A Teaching plan for Senior English for China Students’ Book 1A
Unit 5 The Silver Screen
江苏省金湖中学 涂颖
Teaching Aims and Demands：
类别 新课程标准要求掌握的项目
Topics 1． Talk about films：famous actors and directors
2． Make comments and give opinions on films
Function 1. Giving opinions ＆ Making comments
I think the film has a good beginning/ending.
I think that DVDs shouldn’t be sold at such a high price/should be much cheaper.
The actors/actress are… How do you like…？
What do you think of/about…? We think highly of…
What do you feel about…?
2. Sequence
You studied/worked/acted at different… Later on…
First …, and then … What made you decide to…?
What did you do next? What roles did you act？
Finally you found a job as … How long have you been working as…？
Vocabulary silver hero scene law career drama role actress award prize choice degree director speed script actor academy studio creature outer adult follow-up cruelty peace industry owe happiness accept icy primary leader determine live(adj.) boss comment action
silver screen take off go wrong owe sth. to sb in all
stay away primary school lock sb up run after bring sb back
on the air think highly of sb
Grammar The Attributive Clause
Introduced by relative pronouns who, whom, whose, that, which or adverbs when, where, why
Period Arrangements:
The first period: warming-up, listening and speaking
The second period: pre-reading reading post-reading
The third period: language study and grammar (The Attributive Clause)
The fourth period: integrating skills
The fifth period: reading in the workbook
The sixth period exercises in the workbook
The second period
Teaching Aims:
1. Improve students’ ability of reading comprehension through reading activities.
2. Enable students to master the new words and expressions, as well as the language points.
3. Get students to understand the meaning of being successful.
Teaching Important Points:
1. How to make the students understand the reading text better.
2. Learn and master the following phrases:
work on, take off, cut…in pieces, hit, go wrong, win over, in the end, owe…to…
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. The differences between the following pairs of words or phrases:
be afraid of doing sth./ be afraid to do sth, high/highly
2. Learn the following sentence pattern:
…love and friendship are the most important things in life.
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Question-and-answer activity to get the detailed information in the text.
3. Explanation to students to master some language points.
Teaching Aids:
1. a computer
2. a tape recorder
Teaching Procedures:
Step I. Greetings ＆ Revision
1. Greet the whole class as usual.
2. Ask the students to act out the dialogue assigned in the last period.
Step II. Lead-in
Watch a video about one of the famous directors-Steven Spielberg. The last scene is the portrait of Steven Spielberg.
T: This world-famous director will be the topic of today’s class.
T: Now I’ll take you to enter his world
---Getting to Know Steven Spielberg
Step III. Skimming
T: Now look at the reading text on Page 31. Please read the text quickly and try to find the answers to questions.
How many films are mentioned（提到）in the passage? And what are they?
What are Steven Spielberg’s later films about?
Suggested answers:
Five. Jaws (1975), ET (1982), Jurassic Park(1993), Schindler’s List(1993) and Saving Private Ryan(1998).
His later films are about the cruelty(残忍) of war.
Step IV. Listening
T: Listen to the tape and then finish these T or F statements.
Suggested answers:
1.T 2.F 3.F 4.T
Step V. Careful Reading
T: You have done very well. Now it’s time for us to read the text paragraph by paragraph.
Look at the first paragraph and try to fill in the two charts.
Date of birth
Place of birth
Mother
age event
12
13
Firelight
Look at the second paragraph and try to answer the following questions：
What was Spielberg’s dream?
Why did Spielberg study English instead of film?
How did his career take off ?
Suggested answers:
His dream was to go to the Film Academy.
Because his grades were too low.
He worked on a short film and became the youngest film director in the world.
Look at the third paragraph：
（Show the picture on the screen）
Look at the fourth paragraph：
Look at the fifth paragraph：
Look at the sixth paragraph：
T: After these highly successful films Spielberg made several follow-ups of Jaws and Jurassic Park.
Ask the students: ① What are his later films？
② What are they about？
T: Now let’s fill in the following chart. It’s about the theme of Spielberg’s films.
Theme
Jaws ＆ Jurassic Park Cruelty of nature
ET Love and friendship are the most important things in life.
Schindler’s List ＆ Saving Private Ryan Cruelty of war
Look at the last paragraph：
T: Steven Spielberg is one of the top directors in the film industry.
When asked about the secret of his success, what did he say？
Step VI. Post-reading
1. Look at the definitions and give out the words:
① a highly successful film
② the written form of a film ,play or speech
③ a mark to a student’s piece of work
④ the place a film company use to make films
⑤ a kind of animal living about 200 million
years ago
⑥ a fully-grown person or animal
2. Filling in the blanks with proper words:
Steven Spielberg is one of the top _________in the film industry. He was born in America in _________. When he was 12 years old, he _______his first film and in 1959, he ______ a prize ______a short film. When he was young, he couldn’t go to the Film Academy _______________his low grades. After studying English, he got a job ____a film studio. Here he worked ____ a short film, which won him a job as the youngest director. From then on, his career really__________. He is successful, but he _____ much of his success and happiness ____his family.
Suggested answers:
directors, 1946 , made, won, for ,because of ,at, on, took off, owes ,to
Step VII. Extension
T: Look at the screen. What’s this?
It’s a picture about Oscars.
T: It’s also called Academy Awards. And Oscars are
among the film industry’s most coveted prizes.
T: Now let’s take a look at Steven Spielberg’s honors.
Steven Spielberg’s Honors
Step IX. Further Discussion
Suppose you are the director, how will you arrange the ending of ET?
T: First let’s enjoy the ending of ET. (Watch the video clip from ET)
What do you learn from Steven Spielberg?
Suggested answers:
Choose what you are interested in.
Work hard to realize your dreams.
Perseverance(毅力) and energy are necessary to success in life.
Step X. Study for the Language Points
T: There are some words, phrases that are difficult to understand. Now find them out in the text. (Teacher writes the words and phrases on the Bb: create, work on, take off, cut…into /in pieces, hit, go wrong, win over, in the end, owe…to)
T: There are pairs of words or phrases that are similar to each other. We should tell the differences between them. And there’s also a sentence pattern that we should master. (Bb: be afraid to do sth. / be afraid of (doing) sth., high/highly; …love and friendship are the most important things in life.)
Now I’ll explain them to you. Look at the examples on the screen, please.
Step XI. Summary and Homework
T: In this class, we’ve read a passage about a famous American director Steven Spielberg. Now please divide the whole passage into several parts and summarize the main idea of each part. Pair work.
Para1: Spielberg’s childhood
Para2: Spielberg’s beginning of his career as a film director
Para3-6: his famous films
Para7: his secret of success- his family
T: Today’s homework
1. Read the text and try your best to retell it using your own words.
2. Preview language study.
That’s all for today.
Step XII. The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Step XIII. Record after Teaching
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