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课件网) Good Book, Bad Movie Unit 4 developing ideas Which one do you prefer, book or movie adaptation VS Pre-reading Good Book, Bad Movie adaptations (movies based on books) Now let’s read the passage to find out the author’s opinion. Good Book, Bad Movie Some famous books have been made into movies, differernt people have different opinions about it. Book: more details, complete plot and give people limitless imagination. Movie adaptation: vivid images of characters, multisensory experience, a picture is worth a thousand words. 1.What does the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” mean A．The picture is very expensive. B．There are a thousand words in the picture. C．The picture is hard to describe in words. D．The picture is rich in contents. Activity 1 Careful- reading for details √ Read Para.1 carefully and do the following exercises. Para.1 一图胜千词 2. What does “turkeys” mean 3. Are movie adaptations good or bad in most people’s opinion A. successes B. failures C. large birds D. highlights failures They think movie adaptions are bad. √ V 怀疑，质疑 1.Complete the chart. The common belief of the standards of good movies Opposite examples (Books) Details good stories strong characters impressive images The Odyssey The Great Gatsby Alice in Wonderland never equally great never been praised as great best described as interesting Adj 相反的 Para.2 Read Para.2 carefully and do the following exercises. Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great” Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as ”interesting” 2. What kinds of writing skills are used here A. Parallelism.(排比) B.Rhetorical question.（反问句） C.Metaphor. （暗喻） D. A and B . √ Tip 1:Parallelism and Rhetorical questions can make the arguments more powerful and persuasive. 3. What’s the function of Paragraph 2 A. To raise the reader’s cultural awareness. B. To prove good movies need good stories. C. To further confirm that good books always end up being turned into bad movies. D. To show that movies need impressive images. √ Reasons for “bad” movie Supportive examples (Movies) _____ _____ It loses plot details and characters. a book: _____ a movie: under_____ Things don’t look the way we imagined them in the_____. Troy Details Fans of bookd didn’t see some of their favorite _____. Actress who played Helen didn’t_____ _____the book. a few days 2 hours Harry Potter characters books live up to Paras.3-4 Reasons Read Paras.3-4 carefully and do the following exercises. 1.Complete the chart. Purpose Tip 2: Examples can be used to support arguments. 2. According to the author, which of the following m ... ...
