Unit 5 The Silver Screen
A Teaching Design for Period 3 Reading
Goals: 1.In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge and understanding Steven Spielberg as a director.
2. In this lesson, students will improve their speaking and reading abilities.
3. In this lesson, students will be able to summarize the whole passage.
4. In this lesson, students will be able to learn new words and expressions appeared in the text.
Important and difficult points:
1.How to understand the text better, especially sentences with an attributive clause in this passage.
2. How to master the new words and expressions.
Teaching aids: Tape recorder, Multimedia tools
Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Yesterday we mainly dealt with two Hollywood stars---Merly Streep and Keanu Reeves. We learnt something about their lives and films. And today we ’ll learn a passage about a famous director: Steven Spielberg.
Step 2 Ask some Ss to tell the class what they know about Steven Spielberg.
Step3 Skimming
Let the Ss skim the text and then fill in the form.
Some information about Steven Spielberg:
Year What he did
1946 Be born
1958 Make a real film
1959 Won a prize for his short film
1962 Make a film called firelight
1975 Jaws
1982 ET
1993 Jurassic Park
1993 Schindler’s List
1998 Saving Private Ryan
Step4. Show five posters of Steven Spielberg’s films mentioned in the text.
(Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan)
Ask students to discuss in groups and guess what the film is mainly talking about and what the theme of the film is.
Then 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.)
Ste5. Play the tape and ask students to go through the whole passage, then divide it into several parts and summarize the main idea of each part.
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
Step 6. Closure
In this lesson, we focus on the famous director Steven Spielberg, having some knowledge of his childhood, his films and his family. But what we should do is not to envy him, admiring him about his talent, his achievement, but to learn his spirit, his personality.
Assignment:
To review the text and underline the useful words and expressions.