内容正文:
Good book,
bad movie?
Book2 Unit4 Stage and screen
Learning Objectives
1.Know the writing type of this article.
2. Find some detailed information about the movies.
3.Find out the main ideas of each paragraph and the main idea of the passage.
Book?
Movie?
relationship?
The same name.
The film is an adaptation of the book.
adaptations 改编(movies based on books)
Warm up
Which one would you choose,book or adapted movie?Why?
Predict the author’s opinion through the title “Good Book, Bad Movie?”
1. What is the writing type of the article?
A. narration
(叙述 a story)
B. exposition
(说明 a thing)
C. argumentation
(议论 a topic)
Predict
Structure of the text:
Part one(para1) ___________________
Part two(para2 - 4) ___________________
Part three(para5) ___________________
the opinion about movies
Reasons + examples
make a conclusion
Fast reading
Find out the main idea of each paragraph and underline them.
Careful reading P1
1.How do you understand the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words”?
A. The picture is very expensive.
B. There are 1000 words in the picture.
C. The picture is hard to describe in words.
D. The picture is rich in contents.
Careful reading P1
Careful reading P1
What’s the author’s opinion?
2.What does the word “turkeys” mean in the first paragraph?
A.Failures.
B.Excellent movie productions.
C.Unreleased movies.
D.Popular movie productions.
Careful reading P1
Careful reading P2
Movies(examples)
what good
movies need(topic)
Read para 2 carefully and complete the chart.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Good movies
need good stories
Good movies
need strong characters
Good movies
need impressive images
Careful reading P3
Reasons for “bad” movie
Examples
(
)
Careful reading P4
Reasons for “bad” movie
Examples
How does the writer support his opinion?
By giving examples.
奥德赛
伟大的盖茨比
爱丽丝梦游仙境
哈利波特
特洛伊
Careful reading P2,3,4
What is the author ’s attitude to the “Good book, bad movie”?
Careful reading P5
1.What is this passage mainly about?
A.Can classics be moved to the big screen?
B.There are fewer and fewer good movies.
C.It shows people's preferences for movies.
D.Why adapted movies are often disappointing.
Post reading
畅所欲言
Think and Share.
What does the saying “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes”mean?
Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese?
It means readers usually have different ideas about how the characters from a certain novel should look like.
仁者见仁,智者见智
summary&retell
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
Examples
当前不少文学作品被改编成电影。有人选择看电影,有人则喜欢读原著original work,某网站发起以"Film or book, which do you prefer?"为题的讨论,请你写一篇英语短文,发到该网站
要点:1. 你的选择;2. 选择理由;3. 表达期待。
As for me至于我,I am obsessed with更痴迷于__more than而不是___ .
______have their own charms有其独特的魅力. To begin with,____ Meanwhile,____ . Most importantly___.
I sincerely hope more and more students can我真诚地希望越来越多的学生能够____and enjoy it.
Homework
Ending
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