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Hollywood’s all-time best
----Audrey Hepburn
look at this lady, How do you like this lady? what catches your attention when seeing her? Her beauty. Her charm. Her eyes are very deep, very attractive, right? Her smile is so sweet and pure. Do you know who she is? yes. She is Audrey Hepburn. So today let's learn something about her. let's look at the title first. How much do you know about Hollywood?it is the center of film industry, many actors and actresses come here to realize their dream of acting. What does all time mean? last forever. So, the author writes this article to show that she thinks Audrey Hepbure is the best actress in hollywood, right? Do you want to know why? Let read the passage and find out the reason.
loss n. 丧失,损失;失败actress n.女演员
charm n. 魅力
ballet n.芭蕾舞
dancer n. 舞蹈者
lead n.主角
role n.角色
lifetime n. 终身,一生
appearance n. 出现,外貌
angel n. 天使
effort n. 努力
humanitarian n.人道主义者 insist vt./ vi. 坚持认为;坚持
base vt. 以...为基础
mark vt. 表明;标志
all-time adj. 一向的;空前的
final adj. 最终的
peacefully adv.宁静的,和平的
pass away 去世
play the role of 扮演 ...的角色
catch one’s attention
吸引某人的注意
Vocabulary
B1
What catches your attention when seeing her photo?
Her beauty and charm.
an attractive quality
What catches your attention when seeing her photos?
Her beauty and charm.
What do you know about her?
Today, let’s read a passage to learn more about her.
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Predict
1. What may this article be about?
All-time best Hollywood films.
Audrey Hepburn’s life and work.
2. Where can we most possible find this article?
An art magazine
A news magazine
An entertainment magazine
1929
1951
1989
1991
1953
1993
born in Belgium
·met the French writer Colette
·played the lead role in Gigi
·played the lead role of a young princess
·won the Oscar for Best Actress
made her final appearance in the film Always
had cancer
passed away
Scan and complete the timeline
Para.___ Hepburn’s ______ _____
Para.2 Hepburn’s _____ life
Para.1 General introduction
Para.7 Hepburn’s ______
Main body
Starting
Ending
Skim and find out the structure
Para.___ Hepburn’s __________ ______
film / acting career
3-5
6
early
charity work
death
Listen and read along the tape
1929
Profile(简介)
Name: Audrey Hepburn
Date of birth:
Date of death:
Reason of death:
4th, May, 1929
20th, Jan, 1993
cancer
1993
sad
a great beauty
a great actress
a great humanitarian
Para 1,7
First, let’s read Para 1 and 7 and find some basic information about her.
Help me finish her profile.
(核对答案)
How did people feel when she died?
The whole world felt sad about the loss of a great beauty, a great actress and a great humanitarian.
what happened to Hepburn these years?
Next, let’s read more to find out.
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Hepburn’s early life (Para 2 )
2 places
Belgium
London
was born
loved …and
dreamt of…
worked as a model
Everyone should take action with a dream.
一个人至少拥有一个梦想
After…,
What happened?
dreamt
研学随练展收获
T:Read Para 2, find 2 places and find out what happened in two places.
T: Did you find the two places?
S: Belgium and London
T: What happened in two places?
S:…
T: little Hepburn had a dream. Is it important to have a dream?
everyone should take action with a dream and be strong with a reason . 一个人至少拥有一个梦想
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A great actress (Para 3~5)
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
marked the beginning of her successful career
won the Oscar for the Best Actress
made her final appearance
Why did the writer choose these works?
How many works are there in this article?
What are they?
3 works
As a great actress. She had a lot of famous works.
But how many works are there in this article? What are they?
Why did the writer choose these three works?
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Para 3
What’s the key sentence in Para 3?
That event marked the beginning of her successful career.
What was that event?
What was Gigi?
Whose novel is it?
Why was it the beginning of her successful career?
the lead role in Gigi
, a play based on her novel
Hepburn had never played any major roles before.
Colette
insisted that Hepburn was the perfect girl for
, although
Why did the writer use insist here? Can we use thought to replace(替代) it?
be sure to say that something is right
Maybe someone disagreed with Colette.
Why?
Hepburn had never played any major roles before.
Insist has stronger feelings than thought.
It shows that Colette really liked Hepburn.
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Colette is Hepburn’s __________________.
Para 3
B. director
C. talent scout(伯乐)
Some people thought Hepburn was lucky to get the chance, because she was beautiful. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?
Chance favors (青睐) only the prepared mind.
A. teacher
Colette is an important person for Hepburn.
talent scout [skaʊt]
It is true that Hepburn’s beauty and charm caught the writer’s attention. And Colette gave her a chance to have a try. Hepburn caught the chance, tried her best and proved that she could play the lead role. Hepburn was not only beautiful but also hard-working.
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?
marked the beginning of her successful career
marked the peak (顶峰) in her career
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in 1953
was chosen to play the lead role of a young princess
a big success
won an Oscar for Best Actress
How was the film
What role
When
Key sentence
Para 4
Read and complete.
(that year, two years later)
Retell
Because she had four more Oscar nominations.
How many Oscar nominations did she have in all during her lifetime?
Five.
Para 5
will have the chance to win an Oscar
Reading skill:
We should pay attention to the details while reading.
?
Para 5
play the role of a princess
Why was she chosen to play the role of an angel?
Is beauty enough to make such a great angel?
Hepburn’s achievements went beyond the film industry.
play the role of an angel
T: In Roman Holiday, she played the role of a young princess. In Always, what role did she play?
S: She played the role of an angel.
T: Why was she chosen to play the role of an angel?
S: She was so beautiful that she was like an angle.
(Many people thought she was playing herself in the film.)
T: Is beauty enough to make such a great angel?
T: She is kind and she is helpful.
S: Hepburn’s achievements went beyond the film industry.
T: She had many achievements, not only in film industry, but also in other areas.
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What did she do?
A great humanitarian (Para 6)
a great humanitarian
began to work for UNICEF in the 1950s
spent her last few years working closely with…
Which do you think is more important to Hepburn, Oscar or awards in charity? Why?
She devoted most of her life to UNICEF.
won many awards because of her efforts
2 periods (时段)
began to work for UNICEF in the 1950s
spent her last few years working closely with UNICEF
(in her 20s)
(a few years before she died)
T: Why do people think Hepburn is a great humanitarian? Did she make any efforts? What did she do?
S: began to work for UNICEF in the 1950s.
spent her last few years working closely with UNICEF
She devoted most of her life to UNICEF.
She won many awards because of her efforts in this area.
Think: Which award do you think is more important to Hepburn, Oscar or awards from UNICEF? Why?
(Oscar. Because after she won the Oscar, she became world-famous. She could call on a lot of people to follow her. She had a big influence.)
(She did charity to help others, not for awards.)
(Awards from UNICEF are more important, because helping others can bring more happiness.
to help others is the fountain of happiness.助人为乐乃快乐之本)
She cared about others more than herself.
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Colette
the director of Roman Holiday
a UNICEF officer
Though Hepburn passed away, she is still in people’s memory. What was Hepburn like in their memory?
If you were one of them, what would you say about her?
I was attracted by…
I insisted…
though….
It turned out ...
I chose Hepburn to …because…
The film…
She became..
Because of this role, she…
Hepburn was really…
She began…
She spent…
Because of her, more people…
Though Hepburn passed away, she is still in people’s memory. What was Hepburn like in their memory?
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What attracts you most? Why?
effort chance kindness talent luck beauty charm…
As a teenager, what can you learn from her?
“As you grow older, you will
When you give others helping hands,
you can get help at the same time.
the other for helping others. ”
discover that you have two hands:
one for helping yourself,
What did she do to help herself?
What did she do to help others?
Did she get help from others?
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a
b
c
d
e
f
Hepburn met Colette in France.
Hepburn had four more Oscar nominations.
Roman Holiday was a big success.
Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Always-Audrey Hepburn’s last appearance in a film.
Hepburn played the lead role in the play Gigi.
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2
3
4
5
6
B2
Put the headlines in the correct order.
Audrey Hepburn was one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses. She worked as a model before she became an _______. Her successful ______ lasted for about 40 years. In 1951, while acting in France, she met Colette, a famous French writer. Hepburn’s beauty and charm caught the writer’s ________. She _______ that Hepburn was the right person for the lead ____ in the play Gigi. Two years later, Hepburn was chosen to play the lead role in Roman Holiday, and won the _____ for Best Actress that year. During her _______, Hepburn had four more Oscar nominations. She made her final appearance in the film Always in 1989 and played the role of an _____.
career
attention
insisted
role
actress
Oscar
lifetime
angel
B3
1. Sandy: Why is Audrey Hepburn one of Hollywood’s all-time best?
Kitty:
2. Sandy: What was Hepburn’s dream when she was a child?
Kitty:
3. Sandy: How did Hepburn become world-famous?
Kitty:
4. Sandy: What did Hepburn do beyond the film industry?
Kitty:
Because she is not only a great beauty and a great actress,
but also a great humanitarian.
Her dream was to become a successful ballet dancer
when she was a child.
She became world-famous by playing the lead role of
a young princess in the Hollywood film Roman Holiday.
She worked with UNICEF to help poor children in different parts of the world.
B4
Read aloud the article and
underline the difficult parts.
2. Try to retell the story of Audrey
Hepburn.
3. Preview Reading 2
Homework
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Thanks
a lot!
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