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Unit 4 Cartoons and comic strips
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Culture corner & Study skills
牛津深圳·广州版 八年级下
Learning objects
3. work in groups to make a comic strip.
1. learn more about the famous cartoon Tom and Jerry ;
2. learn more about the Chinese cartoon Havoc in Heaven;
After learning this lesson, you can:
Lead in
Watch a video.
Have you ever seen this cartoon?
What impressed you most?
Do you like it? Why?
Lead in
I am Jason. Today I would like to introduce my favourite cartoon Tom and Jerry to you. It is a funny cartoon with a long history. Do you know it?
Lead in
Reading
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
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.
Reading
What are Tom and Jerry?
Tom is a cat and Jerry is a mouse.
What is Tom always doing?
Does Tom ever catch Jerry?
What always happens at the end of almost every cartoon?
Tom is always trying to catch Jerry.
No, he doesn’t.
end with以……结束
in trouble 陷入麻烦
Read the second paragraph and decide whether the statements on the following slide are True (T) or False (F).
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
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.
boss /bɒs/ n. a person who is i