英语写作绝招 NNEC

Unit 5 Charlie Chaplin

Lesson 17

Teaching Aims

1．通过本单元对话课教学，让学生对电影和戏剧电影的工作有所了解。

2．学会使用讨论未来计划时常用的问句及相关答语。

Step 1 Lead-in

Talk about films with the students, asking them some questions.

1.Do you like going to see the films? How often do you go to see the films?

2.What kinds of film do you like, comedy or tragedy? (Comedy is a funny and interesting play or film that makes people laugh, while tragedy is a very sad play or film that often makes people shed tears.)

3.Can you name some good comedies and tragedies you have ever seen?

4.Can you name some famous comedy actors at home or abroad?

5.Are you planning to be an actor in the future?

6.What do we call the person who tells the actors what to do and how to do in the play or in the film?

Step 2 Dialogue Presentation

T: Now we are going to listen to a dialogue between a journalist and a director. You may listen to it carefully and then answer some questions:

1.What is the director planning to do?

2.What does a director do in the theatre?

3.How does the journalist ask the director about his future plan?

Step 3 Explanation for teacher’s reference

1.When asking about people’s future plans, we may use the following sentences:

What are your plans for the future?

What do you intend to do/plan to do/want to/hope to/expect to do?

What would like to do?

What have you decided to do?

What are going to do next?

2.When people tell us about their future plans, we may use the following sentences to express our opinions or best wishes:

I hope it will be very successful.

It will certainly be very good/interesting.

It sounds perfect to me.

3.Some of us do not know much about the theatre.

theatre 戏剧，戏剧艺术。不可数名词，其前通常用定冠词。

He showed special interest in the theatre.

The director gave us a lecture on the theatre.

They are discussing the future of the theatre.

4, at the beginning of 在．．．．．．．刚开始的时候，在．．．．．．．之初．------ at the end of

in the beginning 开始，起初．------ in the end

The organizer made an opening speech at the beginning of the conference; at the end the main speaker gave a summary.

4.not only … but also不仅．．．．．．而且．

Not only the teacher but also the students are going to the cinema.

Not only did the students like the film, but also the teachers were interested in it.

5.intend to 打栓，存心，有．．．．．．的意图．

What do you intend to do today?

We intend to have a visit to our old teacher.

I have made a mistake, though I didn’t intend to.

6.put on穿戴，上演，演出．

They intend to put on a dance.

The actors put on a fine play by Shakespeare.

They are going to put it on in the Capital Theatre.

Step 4 Dialogue Drills

1.Play the tape the third time for the students to read after it then asks them to read the dialogue themselves.

2.Let the students practice the dialogue in pairs and then encourage them to act it out.

Step 5 Dialogue Practice

1.Ask the students to tell what a director’s job is.

A director is a person who directs play or film. At the beginning of his work, he must choose a good play and select excellent actors. Then for a period of time the director and his actors practise doing the play. During the practice, the director tells the actors where to stand and where to move and how to say the lines. They also practice entrances and exits. At he end of this period they put the play on in the theatre.

2.Ask the students to practice talking about future plans.