【新教材】必修第二册 Unit 4 Stage and screen (外研版)
教学设计
Period 3 Developing ideas
本单元的主题语境是“人与社会”——影视、戏剧艺术。
本板块呈现了一篇议论文,利用举例论证的方法论证了一部好的文学作品有可能最终沦为荧幕上的败笔之作,并阐述了导致这一结果的原因。读写部分的学习内容是一张《公主日记》的电影海报以及电影《公主日记》的一篇影评文章。电影海报里涵盖了电影的基本信息,如电影名称、演员、导演、电影类型,等等。影评涉及电影的简介和评论,包括主要人物、情节以及观影感受等。
1. Understand the thematic meaning of the text and complete relevant exercises;
2. Understand the argumentative methods of argumentative discourse;
3. Accurately express the views on film and television works adapted from literary works, and treat them dialectically;
4. Master relevant vocabulary to introduce the basic information of the film;
5. Understand the main writing purpose and discourse structure of film criticism, and complete the writing of film criticism according to the writing characteristics of film criticism.
Key points:
1. Understand the text and complete relevant exercises;
2. Correctly understand the writing characteristics and argumentative writing methods;
3. Form my own thoughts on familiar adapted film and television works;
4. Sorted out the textual structure of film criticism, grasped the writing characteristics of film criticism, and completed the writing of film criticism.
Difficult points:
1. Express views on films and television works adapted from literary works;
2. Write reviews.
1.Read Good Book,Bad Movie Know the point: a good piece of literature can end up on the screen.
2.Read the poster for the princess diaries ahead of time, as well as a review article for the princess diaries, for the basic information covered in the poster, such as movie title, actor, director, genre, etc.
3. Understand new words in context or consult a dictionary to find out the difficulties.
Step 1 Warming up
Activity 1
1.T asks Ss to look at the pictures of 6 books and answer the questions.
①Have you ever read any of these books What are they about
② Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books What do you think of them
2.Ss look at the pictures in Activity 1 and answer the questions.
3.T introduces some of the six books or films.
①Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, written by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was written during the Qing Dynasty. The novel is generally considered to be the greatest of all Chinese novels and among the greatest in world literature.
②The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922, which is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
③Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London created by Scottish author and
physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning. Together with his assistant, Dr John H. Watson, he pursues criminals throughout London, the south of England, and continental Europe.
④Rickshaw Boy
Written by Lao She, Rickshaw Boy is considered by many to be one of the masterpieces of modern Chinese literature. It describes the difficult life of a rickshaw puller during the years of warlord turmoil. This book is famous for its vivid descriptions of life in the city of Beijing at the beginning of the 20th century.
⑤Moment in Peking
Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, and it focuses on the lives of several different families and people, along with their interactions during that time.
⑥The Iliad
The Iliad is said to be an epic poem written by the blind poet Homer, which is not only an important ancient Greek literature, but also one of the classics in the West. The poem consists of 15,693 lines, divided into 24 volumes, and tells the story of the Greek expedition to Troy.
Step 2 Reading
Activity 2 (Scanning)
T asks Ss to scan the passage to find out which of the books in Activity 1 are mentioned.
Answer: The Great Gatsby and The Iliad.
Activity 3 (Careful-reading)
1. T asks Ss to match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage.(1-a, 2-d, 3-c, 4-e, 5-b)
2. T asks Ss to read “Learning to learn” on Page 45 to understand the functions of examples in argumentative essays.
3.Read the passage on Pages 44-45 and choose the best answer.
①What does the author want to talk about in this article
A.We shouldn’t judge a movie by the rules of its book version.
B.Books are better than their movie versions.
C.Movies have more impressed characters than books.
D.Movies always make us disappointed.
②What’s the function of Paragraph 2
A.To raise the reader’s cultural awareness.
B.To prove good movies need good stories.
C.To further confirm that good books always end up being turned into bad movies.
D.To show that movies need impressive images.
③From Paragraph 3, we can know that .
A.reading a book is a waste of time
B.producing a film results in something important lost compared with the book version
C.a film only needs less than two hours
D.Harry Potter is a great success
④Why do movies always disappoint us
A.Because they didn’t choose a good theme.
B.Because they are often different from those in the books.
C.Because they are badly performed.
D.Because different audience have different views.
Answers: ①-④:ACBD
Step 3 Think and share
1. T asks Ss to discuss the three questions.
2. T asks some Ss to share their opinions.
Q1: It means readers usually have different ideas about how the characters from a certain novel should look like. Similar saying in Chinese include "一千个人眼中有一千个林黛玉、贾宝玉",etc.
Step 4 Discussion
Activity 4
1.T asks Ss to work in groups to give a talk about a movie adapted from a book.
2.Ss prepare a talk about a movie adaptation in three steps.
①Use the notes in Activity 4.
②Organise the talk following the suggested steps.
*Introduce the book.
*Describe the movie adaptation.
*Give your opinion of the movie adaptation.
③Give the talk to the class.
Step 5 Writing
Activity 5
1. T asks Ss to look at a poster of The Princess Diaries, and tell what information they can get from it.
2. T asks Ss to read the movie review and answer 4 questions.
Activity 6-7
1. T asks Ss to read again, and summarise the structure of the movie review and the tense of the passage.
2. T asks Ss to choose a Chinese movie and complete the table in Activity 6. Encourage Ss to give some additional description if necessary.
3.T asks Ss to share their movie reviews with the class and do peer evaluation.
Step 6 Homework
Read the passages on page 44-45 and 47 again,understand these passages better.
Complete the exercises of the guide plan.
According to the characteristics of film review writing, complete the film review writing.
1、通过本节内容学习,学生是否理解理解议论文的写作特点和论述方式;
2、通过本节内容学习,学生是否对熟悉的改编影视作品形成自己的思考;
3、学生能否运用影评的篇章结构,掌握影评的写作特点,完成影评写作。