Unit 5 The Silver Screen

Words and Expressions

silver , hero , scene , law , career , drama , role , award , actress , prize , choice , degree , speed , creature , outer , peace , cruelty , owe , accept , live , boss , comment , action , afford

take off , go wrong , owe …. to …. , can’t help , not just …but also…

Every Day English

What do you think about the story of the film ?

How do you feel about the ending of the film ?

The film is about …

I like / don’t like the film because …

…

Grammar:

The Attributive Clause ( II )

Goals:

Talk abut films, famous actors and directors

Practise making comments and giving opinions

Learn to write about a film

Speaking:

Who is your favorite star ?

My favorite star

First name _______ Surname _______

Gender ( ) female ( ) male

Birth year _______ Birth place _______

Schooling _______ Career in film _______

Film _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______

Achievements : _____________________________________

What makes a good movie ? Give the reasons .

(a moving story , an exciting beginning , a happy ending , pretty actresses , cool actors , a lot of actions , full of violence , beautiful music , involve latest technology , excellent pictures , etc. )

What do you know about Oscars ?

What are the Academy Awards ?

When and where does the Awards ceremony take place ? How long does it last ?

For what are the Awards given ?

Who has won the most Academy Awards in total ?

Who has more Oscar nominations (提名) than anyone else in Academy history ?

Which country has the most Foreign Language Film nominations ? Which has the most wins ?

Questions :

1. How old is Steven Spielberg ?

A. 57. B. 12. C. 16. D. 49.

2. Why couldn’t Steven Spielberg go to the Film Academy as he wished ?

Because his family was too poor.

Because he was too young to be accepted.

Because his grades were too poor.

Because he hadn’t got enough experience.

3. Which of the following are Steven’s war film ?

Firelight & Jaws.

Jaws & Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park & Schindler’s list.

D. Schindler’s list & Saving Private Ryan.

4. How long does Mingzhi have to work in the school?

A. Two days . B. One month . C. One year . D. Two weeks .

5. What’s the biggest trouble for Mingzhi in class ?

A. To write on the blackboard. B. To teach the children to read.

C. To teach the children to sing. D. ( No Answer )

6. How does Mingzhi get to the town ?

A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By bus and on foot. D. By bike.

7. Passage 1 mainly tells about _______.

Steven Spielberg’s life as a film director

Steven Spielberg’s life as an actor

Steven Spielberg’s successful film

Steven Spielberg’s family life

8. Passage 2 is mainly about _______ .

a young girl called Mingzhi

a famous director called Zhang Yimou

one of Zhang Yimou’s films

a naughty schoolboy called Zhang Huike

9. Which is not stated in Passage 1 but can be inferred ?

As a child, Steven Spielberg made some “films” by using toys instead

of real people.

Steven Spielberg made a film called Firelight at the age of 16.

After seeing the film Jaws, many people did not dare to swim in the sea any more.

Steven Spielberg’s father was a music teacher and his wife was an actress.

10. What is not stated in Passage 2 but can be inferred ?

Mr. Gao’s mother is ill and he has to leave his job to look after her.

The people at the TV station are deeply moved by Zhangzhi’s deeds.

Zhangzhi manages to get on the bus without buying a ticket.

Most of the people in the film are not professional ( 專業的 ) actors or actresses.

( ACDBD CACAB )

Key Points :

silver : a shiny gray metal that is very valuable ( gold , silver , bronze , copper , iron , steel , metal )

silver screen

hero : a person who has done sth. brave or good / heroine

scene : part of a play or film

a beautiful scene / on the scene

law : a rule of a country that says what people may and may not do / lawyer

break / obey the law

A new law has just been passed.

There ought to be a law against this .

Will you go in for law or medicine ?

He is an expert in company law.

career : a job that you learn to do and then do for many years

a business career / careers open to women

drama : a story that you watch in the theatre or on TV or listen to on the radio

role : the person you are in a play or film

play an important part ( role ) in / roles in films

award : a prize or money that you give to sb. who has done sth. very well

win an award of $10,000

cf: reward : She offered a reward of $ 1000 for information about her missing son.

cf: v. award sth to sb / sb to sth / award her the first prize for her picture

be awarded a gold medal

When the last prize had been awarded , everybody cleared off.

actress : a woman who plays in plays, films or television programmes

actor : a man who plays in plays , films or television programmes

prize : sth. that you give to the person who wins a game , race , etc.

prize money / She won the first prize at the speech contest / for her singing / of 10 dollars

choice : act of choosing

have no choice but to do sth

degree : universities and colleges give degree to students who have completed special courses there

take a medical degree / a doctor’s degree

The temperature rose ten degrees . ( 10 °)

director : a person who controls a film or play , for example by telling the actors what to do

speed : how fast sth. goes

with great speed / at a speed of / at full / top speed

script : the written words that actors speak in a play or film

academy : a school for training in a special art or skill

a military academy / an academy of art

studio : a room where people make films, radio and television programmes , or records

take off : remove ; become popular

It was at this point that her acting career really took off.

take a day off / take the knob off the door

cf: take down : He reached up to the third shelf of the bookstore and took down a dictionary.

He read out the names and his secretary took them down.

cf: take in : The boys could not take in his meaning.

The farmer took in the lost travelers for the night.

cf: take on : Is the supermarket took on any more helpers ?

take on a new look / take on the management of the factory

cf: take up : So many young men want to take up writing.

She took up the task of getting the breakfast.

take up the whole morning / take up too much room

creature : any living thing that is not a plant / living creatures

outer : on the outside / outer space

adult : a person who has grown to the full size

go wrong : to make a mistake ; to end badly ; to stop working properly

Things started going wrong when the park was hit by the storm.

Something must have gone wrong with the experiment.

The sum is wrong , but I can’t see where I went wrong.

Our clock went wrong.

He met some bad friends and they helped him to go wrong.

follow-up : sth. done to continue what has already been started or done

cruelty : being cruel / cruelty to animals

cruel : It’s cruel of sb to do sth / be cruel to sb /

peace : a time where there is no war , fighting or trouble between people or countries

in peace ( = peacefully ) / in time of peace / at peace ( oppo: at war ) / make peace with

break the peace

industry : all the companies that make the same thing ( agriculture )

owe : to be indebted to as the source of ( IOU )

I owe it to you that I am still alive.

To what do I owe the honor of your visit ?

owing to : because of

happiness : being happy

in all : all together

accept : say “yes” when sb. asks you to have or do sth.

icy : very cold ; covered with ice

stay away : not at home

primary : earliest in time or order of development ; chief , main

primary school

leader : a person who guides or directs a group , movement , etc.

lock sb. up : to make safe by locking the doors

run after : to chase

bring sth. back : to return or cause to return

determine : form a firm intention in the mind ( determination )

determine to do

live : ( of a broadcast ) transmitted while actually happening , not recorded edited

a live show / live wires / a live deer

on the air : broadcasting

boss : a person who controls a place where people work and tells people what they must do

comment : words that you say about sth. to show what you think

make comments on sth

action : doing things 行為 ， 行動 ( act )

Actions speak louder than words . / come into action / take action

Here immediate action is necessary .

the action ( 作用 ) of water on rock

The action ( 情節 ) takes place in Europe.

Cf: activity / act /

think highly / well of : have a good opinion of sb. or sth. ; sing high praise for

think little / badly of / think much of / think nothing of

speak well / highly / ill of

Political leaders were not well thought of.

He thinks nothing of your work.

interview : n. v. ask questions of sb. in an interview

win :

win a battle / a war / a bet / a match / an election / one’s friendship

win sb sth : By his hard work , he won himself the position of manager.

Win sb. over to our view.

top

at the top of a mountain / She’s ( at ) the top of her class in English.

shout at the top of one’s voice / on top of / come to the top

on the top floor / top ten / drive at top speed

afford : be able to buy , to spend , to take , to give

I can’t afford a car / to buy a car / to fail the exam.

escape : ( of sb ) reach freedom ; come out ; avoid

escape from the classroom

escape punishment / being punished / death

the crying Minzhi / a young Shakespeare / a Mr. Smith / the Shanghai of the West

This Smith isn’t at all like the Smith we knew before.

cause trouble = make trouble

It’s a pity to give you so much trouble.

I am sorry for putting you to so much trouble.

It was good of you to take the trouble to help us.

Life is full of troubles.

ask for trouble / be in trouble / get into trouble / have trouble in doing ( with ) sth / put sb to the trouble of doing sth / take great trouble to do sth

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

not just(= only ) …but ( also ) …

eg: Not only I but also Jane and Mary are tired of having one examination after another.

Not only is the teacher himself interested in football , but all his students are beginning to show an interest in it.

get to know ( come to do ) / get doing

I shall get to like them in time, I suppose.

Soon he got talking to another passenger.

marry

He didn’t marry until he was fifty.

Jean is going to marry Hubert.

He married his daughter to a businessman.

If you will marry me ?

get married to : His eldest girl got married last month.

be married to : How long have you been married ?

call for

I’ll call for you at your house.

Success in school calls for much hard work.

cf : call on sb./ call at some place / call on sb to do / call up ( ring up ) / call out

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非測試性評價 Unit 5

根據自我評價

根據自己的實際情況回答下列問題，并存入個人學習檔案：

I can talk about an actor, actress or a director, including their career and films with ten sentences or more in about two minutes and write them down. _5_4_3_2_1_

I can write about a film I have seen in about 100 words. _5_4_3_2_1

I can give my own opinions on what I have seen or what has happened around me. _5_4_3_2_1

I can describe places ( or time ) where ( or when ) something happens with attributive clauses. _5_4_3_2_1

5 ) I can think of the new words and expressions and use them. _5_4_3_2_1

小組評價

由組長制定學生負責，主治小組反思填寫些微評價表，并存入小組學習檔案

姓名

小組發言次數

全班發言次數

提出問題個數

解答問題個數

查找資料次數

與人合作次數

參與活動比上單元增加次數

測試性評價

1. 完成下面詞迷

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Across

a fully-grown person or animal (5)

3) a play for the theatre, television, radio, etc. (5)

A ____ is the job that someone does for a long period of their life. (6)

A ____ is something that you say which expresses your opinion of something. (7)

The__of a play, film, or television programme is the written form of it.(6)

A ___ is one of the characters that an actor can play in a film, or play. (4)

Down

An ____ is a prize that a person is given for doing something well. (5)

A ____ in a play, or film is a part of it in which some events happen in the same place. (5)

The _____ of a play, or film is the person who describes how it will appear on stage or screen, and who tells the actors what to do. (8)

An _____ is a woman whose job is acting in plays or films. (7)

People refer to an imaginary animal or being as a ____. (8)

( 我在_____ 分鐘猜出 ___ 單詞)

2. 用關系代詞, 關系副詞或介詞+關系代詞填空:

California, ________ official nickname is the Golden State, is one of the fastest growing states in the United States. It cover an area of great physical diversity ( 多樣性 ) ________ ________ uplands dominate ( 占重要地位 ) the landscape. The first people ________ explored and settled California were the Spaniards, ________ gave Spanish names to its two great cities, Los Angles and San Francisco. 1849 was the year _______ Americans came and so was it the time ________ gold was discovered.

The reason ____ the men ____ made movies came to California was that the weather here is fine. The sun allowed them to take pictures outdoors nearly every day in the year. Hollywood, ____lies in the northwestern part of the city of Los Angles, became the movie capital of the world. When oil was discovered, people came to work in the oil field. World War II was the period ______ many large airplane factories were built in California.

California, the coastline ________ ________ is 1,200 miles long on the Pacific Ocean, is also one of the country’s leaders in commercial fishing.

The highest mountain in California is Mt Whitney, a 14,494-foot-high granite peak, __ __ one can look down on Death Valley to the east, the lowest point in the United States.