高一英语模块六Cultural Corner
Teaching Aims: Enlarge the students’ horizon about directors.
Improve their ability to catch the main information.
Teaching Important Points: some knowledge about Steven Spielberg
Teaching Difficult Points: Subjective Clause
Teaching Aids: Multimedia
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Greetings as usual
Step 2 Lead-in
T: As you know, if a film want to be popular with the audience, the part that a director plays in it is very important. There are a lot of famous directors in China. Such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Ang Lee (the best director in the 78th Annual Academy Awards) Feng Xiaogang…. How about the famous director at abroad? Who can tell us some famous directors?
S: Clint Eastwood (克林特·伊斯特伍德)
T: He was the best director in the 77th Annual Academy Awards and 65th Annual Academy Awards. His famous works are Million Dollar Baby 《百万宝贝》and Unforgiven《不可饶恕》。 Another famous director is Peter Jackson ( 彼得 杰克逊) He directed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King《指环王：所向无敌》。Another famous director is Steven Spielberg. We can learn some information about him from the text.
Please fill in the blanks after reading.
He was born in the state of______, __________,in _______.
Films he made at the following ages:
13_________________________ 16_______________________________________
24._________________________ 28_______________________________________
36._________________________other films:_____________________________ _
Step 3 Let the students read the text quickly and silently.
Step 4 Ask some students fill in the blanks. The key to the blanks.
Ohio, America, 1946. 13. his first 15-minute home movie 16. He made 135-minute home movie called Firelight 24. He made a 26-minute film called Ambin. 28. He made Sugarland Express 36. He made E.T.----- The Extra Terrestrial, other films: The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List
The teacher show the pictures through multimedia and add some other films, such as Saving Private Iyan, The Color Purple, Minority Report, Munich..
Step 5 While—Reading
Para 1 What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
Steven Spielberg is famous in the west.
Para 2
1.When he was 16 he made a 135-minute home movie called Firelight. called Firelight 被叫做《火光》, 此句型为过去分词作后置定语，修饰movie,其中call 与movie 之间是被动关系。
2.What is the main idea of this paragraph?
The earlier and his successful films made by Steven Spielberg
3.What film made him win an Oscar? Schindler’s List
Para 3
1 What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
People think highly of Steven Spielberg.
2.Why is Spielberg so special as a film director?
Because he knows how to entertain his audience.
3.But it’s generally agreed, that he, more than anyone else in the history of the films, understands the meaning of the word “entertainment”.
但是，绝大多数人认为：他比电影史上任何一个人更懂得“娱乐”二字的意义。
这是一个主语从句。在这个句子中，he, more than anyone else in the history of the films, understands the meaning of the word “entertainment”是真正的主语。
It is said that he’s got married. 听说他结婚了。
It is not known yet whether they will come today.
他们今天是否会来还不知道。
Step 6 Listen to the recording.
Step 7 Homework.
Look up more information about Steven Spielberg.



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