Unit 4 Cartoons and comic strips More practice Culture corner 课件 2022-2023学年沪教牛津版英语八年级下册

More practice Culture corner Module 2 Arts and crafts Unit 4 Cartoons and comic strips Period 6 1 Did you see the cartoon? What do you know about it? Free talk 背景资料补充 《猫和老鼠》（Tom and Jerry）是由汤姆猫和杰瑞老鼠搭档演出的一部经典短篇动画剧集。每一集短片一般都从汤姆企图抓住杰瑞展开，最后以失败告终。《猫和老鼠》从1940年问世以来，一直是全世界最受欢迎的卡通之一。此片曾在1943年至1953年间先后夺得七项奥斯卡大奖，是获得过奥斯卡金像奖最多的动画片。 Read the article on page 61 and match each paragraph with its general idea. More practice the makers of the cartoons the characters and plot of the cartoons the cartoons’ success and the awards they have received Paragraph 1 is about ______. Paragraph 2 is about _____. Paragraphs 3 and 4 are about ______. a b c Read the first paragraph and answer the questions. Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular cartoon characters in the world. In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to catch Jerry, but he never has any success. Almost every cartoon ends with Tom in trouble and Jerry laughing at him. The stories are full of fun and have a long history. What are Tom and Jerry? What is Tom always doing? Does Tom ever catch Jerry? What always happens at the end of almost every cartoon? Tom is a cat and Jerry is a mouse. Tom is always trying to catch Jerry. No, he doesn’t. At the end of almost every cartoon, Tom is in trouble and Jerry is laughing at him. Read the second paragraph and decide whether the statements on the following slide are True (T) or False (F). William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. Their boss told them to make funny cartoons. Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse. They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and always got the cat into trouble. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera wanted to make funny cartoons. Their boss didn’t like funny cartoons. They made the mouse clever and got the cat into trouble because they thought it might make people laugh. F F T Read the third and the fourth paragraphs and complete the table. The first Tom