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>提出看法或作出评价(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>时序(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>描述特定的时间特征---由when或介词+which引导
2>描述特定的地点特征---由where或介词+which引导
3>描述特定的原因或理由的内容---由why或介词+which引导
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）
Hot-links:
1. http://www.hollywood.com/
2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/
3. http://www.sonypic.zuowen.c321.cn/classics/notoneless/home.html
4. http://www.oscar.com/
5. http://www.chinesecinemas.org/notoneless.html
6.http://www.hotbeijing.com/english/ArtAwards/artawards13.htm