Little Game — Find out who he is!

1. Little Game — Find out who he is!

2. Unit 2 Section A Charlie Chaplin

3. Pre-reading Activities • Background information • Questions & Answers • Watch & Discuss

4. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say • Background Information Acquaint yourself with some relevant information • Questions & Answers Listen to a passage and answer some questions. • Watch & Discuss Watch the video and discuss the given topics.

5. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Back Background Information Charlie Chaplin Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16th April 1889 in Walworth, London, and lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother, Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother’s mental decline put her into an institution. Both his parents, though separated when he was very young, were music hall artists, his father quite famously so. But it was his mother that Charlie idolised and was inspired by during his visit of the backstage while she performed, to take up such a career for himself. 下一页

6. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Back Hollywood • An area of Los Angeles which is known as the center of the American film industry. In terms of geography, Hollywood refers to an area consisting of the City of West Hollywood and its vicinity that form part of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is generally thought that everyone living in Hollywood is extremely rich, famous, and concerned with appearances but in fact many parts of Hollywood today are poor, dirty and badly cared for. 上一页 下一页

7. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Back Mack Sennett • Mack Sennett: (1880—1960) U.S. film producer, born in Richmond, Quebec. He worked in the theatre as a comic in burlesque companies, and from 1908 in silent films. He later formed his own company and hundreds of shorts, establishing a whole generation of players and a tradition of knockabout slapstick under the name of Keystone Komics (1912), and later the Sennett Bathing Beauties (1920). He received a Special Academy Award in 1937. 上一页

8. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Back Questions & Answers 1. What disadvantages did Chaplin face early in his life and how did these perhaps help him later? key 2. When it came to relationships, what main problem did his personality have and what results did this have? key 3.What important role did Oona O’Neill play in his life? key

9. Reference Words: disadvantage, extremely, unstable, mentally ill, Tramp I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say key Among the disadvantages Chaplin had to face early in his life, there were three standing out in my mind. First, he was born into an extremely poor family. Second, he had an unstable early family life. Third, his mother was mentally ill. All these, however, helped him create the famous character, “the Tramp.” 返回

10. Reference Words: combine, contradictory, distrust, account for I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say key His personality combined a strong need to be loved with a contradictorydistrust of people. And this may account for the failure in his early marriages. 返回

11. Reference Words: life skills, comfort, quarrel, deal with, keep… together I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say key Oona O’Neill had the life skills to comfort Chaplin whenever there was a quarrel in their own large family, because she came from a large family and knew how to deal with the problems of its own and how to keep such a family together. 返回

12. 2. How do you understand the proverb “All roads lead to Rome.”? 1. What enlightenment can we gain from the video? I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Video watching key key Back Watch & Discuss Directions: Watch the video and then discuss the topics as follows:

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14. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Ways of thinking:1. What do children usually turn out to be if exposed to a lot of misfortunes? 2. Is the same true for Chaplin? 返回

15. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say >>>more By the light of our common sense, children subjected to extreme poverty, homelessness and severe stress usually turn out to be self-abandoned (自暴自弃) or cynical (玩世不恭). But this rule does not holdtrue for Charlie Chaplin.

16. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say As is known to all, Charlie Chaplin, plain in appearance (貌不惊人)and short in stature(身材矮小), suffered from both hunger and his mother’s mental illness throughout his childhood. All these misfortunes, however, did not wear down his desire for happiness and success. Instead, they helped turn out a smart, resourceful and renownedcomic. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was voted the greatest actor in movie history. His life has born out the truth that all misfortune is only a stepping stone to success. 返回

17. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say Ways of thinking1. What does Chaplin’s story tell us? 2. What is your understanding of the proverb “All roads lead to Rome.”? 返回

18. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say >>>more In our eyes, Chaplin’s miserable childhood, complete with British audience’s cold attitude toward his “crude” act on the stage, offered him little hope of success. But he did not like himself to be fate’s play thing and tried to look for other ways out. In 1913 he left his native country for good and found an ideal scopein Americafor displaying his talents(用武之地), which proved to be a turning point in his struggle toward success. So his story confirms the old saying that all roads lead to Rome.

19. I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say In other words, one may not find a single ray of hope at the first attempt, but his/her persistence, complete with proper adjustment of means to the goal, will enable him/her to make it in time. In sum, as long as people adjust themselves to the changing circumstances, they still can put themselves on the way to success. 返回

20. Key Points Review • Charlie Chaplin’s miserable childhood . • Charlie Chaplin’s failures in earlier life. • Enlightenment: All misfortune is only a stepping stone to success.

21. Assignment • Write a passage about Charlie Chaplin in your own words within 300 words.

22. Thank You!