Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
setting, plot, a brief description, set out
b. 重点句式
Give your final opinion of ... P58
The film is set off ... P102
I ... and so did all my friends. P102
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the Ss to write a film review and learn to express personal opinions of the film.
Enable the Ss to write a film page for a magazine.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the Ss learn how to write a film review and write a film page for a magazine, giving a brief description of each film.
Teaching important & difficult points教学重点和难点
Teach the Ss how to write a film review and how to write a film page for a magazine.
Teaching methods教学方法
Discussion and task-based activity.
Teaching aids教具准备
A projector and a computer.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
Step I Revision
Check the homework. Let the Ss read out their answers of the exercises in Grammar on pages 97 && 98 one by one and check them.
Step II Warming up
T: Have you ever read the magazine China Film?
Ss: Yes, we have. It’s a popular magazine among teenagers in China.
T: Since you have read and spoken a lot about films and TV programmes, you can write a review about a film that you have seen for the magazine.
Step III Writing （on page 102 and page 58）
T: OK, please turn to page 102 first. Do Exercise 20. Match the topics to the paragraphs. You can understand the film review better after finishing.
Let the Ss do it and check the answer with their partners. Then read the passage aloud.
T: In these parts you have the same instructions. Follow the instructions and write a film review. Read the film review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon again. Talk about its setting, plot, characters and your opinions.
S1: the setting: the story, in the early 1800s, Peking rooftops, and western deserts of China
S2: the plot: fall in love with, a good friend, get the stolen sword back
S3: the characters:
Li Mubai (played by Chow Yun -Fat)
Yu Xiulian (played by Michelle Yeoh)
Yu Jiaolong (played by Zhang Ziyi)
S4: my opinion: a masterpiece of martial arts film, exciting
T: Now choose one of your favorite films you have ever seen, discuss it with your partners and make notes of the key words and phrases. Write a review after discussion.
A sample version:
Film Review:
A World without Thieves
Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s New Year film A World Without Thieves has been on for a period. It’s Feng’s sixth New Year film since the first one in 1997.
The story takes place on a train. It is about two groups of thieves and a country boy. One group is moved by the boy and tries to protect the boy from being stolen by the other group.
Wang Bo (played by Andy Lau) and Wang Li (played by Rene Liu), two master thieves, swindle their way across China, until they meet Fu Gen, who does not know about life and believes that he lives in a world without thieves. Having saved a lot of money after years of work, he is going to build a house and get marriaged. Moved by his good nature, Wang Li wants to protect him from Uncle Bill (played by Ge You) who tries to steal from Fu Gen. Wang Bo, who tries to stop her at first, finally becomes kind and helps her protect the country boy.
Andy Lau has a hard time being ugly in the movie. He plays very well, so does Rene Liu. Ge You keeps his special humor in the film. What’s more, the country boy plays naturally.
I love this movie and so do all my friends. The pictures are great and the story is moving. I think this is a good film worth seeing.
Step IV Task
In this step, the Ss are asked to discuss their favorite films in groups of four. Chinese films and foreign films are both OK. First, make a list of best films, which are now on at the cinema. Second, give a brief description of each film. Third, write the reviews with some photos or pictures of the film stars, which are taken from the newspapers, magazines or online.
A sample version:
Waterloo Bridge
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Virginia Field
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cinema: Xinxing Cinema
Superb performances by Leigh and Taylor. The finest of Vivien Leigh’s movies, her own favorite.
This is a sad romantic film that happens during the World War I. It is very moving, even making everybody who watches it cry. Because of the superb performances by Leigh and Taylor, it has been a masterpiece.
Film Review: Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge is a sad love story in which the lovers cannot live together because of the war. In my opinion, it is a masterpiece.
The story takes place in the time of the World War I. A beautiful ballerina（芭蕾舞女演员）Myra(Vivien Leigh) falls passionately in love with officer Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor). But they have to be parted when he is called to do his duty during the World War I. Alone and increasingly poor, she learns that he has been killed in action. And so, broken hearted and unconcerned for her, she drifts into prostitution, plying the world’s oldest profession along Waterloo Bridge. But he comes back and happens to meet her at the station. They go to meet his family, and he tries to marry her. But in her heart, she cannot forgive herself, so she leaves without saying goodbye and goes towards the cars bravely. He comes only to find the thing she leaves at the Waterloo Bridge.
It is black and white, yet many people like it very much, just like me. What interest us most are the actress and the moving plot. Robert Taylor is a bit miscast, Leigh carries the film with a truly remarkable performance. She is really beautiful and good at acting. The cast also features an exceptional performance by Lucile Watson as Lady Margaret and notable turns by Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith, and a host of others.
Although less well known than such tragic romances as Garbo’s Camille, Waterloo Bridge is easily the equal of such and considerably better than most. The romantic aura is powerful, the direction, photography, and script are first rate. And at the center of it all we have perhaps the most beautiful actress of her era, Vivien Leigh, in one of her finest performances.
It is really moving and great. I like it very much, so do most of my friends. You should go and see it some day.
Step V Homework
Write a film review as soon as you see a new film.
附 件
I. 课文注释
1. Now, to everyone’s surprise, Ang Lee, director of a number of excellent films, has made a martial arts film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
1) to one’s surprise 让人惊讶的是……，类似的短语还有to one’s joy / delight使某人高兴的是……， to one’s excitement 让某人激动的是……, to one’s disappointment / sorrow令某人沮丧的是 / 悲伤的是……
e.g. To our excitement, our school team won the football match.
2) director of ... 和 Ang Lee 是同位语。
3) a number of 许多, 大量, 跟可数名词复数；
the number of 也只能跟可数名词复数，但它指的是量, 谓语用单数。
(NMET96) The number of people invited ________ fifty, but a number of them________ absent for different reasons.
A. were; was B. was; was
C. was; were D. were; were
4) make a film 拍电影
5) called... 过去分词短语作定语，相当于一个定语从句，即which / that was called。
2. The film belongs to a type of Chinese story called wuxia.
belong to 1) 属于；是…… 的成员（无进行式，无被动语态）
e.g. China is a developing country that belongs to the third world.
= China is a developing country belonging to the third world.
2)适合（与表示场所的副词连用，也无进行式，无被动语态）
e.g. The book belongs on that shelf (in that bookcase). 这本书是应该放在那个架子上（书架里的）。
3. Both masters are in love with each other.
be in love with （跟……）恋爱，强调状态，与表示一段的时间状语连用。
e.g. The young pair have been in love (with each other) for three years.
fall in love with 爱上（……），强调动作，不能与表示一段的时间状语连用。
e.g. They fell in love with each other the first time when they saw at the railway station.
4. Usually, it is the female characters that interest us most.
1) It is ... that ... 是强调结构，强调主语 female characters.
e.g. It was Tom that / who broke the window, not me.
e.g. It was on the playground that I lost my mobile phone.
e.g. It was not until he took off glasses that I recognized he was a famous star.
2) character n. ① （书、剧中的）人物
e.g. I find all the characters in his new play very real.
② 个性； 特色；（事物的）特性
e.g. He has a strong but gentle character.
③ 字
e.g. The characters in Chinese writing look like small pictures.
3) interest vt. 使…… 发生兴趣
e.g. American football doesn’t interest me at all.
n. 兴趣， (不可数)
e.g. Her grandmother had no interest in her.
I’ve lost my interest in natural history.
利益，(可数)
e.g. Mother looks after the interests of the family.
5. Brave, good and strong, Xiulian is the character we care about.
1) brave, good and strong 形容词表伴随，描述人物形象和状态。
He went to bed cold and hungry. 又冷又饿
Long and untidy, her hair played in the breeze. 又长又乱
All the students sat in the classroom, silent. 鸦雀无声地
My brothers came home, safe and sound. 安然无恙地
2) care about 关心，担心；在乎，介意。常用于疑问句和否定句。
e.g. She thinks of herself; she doesn’t care about other people.
6. Films like this rarely reach the cinema.
rarely adv. 很少，几乎不。否定副词，该词位于句首时，句子用倒装语序。
e.g. I rarely hear from him. = Rarely do I hear from him.
e.g. Rarely have I read about aliens.
e.g. You rarely go to your aunt’s, do you?
II. 背景知识
HONG KONG, China —Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon picked up four Academy Awards except the best director and best picture.
The cast and crew of the martial arts fantasy said winning four out of the 10 nominations gained by the film was “more than enough” and it encouraged them to do even better next time.
Lee and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon still made Academy history Sunday night by being the first Asian film to win the foreign-language film award. It also picked up Oscars in art direction, cinematography and best original score (配乐). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s stars, Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yuma-fat, were invited to present and cellist（大提琴家）Yo-Yo Ma performed the haunting score by Tan Dun.
Lee originally pitched the idea for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to his producers as “Sense and Sensibility with kung fu.” But doing a martial arts film fulfilled a childhood fantasy for Lee. Lee has ideas on how he could make it better, (with) more dramatic juices. He’s thinking with action, maybe he could do it better.
The film was the first foreign-language film to win double-digit Oscar nominations and the first Asian film ever nominated for best picture. Most importantly for future foreign films and Asian films in particular, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the first subtitled（ 配字幕的）film to break the $100 million box office mark in North America.
Hong Kong’s Peter Pau won the Academy’s best cinematography prize in a nod to the dynamic（动态的）fight scenes along with special effects that have the actors gliding across rooftops and swinging on bamboo. Pau, one of Hong Kong’s top cinematographers, is the first Chinese cinematographer to win the Oscar honor. Backstage, Pau said that in visualizing the film, he tried to recall the style of traditional Chinese watercolor painting.
Chinese-born composer Tan Dun, who won the Academy Award for best original score, called the film an overture for a new era. A composer of world reputation as well as Lee’s friend and neighbor in New York, Tan Dun told reporters there were no cultural boundaries in music.
Lee says “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s” honors were encouragement to film makers and watchers in Asia, where the Oscar results were seen ultimately as a triumph for Asian film and Asian talent.
The cast and crew were drawn from around the Chinese diasporas（散居各地的人），including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia and the United States. Malaysian-born Michelle Yeoh said the cast and crew are focused on what the movie did win, not what it did not. “All of us understand we are here and our movie has done exceedingly well.” “We all learn every day and that’s the magic about film making. There might never be another Crouching Tiger. There might be something that’s even better than Crouching Tiger.” she said.
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