(
课件网) Unit 4 Stage and screen Developing ideas:Good Book, Bad Movie After this period of learning, you are expected to: (1)acquire and state the main idea of this passage and the author’s attitude and opinion through scanning; (2)present the structure of argumentative essays and retell the argumentative based on the mind-map; (3)accurately express your views of adaptation movies, explain your reasons, and support them with examples. Learning objectives: Good Book, Bad Movie Have you ever read any of these books Before reading Also called The Story of the Stone, it is one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels. Holmes is a fictional consulting detective(n.侦探) in London created by Scottish author and physician(n.医师) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written by Lao She, it describes the difficult life of a rickshaw(n.黄包车) puller during the years of warlord turmoil / t m l/n.动乱. Originally written in English, it covers the turbulent(adj. 动荡的) events in China from 1900 to 1938, and it focuses on the lives of several families and people. Set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, it’s regarded as one of the greatest American novels. The Iliad and The Odyssey are two epic poems from Ancient Greece. They have had an enormous effect on Western culture. 《了不起的盖茨比》 《夏洛克·福尔摩斯》 《骆驼祥子》 《京华烟云》 《伊利亚特》 Good Book, Bad Movie Before reading adaptations (movies based on books) Now let’s read the passage to find out the author's opinion. Good Book, Bad Movie Good Book，Bad Movie 1.They say that “a picture is worth a thousand words”，but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying. All too often，great words end up being turned into cinematic turkeys”. 人们常说“一图胜千词”，但是简单对照一下书籍和由之而改编的电影，就会让人们开始质疑这一说法。很多时候，优秀的文字作品最终却变成电影中的失败之作。 1.be worth sth./doing sth. 值...(钱、价格)；值得做某事 This problem is worth discussing. This problem is worth discussion. 2.be based on 以...为基础/依据 3.have+宾语+宾补（非谓语动词） He had her go there. He had her standing in the rain for two hours He had his wallet stolen at the railway station. 4.All too often时常;通常 5.end up doing 以做...结束 6.turn into 变成 have sb. do sth. 让某人做某事 have sb. doing sth. 让某人一直做某事 have +宾语+过去分词 让别人做某事/遭遇某种不幸 be worth doing值得做 be worthy to do sth./ be worthy to be done 值得做某事/值得被做 be worthy of doing sth./ be worthy of being done值得做某事/值得被做 It is worthwhile doing sth./ to do sth.干某事是值得的 ①翻译:这本书值得看 The book is worth reading. =The book is worthy of being read. = The book is worthy to be read. =It is worthwhile reading /to read the book. Read for the main idea of paragraph 1 The author puts forward a phenomenon that great words often end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”. 2. Good movies need good stories. If so，why h ... ...
