The First Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Train the students’ listening ability.
2. Train the students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Important Points:
Talk about films about famous actors and directors.
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to improve the students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Methods:
1. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through with the listening text.
2. Pair work or group work to practise speaking.
Teaching Aids:
1. a VCD 2. a TV set 3. a tape recorder 4. a projector
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Step II Free Talk and Lead-in
Step III Warming up
Step IV Listening
Suggested answers:
1. It was a small town far from the big city.
2. When Malcolm was young he wanted to be a teacher.
3. His father wanted him to study law.
4. When Malcolm met Fiona, he started his career in the theatre.
5. It was important because he did not have any experience.
Step V Speaking
Ask students to plan an interviewer and the actor. Question sheet:
1. Where were you born? Is it a small village or a town?
2. What country were you born? Where did you grow up?
3. Did you finish high school? What did you do after that?
4. Do you like you jobs?
5. How old were you when you made your first film? What’s the name of the film?
6. Do you think you are successful in your career? Why do you think so?
Step VI The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 5 The Silver Screen
The First Period
Warming up:
Bicentenial Man Jurassic Park
Mulan Hero
Listening:
Mr. Malcolm Langland
Speaking:
Meryl Streep Keanu Reeves
The Second Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Train the students’ reading ability.
2. Learn some new words and phrases.
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, go wrong, win over, in the road, owe…to…, in all
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Questioning-and-answering activity to get the detailed information in the text.
3. Explanation for students to master some language points.
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder 2. a computer
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings and Revision
Step II Pre-eading
Step III Reading
1>The reason why he could not go there was that his grades were too low.
The reason why...is that...
[用法]这是特定句型,why引导定语从句,is后的用词为that,一般不用because.
[举例]The reason why she did it is that she wouldn t let her parents feel disappointed.
2>Here he worked on a short film.
work on
[用法]从事某工作
[举例]She has been working on her novel since she came to the city.
3>This was the moment when Spielberg s career really took off.
take off
[用法]1. 脱下; 2. 起飞 3. 休假 4.(此处)成名
[举例]The plane will take off soon.
He took two weeks off in August.
4>When the park is hit by a storm,things started going wrong.
go wrong
[用法]弄错;出问题了
[举例]The sum is wrong, but I can t see where I went wrong.
5>Spielberg is one of the top directors in the film industry.
top
[用法]最高的;最优良的;最重要的;居首位的
[举例]We pay top prices for used cars.
They agreed to give the matter top priority.
6>When asked about the secret of his success,Spielberg said that he owes much of his success to his wife and children.
When asked about...
[用法]连词加过去分词结构,注意,这是分词和句子主语有逻辑上的动宾关系.
[举例]Even if invited,I won t go to her party.
owe
[用法]vt.1. 欠(债等)(+to/for) 2. (应)感激(+to) 3. 应该把...归功于(+to)
[举例]I owe the landlord one hundred dollars./I owe one hundred dollars to the landlord.
We owe a great deal to our parents.
We owe to Newton the principle of gravitation.
7>While watching Titanic,most people couldn t help crying when it came to the scene.
couldn t help doing
[用法]情不自禁做...;忍不住做...
[举例]On hearing the news, she couldn’t help bursting into tears.
The Third Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Review the words learned in the last two periods.
2. Learn the Attributive Clause with prepositions.
3. Learn the Attributive Clause introduced by relative adverbs.
Teaching Important Points:
1. The usages of “prep.+ the relative pronoun”.
2. The usages and functions of the relative adverbs.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. The choice of the prepositions in the Attributive Clause.
2. The choice of the relative adverbs.
Teaching Methods:
1. Consolidate the words learnt using the review method.
2. Learn some usage of Attributive Clause using explanation and inductive methods.
3. Individual or pair work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. a projector 2. some slides
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Step II Revision
Choose the proper relative pronouns to fill in the blanks.
1. October 1. 1949 is the day _____ we’ll never forget.
A. when B. whose C. that D. it
2. Is this the shop _____ sells children’s clothing?
A. which B. where C. in which D. what
3. His parents wouldn’t let him marry anyone _____ family was poor.
A. of whom B. whom C. of whose D. whose
4. Do you know the boy _____ is standing at the gate of our school?
A. who B. which C. whom D. whose
5. All _____ glitters is not gold.
A. that B. which C. / D. what
6. The woman _____ you saw just now is my aunt.
A. who B. whom C. which D. whose
(Answer: C A D A A B)
Step III Grammar Study
1. The house where/ in which we live is not big.
2. That’s the hotel where/ at which we stayed last year.
3. Do you remember the day when/ on which your sister graduated as a Master of Arts?
4. 1988 is the year when/ in which I was born.
5. Do you know the reason why/ for which he didn’t come?
The Fourth Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Do some reading.
2. Practise making comments and giving opinions.
3. Do some writing.
Teaching Important Point:
1. How to make comments and give opinions.
2. How to train the students’ writing ability.
Teaching Methods:
1. Asking-and-answering activity to go through the reading material.
2. Individual or group work to train the students’ writing ability.
Teaching Aids:
1. a computer 2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Step II Revision
Step III Reading
1>Mr Gao has to stay away for a month to take care of his sick mother.
stay away (from)
[用法]1. 离开 2. 缺席 3. 不在家
2>The village leader asks Minzhi to take his place until he comes back.
take one s place
[注意]准备好;各就各位;取代某人
[举例]Take your place for the next dance.
3>She tries to keep the students in the classroom by locking them up and running after those who escape.
run after
[用法]追赶,追踪;追逐(对象等)
[举例]The dog is always running after children.
escape
[用法]vi.1. 逃跑;逃脱(+from) 2. 避免(+from/out of) 3. 漏出;流出(+from/out of)
vt.1. 逃避;逃脱;避免[+v-ing] 2. 没有被...注意到;被...忘掉
[举例]The soldier escaped from the enemy s prison.
He escaped the trials after the war.
Her name escapes me.
4>She becomes worried and determines to bring him back safely.
determine
[用法]vt.1. 决定[+to-v][+(that)] 2. 使决定,使下决心
[举例]She determined to go that very afternoon.
My mom s encouragement determined me to go on with my study.
They have determined where the new school will be built.
5>Minzhi wants to go to town,but she can t afford to buy a bus ticket.
afford
[用法]vt.1. (常与can,could,be able to连用)买得起;有足够的...(去做...)[+to-v]
[举例]They did not consider whether they could afford the time or not.
We can t afford to pay such a price.
6>She wants them to let her appear live on the air.
live
[用法]此处意为 实况播送的 (a./adv.)
[举例]We watched a live television show.
The football game was televised live.
7>If you think highly of the film you may enourage other people to go and see it.
think highly of
[用法]高度赞扬;高度评价
[联想]类似意思的短语还有think well of;sing high praise of等等.
The Fifth Period
Teaching Aims:
1. Review the Attributive Clause learnt before.
2. Master the usages and functions of the relative pronouns and adverbs.
3. Master the usages of “prep.+ the relative pronoun”.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. The choice of the relative pronouns and adverbs.
2. The choice of the prepositions in the Attributive Clause.
Teaching Aids:
1. a projector 2. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step I Greetings
Step II Revision
Step III Sum up the use of the relatives
定语从句略表：
定语从句
关联词 关系代词
that
which
who/whom
whose The girl who/ that is speaking at the meeting is our monitor.
The book (which/ that) you are looking for is on her desk.
The old man to whom he is talking is our professor.
Do you know the man whose name is Wang Yu?
关系副词
when
where
why I will never forget the day when I met Mr. Li.
This is the place where we lived for 5 years.
I know the reason why he came late.
Step IV Consolidation
Step V Homework