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B2U4
Developing ideas
What do you read in this picture?
A picture is worth a thousand words?
Lead-in
Have you read any of these books? What are they about?
骆驼祥子
红楼梦
京华烟云
了不起的盖茨比
福尔摩斯
伊利亚特
Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books? What do you think of them?
Prediction
Read the title of the passage and predict the author’s opinion on movies adapted from books.
Good Book, Bad Movie?
Read for the main idea
Read for two minutes and check your prediction.
All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
turkey [C]n.
(informal) a failure
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Read for the details
Read again and find out the answers to the following questions. (4 mins)
1. Why does the writer think so? What are the reasons?
2. How does the writer support his opinion?
3. What’s the writer’s conclusion?
All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
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Read for the details
Read again and find out the answers to the following questions. (4 mins)
1. Why does the writer think so? What are the reasons?
All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
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.
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Read for the details
Read again and find out the answers to the following questions. (4 mins)
2. How does the writer support his opinion?
All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
By giving examples.
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Read for the details
Read again and find out the answers to the following questions. (4 mins)
3. What’s the writer’s conclusion?
All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
Movies should be judged in its own right.
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The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
All too often, great works end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”.
Opinion
Great books can lose plot details and characters when they move to the big screen.
Reason 1
Movies should be judged in its own right.
Conclusion
Movies also disappoint us when things don’t look the way you imagined them
in the books.
Reason 2
Read for structure
Examples
Fill in the blanks together. A second time to comb the information; more familiarity about the information and a better understanding of the “OREO”
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Opinion
Reasons
Examples
Conclusion
Read for structure
Functions of examples:
to explain ideas and concepts
to support arguments
to provide additional information
Read for the details
Match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples.
1. Some parts of the story and some characters are missing in the movie.
2. The visual images are not as striking as the descriptions in the book.
3. The movie is not as great as the book.
4. The movie doesn’t look the way we visualised while reading the book.
5. The characters do not stand out.
a
d
c
e
b
Activity 3
Think & share
What books would you like to see made into movies? Why?
What other reasons do you think make movie adaptations less satisfactory than the original books?
Group work
Talk about a movie adapted from a book.
Introduce the book.
Describe the movie adaptation.
Give your opinion of the movie adaptation.
Your point of view:
Reasons: (plot/characters/images/…)
课时学案,period 4;
准备听写单元剩余单词;
书写练习。
B2U4: writing+作业评讲
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