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1、Unit 4 Films and film events Period 1 课件 4,Task,Writing a speech about the film industry,General introduction:,The Task is divided into three steps and each step is preceded with a skills building activity. Through the three steps, you will learn how to complete a quiz, how to listen for emphasis an
2、d how to use information from more than one source.,Skills building 1: completing a quiz,What should we do when we take a quiz? What steps we should take to make sure that we answer the questions correctly?,Step 1: completing a quiz about the film industry,Listen to two radio programmes discussing t
3、he early days of film. Read a web page about film facts. Use all of the information to complete a film quiz.,Answers to part A: 1. The Lumire brothers. 3. Moving pictures. 4. London. 5. The speed, the sound and the color of the film. 8. In the theatre. 9. The Jazz Singer. 10. No idea.,Listen to anot
4、her radio programme in Part B This time you will listen to some information about Hollywood, and you can use the information to answer some of the remaining questions on the quiz.,Answers to part B: 7. The company with sound stages and the place where the company makes its films. 11. A few years. 12
5、. Pre-production stage and post- production stage.,Read the web page in Part C to find the remaining information and finish the quiz. Answers: 2. He said, Cinema has no commercial future. 6. $10,000,000. 13. 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Warner Bros and MGM.,Skills building 2: listening for e
6、mphasis,In the Grammar and usage section, we learnt how to emphasize some parts of sentences by adding some words or using certain sentence structures. Are there any other ways that we can emphasize some words or information, especially when we are speaking?,Step 2: asking and answering questions ab
7、out Chinese films,work in pairs to conduct an interview about Chinese films asking and answering questions about Chinese film,Skills building 3: using information from more than one source,What will you do before you attend a speech or an essay competition? know what the subject of the competition i
8、s find out different aspects of the subject and write the draft do research on the aspects that you do not know,Review what you have learnt about the film industry in Steps 1 and 2. List the information you have already obtained. Think about what else you will need in making the speech or writing th
9、e essay for the competition.,For example: The information I have already got: the first film-maker/ fathers of modern film; where the first film was made; the first studio in Hollywood; the title of the first talking film; the title of the first film made in China; the differences between old and mo
10、dern films,The information I need to do research on: the titles of the best films in some famous film festivals this year; some famous actors/ actresses in Hollywood/ China,Step 3: writing a speech about the film industry,write a speech using information gathered in the previous steps. work in group
11、s to discuss what you should write and how to write the speech,Possible example,Ladies and gentlemen, What I want to talk about here is the history of the film industry. There are many firsts in the history of the film industry. Do you know when and where the first film was made? It was in the 1880s
12、, more than 120 years ago, that William Friese-Green recorded and then played back what we now think of as a film. He made his film in Hyde Park, London, and later watched it in his home.,The fathers of modern film are thought to be the Lumire brothers from France. The first films ever made were sil
13、ent. The audiences could hear different kinds of music played by a piano player or an orchestra in the theatre. It was not until in 1927 that the first talking film or film with sound was shown in New York. The title of it was The Jazz Singer. Just imagine how audiences reacted when they watched the
14、 first film with sound! It is said that the audience was so excited that everyone in the theatre stood up and applauded.,In 1896, film was introduced to China. The first Chinese film ever made, Conquering Jun Mountain, was made in 1905. the first film made only by Chinese was The Difficult Couple, w
15、hich was made in 1913. Then, about 18 years later, the first talking film was made in China in 1931. The title of the film is The Songstress, Red Peony.,Although the first cinema that opened in the USA was in Pennsylvania, Hollywood is well known for film-making. Three quarters of the films seen aro
16、und the world are made in the USA, and about ninety-nine per cent of them are made in Hollywood. The companies there make films in their studios. Do you know the name of the first studio that opened in Hollywood? It was Nestro Studios, which is now a part of Universal studios.,Language points,1. When completing a quiz, you must be certain that all the answers you write are correct. completing 现在分词做状语，因句子的主语是you, complete的逻辑主语也是you，两者是主动关系。,When _ different cultures, we of
