2.   In this lesson, students will be able to summarize the whole passage.

3.   In this lesson, students will be able to identify new words and expressions appeared in the text.

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

Procedures

Step 1  Role-play

a. T: Yesterday we mainly dealt with those film actors and actresses, and we also act as two Hollywood stars---Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves. We now have a better understanding of these people, but there is a problem with them. With fast Internet connections and computers with DVD player, people download and watch films online. Nobody wants to pay high price for a VCD or DVD; instead, they buy discs for five to ten yuan. So what do you think about this problem? Do you think the DVD should be sold expensive or cheap?

b. Ask students in groups of five to act out a TV talk show discussing this problem according to the requirement of Talking exercise1 on P109.

Step 2  Pre-reading

Ask students to act out the scene in their own film which was assigned two days ago and explain their scene.

T: Through your personal experience, you see directing is a very interesting but hard job. Today we will have a close look at one person who takes up this job. Steven Spielberg, a quite outstanding and world-renowned director.

Step3  While-reading.

a. Show five posters of Steven Spielberg’s films mentioned in the text.

(Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan) (See Posters on next page)

Ask students to discuss in groups and guess what the film is mainly talking about and what the theme of the film is.

b. Skimming

Ask students to read Para3-6 quickly and find out the information about these films and compare it to their imagination of the films. Then fill in the chart in Post-reading. (better use attributive clause)

Films

Information of the film

Jaws (1975)

Jaw is about…(a big shark that attacks and eats swimmers).

ET (1982)

(ET is about a little creature that comes from outer space and wants to go home.)

Jurassic Park (1993)

(Jurassic Park is about an island where a very rich man keeps all kinds of dinosaurs.)

Schindler’s List (1993)

(Schindler’s List is about the cruelty of war/a German who saved thousands of Jewish people from being killed in the war.)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

(Saving Private Ryan is about the cruelty of war/an American captain who led his team to search for a soldier named Ryan.)

c. Play the tape and ask students to go through the whole passage, then divide it into several parts and summarize the main idea of each part.

Para1: Spielberg’s childhood

Para2: Spielberg’s beginning of his career as a film director

Para3-6: his famous films

Para7: his secret of success- his family

d. Explain some important words and difficult language points.

Script: n. text of a play, film, broadcast, talk, etc    e.g. a script editor

v. write a script for (a film, play etc)      e.g. a film scripted by a famous novelist

Win a prize  e.g. She won first prize in the 100 meters race.

The reason why… is that…    e.g. The reason why many people want to buy it is that the price is low.

Studio: place where cinema films are acted and photographed

pl studios

Take off: 1)suddenly become successful or popular       eg. The new dictionary has really taken off.

2)(of a plane) leave the ground and begin to fly

3)leave hurriedly or suddenly     eg. When he saw the police coming he took off in the opposite direction

blockbuster: book or film strongly promoted by its producers to increase sales

Afraid    be afraid of sb/sth

be afraid to do sth / be afraid of doing sth

be afraid of ding sth / be afraid+ that clause

I’m afraid…

Go wrong: experience trouble    eg. The experience went disastrously wrong

make a mistakes      eg. If you read the instructions, you’ll see where you went wrong.

(of a machine) stop working properly

When asked about the secret of his success, Steven Spielberg said that he owes much of his success and happiness to his wife and children.

When asked about…=when he was asked about…

Owe…to…:1)recognize sb/sth as the cause or source of sth; be indebted to sb/sth for sth

eg. He owes his success more to luck than to ability.

2)be in debt to sb         eg. I owe ten dollars to my father.

3 ) feel gratitude to sb       eg. We owe our parents a lot.

After that it still took seven years before they finally got married.

Before:

Step 4  Post-reading

Ask students to answer questions1-4 in Post-reading.

1. Why did Spielberg study English instead of film?

2. Why were people who saw the film Jaws afraid to swim in the sea?

3. How important is his family to Spielberg’s career?

4. What have you learnt from reading about Spielberg?

Step 5  Closure

In this lesson, we focus on the famous director Steven Spielberg, having some knowledge of his childhood, his films and his family. But what we should do is not to envy him, admiring him about his talent, his achievement, but to learn his spirit, his personality.

Lead a class brainstorming of what we can learn from Steven Spielberg, using following sentence patterns.

I have learnt that…

I think …

I realize …

Assignment: 1.Do Word-study on P12-13 and Vocabulary on P110.

2.Review the attributive clause we have learned in Unit4 and preview the grammar in this Unit.

Step 6 Homework

Review the story and get more information for the computer on the director

Try to write or digest some information from the Internet.

Period 4.  Grammar

Goal: In this lesson, students will improve their knowledge of attributive clause.

Objectives: 1. In this lesson, students will be able to distinguish the attributive clause.

2.In this lesson, students will be able to use the attributive clauses with when, where, why and a relative pronoun with a preposition correctly while making sentences.

Material/resources: textbook, blackboard, a film poster

Procedures

Step1  Homework-checking

a. word study :all the missing words are about films. Can you guess what they are?

1.To most actors and actresses, the Oscar is the most important award.

2.In Speed,Keanu Reeves played the role of the brave policeman who saved the lives of the people on the bus.

3.Who do you think is the best director  in China, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige or Feng Xiaogang?

4.The script was so well-written that the famous actress accepted the role at once.

5.A film studio is the place where films are made.

6.While watching Titanic, most people couldn’t help crying when it came to the scene in which Jack saves the life of the girl but dies in icy water himself.

7.Film companies often make follow-ups to films that have been very successful, such as Speed , Jurassic Park .

b. Ask students to check exercises in Vocabulary on P110.

Step 2  Lead in

1. Ask students some questions such as What Chinese directors do you know? What are their well-known films? Then write down the key words to these questions. Then ask students to use these words to make a sentence using attributive clause, and review attributive clause with pronouns.

For example:   Zhang Yimou      Hero

Zhang Yimou is the famous director who successfully directed the film Hero.

Zhang Yimou whose film Hero is very successful is a famous director in China.

Hero is a successful film which /that is directed by Zhang Yimou.

2. Ask students to underline the sentences with attributive clause in the reading text and sort them. Then ask them to work in groups to compare the differences between them.

Step  3  Attributive clause

a..1). Explain the attributive clauses with adverbs where, when, why using sentences in the textbook.

Jurassic Park is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs.

1958 was the year when Spielberg made his first real film.

The reason why Spielberg could not go to the Film Academy was that his grades were too low.

Tell Ss : You can join sentences with where when you mean “at that place”, and use when if you mean “at that time”. Sometimes why is used after the word “reason”.

2)Then ask them to make sentences using attributive clauses with where, when and why respectively.

3)Ask students to do Exercise1 on P33

Complete the following sentences using which, why, where or when.

1.    Hangzhou is the place   where    I went last summer.

2.       He read the book    which    his sister had told him about.

3.       The reason   why   Peter is so happy is that he passed the exam.

4.       I remember the day   when   my father died. I was only ten years old at that time.

5.   Please give me the reason  why   you were late this time.

6.   I will go back to the place   where  I grew up and live there forever.

b. 1) Explain the attributive clause with prepositions

The woman who/whom Spielberg is married to is an actress.

The woman to whom Spielberg is married is an actress.

Tell Ss: When you use a relative pronoun with a preposition, you have two choices, and placing the preposition before the relative pronoun is more formal.

2) Show a film poster and ask students what film it is, and who is the main actor. Then ask them to make sentences by using attributive clauses.

For example

Hero is a historical film which Li Lianjie plays the main role in.

Hero is a historical film in which Li Lianjie plays the main role.

3) Ask students to do Exercise3 on P33-34. Then ask them to answer them in the class.

Use a preposition and a relative pronoun, whom/which, to complete the following sentences.

1.  The book   about which   I heard was written twenty years ago.

2.  The people   to whom   the man spoke weren’t listening.

3.  The film   during which   I fell asleep was very boring.

4.  The pen    with which   she wrote that book can now be seen in a museum.

5.  The little creature   in which   scientists are interested is known as ET.

6.  The gun   with which   he was shot was never found.

Step 4 Ask students to choose an actor or an actress or a director they are familiar with and write some information about him or her, encouraging them to use the attributive clause while making sentences.

Assignment: Do Exercise2 on P33 in the exercise book and hand it in.

Do Exercise1, 2, 3 in the Grammar part on P111.

Compose a short passage about an actor or an actress or a director they are familiar with, using the sentences they write in Step6.

Step 5 Homework  Write some sentences in text with the attributive clauses

Period 5 Integrating skills and writing

Goal: In this lesson, students will develop their ability of analyzing and giving opinions.

In this lesson, students will improve the multiple skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Objectives: 1. In this lesson, students will be able to comprehend the giving biography of Jackie Chan by answering questions.

2. In this lesson, students will be able to tell the elements of a review.

3. In this lesson, students will be able to use some sentence patterns to make  sentences to comments on a film.

4.In this lesson, students will be able to write a short passage of a film review.

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

Procedures

Step 1  Homework-checking

Ask some students to read their short passage about a(n) actor/actress/director. After that, the teacher makes comments on their composition, appreciating their works while pointing out their weakness and mistakes and guiding them to check it correctly.

Step 2  Reading

T: You have done a good job in writing a biography of a famous person, especially using attributive clauses. Today you will read a biography of another famous person on the silver screen, a Chinese who went to Hollywood to develop his acting career.

Ask students to read Movies Across the Pacific on P112 and answer Q1, then discuss Q2-5 in groups.

Step 3  Reading and writing—Not One Less

a. Play the tape and ask students what kind of article this text Not One Less is.------a film review

b. Ask students to read the text Not One Less quickly and complete the table on P35 with the information from the text

Title______

Director :___________

What’s the film about? Tell the story in your own words.

Does the film have a happy ending? How?

What do you think about the story of the film? Why?

How do you feel about the ending of the film? Why?

c. The teacher explain some difficult language points

Step 4 Writing

a. Ask students what items we should remember when writing a review about a film.

b. Ask students to go through the tips on how to make comments on a film on P35 and have a clear mind of how to write a film review.

c. Group discussion

Ask 4 students in each group choose a film they have seen and discuss about the film.

Use the following sentence pattern to describe the story.

The film … is about …

Use the following sentence pattern to give personal opinion on the film.

I like/don’t like this film because…

Then cooperate with the group members to write a short film review.

d. Choose some groups to read their film review, then guide students to find their mistakes by asking them questions.

Step 5 Make a conclusion on how to write a film review

Assignment  Ask students to write a review about their favorite film, following the steps they have learned in the class.

Step 6 Homework

To summary what you learn in this Unit and have a test

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