Unit 5 The Silver Screen

Unit 5 The Silver ScreenThe First Period Warming-up and listeningTeaching Aims:G oal: 1. Students will enhance their speaking abilities through talking about films.2. In this lesson, students will practice their skills of interviewing.Objectives:1.students will be able to describe the movie pictures.2.students will be able to act out an interview.Teaching Important Points:How to improve the students‟ speaking ability.Teaching Procedures:Step I. Greetings & preparation1. Greet the whole class as usual.2.Teach the students useful terms of film: actors, actress, director, script, scene, performance, science, fiction film, action film, love film, documentary film, cartoon, horror film, historical film, warfare film, comedy, tragedy, play the part ofStep II. Warming up T: During the weekend, I went to the cinema. Do you want to know which movie I have seen? This class we will enjoy four films. But they are just pictures. Now look at the first picture, what can you see in the picure.1.Picture1. Bicentennial Man 机器管家A young girl with a tall half-man walks along the beach. The half human looks like a robot, carrying a few large pieces of wood.2.Picture2. Jurassic Park 侏罗纪公园It seems the dinosaur has not yet seen the two men below the dinosaur. Before the scene, maybe a dinosaur escaped from the park in a rainy and stormy day; it was hungry and tried to hunt the two men for food.3.Picture3. Mulan 木兰This is a scene from a famous animation based on a folk legend story in China. In the picture, three men are talking; perhaps they are discussing a war because there is a map, on which there are many small flags. Before this scene, they may have dinner for people like talking things after meals. After that they may win the war or they fail in the war for their plan may be released by a spy.4.Picture4. Hero 英雄The woman named Flying Snowflakes in the film Hero is flying towards a man with her sword pointing at the man named Incomplete Sword and attacking him. This is a classical scene in the film Hero. What do you know about the relationship between the man and the woman?Step III. ListeningT: Of course these films now are very popular and successful, and what does the success of the films bring to the actors?Ss: Money, honor, repute and etc. And they will become very famous, and they will receive a lot of interviews.T: Now let‟s listen a interview. First you should read the five questions in your books.1. What do we know about the city where Malcolm grew up?It was a small town far from the big city.2. What did he want to be when he was a student?When Malcolm was a student, he wanted to be a teacher.3. What was the reason why Malcolm studied law? His father wanted him to study law.4. When did Malcolm really start his career in the theatre?When he met Fiona, Malcolm started his career in the theatre.5. Why was the film called The Dream Machine important to Malcolm?It was important because he didn't have any experience.(Teacher gives Ss one or two minute to read the questions and then plays the tape for Ss.)T: Now let‟s listen to the tape f rom the beginning to the end to get a general idea. (Teacher plays the tape for the first time. Then teacher plays the tape for the second time. Teacher may pause for students to write down the information. Finally teacher checks the answers with the whole class. And let Ss listen one more time if necessary.)While-ListeningAsk the students to write down some Important wordsWhere：On a programmeWho： A reporter and Malcolm LanglandWhat ：An introduction of Malcolm Langland：hoped to be a teacher, small town, father wanted him, study law, Fiona, the first filmStep.ⅣHomework1. Review and practise the useful terms and expression about filmsPeriod 2 speakingTeaching Aims:Train the Ss‟ speaking ability.Teaching important points:Talk about films and famous actors and directors Teaching Difficult Points:How to improve the Ss‟ speaking ability.Teaching Aids:A recorder a computerTeaching procedures:Step I. Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.Step II. Lead in SpeakingT: Do you like watching films? And how often? What do you know about films? (Ask some students something about their favourite films)T:And do you tell me some famous film stars?T: Ok, now please read the two biographies and answer the following questions.And then check the answers together.①When and where was Meryl Streep born?②How did he begin to act in plays?③When did she began to act in her first film? ④When and where was Keanu Reeves born?⑤What about the time when he was young? ⑥What did make him famous?Step III.Role play1.T: Are you ready? Now I will act as Meryl Streep. You can ask any questions if you like. Hands up please!(Give students 3 minutes to ask questions)2.T: You have done a very good job. Let‟s stop here. Now I‟d like to choose a boy to act as Keanu Reeves. Who‟d like to try?(Choose a boy to act as Keanu Reeves, and ask him to come to the blackboard)3.T: OK. Now Team 1 and Team 3 play the role of Meryl Streep, Team 2 and Team 4 play the reporter, Team 5 and Team 7 play the role of Keanu Reeves biography of Keanu Reeves. Team 6 and Team 8 play the reporter. Then interview each other using the information in the short biographies. Please look at the screen.(Show the following on the screen.)(Teacher gives Ss enough time to prepare, then asks students to act out the interview before the class. If time permit ,Ss may act some more dialogues about themselves.) StepⅣ.Summary T: In this class we‟ve done some listening and speaking. We‟ve also talked about some films and some famous directors, actors and actresses. After class, you can talk about other films that you are familiar with. Certainly you should talk about them in English.Step Ⅴ. Languang points1. while still a student,在英语中有些表示时间,方式,条件,让步的从句有时可以省略一些成分；如果主从句主语一致或从句主语为it,而且从句谓语含有be动词,那么,从句得主语和be 动词可以省略。