试验案例

SEFC1A Unit 5 Silver Screen
Reading Getting to Know Steven Spielberg

厦门市级公开课(Oct.29th, 2004)
厦门海沧实验中学 李 丹
  
Goals:
In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge and understand Steven Spielberg as a director.
In this lesson, students will improve their speaking and reading abilities.
In this lesson, students will be familiar with making curriculum vitae in preparation for future jobs

Material/resources: textbook, blackboard, film posters, and multi-media

Procedures
Step 1 Role-play (talk show)
Ask students to work in pairs and imitate CCTV’s interview program-----Life of Art,
one acting as the host with suggested expressions in the text and questions
When and where were you born?
How many films have you acted?
Which one is your favorite?
One acting as the guest---Merly Streep or Keanu Reeves with information in the short biography and in the Notes in the textbook.
Choose some pairs to act out the interview; while one pair is interviewing, the rest of the class act as the audience and can raise questions to the guest and try to finish three tasks.

Task1: Fill the Curriculum Vitae
 Name   
 Gender ( 性别 )  
 Birth year  
 Birth place  
 Schooling  
 Career in film  
 Films and roles  
 Achievement  
Task2: Think and ask more questions.
Task3: Talk about the film stars in your own words.
Sample 1
Curriculum vitae of Meryl Streep
 Name  Meryl Streep
 Gender  female
 Birth year  1949
 Birth place   a small village in USA
 Schooling  After high school, Meryl went to study at a drama school.
 Films and roles  Made first film Julia 《朱莉娅》 in 1977;
Won her Oscar as Best Actress for the film Kramer vs Kramer 《克莱默夫妇》 in 1979;
Act in Sophie's choice 《索菲的选择》 in 1982, out of Africa 《走出非洲》 in 1985 and Music of the heart 《弦动我心 》 in 1999
 Achievement  Won the Theater World Award( 世界戏剧奖 )
Won her Oscar as Best Actress for the film Kramer vs Kramer 《克莱默夫妇》 in 1979;
Sample2
Curriculum vitae of Keanu Reeves
 Name  Keanu Reeves
 Gender  male
 Birth year  1964
 Birth place  Lebanon
 Schooling  Left high school without degree when he was seventeen
 Career in film  
 Films and roles  Act in his first film wolfboy 《狼孩》 in 1984;
Play the role in the film Speed 《生死时速》 in 1994;
Act in The Matrix 《黑客帝国》 in 1999 Sweet November 《甜蜜的十月》 in 2001 and hardball 《临时教练 》 in 2001
 Achievement  Hollywood famous film star
Step 2 Reading
A. Pre-reading
Show different pictures of Steven Spielberg and ask them to name some of his films.
B. While-reading.
a. Show five posters of Steven Spielberg’s films mentioned in the text.
(Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan)
b. Skimming
Ask students to read Para3-6 quickly and find out the information about these films and compare it to their imagination of the films. Then fill in the chart in Post-reading. (better use attributive clause)
  Films Information of the film
 Jaws (1975) Jaw is about … (a big shark that attacks and eats swimmers).
 ET (1982) (ET is about a little creature that comes from outer space and wants to go home.)
 Jurassic Park (1993) (Jurassic Park is about an island where a very rich man keeps all kinds of dinosaurs.)
 Schindler's List (1993) (Schindler's List is about the cruelty of war/a German who saved thousands of Jewish people from being killed in the war.)
 Saving Private Ryan (1998) (Saving Private Ryan is about the cruelty of war/an American captain who led his team to search for a soldier named Ryan.)
c. Questions:
1.What types are the films? Why?
Historical film/science-fiction film/love film/war film/ horror film/documentary film/cartoon/comedy/tragedy/natural film…
2.Which film do you want to watch? Why?
d. Scanning(Pair work):
read para1,2 and 7 and try to make the Curriculum Vitae of Steven Spielberg in five minutes.
Curriculum vitae of Steven Spielberg
 Name  
Gender  
Birth year  
Birth place  
 Occupation  a _______, producer and sceenwriter
 Schooling  California State University at long Beach
 Father  Electrical engineer
 mother  
 Name of his wife  
 occupation of his wife  
 His childhood  In 1958(12 years old), he made______________________.
In1959,(13 years old)he won________________________.
In 1962,(16 years old), he made ________________
 Achievements  1.Won _______________________________________ for the film Schindler ' s List 《辛特勒的名单》 in 1993.
2. Won _______________________________________for the film Saving Private Ryan 《拯救大兵瑞恩 in 1999.
e. The structure of the text(全文结构图)Para1: Spielberg’s childhood
Para2: Spielberg’s beginning of his career as a film director
Para3-6: his famous films
Para7: his secret of success- his family
C. Post reading(Group work):
1. What’s the secrets of his success?
He owns much of his success to his wife and children
2. What have you learnt from reading about Spielberg?
Working hard and believe in yourself will make yours dreams come true.
Diligence(勤奋) and perseverance(毅力) are also keys to success.
Tasks:
?You are a reporter from CCTV. You are going to have an interview with Steven Spielberg. Make a dialogue with him.
?You are going to invite Steven Spielberg to your chatroom. Have a dialogue with him.
Step4 .Assessing(评价) yourself and others:l
Can she/he/I talk about an actor, actress or a director, including their career and films ?
lCan she/he/I give opinions on what I have seen or what happened around me?
lCan she/he/I describe places (or time)where (or when) something happens with attributive clause?
lCan she/he/I learn anything from the text? If yes, what are they?
lCan she/he/I think of the new words expressions and use them?
lCan she/he/I make a curriculum viate(做简历)
Reflection(反思):I learnt______________________________________________.
I would like to know more about__________________________.
I’m still not sure about__________________________________.
Step 5: Homework
1.Review the text and try to find out all the attributive sentences in the text.
2.Find out the useful words and expressions that you want to know and do word study on page32 and the vocabulary on page110.
3.Preview Grammar—the Attributive Clause(2)

 
 
 

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