Teaching Plan of Unit 5

School: Wenzhou No. 14 Middle School

Teacher: Shen Yong-ming

Unit5 The Silver Screen

Period Two

Goals: (reading)

Improve their reading and writing abilities

Learn about a famous director Steven Spielberg

Practice writing about a life story

Step1. Review: talk about Meryl Streep and Keanu Reeves

Step2. Introduce the new. Show some clips of White Shark, Forrest Gump to get the students interested in the director

Step3. Present the new text.

Skim the text with the following questions (show three questions on the flashboard).

Getting to know SP and Steven Spielberg(Is there any diffrence?) >title:

How many parts can we divide the text? Why?

In which order is the text organized?

Step4. Listen to the text to get more information part after part

1946

12

13

16

1975

1982

1993

1999

Step5. Retell it part after part with the help of these time clues.

Step6. Activity: Free talk(learn more about western culture)

what do you know about Steven?

What does he want to show us in most of his films?

What makes him produce such films?

Step7. Write a summary of Steven Spielberg’s life story

Steven Spielberg was born in 1946 in a small town in America.He started making short films when he was still a young boy. In 1959,he won a prize for a short film. He made a film called Fierlight at the age of 16. Jaws, one of his films, is about a big white shark that attacks swimmers who are spending holidays in a small village by the sea. Spielberg has also made two films about outer space,one of which is called ET.It is about a young boy who makes friends with a small creature from outer space. The other is Jurassic Park. It is about a very rich man who keeps different kinds of dinosaurs when the park is hit by the storm.

Step8.

Practice writing a summary of a famous star.The students are required to use some new words and phrases that they’ve just learned in the text

根據漢語提示寫一篇短文.(80-120 words)

朱莉婭羅伯茨(Julia Roberts)1967年出生于美國。父親從事戲劇工作。因此她和哥哥從小對表演很感興趣。中學畢業后，她跟隨哥哥去了紐約.后來在哥哥的幫助下她在電影血紅(Blood Red)中扮演了一個小角色。接下來的幾年里，她又在幾部戲中扮演了不同的角色。她的事業真的成功是在1990年。這一年，她在電影漂亮女人(Pretty Woman)里出色扮演了一個追求愛情和獨立的女性。從此，她被世人認為是一位漂亮的，長著一張大嘴的全世界最優秀的演員之一

possible version:

Julia Roberts was born in America in 1967. Her father works on drama, so she and her brother were interested in acting when they were still children. After high school, she followed her brother to New York . With her brother’s help,she played an unimportant role in the film Blood Red. During the following years, she played other different roles in several films. But her career really took off in 1990. In the same year ,she succeeded in playing a woman who is after true love and independence in the movie Pretty Woman. From then on, she has been regarded one of the top actresses in the world who is very beautiful with a pretty big mouth.

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