Unit 5 The silver screen

Title: Listening and speaking

Instructor: Lucy

Class duration: 40 minutes

Students: Students in Class19,Senior2006.

Students’ level: intermediate

Goals: To inspire students to discover the key to success in life, in career and in study.

To improve students’ listening and speaking ability through talking about films, actors and directors

To enable students to describe people by means of making comments and giving opinions.

Key points in teaching : To improve students’ listening and speaking ability through talking about films, actors and directors.

To enable students to describe people by means of making comments and giving opinions.

Difficult points in teaching: To enable students to describe people by means of making comments and giving opinions.

Teaching approach: Task-based, students-centered, equipment-aided

Learning approach: Cooperation, exploration study

Teaching aids: Computer, tape-recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

1. Talk about the phrase silver screen ,think out as many words or phrases connected with the silver screen as possible by the mean of brain storming.

2. Talk about some pictures taken from different films and encourage students to use the Attributive Clause to talk about the scene, the director and the actor.

Step 2 Listening

1. Pre-listening

Give some background information about Mr Malcom Langland, make sure students know what to do and encourage students to predict the answer.

2. Listening

Listen to the tape for the first time, get the general idea and answer some easy questions.

Listen to the tape for the second time, answer all the questions and check the answer.

Listen again with the tape script.

3. Post-listening

Go through the tape script and get to know how to make an interview.

Step 3 Speaking

1. Divide students into two groups, ask them to go through the biographies of Meryl Streep and Keanu Reeves respectively and fill in the following chart.

Name Gender

Birth year Birth place

Schooling

Why choose to act

First film

Career in film

Films & roles

Achievement

2. Work in pairs, making an interview with Meryl Streep or Keanu Reeves.

3. Invite some students to act out their interview.

Step 4 Homework

1. Make an interview with each other about their opinions on life, study and future.

Students can cover the following questions in their interview.

When and where were you born?

What do you think of your life now?

What is your aim?

How will you carry out your aim?

2. Write a biography of the person you interview.