Unit 5 The Silver Screen
The Teaching Plan For The 2nd Period
Reading: Getting to know Steven Spielberg

阳 彦 （苍溪中学）
1. Teaching goals
1.1Target Language:
Enable the students to understand and use the following key words and expressions:
script, actor，actress, academy, studio, blockbuster, creature, outer, adults, follow-up, cruelty, peace, industry, happiness, take off, cut sth. into pieces, do research, win over, go wrong, owe sth. to sb., in all.
1.2 Ability goals:
a. Enable the students to make comments and give opinions on films, actors and directors.
b. Enable the students to improve the skills of reading a text as a whole.
1.3 Moral goals:
Students are divided into different groups. Each group member will play a different role to talk about films and directors. Each group member should be involved and know his/her role well. Through these activities students should learn to be involved, cooperate and solve problems. By learning this text students should know there isn’t any smooth and easy way to any success or achievement.

2. Teaching important points:
a. Give opinions and comments on films, famous actors and directors in their own words.
b. Improve the students' readingability by finishing some reading tasks.

3. Teaching difficult points:
a. Let the students know the way to success of the famous director Steven Spielberg.
b. Let the students learn to realize their dreams through hard work and perseverance.

4. Teaching methods:
a. Reading, discussing and question-and-answering activities to help the students go through with the text.
b. Pair work or group work to practice speaking and check their understanding of the text.

5. Teaching aids
A tape recorder, a projector, and a computer with Powerpoint 2003.

6. Teaching Procedures & ways:
(A detailed lesson plan for the reading part)

Step 1 Presentation
Let the students talk about the films that they have ever seen.
Let the students talk about the films, actors and directors they like best.
T: Now we are going to talk about film today. All of us are fond of films, especially the students I think. Here are a few questions:
What do we call the man who plays the film? (an actor)
What do we call the woman who plays the film? (an actress)
What do we call the person who directs the film? (a film director)
Have you ever seen the film HERO? It is a wonderful film, isn't it? Do you know who is the actor? (Li Lianjie)
And who is actress?(Zhang Zhiyi) .And who is the director of this film?(Zhang Yimou, a famous director in China of the films such as Hero, Not One Less, etc.)

Step 2 Pre-reading
Ask the students to read the title and look at the pictures, and then guess:
Q: What is the text about?
(This text will be about Steven Spielberg and his films. When we are reading about films, we will probably find information about people who play in films, people who make films, and read what films are about.)
T: Today we will get to know a famous film director, whose name is Steven Speilberg. He is an American. And he is one of the top film directors in the world. Before reading the text, mark each paragraph with a number, please.

Step 3 Fast Reading
1. Give the students about six minutes to read the text and try to find the answers to the questions:
a. What is the main idea of the text?
The text is mainly about . (C)
A. Steven Spielberg's family life
B. Steven Spielberg's as an actor
C. Steven Spielberg's as a film director
D. Steven Spielberg's successful films
b. How many of Steven Spielberg's movies are mentioned in the passage? And what are they?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8 (B)
Firelight (When did he make this film? 1946+16=1962)
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