1、Pre-reading Activities,Text Study,Summary,Writing,Lead - in,Lead in,Lead - in,Mode I,Mode II,Mode III,隨 筆,Our topic today is “Charlie Chaplin ”. Charlie Chaplin, though gone for over 30 years, is still a promise of happiness for filmgoers. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was vote

2、d the greatest actor in movie history. He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmmaking process. Now lets proceed with our topic-centered lead-in.,Q. 1 How much do you know about Charlie Chaplins life?,Tips,Tips,What of his childhood? What of his career? What

3、of his marital life? ,Mode I,Mode II,Mode III,隨 筆,Interactive Mode I,Q. 2 What is the most important factor that contributes to Chaplins success in career?,Tips,Tips,His miserable childhood? The influence of his parents? His unique insight into things? His ever-greater desire to extend his talents?

4、,Mode I,Mode II,Mode III,隨 筆,Interactive Mode II,Q. 3 Which of his films impresses you most?,Tips,Tips,City Lights? The Gold Rush? Modern Times? The Circus? The Great Dictator? ,Mode I,Mode II,Mode III,隨 筆,Interactive Mode III,PreReading,Background Information,Compound Dictation,Watch and Discuss,Ba

5、ckground Information,1. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Charlie Chaplin was a British comedy actor, becoming the most famous actor in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director. His principal character was “the Tramp”: a vagrant with the refined manners and di

6、gnity of a gentleman who wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, a bowler hat, a bamboo cane, and his signature toothbrush moustache. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film,Background Information,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,era: He acted in, directed,

7、scripted, produced, and eventually even scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 70 years, from the British Victorian stage and Music Hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of 88. He led one of the most remarkable and colorful lives of the

8、 20th century, from a Dickens-like London childhood to the pinnacle of world fame in the film industry and as a cultural icon. His high-profile public and private life encompassed highs and lows of both adulation and controversy.,Background Information,2. Monsieur Verdoux?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Monsieu

9、r Verdoux is a character in the film entitled the same. He is an unemployed banker. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux is laid-off. To support his family, he periodically heads out of the town, marries wealthy widows and then murders them. This behavior eventually works agains

10、t him when two particular widows break his normal routine.,Background Information,3. Modern Times?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Modern Times is a 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin that has his famous Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desp

11、erate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depressionconditions created, in Chaplins view, by the efficiency of modern industrialization. It was written and,Background Information,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,directed by Chaplin. The film has been deemed “culturally significa

12、nt” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.,The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The Little Tramp ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up wi

13、th some rough characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.,Background Information,4. The Gold Rush?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Background Information,5. The Pawnshop?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,The Pawnshop is a film in which Charlie plays a shop assist

14、ant who competes with his fellow. When he is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired, he nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself.,Background Information,6. Mack Sennett (1880-1960)?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Mack Sennett was an American silent film producer and director, perfected the art of slapsti

15、ck in his “Keystone” series. During his lifetime he was known as the King of Comedy.,Background Information,7. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)?,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Charles Dickens was an English novelist. During his career Dickens wrote many entertaining works which were immensely popular and displayed h

16、is rich imagination and comic genius. Now he is viewed as one of the major novelists of the Victorian era and an important documenter of life in those times.,Compound Dictation,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Directions: You will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the secondtime, you are re

17、quired to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered S9 to S11 you are required tofill in missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Now li

18、sten to the passage.,Listen to the passage,My first memories of movies are of flickering black and white images of Charlie Chaplin. The revival theatre in my neighborhood played silent movies often. In S1 _, it was not a true revival theater. The elderly manager had only silent movies to screen to h

19、is small S2 _. Still, my parents, grandparents and I gathered each Saturday night to see Chaplin movies such as The Gold Rush.,Compound Dictation,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,honesty,audiences,Compound Dictation,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,The manager liked this movie and showed it with great S3 _ even if he had adver

20、tised another movie. I came to know the S4 _ of this film very well. Chaplin, of course, played the same S5 _, the Tramp, in all his early films. His clothes were S6 _, his hat was torn and his cane was S7 _ cricked. He walked like a penguin. He got into trouble and somehow always managed to get out

21、 of it.,regularity,plot,character,mismatched,hopelessly,Compound Dictation,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Although my family and I watched the same Chaplins short films and silent movies many times, we laughed at his predicaments (窮境,困局) as if we were seeing them for the first time. We were never tired of laugh

22、ing. Chaplin had a special S8 _ for causing laughter. He also composed memorable music for his films. When I was in high school I played his Smile and This Is My Song in a piano recital.,gift,Compound Dictation,背景知識(shí),復(fù)合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,S9_. As the years passed, Chaplin and my family passed with them. S10

23、_. He died in 1977. In 1981, a bronze statue of Chaplin standing on the plinth (底座) was unveiled in Londons Leicester Square. S11_.,My parents and grandparents were there to hear Chaplins influence on my brief musical career,Charlie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975,Inscribed on it were the wo

24、rds “The comic genius who gave pleasure to so many”,Watch the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who revolted against authority, using his wicked little cane to trip it up, or aiming the heel of his boot for a well-placed kick at its broad rear. All the same, Chaplins c

25、omic beggar didnt seem all that English or even working-class.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 3b English tramps didnt sport tiny moustaches, huge pants or tail coats: European leaders and Italian waiters wore things like that. Then again, the Tramps quick eye for a pretty girl had a

26、coarse way about it that was considered, well, not quite nice by English audiencesthats how foreigners behaved, wasnt it? But for over half of his screen career, Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 4a Indeed, it was a headach

27、e for Chaplin when he could no longer resist the talking movies and had to find “the right voice” for his Tramp. He postponed that day as long as possible: In Modern Times in 1936, the first film in which he was heard as a singing waiter, he made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known na

28、tionality.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 4b He later said he imagined the Tramp to be a college-educated gentleman whod come down in the world. But if hed been able to speak with an educated accent in those early short comedies, its doubtful if he would have achieved world fame. And

29、 the English would have been sure to find it “odd”. No one was certain whether Chaplin did it on purpose but this helped to bring about his huge success.,句型,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 5 He was an immensely talented man, determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywoo

30、d stars. His huge fame gave him the freedomand, more importantly, the moneyto be his own master. He already had the urge to explore and extend a talent he discovered in himself as he went along. “It cant be me. Is that possible? How extraordinary, ” is how he greeted the first sight of himself as th

31、e Tramp on the screen.,句型,句型,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 6a But that shock roused his imagination. Chaplin didnt have his jokes written into a script in advance; he was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent his art as he went along. Lifeless objects especially h

32、elped Chaplin make “contact” with himself as an artist. He turned them into other kinds of objects.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 6b Thus, a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker became a “sick” patient undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and the

33、ir soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like fish bones). This physical transformation, plus the skill with which he executed it again and again, is surely the secret of Chaplins great comedy.,句型,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 7a He also h

34、ad a deep need to be lovedand a corresponding fear of being betrayed. The two were hard to combine and sometimesas in his early marriagesthe collision between them resulted in disaster. Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge found its way into his comic creations.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),

35、課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 7b The Tramp never loses his faith in the flower girl wholl be waiting to walk into the sunset with him; while the other side of Chaplin makes Monsieur Verdoux, the French wife killer, into a symbol of hatred for women.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 8a Its a relie

36、f to know that life eventually gave Charlie Chaplin the stability and happiness it had earlier denied him. In Oona ONeill Chaplin, he found a partner whose stability and affection spanned the 37 years age difference between them, which had seemed so threatening, that when the official who was marryi

37、ng them in 1942 turned to the beautiful girl of 17 whod given notice of their wedding date, he said, “And where is the young man? ” Chaplin, then 54, had cautiously waited outside.,句型,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 8b As Oona herself was the child of a large family with its own probl

38、ems, she was well prepared for the battle that Chaplins life became as many unfounded rumors surrounded them bothand, later on, she was the center of calm in the quarrels that Chaplin sometimes sparked in his own large family of talented children.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學(xué)習(xí),課文分析,課文學(xué)習(xí),隨 筆,Para 9 Cha

39、plin died on Christmas Day 1977. A few months later, a couple of almost comic body thieves stole his body from the family burial chamber and held it for money. The police recovered it with more efficiency than Mack Sennetts clumsy Keystone Cops would have done, but one cant help feeling Chaplin woul

40、d have regarded this strange incident as a fitting memorialhis way of having the last laugh on a world to which he had given so many.,Summary,English Equivalents of Chinese,Creative Application of Typical Expressions,Further Application of Typical Patterns,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,English Equivalents of C

41、hinese,English Equivalents of Chinese,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,Creative Application of Typical Expressions,sad to say,all the same,to have the urge /a deep need to do sth.,to find ones way into,to lose ones faith in sb./sth.,典 型 例 句,意 群 提 示,不用說(shuō):說(shuō)也奇怪:只需說(shuō)就夠了:換言之：,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,知

42、識(shí)鏈 接,說(shuō)也奇怪，一見(jiàn)到自己日思夜想的人，她發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的病不藥而愈。,needless to say strange to say suffice it to say that is to say,long for / find ones health recover without treatment,Strange to say, upon seeing the man she had been longing for day and night, she found her health recover without treatment.,Creative Application of

43、 Typical Expressions,典 型 例 句,意 群 提 示,盡管如此，仍然:同時(shí):同一人或物:,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,知識(shí)鏈 接,這些風(fēng)景優(yōu)美的圖片都來(lái)自同一個(gè)網(wǎng)站。,just the same at the same time one and the same,picture with beautiful scenery / web site,Creative Application of Typical Expressions,These pictures with beautiful scenery are from one and the sam

44、e web site.,典 型 例 句,意 群 提 示,有做的欲望:有做的意圖:有做的能力:有做的勇氣：,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,知識(shí)鏈 接,雖然年輕，但他完全有能力獨(dú)當(dāng)一面。,to have a desire to do . to have an intention to do to have the power to do to have the guts to do ,adj.+as sb. be / assume sole responsibility for / a certain sector or task,Creative Application of

45、Typical Expressions,Young as he is, he has the power to assume sole responsibility for a certain sector or task.,典 型 例 句,意 群 提 示,行走，前進(jìn): 迷路: 費(fèi)力前進(jìn)；半工半讀：,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,知識(shí)鏈 接,他家境貧寒，必須靠打工完成大學(xué)學(xué)業(yè)。,to make ones way to lose ones way to work ones way through,have a poor family,Creative Application o

46、f Typical Expressions,He has a poor family, so he had to work his way through college.,典 型 例 句,意 群 提 示,對(duì)失去信心： 喪失勇氣： 喪失勇氣，失去信心：,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,知識(shí)鏈 接,在逆境中不要失去信心，事情總會(huì)向著好的方向發(fā)展。,to lose ones confidence in to lose courage to lose heart,in time of adversity / lose heart / work out right,Creative A

47、pplication of Typical Expressions,Dont lose heart in time of adversity, because things will always work out right.,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,Further Application of Typical Patterns,Sb./Sth. else might do / have done sth. But only sb./sth. can do / could have done sth. else.,Sth. give / bring sb. sth. and,

48、more importantly, sth. else to do / be ,Sth., plus sth. else, be surely ,Back,新視野 產(chǎn)生式應(yīng)用,活 用 例 句,意 群 提 示,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,說(shuō)到成功，機(jī)遇或許會(huì)起到一定作用，但勤奮才是決定性因素。,when it comes to / play a certain role / diligence / serve as the decisive factor,When it comes to success, opportunity might play a certain role, b

49、ut only diligence can serve as the decisive factor.,新視野 產(chǎn)生式應(yīng)用,活 用 例 句,意 群 提 示,跨文化交際為人們帶來(lái)了了解外國(guó)文化的機(jī)會(huì)，更重要的是提供了增進(jìn)各民族間友誼的渠道。,inter-cultural communication / gain insight into / enhance friendship / a channel,Inter-cultural communication brings people chances to gain insights into other culturesand, more i

50、mportantly, a channel to enhance friendship between different nationalities.,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,新視野 產(chǎn)生式應(yīng)用,活 用 例 句,意 群 提 示,風(fēng)光秀麗，加上交通便利，是這個(gè)城鎮(zhèn)旅游業(yè)如此發(fā)達(dá)的原因。,beautiful scenery / convenient transportation / tourism / developed,Beautiful scenery, plus convenient transportation, is surely the reason why

51、tourism is so developed in this town.,Back,漢英互譯,短語(yǔ)活用,句式應(yīng)用,隨 筆,Writing,Back,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,Pattern of Writing,Such writing begins with an introduction of the writers general statement about the issue in question.,This part, as the main body of writing, serves to present the specific details so as to m

52、ake the statement above more convincing.,General Statement,Specific Details,Back,Pattern of Writing,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,Example from Unit 7, Book III,Indeed, if theres one thing that distinguishes the Gates style, it is his time management skills. (General Statement) Conservation of time, energy, and focu

53、s are his hallmarks. He moves between playing the role of international spokesman for the age of technology and planning business strategy back at headquarters, getting the maximum,Back,Pattern of Writing,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,amount of work possible out of every minute. (Detail 1) Always punctual and alway

54、s in high gear, he typically leaves only the tiniest cracks in the day for eating, talking to friends or recreation. (Detail 2) The joke around Microsoft is that his receptionist is the hardest working person in the world. In fact, he has several receptionists. He probably needs one just to arrange

55、his travel plans and visas to foreign countries. (Detail 3),Back,Writing Practice,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,Directions: Write a composition of no less than 120 words with a general statement supported by details on one of the following topics. One topic has been given a detailed outline that you can follow.,Bac

56、k,Writing Practice,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,General statement: Charlie Chaplin is a great comic for his native land, Britain, but even more so for the world. Details: characteristic appearance on stage mainly acting in silent films widely accepted and appreciated traveling worldwide to appear on stage,Back,Wri

57、ting Practice,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,More Topics: Famous people shoulder more responsibilities. Superstars enjoy their popularity at the cost of privacy.,Charlie Chaplin is a great comic for his native land Britain, but even more so for the world. On the stage he often wore tiny moustaches, huge pants and ta

58、ilcoats that were perhaps more characteristic of Europeans and may be not much of the British. Since more than half of the roles Chaplin played were in silent films, people throughout the world had no difficulty understanding his films. With,Back,Writing Practice,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,Sample Writing,Back,Wr

59、iting Practice,寫作實(shí)踐,隨 筆,寫作模式,sound movies, Chaplin created a nonsense language that sounded like no known nationality and was accepted and appreciated by people all over the world. For most of his lifetime he did not stay in his mother country; he traveled throughout the world to appear on stage for people of different