Unit 5 The Silver Screen
The Second Period

韶山学校 高一英语组


Teaching Aims:
1. Train the students’ reading ability.
2. Learn some words and phrases.
Teaching Important Points:
Learn and master the following phrases: work on, take off, cut…in pieces, go wrong,
win over, in the end, owe…to…,in all.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to make the students understand the reading text better.
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Question-and-answer activity to get the detailed information in the text.
3. Explanation for students to master some language points.
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. a computer
Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Greetings and Lead-in
Greet the whole class as usual.
Present the topic of this unit by showing a piece of film about the ET and ask:
Q1: Do you know the film?
Q2: What is about?
Q3: Do you know the director? Can you say something about him?

Step2. Reading
1.Fast reading
How many films are mentioned in the text? What are they?
(Teacher gives students three minutes to read the passage and then asks a student to answer the question.)
Suggested answers:
Five. They are “Jaws”“ET”“Jurassic Park”,“Schindler’s List”and “Saving Private Ryan”.
2.Careful reading
Teacher gives students five more minutes to read the passage.
(1). Ask some students to fill in the blanks.



Jaws (1975)
The film is about a big white shark that attacks swimmers who are spending their holidays in a small village.

ET (1982)
The film is about a young boy called Elliott who makes friends with a small creature from outer space and helps him to find a way to go home.
Jurassic Park (1993)
The film is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs.
Schindler’s List (1993)

The two films are both about the cruelty of war.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)


(2). Do the Multiple-choice.
1. How old is Steven Spielberg? ( A )
A 60 B 12 C 16 D 49
2. Why couldn’t Steven Spielberg go to the Film Academy as he wished? ( C )
A Because his family was too poor
B Because he was too young to be accepted
C Because his grades were too poor
D Because he hadn’t got enough experience
3. Which of the following are Steven’s war films? ( B )
A Fire & Jaws B Schindler’s List & Saving Private Ryan
C Jurassic Park & Schindler’s List D Jaws & Jurassic Park
4. This passage mainly tells about______ . ( A )
A Steven Spielberg’s life as a film director
B Steven Spielberg’s life as an actor
C Steven Spielberg’s successful films
D Steven Spielberg’s family life

Step3. Listening
Listen to the tape and try to find out some new words and phrases in the text.
1).从事 work on
2).成功，成名 take off
3).把...切成碎片 cut...into/in...pieces
4).变得糟糕 go wrong
5).战胜 win over
6).最终 in the end
7).把...归因/于... owe...to...
8).总共/计 in all

Step4. Practice
Fill in the blanks.
1. When did you begin to work on the novel?
2. His career took off when he was only twenty.
3. The girl cut the cake into pieces share it with her friends.
4. After the flood, everything went wrong .
5. We owe our success to the help of our teacher.
6. Now there are 70 students in all .

Step5. Summary
Divide the whole passage into several parts and talk about the main idea of each part.
Part1.(1-2) Steven Spielberg’s early works and his love about the film from a very early age.
Part2.(3-6) Several of Spielberg’s very successful films.
Part3. ( 7 ) His successf
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