Unit 4 Stage and Screen Writing & Presenting ideas & Reflection 课件-2024-2025学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Stage and screen Writing + Presenting ideas + Reflection 1. Look at the poster, and what information can you get from it? Title/Name: Actors: Director: Producer: Type/Genre: Release date: Runtime: 2. What else do you know about it? Read the movie review and answer the question. What is the movie about? Who is the main character? What is the most memorable scene in the movie? What does the viewer think of the movie? Read the movie review and answer the questions. 1. What is the movie about? It' s about the story of a teenage girl called Mia Thermopolis who learnt she is the princess of Genovia shortly before her sixteenth birthday. 2. Who is the main character? Mia Thermopolis. Read the movie review and answer the question. 3. What is the most memorable scene in the movie? The most memorable scene is towards the end of the movie when, during Mia’s darkest moment of self-doubt , she is touched by a letter father left her. 4. What does the viewer think of the movie? It is an interesting movie which is about being and bettering yourself and about knowing who your real friends are. Read for the structure of the movie review. General introduction Main plot The most memorable scene Comments Objective description Subjective views name release date actors/actresses type/genre setting runtime …. What is the tense of a movie review? The present tense. Léon is a lonely professional killer. One day, Mathilda, a young girl from his neighboring apartment, knocks on his door seeking his help from a deadly threat. It turns out her family were massacred /ˈmæsəkə(r)/ by a corrupt detective as punishment for stealing a small packet of drugs. Saved by Léon, Mathilda begins staying with him. Léon teaches the girl how to handle firearms, while she teaches him French. Their relationship gradually deepens, and they form an unexpectedly close bond.   Guido /'gaidəu/ , a Jewish man, meets teacher Dora. They marry and start a family. When Fascists /fæʃɪsts/ send Guido and their son to a concentration camp, non-Jewish Dora chooses to join them. To protect his son, Guido pretends the camp is a game where they earn points to win a tank. Despite the horrors, he keeps hope alive. As the war nears its end and Nazis begin destroying the camp, Guido races to save his son’s innocence and reunite his family. Will they survive the nightmare? In 1949 rural France, a musician Clément Mathieu arrives at a boys' boarding school to work as an assistant teacher. Most of the students at the school are troubled children, where physical punishment is common practice under arbitrary /ˈɑːbɪtrəri/ headmaster who prioritizes his own career ambitions. Clément Mathieu improves the situation through his own methods. He composes new music pieces and organizes a choir, determined to use the power of music to open up the closed hearts of these troubled students. Forrest Gump was born with an intellectual disability and an IQ of 75, yet his mother, a strong-willed woman, constantly encouraged him with the motto "stupid is as stupid does," urging him to persevere and strive for himself. Forrest attends school like any ordinary child, where he meets his lifelong friend and true love, Jenny . Under the loving care of Jenny and his mother, Forrest begins a lifetime of running, fueled by his God-given "fleet feet (飞毛腿)," which carry him through extraordinary adventures and triumph/ˈtraɪəmf/. Forrest Gump Title General introduction Main plot The most memorable scene …… Comments/Your views on it Choose a movie that you have seen recently and complete the table. You can give some additional description if you want to. Useful expressions The film…, directed by…and set in…, tells a story about…. …is a film directed by…and adapted from… The most memorable/striking/impressive part is… …gives an amazing performance in the film. Useful expressions Pros: The whole film is magnificent especially the visual effects. This is a film the whole family can enjoy. On the whole, it’s well worth watching. From my perspective, it is well worth watching. Cons: However, many people have complained that the film is too boring/violent… Another common complaint is that the film is… I am disappointed with the film because…. Smart Expressions get out of hand get (a) hold of sth (be) in / under the spotlight on top of sth. step up to the throne better oneself a general introduction 失控 把握，抓住，得到 受到关注；成为焦点 除此以外，另外 登上王位 自求上进; 提高自己的地位 简介 向某人推荐某物 写影评 艺术形式 recommend sth to sb write a movie review an art form $$