高一英语教案：the silver screen教案7

Unit5 The Silver Screen

Period 1.Warning –up and Listening

Teaching objectives and demands:

1.The activity is designed to encourage students to Use the activity as a brainstorming session done either in groups or with the whole class and activate relevant vocabulary.

2.Language use: Manipulate listening, speaking practice

3. Interview the headmaster and other teacher about the school rules and the ways to learn all the subjects

Key points:

Goal: In this lesson, students will enhance their listening and speaking abilities through talking about films.

Objectives:1. In this lesson, students will be able to describe the movie pictures

2. In this lesson, students will be able to catch the main idea of the listening material and specific details according to the requirement.

Material/resources: blackboard, tape-recorder, tape, textbook

Teaching procedures:

Step 1  Free talk

1. T: Do you like seeing films?

Do you often go to the cinema to see films or just stay at home to see films on TV?

This summer what films did you see?

(ask students to discuss and answer these questions)

2. T: Good films are always popular all over the world. People from different countries, with different background all like films. In this unit, we’ll focus on the silver screen, talking about successful films, famous actors and actresses, and great directors.

Step 2  Warming up

1.  T: There are different kinds of films. What kind of film do you like?

Write students answers on the blackboard. (comedy, action, animation, horror, historical, war, science-fiction…)

2.  Ask students to look at the picture of Hero

T: Is this picture quite familiar to you? I believe most of you have seen this film, for it is directed by Zhang Yimou and acted by many movie stars. Can you tell me what kind of film it is based on your knowledge?

Ask students to describe the picture with questions below

Q1: What is happening in the scene?

Q2: What do you think happens before this scene?

Q3: What do you think happens after this scene?

3.  Group discussion

Divide the whole class into 3 groups, each group discussing one of the rest three pictures in the text through their observation and imagination.

Step 3  Listening practice (in the workbook)

1.Brief introduction: You will hear three conversations in which some people are talking about their favorite films and film directors. Listen careful and complete the chart below.

2.Ask students to go over the chart, and know what type of information they will listen for and what they should note down. Then listen to the tape for a first time, and try to understand the general meaning of this material, and pay special attention to specific information.

3.Listen for the second time and write down the information according to the requirement of the exercise.

4.  Listen for the third time and check the information and the teacher does some explanation if necessary.

Jennifer

Alex

James

Title of the film

AI

Spiderman

Shower

Director

Steven Spielberg

Sam Raimi

Zhang Yang

What is the film about?

A robot that wants love and becomes a real boy.

The good fighting against the bad.

An old bathhouse where people make friends. When the bath-house close, friendships are lost forever,

His/Her opinion

It’s a simple but strong story.

It’s very exciting and funny.

It’s a sad film.

5. Ask students whether they have seen any of the films Jennifer, Alex and James talk about or other films directed by the film directors they mention. Give opinion about these films.

Step 4  Closure

Lead the whole class to discuss and give opinions about films they have seen.

Assignment

1. Read new words and expressions in Unit5.

2. Cooperate in groups of 3-4, think about a scene if they direct a film, and then write a short dialogue of that film scene and act it out.

Step 5. Homework

(1) Finish off the exercises of  Unit 5 in the workbook.

(2) Revise the key points of this unit.

(3)List the friend they get to know in class and write down some thing they want to know.

Evaluation of teaching:

Period 2. Listening and Speaking

Teaching aim and requirements  (教学目标和要求)

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge of Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves.

In this lesson, students will practise their skills of interviewing.

Objectives:

1.In this lesson, students will be able to retell the life of Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves.

2.In this lesson, students will be able to complete a chart related to the text.

3.In this lesson, students will be able to act out an interview.

Emphases of teaching(教学重难点)

1、 How to make the students be active to express their own ideas.

2、 How to help the students understand the long sentence in the text.

Teaching aids(教学手段)   Multimedia in English teaching and learning(多媒体手段教学)

Teaching Procedures(教学过程)

Material/resources: blackboard, tape-recorder, tape, textbook

Procedures

Step 1  Lead in

1.  T: In last lesson, we talked a lot about films. Of course those films are very popular and successful. What does the success of the films bring to actors or actresses?

(Ss: money, fame, reputation,…and interview)

2.  T: What questions will you ask when interviewing an actor or an actress?

Ask students to discuss in groups and collect as many questions as possible.

Step 2  Listening (on P29)

a. Ask students to look at questions in the listening part, and listen for the general idea and find out the answer to the question: Who are the two speakers?

b. Ask students to listen for the second time and find out the specific information to the following questions and fill in the blanks.

1. What do we know about the city where Malcolm grew up?

It was  a small town far from the big city .

2. What did he want to be when he was a student?

He wanted to be a teacher             .

3.  What was the reason why Malcolm studied law?

The reason   his father wanted him to study law   .

4.  When did Malcolm really start his career in the theatre?

When    Malcolm met Fiona, he started his career in the theatre    .

5. Why was the film called The Dream Machine important to Malcolm?

It was    important because he did not have any experience     .

c. Check students’ answers.

Step 3  Speaking

a. T: Awards are very important to those actors and actresses, which show the audience’s or experts’ acceptance and appreciation to their performances.

Q1  Can you tell me some famous awards to the films in the world?

Q2  Can you tell me some famous actors or actresses that have won the Oscar?

T: Today we will look at a famous actor and a famous actress who are very successful in their acting career.

b. Divide the whole class into 2 groups. Students in Group A read the biography of Merllly Streep while students in Group B read the biography of Keanu Reeves. Then fill in the table below respectively.

Name____________________      Schooling______________________

Beginning of the acting career__________________    Films____________________

Achievement________________________________

c. Check the information and explain some words and useful expressions in and below the biographies.

1) While still a student, she played roles in many plays.

While still a student= while she was still a student

Play a role in: play a part in

e.g. Telephones are playing an important role/part in our daily life.

2) Meryl Streep made her first film, called Julia in 1977.

called Julia: past participle phase used as the attribute to modify film

3) Academy Awards (Oscars): the main national film award in the USA. The Awards are granted annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Awards ceremony takes place in Hollywood every Match.

4)  a. Interviewer can use following expressions to interview in good order

You studied/worked/acted at different…

First…, and then…         Later on…            Finally you found a job as…

b. Interviewer can pose such questions to the interviewee

What did you do next?

What made you decide to…?

What roles did you act?

How long have you been working as…?

c. Interview

Ask students to work in pairs and imitate CCTV’s interview program-----Life of Art,     one acting as the host with suggested expressions in the text and questions When and where were you born? How many films have you acted? Which one is your favorite?

One acting as the guest---Merly Streep or Keanu Reeves with information in the short biography and in the Notes in the textbook.

Choose some pairs to act out the interview; while one pair is interviewing, the rest of the class act as the audience and can raise questions to the guest.

Step 4  Lead students to discuss following questions

Why ate they so popular and successful?

What is needed to be an actor or actress?

Would you like to be an actor or actress one day? Why?

Assignment: Look at talking exercise on P109 and have a discussion about the copy right.

Step 5 Homework

Finish off the reading in Unit 5

Period 3. Reading

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge and understanding Steven Spielberg as a director.

In this lesson, students will improve their speaking and reading abilities.

Objectives:

1.  In this lesson, students will be able to analyze and give reasons why DVD should be sold expensive or cheap.