Unit 5 The Silver Screen
What are we going to learn?（目标篇）
1.重点词汇
silver hero scene law career drama role actress award prize choice degree director speed script actor academystudio creature outer adult follow-up cruelty peace industry owe happiness accept icy primary leader determine live(adj.) boss comment action
2.重点词组
silver screen take off go wrong owe sth to sb in all stay away primary school lock sb up run after bring sb back on the air think highly of
3.交际用语
提出看法与作出评价：
I think the film has a good beginning / ending.
I think that DVDs shouldn’t be sold at such a high price / should be much cheaper.
The actors / actress are…; How do you like…? What do you think of / about…? What do you feel about…?
时序：
You studied / worked / acted / at different …; First…, and then…; What did you do next? Finally you found a job as …; Later on…; What made you decide to…? What roles did you act? How long have you been working as…?
4.语法难点
定语从句（2）：关系副词引导的定语从句和介词+关系代词引导的定语从句
5.话题
1. Talk about films: famous actors and directors
2. Make comments and give opinions on films

Tell Me More!（背景篇）
Mini biography
Without a doubt one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big grossing critically acclaimed credits to his name, both as producer, director and writer.
Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. He went to Long Beach University, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained
notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classicwestern "Wagon Train" (1957). Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), Escape to Nowhere (1961), and The Last Gun (1959) . All of these were short films.
The next couple of years Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would be foretelling to his future career in movies. In 1964 he directed Firelight (1964), a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967 he directed the movie Slipstream (1967), which was unfinished. But in 1968 he directed the movie Amblin' (1968), which featured the desert prominently, and not the first Spielberg movie the desert would be so prominent in. Amblin would also become the production company he would produce many films with, including the classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, Duel (1971/I) (TV), with Dennis Weaver. The film is considered a uniqueclassic that still baffles some.
In the early 1970s Spielberg was working on TV, in Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" (1970), "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969) and Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV), to name a few. All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects were just the beginning of the gathering storm of talent that would become the Spielberg that made the brilliant films he would later become known for internationally.
As an undoubted rising star, his major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn. It was his next directorial effort that made Spielberg an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster, or at least he was credited with starting the tradition.
His next effort was the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a unique and very original UFO story that remains a cult classic. In 1978 Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed his first effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed, but mostly forgotten Kurt Russell\Jack Warden comedy. Spielberg hit gold again directing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones. Spielberg produced and directed two films in 1982. The first one was Poltergeist (1982), b
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