Unit4 Reading
Teaching Aims
Learn some knowledge about the important film events around the world.
Teaching Important Points
Practice reading comprehension ability of skimming and scanning.
Teaching Difficult Points
Learn the reading strategy how to identify similarities and differences.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
Show some pictures about the famous actress Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing.
Ask students where are they? If they know anything about film events around the world: Can
you name some famous film festivals held around the world? Where are they held? (The Cannes Film
Festival is in France. The Berlin International Film Festival is in Germany. The Sundance Film
Festival is in the USA．The Venice Film Festival is in Italy. The Toronto International Film Festival
is in Canada．The Tokyo International Film Festival is in Japan. The Shanghai International Film
Festival is in China.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
Tell the students that the reading passage they are going to read is a transcript of a television
show about film festival. Ask them to guess which specific film festivals might be talked about in the
reading passage. Write their guesses on the blackboard. (Then compare their ideas with the content
of the reading passage after they read it.)
Step 3 Fast-reading
Ask the students to go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the
three questions in Part A. (Remind the students only to focus on and identify the information needed
to answer these questions)
1．How many film festival representatives appeared on the show?
Six
2．Which film festivals are mentioned in the transcript?
The Cannes Film Festival, The Berlin International Film Festival, The Sundance Film Festival,
The Venice Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival and The Shanghai International
Film Festival.
3．At which festival are you not likely to find Hollywood films?
The Sundance Film Festival.
Step 4 Careful-reading
1．Ask the students to read the passage again and complete Parts C1 and C2 individually.
• The Venice film festival is the youngest film festival. ( )
• The Sundance film festival is well known before 1981. ( )
• Cannes have well-known actors, many of them are Chinese. ( )
• Shanghai International Festival was founded in 1993. ( )
2．Ask the students to read the passage again and complete Parts C1and C2individually.
(Questions in Part C1check students’ reading comprehension and improve their ability to find
specific information. Part C2serves as a strengthening activity, which requires students to look for
and identify more specific information according to the chart included in Part C2.)
After students finish the exercises, check the answers as a class with the slide-showing.
3．After students finish Parts C1and C2, ask them if they have ever read a transcript of either a
television show or a radio programme. Ask students which reading strategies should be applied
or used when they are reading transcripts.
Have you ever watched the programme called Dialogue on CCTV Channel 9? Are you
interested in this kind of television show?
Pay attention to the way that people speak on television talk shows. How do they express their
views? Is the language that they use to express their views different from the language people use to
express their opinions in situations other than on a talk show?
4．Draw students’ attention to the “Reading Strategy”. Ask them to identify similarities and
differences.
Step 5 Post-reading
1 ． Ask students to complete Part D individually. This part helps students comprehend the
meanings of the words from the context by matching them with the correct definitions. (Check the
answers with Slide-showing)
2．Have students complete Part E, which are notes from a lecture on the Academy Awards. It
aims to make students more familiar with the usage of words and expressions in the text. (Check the
answers with Slide-showing)
Step 6 Homework
1．Review the reading passage.
2．Learn more about Films and film events around the world do exercise.
3．Find some important words and phrases.
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