新视野大学英语2-5教案

Teaching process:

I. Lead-in:

Preview

1. Conclude the topic of Unit Two

2. Learn the new words here Interactive Mode

Our topic today is “Charlie Chaplin ”. Charlie Chaplin, though gone for over 30 years, is still a promise of happiness for filmgoers. In a 1995 worldwide survey of

film critics, Chaplin was voted the greatest actor in movie history. He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmmaking process. Now let’s proceed with our topic-centered lead-in.

Q1: How much do you know about Charlie Chaplin’s life? What of his childhood? What of his career?

What of his marital life?

Q2: Which of his films impresses you most?

City Lights?

The Gold Rush?

Modern Times?

The Circus?

The Great Dictator?

II. Background information 1. Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was a British comedy actor, becoming the most famous actor in the early to mid

Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director. His principal character was “the Tramp”: a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman who wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, a bowler hat, a bamboo cane, and his signature toothbrush moustache. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film era: He acted

in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually even scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 70 years, from the British Victorian stage and Music Hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of 88. He led one of the most remarkable and colorful lives of the 20th century, from a Dickens-like London

childhood to the pinnacle of world fame in the film industry and as a cultural icon. His high-profile public and private life encompassed highs and lows of both adulation and controversy. 2. Monsieur Verdoux Monsieur Verdoux is a character in the film entitled the same. He is an unemployed banker. While being both loyal and competent in his work,

Verdoux is laid-off. To support his family, he periodically heads out of the town, marries wealthy widows and then murders them. This behavior eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

3. Modern Times

Modern Times is a 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin that has his famous Little Tramp

character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression—conditions created, in Chaplin’s view, by the efficiency of modern industrialization. It was written and directed by Chaplin. The film has been

deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

4. The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The Little Tramp ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets

mixed up with some rough characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

5. The Pawnshop

The Pawnshop is a film in which Charlie plays a shop assistant who competes with his fellow. When he is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired, he nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself.

6. Mack Sennett (1880-1960)

Mack Sennett was an American silent film producer and director, perfected the art of slapstick in his “Keystone” series. During his lifetime he was known as the King of Comedy.

7. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charles Dickens was an English novelist. During his

career Dickens wrote many entertaining works which were immensely popular and displayed his rich imagination and comic genius. Now he is viewed as one of the major novelists of the Victorian era and an important documenter of life in those times.

III. Important New Words tramp

n. [C] a person with no

home, job or money who travels around and

asks for money from other people流浪者，乞丐

He used to be a tramp when he was young.

他年轻时曾当过乞丐。

v. walk esp. for a long distance, or with heavy steps 踏着沉重的步子行进，长途跋涉

I've tramped the whole town looking for work.

我走遍全城寻找工作。

He tramped angrily out of the house.

他气冲冲地重步走出屋子。scout

n. 1.[C] a person employed to look for people with particular skills, esp.

in sport or entertainment

被雇用来物色（运动员、演员等）人才的人员；猎头，星探

He was spotted by a scout at the age of 13.

他在13岁那年就被猎头给

盯上了。

2. [C] a person, esp. a soldier, sent out to get information about where the enemy are and what they are doing

侦察员

The scout reported that there was trouble on the road ahead.

侦察员报告说前面路上有麻烦。

He sent four scouts ahead to take a look at the bridge.

他派了四名侦察员到前面去察看那座大桥的情况。revolt

v. refuse to be controlled or ruled; take (often violent) action against authority

反叛，造反

The people revolted against the military government.

人民反抗军政府。

The people in the north have revolted against the foreign rule and established their own government.

北方的人们为反对外国统治而造反，并建立了自己的政府。

n. [C, U] the action or state of protesting against or resisting authority

反叛，造反

Troops were called in to put down the revolt.

部队被招来镇压叛乱。The army is in revolt.

军队正在叛乱。

beggar

n. [C] a person who lives by

begging乞丐

I gave him money, full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person, even if he was a beggar.

我给了他钱，感到很自豪：我至少比一个英国人有钱，即使他是一个乞丐。

The elderly woman must have thought I was a beggar, because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies.

这位上了年纪的妇女肯定认为我是叫花子，因为她不

让我跟那些年轻的小姐说话。

behave

v. 1. act in a particular way, or be good by acting in a way which has society's approval 举动，表现，循规蹈矩behave well / badly

表现良好/糟糕

You must behave (yourself) at the party!

在晚会上你得规规矩矩的。

2. (of a machine or natural phenomenon) work or

function in a special way （机器等）运转，（事物）作出反应

How does your new car behave?

你的新车性能怎么样？Under certain conditions, electrons can behave like waves rather than particles. 在一定的条件下，电子会像波，而不是像粒子那样运动。

execute

v. 1. do or perform, esp. in a

planned way

实施，执行，履行

The plan was good but was poorly executed.

计划很好，但执行得很糟糕。

Now that we have made the decision, we may execute the scheme as previously agreed.

既然我们已经做了决定，我们就可以实行既定方案了。

2. kill (sb.) as a legal punishment

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