Unit 4 Stage and screen Developing ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Stage and Screen Developing Ideas 骆驼祥子 红楼梦 京华烟云 Have you read any of these books? What are they about? Activity 1 骆驼祥子 红楼梦 京华烟云 Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books? What do you think of them? Which version wins your preference? Read the title of the passage and predict the author’s opinion on movies adapted from books. Good Book, Bad Movie? Prediction Scan the passage. 1. Find out which of the books in Activity 1 are mentioned. Activity 2 2. What does “a picture is worth a thousand words” mean? 3. What’s the author’s opinion on movies adapted from books? The Great Gatsby and The Iliad The picture is rich in contents. 3. What’s the author’s opinion on movies adapted from books? Activity 2 All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”. turkey: [C] (informal) a failure 5. What’s the function of Paragraph 2? To further confirm that good books always end up being turned into bad movies. 4. In what way does the second paragraph write? By asking questions/ explanation/discussion/ analysis. Why does the writer think so? What are the reasons? How does the writer support his opinion? What’s the writer’s conclusion? Read for detailed information. 7 1. Why does the writer think so? What are the reasons? Great books can lose plot details and characters when they move to the big screen. Movies also disappoint us when things don’t look the way we imagined them in the books. Read for detailed information. What other reasons do you think make movie adaptations less satisfactory than the original books? 8 2. How does the writer support his opinion? Read for detailed information. By giving examples. The Odyssey The Great Gatsby Alice in Wonderland Harry Potter Troy Which of the following movies was best described as “interesting”？ 9 Match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage. 1. Some parts of the story and some characters are missing in the movie. 2. The visual