Module 6Films and TV ProgrammesPeriod 1Introduction; Reading and Vocabulary整体设计教材分析This period includes Introduction as well as Reading and Vocabulary. Introduction can serve as a warming up of the class. To make students fully prepared for the study of the passage, the teacher may encourage the students to talk about the film Harry Potter, which leads to Reading and Vocabulary. The reading passage is a film review which mainly represents to us the Chinese martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is suggested that students should first skim the reading passage and get the general idea of each paragraph and then join them into a short passage. If necessary, deal with some difficult language points. 三维目标1. 知识与技能1)Vocabularies about films and TV programmes: actor, actress, adventure film, argue, channel, character, chat show, come out, comedy, crime, desert, direct, disagree, entertaining, female, fianc, fight, graceful, leap, male, martial arts film, masterpiece, moving, play a part, quiz show, romantic film, roof, soap (opera), sports programme, star(v. ), sword, take place, thriller, TV/radio drama2)Develop the studentsreading ability.3)Talk about the items of a film.2. 过程与方法Individual work or pair work to get every student to participate in class.Explanations to make students master some language points.Fast-reading to make students get the main idea of the passage.3. 情感与价值Cultivate studentssense of appreciation.Encourage them to learn from the heroes in the films. 教学重点Help students make sense of the whole passage.Help students to improve their reading ability.Help students learn and use the vocabularies about films and TV programmes. 教学难点Help students use the talk about films. 教学过程Step 1 Lead-inBefore the class teachers may ask students to search some current film posters and collect some information about them. Before learning this section, teachers may organize some warming-up activities. And the activities are as follows.1. Show some film poster to the students and ask the students questions according to activity 1.Show the following on the screen.Collect the answers from the whole class. For example the first poster: 1 Whats the film called? 2 Who directs it? 3 Who stars in it? 4 When did it come out? Suggested answers:1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.2 Chris Columbus3 Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint4 2001The answers to the second poster: Spider-Man 3; Sam Raimi; Tobey Maguire; 2007The answers to the third poster: Protg, Tung-Shing Yee; Andy Lau and Daniel Wu; 2007Make sure students understand the words and phrases: come out, direct, film star, star(v. ), movie2. Ask students: What types of film do you know? Then introduce some common type of films and ask students to give examples. Fill in the form below together.Types of filmExamplesRomantic filmRoman Holiday; Titanic; Waterloo BridgeThrillerJurassic Park; Tomb RaiderMartial arts filmCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; HeroComedySteal Happiness; City Lights; Modern TimesAdventure filmFind Nemo; The Gold Rush3. Add a column to the form above and put the following words into the form.Ask a student to the blackboard to fill in the form.Types of filmExamplesWords to fill inRomantic filmRoman Holiday; Titanic; Waterloo Bridgebe/fall in loveThrillerJurassic Park; Tomb Raidergun crime exciting fightMartial arts filmCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Heroexciting fight swordComedySteal Happiness; City Lights; Modern TimesamusingAdventure filmFind Nemo; The Gold Rushgun crime exciting fight swordStep 2 Pre-reading1. Explain the words to students. Make sure the know the meanings of the words: male female actress director2. Look at the film poster. Which words do you think will be in the film review? actionactoractresscharacterdesertexpressfemalemastermalemartial artsplay a partunusualFirst ask students to read out the words and then choose.3. Discussion: Students may discuss their answers in pairs.Look at the poster and discuss.Topics: 1)How much do you know the film? 2)Can you tell anything about the film? Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a martial arts film. We can see the names of the characters in this poster. I know the male character is played by a well-known actor called Chow Yun-Fat. And the two actress are Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.Let the students answer the questions quickly and simply. Encourage everyone to speak. Step 3 While-Reading1. SkimmingAsk the students to read the passage quickly and choose the best summary of the film.Show the following on the screen.1 It takes place in Peking rooftops and in the deserts of western China.2 It is a martial arts film that tells the story of a stolen sword, and the fight to get it back.3 It tells the story of two people who love each other.Suggested answer: 2