Write a paragraph summarizing the film Rain Man
Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, released in 1988, is a feature movie that won several Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. This movie tells about the relationship between two brothers. The younger brother Charlie does not really love or respect his older brother Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman, who suffers from serious mental condition and is unable to communicate properly. Throughout their journey together, however, Raymond’s innocence and seemingly stupid behavior have gradually transformed his brother. Charlie eventually comes to realize that brotherhood is invaluable and Raymond, no matter how abnormal, is his irreplaceable sibling. Rain Man is widely loved (listed among All Time Top 50 American Movies Through 1995) because it restated reasonable and moving that the good is always there in human’s hearts.
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Unit 13: Theater and Movies
Period 1+2: Reading
Aims:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Use vocabulary items related to the issue of theater and movies
Answer the questions based on the text
Scan for specific information
Discussion in pairs or in groups
Materials: Textbook, whiteboard markers, Cassettes…
Procedure:
Teacher
Students
Warmer:
- Tell some kinds of films that you know
War film
Action film
Detective film
Drama
Romantic film
Science and fiction
Thriller
Horror
Documentary film
Cartoon
Comedy
Cinema
Some words related to films
Director, actor, cinematographer, scriptwriter, plot, film editor, soundtrack…
Pre- reading:
a. Work with a partner to put the names of the people in the pictures into two groups
Playwrights
Actors/ Actresses
Shakespeare
Charlie Chaplin
J.B.P Moliere
Bernard Shaw
Charlie Chaplin
J.B.P Moliere
Audrey Hepburn
Tom Hanks
Teacher give some information about the people in the pictures so that the students can understand more about them
b. List several well-known works written by one of the playwrights above
Playwright
Works
Shakespeare
Charlie Chaplin
J.B.P Moliere
Bernard Shaw
Hamlet
Kinglear
Romeo and Juliet
Modern Times
Limelight
Tartuffe
Pymalion
c. Pre- teach new words:
- theater/ theatre :/ 'θiətə/ : rap hat, nha hat
- Playwright: Nha soan kich
- dramatic; sau sac
- movie = film: phim , movie theater : rap chieu bong
- appeal : su loi cuon , hap dan
- opposing: Chong doi; phan khang
- victory : (n) chien thang
- artistic; Co tai nang tu nhien trong nganh nghe thuat
- outcome : hau qua, ket qua
- execution: su the hien, su dien xuat
- to be amazed at smt: kinh ngac
- brushwork: phong cach ve cua mot nghe sy
- satisfaction (n) : su thoa man, lam hai long
- fresh perception (n) : nhan thuc truc tiep
- to get/be acquainted with smt : la mquen voi cai gi
- extraordinary ( adj): king ngac, la thoung, bat thoung
- spiritual, spirit (adj) thuoc ve tinh than, tam hon, linh hon con nguoi
- comedy >< tragedy
While- reading
Answer the following questions:
1.
A. It offers an effective means of telling a story
B. The audience finds pleasure in the skill of execution.
C. It offers an opportunity for us to gain fresh perceptions
D. It can give a spiritual experience
2. Yes, they did
3. he thought it is in learning
4. It gets us acquainted with people and cultures quite foreign to us
5. They may be amazed at the painter’s brush work, the musician’s control of a voice or instrument, the dancer’s use of space, and the director’s management of the creative aspects of the play.
6. Tragedy shows us to be better than we are, but comedy shows us to be worse
b. Choose the best answer:
1. B 2. A 3.D 4. A/D 5. C 6. C 7D
c. Fill in the blank with one suitable word.
1. Four
2. the dramatic contest
3. creating a work of art
4. Ancients Greece
5. humans
6. the author and readers
Post writing:
Tell your partner about the best play you have seen recently.
Home work:
Self- evaluation:
Unit 13: Theater and Movies
Period 3: Speaking
Aims:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to express their preferences for different kinds of movies
Materials: Textbook, whiteboard markers, Cassettes…
Procedure:
Teacher
Students
Warmer: Play a crossword game
……………..may show us to be worse than we are. ( comedy)
………………plays an important role in plays and movies( Music)
The sources of the………………….’s appeal are many( theater)
In Charlie Chaplin’s time, all movies were……………………( silent)
By 1903, with The Birth of a Nation, a movie about the …………………..by D.W. Griffith, motion picture really became an art form. ( Civil War)
In drama, human’s bodies may be broken but their…………wins ( spirit)
The key word to the crossword is : MOVIES
1
2
3
4
5
6
Pre- teaching:
1. Structure Introduction: Explain the words used to express preferences:
I think/ I suppose it would be better for me/us if…
I ( would) prefer to Vo
I’d rather + Vo than Vo
I’d prefer N/ Ving to N/ Ving
My favorite movie/ music is…
I like……….better than….
Vocabulary- pre- teach:
- stretch (v) : mo rong ra
- Memorable( adj): dang nho, de nho.
- moral (adj) thouc luan ly, dao duc, pham hanh
- innocent : ngay tho
- thoughtful: sau sac
- thought- provoking (adj): lam rung dong
- misleading (adj): lam cho me muoi sail ac
- simplistic (adj): lam gian di, de dang hon
3. Summarizing:
Cartoons
Love movies
Action movies
Stretch
Memorable
Moral
innocent
Thoughtful
Thought-provoking
misleading
Thrilling
simplistic
While- speaking:
Work in pairs, ask and answer the following questions:
Do you like watching movies? How often do you go to the movies?
What types of movies do you prefer to watch?
Work in pairs to express your movie preferences as in the example, use the prompt in the box. Give the reasons for your preference.
Post- speaking:
Home work:
Self- evaluation:
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Unit 13: Theater and Movies
Period 4: writing
Aims:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- know the arrangement of a summary writing
- write a short paragraph summarizing the content of a movie.
Materials: Textbook, whiteboard markers, Cassettes…
Procedure:
Teacher
Students
I. Pre- writing:
- Which movie do you love most? Why?
- Can you tell the main content of that movie?
* Pre- teach vocabularies:
- Oscars : Academy Awards : giai thoung dien anh hang nam cua My
- mentally (adj): ve mat tinh than.
- IQ : Intelligent Quotient ( he so thong minh)
- seemingly : ve be ngaoi, co ve
- irreplaceable:/ iri'pleisəbl/ ko the thay the douc
- restate : trinh bay lai
* Read the sample paragraph about the movie Forrest Gump and answer the
question: What kinds of information are shown in the paragraph?
( about the movie including the director, year of release, type of movie, the main character and the success of the movie)
* Introduction of Summarizing writing:
1. Background information: ( movie title, director, release date, movie type, awards)
2. Story summary: who, what, where, when, how, why…( plot, main characters, filming place, basing on what, ending)
3. Significance of the movie: The lesson you learn.
Note: verbs are in simple present tense.
II. While- writing:
Write a paragraph summarizing the film Rain Man
Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, released in 1988, is a feature movie that won several Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. This movie tells about the relationship between two brothers. The younger brother Charlie does not really love or respect his older brother Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman, who suffers from serious mental condition and is unable to communicate properly. Throughout their journey together, however, Raymond’s innocence and seemingly stupid behavior have gradually transformed his brother. Charlie eventually comes to realize that brotherhood is invaluable and Raymond, no matter how abnormal, is his irreplaceable sibling. Rain Man is widely loved (listed among All Time Top 50 American Movies Through 1995) because it restated reasonable and moving that the good is always there in human’s hearts.
iii. Post- writing:
Correction and evaluation
IV. Home work:
- Write the summary of the movie that you like
Unit 13: Theater and Movies
Period 5+6: Language Focus
Aims:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Use adjectives to express their attitudes
Understand more thoroughly the use of articles a, and the and use them correctly.
Materials: Textbook, whiteboard markers, Cassettes…
Procedure:
Teacher
Students
I. Warmer
II. Word Study : Adjectives of Attitudes
1. Presentation: We use Adjectives of attitude to express our thinking and feeling about something.
Eg: I’m interested in the book very much
2. Practice
2. frightening
3. excited
4. annoyed
5. dramatic
6. wonderful
7. breathtaking
8. impressive
9. original
10. interesting- interested
11. delightful
12. appreciative, invaluable
II. Grammar: The article a, an, the
A. Presentation:
A/an
- A or an can precede only singular sounds, they mean one. They can be used in a general statement or to introduce a subject that has not been previously mentioned.
A baseball is round ( general- means all baseball)
I saw a boy in the street ( We don’t know which boy)
- A is used before words that begin with a consonant sound. An is used before words begin with a vowel sound.
A book a table, an umbrella, an apple…
- A can always go with the following words:
Uniform, university, universal, union….
- An can go with the words: hour, heir, honor…
2. The
- The is used to indicate something that we already know about or something that is common knowledge .
The boy in the corner is my friend ( The speaker and the listener know which boy)
The earth is round ( There is only one earth)
- With uncountable nouns, one uses the article the if speaking in specific terms, but uses no article if speaking in general.
Sugar is sweet
The sugar on the table is from Cuba ( specific)
- Normally, plural nouns, when they mean everything within a certain classs are not preceded by the.
Oranges are green until they are ripened ( all oranges)
- Normally a proper noun is not preceded by article unless there are several people or things with the same name and the speaker is specifying one of them.
There are three Susan Parkers in the telephone directory. The Susan Parker that I know lives on the first Avenue.
Normally, words such as breakfast, lunch, diner, school church, home, college and work do not use any article unless restrict the meaning
We went to school every day
We went to the school to pick up my mother waiting there.
* We don’t use the with :
singular lake ( Lake Geneva..)
Mounts ( in singular Mount McKinley, but the Rocky mountains)
Planets ( Venus, Mars,…)
Countries in singular form or with one word ( Vietnam, not the Philippines, the United Kingdom, the United States..)
Continents ( Europe, Africa)
States,
Sports
Abstract noun ( happiness, freedom)
Subject matter ( math, biology)
Holiday ( Christmas, Easter)
B. Practice:
2, the
3, A
4. the
5, the
6, a
7, zero article
8, the
9, zero article
10, the
III. Home work:
Self evaluation:
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