1、Chaplin,Charlie,Unit 2,contents,Picture of charlie,His image,Video Watching,Finding a job.,Background Information,1. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977),背景知識,復合聽寫,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

2、director. His principal character was “the Tramp”: a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity 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 personaliti

3、es in the silent film,Background Information,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,era: He acted in, directed, 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 u

4、ntil his death at the age of 88. He led one of the most remarkable and colorful lives of the 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 adula

5、tion and controversy.,Background Information,2. Monsieur Verdoux,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Monsieur 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 th

6、e town, marries wealthy widows and then murders them. This behavior eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.,Background Information,3. Modern Times,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Modern Times is a 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin that has his famous Little Tramp character st

7、ruggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate 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 Informat

8、ion,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,directed by Chaplin. The film has been deemed “culturally significant” 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 Litt

9、le Tramp role. The Little Tramp ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with 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,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Background Information,5. The

10、 Pawnshop,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,The Pawnshop is a film in which Charlie plays a shop assistant 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,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Mack

11、Sennett was an American silent film producer and director, perfected the art of slapstick 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,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Charles Dickens was an English novelist. During his car

12、eer Dickens wrote many entertaining works which were immensely popular and displayed his 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,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,Directions: You wi

13、ll hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the secondtime, you are required 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 e

14、xact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Now listen 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

15、 not a true revival theater. The elderly manager had only silent movies to screen to his 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,復合聽寫,視頻討論,隨 筆,honesty,audiences,Compound Dictation,背景知識,復合聽寫,視頻

16、討論,隨 筆,The manager liked this movie and showed it with great S3 _ even if he had advertised 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 _ cricke

17、d. He walked like a penguin. He got into trouble and somehow always managed to get out of it.,regularity,plot,character,mismatched,hopelessly,Compound Dictation,背景知識,復合聽寫,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 predicame

18、nts (窮境,困局) as if we were seeing them for the first time. We were never tired of laughing. 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,S9_

19、. As the years passed, Chaplin and my family passed with them. S10 _. 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

20、was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975,Inscribed on it were the words “The comic genius who gave pleasure to so many”,Back to Contents,Text Study,New Words,Understanding,Detailed Reading,Structure Analysis,Back to Contents,New Words,New Words,New Words,New Words,New Words,New Words,Back to Text Stu

21、dy,Charlie Chaplin,Given this title, you are required to write your outline of an article. For example: 1st part: 2nd part: 3rd part:,I. Structure Analysis,Text StudyStructure Analysis,Part I (Paras？),A general introduction to Charlie Chaplin,Part II (Paras？),Charlie Chaplins artistic achievement,Pa

22、rt III (Para？),Charlie Chaplins emotional life,Part IV (Para？),Incident after Charlie Chaplins death,(Paras. 1-2),(Paras. 3-6),(Para. 7-8),(Para 9),Back to Text Study,Biography of Charlie Chaplin,Understanding,Text StudyUnderstanding,Part I. General Introduction,Place of birth: _,Parents: _,A poor a

23、rea of south London,Mother temporarily declared mad,Text StudyUnderstanding,Fast-read para.1-2,What character did Chaplin create?,He created the great comic character of “the Tramp” and gained world-wide reputation.,Fast-read para.3 Why didnt Chaplins comic beggar seem very English? Because English

24、tramps didnt sport tiny moustaches,huge pants or tail coats.,Special features of The Tramp:,Critics(評論) towards The Tramp: (To English people ),famous comic beggar: sport tiny a character revolted against authority , too crude; didnt all that English,The Tramp,Text StudyUnderstanding,The Tramp,Speci

25、alties about his singing:,Modern Times,Text StudyUnderstanding,He made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known nationality.,Read para.4,Secrets of great success:,Immensely talented man; The urge to explore and extend his talent,Evidences: His script In his great comedy ,Not written in adv

26、ance,Text StudyUnderstanding,Read para.5-6,Gold Rush,Boots were boiled and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like fish bones).靴子被放在鍋里煮，靴底被蘸著鹽和胡椒吃掉，就像上好的魚片一樣（鞋釘就像魚骨那樣被剔除）。,Text StudyUnderstanding,Turn lifeless objects to other kinds of objects,Gol

27、d Rush,Part III. Emotional Life Read para.7,Chaplins emotional collision:,need to be loved The collision found its way into his comic creations.,Text StudyUnderstanding,Text StudyUnderstanding,City Lights,Chaplins need to be loved.,City Lights,Chaplins fear of being betrayed can be found in this fil

28、m in which Chaplin acted as a wife killer.,Monsieur Verdoux,Text StudyUnderstanding,Monsieur Verdoux,Stable happiness in his later years; Oona ONeil gave him the love he needed.,Chaplins In love with Oona ONeil,Part III. Emotional Life Read para.8,Text StudyUnderstanding,Why this marriage is called

29、the “stable happiness”?,Because:,There is a 37 years age difference between them. Oonas stability and affection spanned this age difference. She was well-prepared for the battle.,Text StudyUnderstanding,Time: _,On Christmas Day 1977.,The strange incident after his death: _,His body was stolen and he

30、ld for money.,Text StudyUnderstanding,Back to Text Study,Part IV. Incident after Chaplins Death Read para.9,Focus Study,Active Expressions,Text Reading,Word Using,Detailed Reading,Back to Contents,Word Using,1. cut down,to reduce,cut down,to size,on sth.,I have to cut my essay down to 2000 words. Yo

31、u should cut down on smoking,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,2. applause, n. clapping of hands; praise,The audience broke into applause. 讓我們?yōu)閤xx的精彩表演熱烈鼓掌,觀眾爆發(fā)出一陣掌聲。 Lets give them a big round of applause.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,applaud和clap V. applaud 后一般不跟 hands 而跟 sb. 表示“為拍手” 跟sth.表示prais

32、e. clap后可以跟hands,表示“拍手” He was loudly applauded. 他受到熱烈歡迎。 The audiences clapped loudly at the end of the play.,3. crude a., rude;,Hes always telling crude jokes.粗俗的笑話, in its natural state,crude oil 原油,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,4. trip sb. up,to cause sb. to fall or nearly fall over; 絆倒force s

33、omeone to make a mistake by tricking them使犯錯,李伸出腳把約翰絆倒了。,Lee stuck out his foot and tripped John up.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,Usually she was careful, but once she was tripped up by a plot.,她一向謹慎，但有一次還是中了圈套。,5. all that,very; particularly,他并不比我們年紀大多少。,He isnt all that older than we are.,Words

34、 and ExpressionsWord Using,6. sport v.,to wear or show publicly and sometimes proudly,Back in the 1980s，Chinese people sported goggles,bell-bottom trousers and batwing-sleeved blouses.,80年代，中國人帶蛤蟆鏡，穿喇叭褲、蝙蝠衫。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,7. behave v.,to act; to conduct (oneself) properly,放規(guī)矩點！ Don

35、t you think that he has been behaving very strangely recently?,Behave yourself! 你不覺得他近來舉動十分古怪嗎？,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,8. come down in the world,to have less money and a worse social position than one had before,她感到她的確已經窮困潦倒了。,She felt she had really come down in the world.,Words and Expres

36、sionsWord Using,9. rouse v.,to make sb. very angry, excited, interested; to make sb. wake up;喚醒，激起,arouse 喚醒，激起arise 出現(xiàn),She was sleeping so soundly that I couldnt rouse her.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,10. find ones way into,to arrive or get somewhere到達,Rivers find their way into the sea. 據說多媒體將

37、很快進入家用市場。,條條江河通大海。 Its said that multimedia will soon find its way into the home market.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,12. find in sb.,to discover that sb. has certain qualities 從某人身上發(fā)現(xiàn)某種特質,What did you find in him/her?,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,13. unfounded a.,not based on fact 沒有根據的,What

38、would you like to react to the unfounded rumors(謠言) to you?,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,Back to Detailed Reading,漢英互譯,短語活用,句式應用,隨 筆,English Equivalents of Chinese,English Equivalents of Chinese,漢英互譯,短語活用,句式應用,隨 筆,It is a relief to know,Focus Study,Notes to the TextFocus Study,1. Dickens might ha

39、ve created Charlie Chaplins childhood.,Practice,might have v-ed: used to say that something was possible in the past, but it did not in fact happen,If Id have known the film was about the World War II, I might have gone to see it.,這個計劃可能很容易失敗，但事實上卻大 大成功了。,如果我早知道那部電影是有關二戰(zhàn)的，就可能 會去看了。,The plan might ea

40、sily have gone wrong, but in fact it was a great success.,Notes to the TextFocus Study,Summary,Text StudySummary,Chaplin is a great comic not only for his own mother country but more for the world. Chaplins Tramp was considered a little _ and thought that he had too much of an eye for the ladies and

41、 that his clothes gave him an _ more like an Italian waiter than anything else. He resisted making a _ movie until 1936 when he made up a _ language which sounded like no known nationality. Chaplin achieved great success because he was an immensely _ man and the kind of comic who used his _ senses t

42、o invent his art as he went along.,crude,appearance,talking,nonsense,talented,physical,Text StudySummary,However, the _ between the need to be loved and the fear of being _ resulted in disaster in his _ life which was shown in his movies. Eventually, life gave Chaplin the stable _, that is, his marr

43、iage with Oona ONeil. Chaplin died on _ Day 1977.,collision,betrayed,happiness,emotional,Christmas,1. quit: go away or leave; give up or resign from a position 2. for good: for ever 3. make up: to invent an excuse, fact, or story 4. in advance: beforehand; earlier 5. lose faith in: lose ones trust o

44、r confidence in someone or something,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,1. 他憤然離開房間。 2. 我沒有意識到她將永遠離開我了。 3. 整件事都是她編造出來嚇她父母的。 4. 你應該提早預訂那場音樂會的票。 5. 我們再也不相信他了。,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,He quit the room angrily. 2. I hardly realized she was leaving me for good. 3. She made the whole story up

45、to shock her parents. 4. You should book tickets for the concert well in advance. 5. Weve lost faith in him.,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,1. 別對我大喊大叫，我不干了！ 2. 我希望他們永遠不要回來。 3. 不要為此編理由了。 4. 請把貴公司行程電郵給我，以便我預先安排。 5. 自從考試不及格，他對自己的能力失去了信心。,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Dont shout at me. I quit

46、! 2. I hope theyve gone for good this time! Dont make an excuse for that. Please e-mail me your plan so that I can arrange in advance. He have lost faith in his ability since he failed in the exam.,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Back to Detailed Reading,Detailed Study of Text,單詞學習,課文分析,課文學習,隨 筆

47、,Charlie Chaplin,Para. 1 He was born in a poor area of South London. He wore his mothers old red stockings cut down for ankle socks. His mother was temporarily declared mad. Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplins childhood. But only Charlie Chaplin could have created the great comic character o

48、f “the Tramp”, the little man in rags who gave his creator permanent fame.,句型,Detailed Study of Text,Para. 2 Other countriesFrance, Italy, Spain, even Japanhave provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth. Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913 when he jo

49、urneyed to America with a group of performers to do his comedy act on the stage, where talent scouts recruited him to work for Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.,Chaplin was more successful in other countries than in his motherland.,Chaplin left Britain for American in 1913 and never

50、went back.,Detailed Study of Text,Para. 3a Sad to say, many English people in the 1920s and 1930s thought Chaplins Tramp a bit, well, “crude”. Certainly middle-class audiences did; the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who revolted against authority, using his wicked l

51、ittle 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 comic beggar didnt seem all that English or even working-class.,There is no doubt than middle-class audiences thought so (Charplins Tramp was a bit crude); this character was mor

52、e popular among working-class audiences because he showed his discount with authority by using his little cane to make them fall or by kicking them in the rear.,Chaplins amusing character, the beggar, wasnt like an Englishman very much, neither was he like a working-class person.,Detailed Study of T

53、ext,單詞學習,課文分析,課文學習,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 coarse way about it that was considered, well, not quite nice by English audience

54、sthats how foreigners behaved, wasnt it? But for over half of his screen career, Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.,Since more than half of the roles Chaplin played were in silent films, therefore there was no way to confirm that he was British.,Detailed Study of Text,單詞

55、學習,課文分析,課文學習,隨 筆,Para. 4a Indeed, it was a headache 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

56、a nonsense language which sounded like no known nationality.,Indeed, it was difficult thing for Chaplin when he had to accept talking movies and had to find “a proper voice” for Tramp.,Make up: invent a story in order to deceive someone: I was trying to make up a good excuse for being so late.,Detai

57、led Study of Text,單詞學習,課文分析,課文學習,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 the English wo

58、uld 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,單詞學習,課文分析,課文學習,隨 筆,Para. 5 He was an immensely talented man, determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywood 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