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Developing ideas — Reading
Unit 4 Stage and screen
目录
contents
Pre-reading
I
Language points
Ⅳ
Fast-reading
II
Homework
Ⅴ
Intensive-reading
III
Ⅵ
Post-reading
I
Pre-reading
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
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.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on Dream of the Red Chamber What do you think of them
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
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.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on Sherlock Holmes What do you think of them
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
Rickshaw Boy, written by Lao She, 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 in the beginning of the 20th century.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on Rickshaw Boy What do you think of them
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
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.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on Moment in Peking What do you think of them
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
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.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on The Great Gatsby What do you think of them
Pre-reading
Have you ever read this book What is it about
The Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. And it is one of the foremost achievements in Western literature.
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on The Iliad What do you think of them
II
Fast-reading
Fast-reading
Find out which of the books are mentioned in the passage.
Fast-reading
What does the author want to talk about in the passage
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 impressive characters than books.
D. Movies always make us disappointed.
Fast-reading
Match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage.
1 Some parts of the story and some
characters are missing in the movie.
2 The visual images are not as striking
as the descriptions in the book.
3 The movie is not as great as the book.
4 The movie doesn’t look the way we
visualised while reading the book.
5 The characters do not stand out.
a
d
c
e
b
III
Intensive-reading
Intensive-reading
Read the passage carefully and find out the structure of the passage.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Problems
Reasons
Conclusion
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
Intensive-reading
Read the passage carefully and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
The author puts forward a phenomenon that great words often end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
Do good movies need good stories
One of the reasons is that plot details and characters can be lost.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Intensive-reading
Read the passage carefully and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. 4
Para. 5
Another reason is that things we expected may disappear in the movies.
Come to a conclusion that we should judge a movie in its own right.
Intensive-reading: Think and share
Read the passage and answer the questions.
What does the saying “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes” mean Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese
2. How should we evaluate a movie adapted from a
great book
Intensive-reading: Think and share
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. What does the saying “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes” mean Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese
It means readers usually have different ideas about how the characters from a certain novel should look like. Similar sayings in Chinese include “ 一千个人眼中有一千个林黛玉 /贾宝玉”, etc.
Intensive-reading: Think and share
Read the passage and answer the questions.
2. How should we evaluate a movie adapted from a
great book
Enjoy a movie in its own right instead of judging
it according to the rules of its book version.
Ⅳ
Post-reading
Post-reading
Work in groups. Give a talk about a movie adapted from a book. Use the notes to help plan your talk.
Title of the book ____________________
Your point of view __________________
Reasons ___________________________
Post-reading
Organise your talk following the steps below.
Introduce the book.
Describe the movie adaptation.
Give your opinion of the movie
adaptation.
Give your talk to the class.
Language points
V
impressive / impress / impression
1) impressive adj. 令人印象深刻的;感人至深的
Language points: Important words
译:
1.那是一项了不起的成就。
2.电影是如此感人我们都忍不住哭起来。
It is an impressive achievement.
This film is so impressive that we can’t help crying.
impressive / impress / impression
2) impress vt. 使……明白重要性;留下了深刻的印象
Language points: Important words
译:
1.那部小说深深感动了我。
2.最让我感动的是他们的勇气。
The novel impresses me deeply.
What impressed me most was their courage.
impressive / impress / impression
impress 的被动式经常用 be impressed 后面接with, by
Language points: Important words
译:
他的讲座让我印象很深刻。
I was greatly impressed by his lecture.
I was deeply impressed with his lecture.
impressive / impress / impression
impress on / upon sb / that + clause 使铭记、使牢记
Language points: Important words
译:
我父亲经常向我强调努力工作的重要性。
My father often impresses on me the value of hard work.
My father often impresses on me that it is necessary to work hard.
impressive / impress / impression
3) impression
leave / make an impression on sb 给某人留下印象
Language points: Important words
译:
她的讲座给我留下了极其深刻的印象。
Her lecture left a deep impression on me.
Her lecture made a deep impression on me.
1. be based on _____________________
2. all too often _____________________
3. end up doing _____________________
4. be praised as _____________________
5. result in _____________________
根据;以……为基础
时常;经常是
以……而告终
被誉为……
导致;结果是
Language points: Important lexical chunks
6. be described as _____________________
7. escape from _____________________
8. play the part of _____________________
9. live up to _____________________
10. to some extent _____________________
逃脱
扮演……的角色
不辜负;做到
在某种程度上
Language points: Important lexical chunks
被描述为······
end up 意为“(尤指经历一系列意外后)最终处于,到头来”。
1. All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
Language points: Important sentences
1) end up + 介词短语
如果你继续这样,早晚得进监狱。
If you go on like this, you’ll end up in prison.
变成电影中的失败之作。
很多时候,优秀的文字作品最终却
Language points: Important sentences
2) end up + 现在分词短语
结果所有的活儿都是我一个人干了。
3) end up + 形容词
如果他继续这样开车,总有一天会把命都丢掉。
I ended up doing all the work myself.
If he carries on driving like that, he’ll end up dead.
2) best described as “interesting” 为过去分词短语作后置定语。
2. Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as “interesting”
Language points: Important sentences
1) result in 意为“导致,造成”,同义短语为 lead to;
电影当然需要有令人印象深刻的画面,但为什么《爱丽丝梦游仙境》改编的电影顶多被描述为“有点意思”呢?
令人印象深刻的画面
3. This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can’t escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.
Language points: Important sentences
即便非常成功的电影《哈利·波特》也无法逃避这样的事情 —— 因为在电影中没看到最喜欢的一些角色,书迷们感到很失望。
3. This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can’t escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.
Language points: Important sentences
2) with + 宾语 + 形容词 + not to do。
1) something 作为先行词时,关系代词只能用 that;
Language points: Important sentences
with 后的宾语补足语
1) With a lot of questions _________, the new president is having a hard time. (settle)
2) In parts of Asia you must not sit with your feet ______________ at another person. (point)
3) The murderer was brought in, with his hands _______________ behind his back. (tie)
to settle
pointing
tied
Language points: Important sentences
with 后的宾语补足语
4) With the time __________ by, she came to understand his mother. (pass)
5) He used to sleep with the window _______. (close)
passing
closed
也许有一天,F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德最受推崇作品的读者会发现自己被《了不起的盖茨比》的剧情所吸引。
4. Perhaps, one day, readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.
Language points: Important sentences
find sb / sth done 意为“发现某人或某物处在某状态”
be glued to sth 意为“盯着某物看”
Language points: Important sentences
find + 宾语 + 宾补(形容词 / 名词、代词 / 副词 / 介词短语 / 不定式 / 现在分词 / 过去分词)
1) He found the text _____________ to understand. (难 / 易)
2) Mary hurried there, only to find them ______ (出去了).
3) I found it _____________ (一个无聊的故事).
difficult / easy
out
a boring story
Language points: Important sentences
find + 宾语 + 宾补(形容词 / 名词、代词 / 副词 /介词短语 / 不定式 / 现在分词 / 过去分词)
4) When he woke up, he found himself _____________
(在医院里).
5) He found his mother_________________(不开心).
6) I found a number of girls already ________ (工作) there.
7) He found his hometown ______________ (改变了很多).
in the hospital
working
unhappy
much changed
Homework
VI
Homework: Writing
1. What reasons do you think make movie
adaptations less satisfactory than the original books
2. What books would you like to see made
into movies Why
3. Write a passage according to the two questions.