Unit 5 The Silver Screen

4. Unit 5 The Silver Screen • Warming up and Speaking • Goals: • Talk about famous films, film • stars and directors. • 2. Learn to write a short biography.

5. Warming up What is your favorite film? Why? Who is your favorite actor/actress? Why?

6. Company: ________ Characters(角色):_________ __________________ __________________ Story: Disney Mulan Dragon Muxu General Li Mulan was a girl who was clever and brave. She dressed up like a man to join the army instead of her old father and defeated the enemy with her friends.

7. Director : Actors : Story: Zhang Yimou Chen Daoming Zhang Manyu Li Lianjie Heroes fought against an enemy country in order to defend(保卫) their homeland.

8. Director: Characters: Story: Steven Spielberg dinosaurs scientists children A rich man kept dinosaurs in his park for his research. One day, all the dinosaurs lost control, bringing about many disasters.

9. Bicentennial Man Leading actor: Story: Robin Williams A robot developed a friendship with a human family and finally became a real man.

10. SpeakingMeryl Streep and Keanu Reeves in a small village in America in 1949/ Read the two biographies and fill in the form: Born :______________________________ Place where she or he grew up: First film:_______________ Most famous films:______________________ The reason why they chose their job: in Lebanon in 1964 America/ Toronto Wolfboy Julia/ Out of Africa; Sophie’s choice/ Speed; The Matrix After high school, she went to study drama./ His stepfather was a film director

11. Role playing Imagine student A is Meryl Streep or Keanu Reeves and student B is a reporter. Now, A is going to interview B. • Some suggested questions: • Where did you grow up? • What did you do when you were young? • Why did you choose your present job? • What movies did you play in?

12. some useful phrases 1. after high school 2. after graduating 3. while still a student 4. play/act a role in… 5. work as /act as … 6. win a prize/award for… 7. win a prize as… 8. make a film 9. during/in the 1980s 毕业后 =while she was still… 在…中扮演一个角色 当…/ 担任… 凭借…获奖 作为…获奖 在20世纪80年代

13. 10. leave high school without a degree 11. in the beginning 12. act in a film 13. move to… 14. make sb. famous 15. since then 16. later on 肄业 演电影 搬迁至某地 后来

14. How to write a short biography • birth (time and place) • early life (childhood, youth, • schooling, jobs, etc.) • 3. career (事业) • 4. achievement (成就) • 5. life (family, interest, etc.) main events

15. Stephen Chow

16. 周星驰 (Stephen Chow) 职业：演员 出生日期 : 1962年6月22日 出生地点 : Hong Kong中学毕业后进入无线电视艺员训练班(Wireless TV performer‘s training class). 1983年结业后当上无线艺员(Wireless performer)，同年被派去担任儿童节目主持，做了四年。1987年开始演出剧集(TV series)，第二年开始演电影，1989年凭电影 《霹雳先锋(Thunderbolt Pioneer)荣获金马奖最佳配角(Supporting role) 。《大话西游（Talk on the journey to West)》被认为是他最成功的作品之一。

17. who on After high school After graduating worked as Stephen Chow, ______ is a famous actor, was born in Hong Kong ____ June 22, 1962. ____________ he went to a Wireless TV Performer’s Training Class. ____________in 1983, he ________a wireless performer. In the same year he was sent to ________a host of Children’s Program, for_______ he worked four years. In 1987, he began to _____ TV Series. The next year he began to __________ films. In 1989 he____ Gold Horse Prize ____Thunderboltpioneer as the best supporting role.Talk on thejourney to West ____________ one of his most successful films. act as which act in play roles in won for is considered as

18. Only Youonly you can make all this world seem right.only you can make the darkness bright.only you and you alone can thrill me like you do/ and fill my heart with love for only you.only you can make this change in me. for it's true you are my destiny.when you hold my hand, I understand the magic that you do.you're my dream come true. my one and only you.