Unit 5 The Silver Screen

A Teaching Design for Period 3 Reading

Goals: 1.In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge and understanding Steven Spielberg as a director.

2. In this lesson, students will improve their speaking and reading abilities.

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

4. In this lesson, students will be able to learn new words and expressions appeared in the text.

Important and difficult points:

1.How to understand the text better, especially sentences with an attributive clause in this passage.

2. How to master the new words and expressions.

Teaching aids: Tape recorder, Multimedia tools

Procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Yesterday we mainly dealt with two Hollywood stars---Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves. We learnt something about their lives and films. And today we ’ll learn a passage about a famous director: Steven Spielberg.

Step 2 Ask some Ss to tell the class what they know about Steven Spielberg.

Step3 Skimming

Let the Ss skim the text and then fill in the form.

Some information about Steven Spielberg:

Year What he did

1946 Be born

1958 Make a real film

1959 Won a prize for his short film

1962 Make a film called firelight

1975 Jaws

1982 ET

1993 Jurassic Park

1993 Schindler’s List

1998 Saving Private Ryan

Step4. Show five posters of Steven Spielberg’s films mentioned in the text.

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

Ask students to discuss in groups and guess what the film is mainly talking about and what the theme of the film is.

Then 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)

Films Information 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.)

Ste5. 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

Step 6. 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.

Assignment:

To review the text and underline the useful words and expressions.