Unit 5  Silver Screen Not One Less

向仕慧

Teaching aims

1.       key words and phrases:

Stay away, primary, take one’s place, lock sb up, run after, determine, live on the air, comment

2.       key structures:

The film…is about…

I like/don’t like this film because…

appear live on the air

3.     Students are trained to improve their reading abilities as well as listening and writing.

Important points

Let students summarize the whole passage

Difficult points

How to write a film review

Teaching aids

Tape-recorder, computer

Teaching methods

Student-centred teaching

 Teaching procedures and ways

Step I lead-in

Talk about something about films and film directors

Step II listening comprehension

1 introduce the story

T: today we’ll read a passage about a film by one of the world’s most successful film maker-Zhang Yimou

2 listening objective

T: listen to passage, trying to grasp as much as information as possible and see if you can answer some simple questions.

3 play the tape.

4 answer some simple questions

Step III intensive reading

1 Ask the Ss to read the text.

2. Obtain brief explanations to difficulties in the text from the students themselves. Encourage the Ss to use TPR method (Total Physical Response-Use body language instead of words to explain the vocabulary.)

3 show the structure of the passage on the board.

Step IV Reasoning reading

Topics for discussion

1 what do you like about the film?

2 what can we learn from the film?

3 do you think Zhang Yimou is creative?

Step V writing

Give the Ss some tips on how to write a film review (the title, director, plots, main idea/theme, ending, opinions about the film.)