1、Important film events around the world,M8U4 Reading,the biggest movie event of the year,the worlds best-known film festival,Oscar,The Academy Awards,Welcome to our weekly programme, Movie Magic,Maria,kathy,Isabel,Hanz,Mike,Xuli,Host,France,the Cannes Film Festival,the Berlin International Film Festi

2、val,Germany,America,Italy,the Venice Film Festival,Canada,the Toronto International Film Festival,the Shanghai International Film Festival,Predicting,What will be discussed in the following parts?,Reading strategy： Identifying similarities and differences To find the similarities, look for words lik

3、e： and, also, another For differences: but, unlike, -est,Close Reading Activity 1. Read the text carefully and compare the different film festivals. 2. Draw the double bubble map.,the Venice Film Festival,the Sundance Film Festival,the Cannes Film Festival,the Berlin International Film Festival,the

4、Toronto International Film Festival,the Shanghai International Film Festival,the oldest one,the independent one,the most famous and exciting one,the most international one,the second largest one,the youngest one,Important film events around the world,There are many films produced every year. Do you

5、think all of them are worth seeing? In your opinion, what makes a film successful?,Do you prefer to go to the cinema or watch a film at home? Why? Try to draw the double bubble map to show it.,Movies and Hollywood, for quite a few people, the two seem to go together like knife and fork. Hollywood movies are the ones that the world wants to watch. Theyre the most expensive and the most profitable. They are so dominant that when it comes to “foreign” films, people tend to