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B2U4
Developing Ideas
By the end of the class, I will be able to:
1) understand the reasons behind the unsuccessful movies based on books ;
2) analyze how this passage is orangized
3) think criticalliy when making judgements
Learning Objectives(学习目标):
Have you ever seen a movie or TV series adapted from famous books
What do you think of them
Good Book,
Bad Movie
Read for main idea
1. What’s the thesis statement (论点)
2. Why are movie adaptations less satisfactory than the original books
3. What’s the writer’s point of view (conclusion)
Thesis statement: (Para. 1) All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”
unsuccessful movies
great books/novels
Reason1: (Para. 3)
Reason 2: (Para. 4)
Conclusion:(Para. 5)
Loss of characters and details
Movies don’t look the way we imagined them in the books.
Judge a movie in its own right.
Read for detailed information
1. What makes good movies according to Para. 2
2. What’s the function of Para. 2
3. Read Para. 2-Para. 4 and finish Activity 3
4. What are the advantages of TV series
Thesis statement: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Examples are used to explain the thesis statement.
Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it
Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great”
Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as “interesting”
Paraphrase:
Although the book, Homer’s The Odyssey, has good stories, it never had an equally great movie based on it.
Although the book... the movie...
unsuccessful movies
great books/novels
Read for detailed information
1. What makes good movies according to Para. 2
2. What’s the function of Para. 2
3. Read Para. 2-Para. 4 and finish Activity 3
4. What are the advantages of TV series
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 visualized while reading the book.
5 The characters do not stand out.
3 Match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage.
a
d
c
e
b
Thesis statement: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Examples are used to explain the thesis statement
Thesis statement: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
Reason1:
Loss of characters and details
Reason 2:
Movies don’t look the way we imagined them in the books.
e.g. Harry Potter
e.g. Troy/ The Iliad
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Examples are used to support the reasons.
1. Choose the genre(体裁)
A. Narrative writing
B. Expository essay
C. Argumentative essay
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2. How does the auther get the thesis statement(论点) across to readers
How does the author make his arguments(论据/reasons) persuasive
By using examples
Learning to learn
Examples in argumentative essays can serve several purposes. They can be used to explain ideas and concepts, to support arguments, and also as a way of providing additional information.
Introduction about the six books.
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.
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.
Dream of the Red Chamber,
Dream of the Red Chamber
(红楼梦)
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
(了不起的盖茨比)
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.
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 at the beginning of the 20th century.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
(福尔摩斯)
Rickshaw Boy
Rickshaw Boy
Rickshaw Boy
(骆驼祥子)
Moment in Peking
(京华烟云)
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.
The Iliad
(伊利亚特)
The Iliad is said to be an epic poem written by the blind poet , 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.
Homer