外教社新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列（修订版）：综合教程（第3版） 第1册 Unit 5 Lecture Notes

Unit 5 HollywoodSection One Pre-reading ActivitiesI.Lead-inDraw your mind map with the headword“Hollywood”.What does the word Hollywood“suggest to you?What words is it associated with in your mind?Write down as many as possible.Show your mind map to the class after you have finished it.This is an open question.Answers to the question may vary.While talking about variousassociations,both the teacher and the students are expected to use some key words in the text.Forexample,they are supposed to use“studio and shoot motion pictures at the mention ofUniversal Studio Theme Park,“amphitheatre“at the mention of Hollywood Bowl,“starlet and“immortal at the mention of the Hollywood Walk of Fame,“luxurious and glamour at themention of Beverley Hills,motion picture corporation at the mention of Paramount or WarnerBros,or MGM,etc.Note these are key words in the text and most of them turn up in the“List ofwords and expressions focused on in the exercises below”.Il.Cultural information1.QuoteFred Allen:You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,place it in the navel of a firefly and stillhave room enough for three caraway seeds and a producers heart.2.HollywoodHollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles,California-situated west-northwest ofDowntown Los Angeles.Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of moviestudios and movie stars,the word Hollywood is often used as a metonymy of American cinema,and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general.Thenicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry.Today,much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside1neighborhood,but significant auxiliary industries,such as editing,effects,props,post-productionand lighting companies remain in Hollywood,as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.Many historic Hollywood theaters are used as venues and concert stages to premiere majortheatrical releases and host the Academy Awards.It is a popular destination for nightlife,tourism,and is home to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.3.Black-and-White MovieBlack and white,often abbreviated B/W or B&W,and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective,is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white images are not usually starkly contrasted black and white.They combine black and white in a continuum producing a range of shades of gray.Further,many prints,especially those produced earlier in the development of photography,were in sepia(mainly for archival stability),which yielded richer,subtlershading than reproductions in plain black-and-white.Color photography provides a much greaterrange of shade,but part of the appeal of black-and-white photography is its more subdued monochromatic character.4.Beverley HillsBeverly Hills,located in Los Angeles,USA,has the title of uthe most prestigious residentialarea in the world and is regarded as the representative and symbol of wealth and fame.It islocated on the cool Pacific coast at the foot of the Beverly Hills.Beverly Hills is the dreamland in the mind of the world-famous rich people in the world.Asthe most famous city within the city of Los Angeles,there are the most upscale commercial streetsin the world,as well as numerous mansions of Hollywood stars;it also serves as the holy land ofthe world movie circle.Every year,Beverly Hills attracts millions of tourists from all over theworld.There is a collection of the worlds top fashion brands.Each store is resplendent,carvedmarble with brass doors.Arch fountain makes this street suddenly look more imposing andextraordinary.Now it is the worlds most expensive shopping center.4.Hollywood BowlHollywood Bowl,a modem amphitheater at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood,California,was originally the music performance venue.It officially opened in 1922 in the naturaltheater space known as Daisy Dell and has been a summer venue for the Los Angelesphilharmonic ever since.The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is also the venue for a small local band,the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.The most famous feature of the Hollywood amphitheater is its band shell,a concentric archthat has graced the theater since 1929.Popular artists such as Cher,Frank Sinatra,The Beatles,Pink Floyd and Judy Garland have all performed on stage.At the end of some Warner cartoons,pig says,Look.View.People,to.More than just.Ifs all,and cartoon fans may notice thatpigs stage setting resembles the Hollywood Bowl;Whether this was intentional is debatable(however,the amphitheater did appear in many of Warners cartoon skits,at least once in thenaughty Pink Panther cartoon and once in the Tom and Jerry cartoon).The famous HollywoodSign,visible a few miles to the northeast,also adds to the atmosphere.2III.Audiovisual supplementsWatch a video clip and answer the following questions.1.Do you know the actor in the video?How do you think his performance?2.Nowadays in the show business,stars were often typecast according to the