Unit 4 Stage and screen Developing ideas 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Good Book, Bad Movie? Have you ever read any of these books? How much do you know about them? author setting main idea importance... 红楼梦 了不起的盖茨比 夏洛克·福尔摩斯 骆驼祥子 伊利亚特 京华烟云 Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books? Which version is most welcomed? What do you think of them? Good Book, Bad Movie? Now let’s read the passage to find out the author's opinion. Find out the answer. What’s the text type of this passage? A. narration 记叙文 B. practical writing 应用文 C. argumentation 议论文 D. exposition 说明文 1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1? A. A picture is worth a thousand words. B. We should read books briefly. C. Many people doubt the common saying. D. Many good books can’t be filmed into good movies successfully. 2.What does “turkeys” mean in the first paragraph? A. Successes B. failures C. large birds D. highlights 1They say that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying. All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”． brief adj.短暂的 变成 v. 询问；对……提出异议 时常;通常 end up doing sth.以做某事而告终 电影的 (电影或戏剧的)失败之作 The Great Gatsby Leonardo DiCaprio 3．Which of the following is true? A．Good movies need good stories. B．Movies need strong characters. C．Movies need impressive images. D．All the above are wrong. 4. What’s the function of Paragraph 2? A. To raise the reader’s cultural awareness. B. To prove good movies need good stories. C. To further confirm that good books always end up being turned into bad movies. D. To show that movies need impressive images. 2Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it? Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great” ? Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted