Unit5 The Silver Screen

         3 ) feel gratitude to sb       eg. we owe our parents a lot.
after that it still took seven years before they finally got married.
   before:
step 4  post-reading
ask students to answer questions1-4 in post-reading.
1. why did spielberg study english instead of film?
2. why were people who saw the film jaws afraid to swim in the sea?
3. how important is his family to spielberg’s career?
4. what have you learnt from reading about spielberg?
step 5  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.
lead a class brainstorming of what we can learn from steven spielberg, using following sentence patterns.
 i have learnt that…
 i think …
 i realize …
assignment: 1.do word-study on p12-13 and vocabulary on p110.
2.review the attributive clause we have learned in unit4 and preview the grammar in this unit.
step 6 homework
  review the story and get more information for the computer on the director
  try to write or digest some information from the internet.
period 4.  grammar
goal: in this lesson, students will improve their knowledge of attributive clause.
objectives: 1. in this lesson, students will be able to distinguish the attributive clause.
2.in this lesson, students will be able to use the attributive clauses with when, where, why and a relative pronoun with a preposition correctly while making sentences.
material/resources: textbook, blackboard, a film poster
procedures
step1  homework-checking
a. word study :all the missing words are about films. can you guess what they are?
1.to most actors and actresses, the oscar is the most important award.
2.in speed,keanu reeves played the role of the brave policeman who saved the lives of the people on the bus.
3.who do you think is the best director  in china, zhang yimou, chen kaige or feng xiaogang?
4.the script was so well-written that the famous actress accepted the role at once.
5.a film studio is the place where films are made.
6.while watching titanic, most people couldn’t help crying when it came to the scene in which jack saves the life of the girl but dies in icy water himself.
7.film companies often make follow-ups to films that have been very successful, such as speed , jurassic park .