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Unit 5 The Silver Screen

The Fourth Period

Reading

Pre-reading

Please have a discussion in groups of four and discuss the questions on the screen.

Do you like making a film?

Suppose you are a director ,how would you make a film?

What would the scene be like and what happens in it?

Who are the main actors in that scene and what do they do?

Listening

Listen to the tape to get a general idea and try to answer the questions on the screen.

1.How many films are mentioned in the passage?What are the names of the films?

2.What are Steven Spielberg’s later films about?

Post-Reading

Now read the passage slowly and carefully and then answer the following questions .

1.What was Spielberg’s dream?

2. Why did Spielberg study English instead of film?

3.Why were people who saw the film “Jaws” afraid to swim in the sea?

4.How important is his family to Spielberg’s career ?

5.What have you learnt from reading about Spielberg ?

(His dream was to go to the Film Academy.)

(Because his grades were too low .)

(Because they remembered the scenes in which people were eaten by the shark .)

(He owes much of his success and happiness to his wife and children .That’s the secret of his success.)

(We have learnt that we can succeed so long as we make up our minds to do something and try hard to do it well. There is a saying , “Where there is a will, there is a way .”)

Language Points

1.get to know (了解 )

get to +静态动词，使得静态动词含有动作意义。

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

get doing ( 开始……起来)

Soon he got talking to another passenger .

2.动词不定式与动名词作表语的异同：

（1）当动词所表达的动作是指经常性的活动时，既可用动名词作 表语，也可用动词 不定式。

（2）当动词所表达的动作是指某个特定 的行为，尤其是将来的行为时，通常用动词不定式作表语。

e. g. (1)My hobby is collecting stamps.

(2)The only thing I could do was to leave .

(3)Her wish was to become a doctor .

3.The reason why …was that …(……的原因是……)

4.work on /at …从事；忙于；

e. g. She is working on /at a new play .

work hard at …努力学

5。Win sb. Sth. ( 为某人赢得某物）

Her nature won her his friendship .

6.take off (1)=become successful or popular suddenly 突然急升；大受欢迎（2）=of plane leave the ground and begin to fly 起飞 (3)=remove 脱去，移去。

e. g. (1)Sales of home cars have taken off in recent years .

(2)The plane took off despite the fog .

(3)Take your coat off and sit down .

7.by the sea 在海边； by sea 乘船，走海路。

e. g. (1)He lives in a small town by the sea . (2)The storm has interrupted all travel by sea. 

8. Be afraid to do不敢做某事；

be afraid of doing 恐怕发生谋事，担心出现谋事。

e. g. He was afraid to go home ,because he was afraid of being beaten by his father .

9.cut sth. into pieces 把某物切成碎片；

First cut the apple in /into small pieces .

10. Do research (on /into /in )从事；进行；做研究。

The scientists are doing research on the spread of SARS.

11.hit =strike （袭击；使遭受）

The ball hit him in the eye .

The district was hit by a violent earthquake .

12.go wrong ,走错路；误入歧途；不对头。  Has anything gone wrong with the computer?

Go 此处用作系动词，常表示不好的变化，后接bad, mad, blind, red ,etc.

e. g. Fish soon goes bad in hot weather .

After the accident, he went mad.

He went red with anger when he heard the news.

Turn可与换用，但还可表示从某种状态向其对立状态变化的自然现象。

The weather has turned much colder.

2) become 强调变化过程的持续性。

Gradually he became silent .

3) Get 强调施动者的作用或变化的结果。

Please don’t get angry .

4)come 多表示向好的方面变化。

His dream has come true.

13.n.+present participle,adj. : English-speaking 讲英语的 peace-loving热爱和平的 gold-mining 开采金矿的

14.follow-ups ,续集；后续工作

e. g. They are producing following –ups to the television series.

15.owe vt. /vi. 1)欠债 owe sb. Sth. =owe sth.to sb. 欠某人某物

He owes $50 to his classmate .=He owes his classmate $50.

2)感激（表示欠人情、债等） I owed him a great deal.

3) 归功于 We owe everything to you .

4)应当给予 You owe me an apology.

5) Owe it to …that 亏得……

I owe it to you that I have made so much progress in English

16.couple ;双；对；夫妇；

a couple of … 一双；一对；几个；若干个； a couple of players 一对选手； a couple of miles 几英里；

a couple of / a pair of 两者都可表示一双，一对，夫妇二人 ，但有区别 . a pair of 指两个 配对的东西，a pair of shoes a couple of 指互有关系的两个人或物，但不一定是配对的，还可表“几个”。Not every couple is a pair .(成双未必能配对。）

17.in all =altogether

There are 54 students in all in our class .

Homework

Fill in the chart on Page 32 with the information from the text and tell what some of Steven Spielberg’s most famous films are about .