born?
2. What did she do after high school?
3. When did she start her career?
4. What did she do after she graduate from a drama school?
5. What about her career?
Names of her films Time making the film Importance of the film
Julia Her first film
Kramer vs Kramer
Sophie’s Choice 1982 Help her win more prizes
1985
1999
6. How about her family?
Passage B. About Keanu Reeves
1. When and where was Keanu born?
2. Where did he spend his childhood?
3. How about his education?
4. What about his career?
Films Time making the film Importance
Wolfboy
Speed
The Matrix
Sweet November 2001
Hardball 2001
Step5. Role play--- An Interview (采访) . (if there is time )
Suppose : Student A is Meryl or Keanu,
StudentB，C,D,E… are reporters from different newspapers or TVs.
(Use the information you get from the passages you have just read and the above discussion to carry out this role-play.)
Step6. Homework
1. Read or talk about Zhang Yi-mou and his films after class.
2. Preview the text: Getting to know Steven Spielberg
3. Make sentences with the following words or phrases;
Play a role / make a choice / marry
☆☆Blackboard writing Design. (omitted)
☆ ☆Class-work feed-back:
Unit5 Silver Screen (2nd period)
I. Tasks: 1. word-study.
director/speed/script/actor/academy/studio/take off/creature/outer/adult/go wrong/follow-up/cruelty/peace/industry/owe/in all
2. Reading comprehension.
3.Difficult Points& important points:
Speed/ take off/ go wrong/ cruelty/peace/owe/in all
II. Working steps.
Step1. Read aloud the following new words from P186(textbook)
Step2. Study the following words & phrases.
1. direct★★ A film ______ is someone _______ directs films.
He is our department __________.
Direct speech and indirect speech
2. speed★★★ sped/sped speed up __________(opposite)
He sped up his car and crashed against the post.
He drove at a speed of 200 miles.
At a high/low speed
Can we say at a fast/slow speed?( )
At a high/low price.
Can we say at a cheap price?
3. take off★★★★
He took off his hat and coat and went in.
The plane is taking off very soon.
His career took off that year.
4. go wrong★★★
Something has gone wrong with my CD player.
Did anything go wrong with your mind?
Go +adj. Go crazy/mad go hungry
5. cruelty★★★ be cruel to sb.
他的继父对他很残酷。______________________________________.
对。。。。。。怎样。be…to sb.
他对我们很友好.__________________________________________
6. peace peaceful peacefully★★★★
The Chinese love _________
They are trying to keep the _________ in that country.
After the war, both sides wanted to make ________
What a ______________evening!
The old man passed away in the armchair___________.
7. owe sth. to sb==== owe sb. sth. ★★
你欠我20 元。
我的成功多亏了你的帮助。
8. accept----receive ★★ (比较) accept one’s advice
accept a gift
I ____________ an invitation, but I didn’t __________ it.
Yesterday I _________ a letter from my brother.
He was ________ as a party member last month.
Step 3. Read the text quickly and get the main idea of the text.
This text is about a ______________________.
Step4. Read the text again carefully and answer the following questions.
1. When and where was Steven born?
2. Could you say something about his childhood?
Still a young boy, __________________
At the age of 12 , _________________
At the age of 13 ,_________________________
At the age of 16,_____________________
3. What do you know about his education?
4. How did his career take off?
5. Talk about his films:
Jaws
About a white shark___________________________ 1975
ET
Jurassic Park
JawsII
Jurassic ParkII
Schindler’s List
Saving Private Ryan
Step 5. Study the text Paragraph by paragraph.
Para1.Task1. Find the three attributive clauses and write them down.
1. _____________________________________________.
2. ____________________________________________________________.
3. ____________________________________________________________________.
〖Practice〗
1. The boy________ father is an engineer will soon go to Beijing University.
2.The house_______ door is broken now is under repair.
3.The school, __________ headmaster ran away, will soon close down.
Task2. win a prize for sth. （因。。。。。而获奖）
Para2. Task1. Find the three attributive clauses and write them down.
1._____________________________________________.
2.____________________________________________________________.
3.____________________________________________________________________.
〖Practice〗
1. He couldn’t tell the reason _________ he was late.
2. I won’t forget the days _________ I spent in Canada.
3. I won’t forget the days _________ I lived in Canada.
4. He heard a loud noise, ___________ frightened him.
5. That was the time ______ Einstein began his research.
Task2. work on work out work at.
1. He is always _________ hard _______ English.
2. He has ____________ the problem for half an hour, but still he hasn’t __________ it ________.
4.They will _______ _________ a better plan soon.
Para3. Find the three attributive clauses and write them down.
1._____________________________________________.
2.____________________________________________________________.
3.________________________________________________________. Para4. Find the three attributive clauses and write them down.
1._____________________________________________.
2.____________________________________________________________.
Para.5. Find the three attributive clauses and write them down.
1._____________________________________________.
2.____________________________________________________________.
Homework.
1. Read the passage on P112.
2. Make sentences with the following words and phrases.
owe sth. to sb. go wrong accept think highly of