I.Teaching aims and demands

1.Topics

1>.Talk about films:famous actors and directors

2>.Make comments and give opinions on film

2.Function:

1>提出看法或作出評價(jià)(Giving oipinions and making comments)

I think...

The actors/actress are...

How do you like...?/what do you think of...?

Wahat do you feel about...?

We think highly of...

2>時(shí)序(Sequence)

First...,and then...

What did you do next?

Finally...

Later on...

How long have you been working as...?

3.Vocabulary

silver;hero;scene;law;career;drama;role;actress;award;prize;choice;degree;

director;speed;script;actor;academy;studio;creature;outer;adult;follow-up;

crulty;peace;industry;owe;happiness;accept;icy;primary;leader;determine;

live(a.);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

4.Grammar:the Attributive Clause(2)

1>描述特定的時(shí)間特征---由when或介詞+which引導(dǎo)

2>描述特定的地點(diǎn)特征---由where或介詞+which引導(dǎo)

3>描述特定的原因或理由的內(nèi)容---由why或介詞+which引導(dǎo)

II. Key points

1>Practise making comments and giving opinions.

2>Interview each other using the information in the short biographies.

Period 1.Warning –up and Listening

Goal: In this lesson, students will enhance their listening and speaking

abilities through talking about films.

Objectives:1. In this lesson, students will be able to describe the movie

pictures

2. In this lesson, students will be able to catch the main idea

of the listening material and specific details according to the

requirement.

Material/resources: blackboard, tape-recorder, tape, textbook

Procedures

Step1 Free talk

1. T: Do you like seeing films?

Do you often go to the cinema to see films or just stay at home to

see films on TV?

This summer what films did you see?

(ask students to discuss and answer these questions)

2. T: Good films are always popular all over the world. People from

different countries, with different background all like films. In this

unit, we’ll focus on the silver screen, talking about successful films,

famous actors and actresses, and great directors.

Step2 Warming up

1. T: There are different kinds of films. What kind of film do you like?

Write students answers on the blackboard.

（comedy, action, animation, horror, historical, war, science-fiction…）

2. Ask students to look at the picture of Hero

T: Is this picture quite familiar to you? I believe most of you have seen

this film, for it is directed by Zhang Yimou and acted by many movie

stars. Can you tell me what kind of film it is based on your knowledge?

Ask students to describe the picture with questions below

Q1: What is happening in the scene?

Q2: What do you think happens before this scene?

Q3: What do you think happens after this scene?

3. Group discussion

Divide the whole class into 3 groups, each group discussing one of

the rest three pictures in the text through their observation and

imagination.

Step3 Listening practice (in the workbook)

1. Brief introduction: You will hear three conversations in which

some people are talking about their favorite films and film directors.

Listen careful and complete the chart below.

2. Ask students to go over the chart, and know what type of

information they will listen for and what they should note down. Then

listen to the tape for a first time, and try to understand the general

meaning of this material, and pay special attention to specific

information.

3. Listen for the second time and write down the information

according to the requirement of the exercise.

4. Listen for the third time and check the information and the

teacher does some explanation if necessary.

JenniferAlexJames

Title of the filmAISpidermanShower

DirectorSteven Spielberg Sam Raimi Zhang Yang

What is the film about?A robot that wants love and becomes a real

boy. The good fighting against the bad. An old bathhouse where

people make friends. When the bath-house close, friendships are lost

forever,

His/Her opinionIt’s a simple but strong story. It’s very exciting

and funny. It’s a sad film.

5. Ask students whether they have seen any of the films Jennifer,

Alex and James talk about or other films directed by the film directors

they mention. Give opinion about these films.

Step4 Closure

Lead the whole class to discuss and give opinions about films they

have seen.

Assignment

1. Read new words and expressions in Unit5.

2. Cooperate in groups of 3-4, think about a scene if they direct a

film, and then write a short dialogue of that film scene and act it out.

Period 2. Listening and Speaking

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge of Merly Streep

and Keanu Reeves.

In this lesson, students will practise their skills of interviewing.

Objectives:

1. In this lesson, students will be able to retell the life of Merly

Streep and Keanu Reeves.

2. In this lesson, students will be able to complete a chart related

to the text.

3. In this lesson, students will be able to act out an interview.

Material/resources: blackboard, tape-recorder, tape, textbook

Procedures

Step1 Lead in

1. T: In last lesson, we talked a lot about films. Of course those

films are very popular and successful. What does the success of the films

bring to actors or actresses?

(Ss: money, fame, reputation,…and interview)

2. T: What questions will you ask when interviewing an actor or an

actress?

Ask students to discuss in groups and collect as many questions as

possible.

Step2 Listening (on P29)

a. Ask students to look at questions in the listening part, and listen

for the general idea and find out the answer to the question: Who are the

two speakers?

b. Ask students to listen for the second time and find out the

specific information to the following questions and fill in the blanks.

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?

He wanted to be a teacher .

3. What was the reason why Malcolm studied law?

The reason his father wanted him to study law .

4. When did Malcolm really start his career in the theatre?

When Malcolm met Fiona, he started his career in the theatre .

5. Why was the film called The Dream Machine important to Malcolm?

It was important because he did not have any experience .

c. Check students’ answers.

Step3 Speaking

a. T: Awards are very important to those actors and actresses, which show

the audience’s or experts’ acceptance and appreciation to their

performances.

Q1 Can you tell me some famous awards to the films in the world?

Q2 Can you tell me some famous actors or actresses that have won

the Oscar?

T: Today we will look at a famous actor and a famous actress who are

very successful in their acting career.

b. Divide the whole class into 2 groups. Students in GroupA read the

biography of Merllly Streep while students in GroupB read the biography of

Keanu Reeves. Then fill in the table below respectively.

Name____________________

Schooling______________________

Beginning of the acting career__________________

Films______________________________________

Achievement________________________________

c. Check the information and explain some words and useful expressions in

and below the biographies.

1) While still a student, she played roles in many plays.

While still a student= while she was still a student

Play a role in: play a part in eg. Telephones are playing an

important role/part in our daily life.

2) Meryl Streep made her first film, called Julia in 1977.called Julia: past participle phase used as the attribute to modify film

3) Academy Awards (Oscars): the main national film award in the USA. The

Awards are granted annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and

Sciences. The Awards ceremony takes place in Hollywood every Match.

4) a. Interviewer can use following expressions to interview in good

order

You studied/worked/acted at different…

First…, and then…

Later on…

Finally you found a job as…

b. Interviewer can pose such questions to the interviewee

What did you do next?

What made you decide to…?

What roles did you act?

How long have you been working as…?

d. Interview

Ask students to work in pairs and imitate CCTV’s interview

program-----Life of Art, one acting as the host with suggested

expressions in the text and questions When and where were you born? How

many films have you acted? Which one is your favorite?

One acting as the guest---Merly Streep or Keanu Reeves with

information in the short biography and in the Notes in the textbook.

Choose some pairs to act out the interview; while one pair is

interviewing, the rest of the class act as the audience and can raise

questions to the guest.

Step4 Lead students to discuss following questions

Why ate they so popular and successful?

What is needed to be an actor or actress?

Would you like to be an actor or actress one day? Why?

Assignment: Look at talking exercise on P109 and have a discussion about

the copy right.

Period 3. Reading

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge and

understanding Steven Spielberg as a director.

In this lesson, students will improve their speaking and reading

abilities.

Objectives:

1. In this lesson, students will be able to analyze and give reasons

why DVD should be sold expensive or cheap.

2. In this lesson, students will be able to summarize the whole

passage.

3. In this lesson, students will be able to identify new words and

expressions appeared in the text.

Material/resources: textbook, tape-recorder, tape, blackboard, film

posters

Procedures

Step1 Role-play

a. T: Yesterday we mainly dealt with those film actors and actresses, and

we also act as two Hollywood stars---Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves. We now

have a better understanding of these people, but there is a problem with

them. With fast Internet connections and computers with DVD player, people

download and watch films onlines. Nobody wants to pay high price for a VCD

or DVD; instead, they buy discs for five to ten yuan. So what do you think

about this problem? Do you think the DVD should be sold expensive or

cheap?

b. Ask students in groups of five to act out a TV talk show discussing

this problem according to the requirement of Talking exercise1 on P109.

Step2 Pre-reading

Ask students to act out the scene in their own film which was

assigned two days ago and explain their scene.

T: Through your personal experience, you see directing is a very

interesting but hard job. Today we will have a close look at one person

who takes up this job. Steven Spielberg, a quite outstanding and

world-renowned director.

Step3 While-reading.

a. Show five posters of Steven Spielberg’s films mentioned in the text.

(Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan) (See

Posters on next page)

Ask students to discuss in groups and guess what the film is mainly

talking about and what the theme of the film is.

b. Skimming

Ask students to read Para3-6 quickly and find out the information

about these films and compare it to their imagination of the films. Then

fill in the chart in Post-reading. (better use attributive clause)

FilmsInformation of the film

Jaws (1975)Jaw is about…(a big shark that attacks and eats swimmers).

ET (1982)(ET is about a little creature that comes from outer space

and wants to go home.)

Jurassic Park (1993)(Jurassic Park is about an island where a very

rich man keeps all kinds of dinosaurs.)

Schindler’s List (1993)(Schindler’s List is about the cruelty of

war/a German who saved thousands of Jewish people from being killed

in the war.)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)(Saving Private Ryan is about the cruelty

of war/an American captain who led his team to search for a soldier named Ryan.)

c. Play the tape and ask students to go through the whole passage, then

divide it into several parts and summarize the main idea of each part.

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

d. Explain some important words and difficult language points.

Script: n. text of a play, film, broadcast, talk, etc eg. a script editor

v. write a script for (a film, play etc) eg. a film scripted

by a famous novelist

Win a prize eg. She won first prize in the 100 meters race.

The reason why… is that… eg. The reason why many people want to buy

it is that the price is low.

Studio: place where cinema films are acted and photographed

pl studios

Take off: 1)suddenly become successful or popular

eg. The new dictionary has really taken off.

2)(of a plane) leave the ground and begin to fly

3)leave hurriedly or suddenly eg. When he saw the police coming he

took off in the opposite direction

blockbuster: book or film strongly promoted by its producers to increase

sales

Afraid be afraid of sb/sth

be afraid to do sth / be afraid of doing sth

be afraid of ding sth / be afraid+ that clause

I’m afraid…

Go wrong: experience trouble eg. The experience went disastrously wrong

make a mistakes eg. If you read the instructions, you’ll see where

you went wrong.

(of a machine) stop working properly

When asked about the secret of his success, Steven Spielberg said that he

owes much of his success and happiness to his wife and children.

When asked about…=when he was asked about…

Owe…to…:1)recognize sb/sth as the cause or source of sth; be indebted to

sb/sth for sth eg. He owes his success more to luck than to ability.

2）be in debt to sb eg. I owe ten dollars to my father.

3 ) feel gratitude to sb eg. We owe our parents a lot.

After that it still took seven years before they finally got married. Before:

Step4 Post-reading

Ask students to answer questions1-4 in Post-reading.

1. Why did Spielberg study English instead of film?

2. Why were people who saw the film Jaws afraid to swim in the sea?

3. How important is his family to Spielberg’s career?

4. What have you learnt from reading about Spielberg?

Step5 Closure

In this lesson, we focus on the famous director Steven Spielberg, having

some knowledge of his childhood, his films and his family. But what we

should do is not to envy him, admiring him about his talent, his

achievement, but to learn his spirit, his personality.

Lead a class brainstorming of what we can learn from Steven

Spielberg, using following sentence patterns.

I have learnt that…

I think …

I realize …

Assignment: 1.Do Word-study on P12-13 and Vocabulary on P110.

2.Review the attributive clause we have learned in Unit4 and preview the

grammar in this Unit.

Period 4. Grammar

Goal: In this lesson, students will improve their knowledge of attributive

clause.

Objectives: 1. In this lesson, students will be able to distinguish the

attributive clause.

2.In this lesson, students will be able to use the attributive clauses

with when, where, why and a relative pronoun with a preposition correctly

while making sentences.

Material/resources: textbook, blackboard, a film poster

Procedures

Step1 Homework-checking

a. word study

all the missing words are about films. Can you guess what they are?

1. To most actors and actresses, the Oscar is the most important a

ward.

2. In Speed,Keanu Reeves played the r ole of the brave policeman who

saved the lives of the people on the bus.

3. Who do you think is the best d irector in China, Zhang Yimou,

Chen Kaige or Feng Xiaogang?

4. The s cript was so well-written that the famous actress accepted

the r ole at once.

5. A film s tudio is the place where films are made.

6. While watching Titanic, most people couldn’t help crying when it

came to the s cene in which Jack saves the life of the girl but dies in

icy water himself.

7. Film companies often make f ollow-ups to films that have been

very successful, such as Speed , Jurassic Park .

b. Ask students to check exercises in Vocabulary on P110.

Step2 Lead in

1. Ask students some questions such as What Chinese directors do you know?

What are their well-known films? Then write down the key words to these

questions. Then ask students to use these words to make a sentence using

attributive clause, and review attributive clause with pronouns.

For example: Zhang Yimou Hero

Zhang Yimou is the famous director who successfully directed the film

Hero. Zhang Yimou whose film Hero is very successful is a famous director

in China. Hero is a successful film which /that is directed by Zhang Yimou.

2. Ask students to underline the sentences with attributive clause in the

reading text and sort them. Then ask them to work in groups to compare the

differences between them.

Step3 Attributive clause

a..1). Explain the attributive clauses with adverbs where, when, why

using sentences in the textbook.

Jurassic Park is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds

of dinosaurs.

1958 was the year when Spielberg made his first real film.

The reason why Spielberg could not go to the Film Academy was that his

grades were too low.

Tell Ss : You can join sentences with where when you mean “at that place”,

and use when if you mean “at that time”. Sometimes why is used after the

word “reason”.

2)Then ask them to make sentences using attributive clauses with where,

when and why respectively.

3)Ask students to do Exercise1 on P33

Complete the following sentences using which, why, where or when.

1. Hangzhou is the place where I went last summer.

2. He read the book which his sister had told him about.

3. The reason why Peter is so happy is that he passed the exam.

4. I remember the day when my father died. I was only ten years

old at that time.

5. Please give me the reason why you were late this time.

6. I will go back to the place where I grew up and live there forever.

b. 1) Explain the attributive clause with prepositions

The woman who/whom Spielberg is married to is an actress.

The woman to whom Spielberg is married is an actress.

Tell Ss: When you use a relative pronoun with a preposition, you have two

choices, and placing the preposition before the relative pronoun is more

formal.

2) Show a film poster and ask students what film it is, and who is

the main actor. Then ask them to make sentences by using attributive

clauses.

For example

Hero is a historical film which Li Lianjie plays the main role in. Hero is a historical film in which Li Lianjie plays the main role.

3) Ask students to do Exercise3 on P33-34. Then ask them to answer them in

the class.

Use a preposition and a relative pronoun, whom/which, to complete the

following sentences.

1. The book about which I heard was written twenty years ago.

2. The people to whom the man spoke weren’t listening.

3. The film during which I fell asleep was very boring.

4. The pen with which she wrote that book can now be seen in a

museum.

5. The little creature in which scientists are interested is known as

ET.

6. The gun with which he was shot was never found.

Step4 Ask students to choose an actor or an actress or a director they are

familiar with and write some information about him or her, encouraging

them to use the attributive clause while making sentences.

Assignment: Do Exercise2 on P33 in the exercise book and hand it in.

Do Exercise1, 2, 3 in the Grammar part on P111.

Compose a short passage about an actor or an actress or a director they are familiar with, using the sentences they write in Step6.

Period 5 Integrating skills and writing

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop their ability of analyzing and

giving opinions.

In this lesson, students will improve the multiple skills of listening,

speaking, reading and writing.

Objectives: 1. In this lesson, students will be able to comprehend the

giving biography of Jackie Chan by answering questions.

2. In this lesson, students will be able to tell the elements of a review.

3. In this lesson, students will be able to use some sentence

patterns to make sentences to comments on a film.

4.In this lesson, students will be able to write a short passage of a film

review.

Material/resources: textbook, blackboard, tape, tape-recorder,

Procedures

Step1 Homework-checking

Ask some students to read their short passage about a(n)

actor/actress/director. After that, the teacher makes comments on their

composition, appreciating their works while pointing out their weakness

and mistakes and guiding them to check it correctly.

Step2 Reading

T: You have done a good job in writing a biography of a famous person,

especially using attributive clauses. Today you will read a biography of

another famous person on the silver screen, a Chinese who went to

Hollywood to develop his acting career.

Ask students to read Movies Across the Pacific on P112 and answer Q1, then

discuss Q2-5 in groups.

Step3 Reading and writing-Not One Less

a. Play the tape and ask students what kind of article this text Not One

Less is.------a film review

b. Ask students to read the text Not One Less quickly and complete the

table on P35 with the information from the text

Title:___________________ Director:________________

What’s the film about? Tell the story in your own words.

Does the film have a happy ending? How?

What do you think about the story of the film? Why?

How do you feel about the ending of the film? Why?

c. The teacher explain some difficult language points

Step4 Writing

a. Ask students what items we should remember when writing a review

about a film.

b. Ask students to go through the tips on how to make comments on a film

on P35 and have a clear mind of how to write a film review.

c. Group discussion

Ask 4 students in each group choose a film they have seen and

discuss about the film.

Use the following sentence pattern to describe the story.

The film … is about …

Use the following sentence pattern to give personal opinion on the film.

I like/don’t like this film because…

Then cooperate with the group members to write a short film review.

d. Choose some groups to read their film review, then guide students to

find their mistakes by asking them questions.

Step5 Make a conclusion on how to write a film review

Assignment Ask students to write a review about their favorite film,

following the steps they have learned in the class.

（Designed by Junchan Zhou）

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