,大学英语, 课程教案
课程名称,大学英语(第四册)
学时数,64
本章名称,Charlie Chaplin
学时数,6
授课对象,全院 03级非英语专业学生
授课学期,第四学期
授课教研室,外语系第一教研室
授课教师,外语系第一教研室全体教师
Unit two Charlie Chaplin
本章主要内容,Charlie Chaplin
教学目的及要求,Learn some important new words and phrases.
Appreciate the passage in section A
教学重点,Comprehension of the material in section A
教学方法及手段,1,Communicative method
2,Audio-lingual method
3,Grammar-translation method
教学时间,6 学时
时间分配,1、开始部分,10-- 20 分钟
2、教授课程,200 分钟
3、内容小结,20分钟
Unit 2
Charlie Chaplin
制作人:张文君
外语系第一教研室
Step One,Leading-in Activities:
1,Watch the short movies of Chaplin.
2,Discussion,(1) What do the famous people’s
lives look like in your eye?
(2) Do you want to be famous one
day? Why or why not? And how?
(3) What do you usually do in your
hard times?
3,Some background information of Chaplin:
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16th April 1889 in
Walworth,London,and lived a Dickensian childhood,shared
with his brother,Sydney,that included extreme poverty,
workhouses and seeing his mother’s mental decline put her
into an institution,Both his parents,though separated when
he was very young,were music
hall artists,his father quite
famously so,But it was his
mother that Charlie idolized and
was inspired by during his visit
of the backstage while she
performed,to take up such a
career for himself,
Step Two,the structure of the passage:
I,Introduction of Charlie Chaplin (Paras.1— 2)
Chaplin was from a poor family but a man that created
comic characters of lasting fame./ He won reputation in many
countries and he was spotted by talent scouts of Hollywood.
II,Charlie Chaplin’s professional success (Paras.3— 6)
Para 3,Charlie Chaplin’s huge success with his Tramp.
Para 4,Charlie Chaplin’s success with sound movies.
Para 5&6 Charlie Chaplin’s secrets of comedy.
III,Charlie Chaplin’s emotional life (Paras.7&8)
Para.7 Charlie Chaplin’s emotional collision resulted in
personal disaster and found its way into his comic creations.
Para.8 Charlie Chaplin’s stable happiness in his later years.
IV,Charlie Chaplin’s death (Para.9)
Chaplin died on Christmas day 197,A strange incident after
his death is taken as a fitting memorial to the world’s most
famous comic.
? stocking
? ankle
? comic
? tramp
? rag
? applause
? comedy
? scout
? crude
? clap
? revolt
? heel
? beggar
? moustache
? pants
? coarse
? behave
? nationality
? postpone
? doubtful
? immense
? immensely
? extraordinary
? rouse
? script
? pepper
? execute
? correspond
? corresponding
? betray
? collision
? sunset
? relief
? rumor
? Marxist
? spark
? Christmas
? clumsy
? cop
? incident
? memorial
?Phrases and
Expressions
? cut down
? in rags
? for good
? trip up
? make up
? come down
? in the world
? to a/some
? degree
? go along
? in advance
? find one’s way
? into
1,to quit a place for good
Your hometown is a place that your feet may
quit for good but your heart never.
2,to clap for sth./sb.
People clap for friendly behavior on the
football ground,but sneeze at evil conduct.
Step Three,Important words and phrases.
3,to revolt against/at/from sth./sb.
They revolt at those who have great
ambition but little ability,
4,to trip sb,Up
Read the questions carefully,because the
examiners sometimes try to trip you up.
5,to aim… at…
Aiming your efforts at perfection,you’ll
achieve the good; but aiming at only the
average,you’ll gain the bad,
6,all the same
His motherland is troubled with poverty and
backwardness,but he feels a deep affection for
her all the same.
7,to come down in the world
When coming down in the world,don’t grow
dejected; when coming up in the world,don’t
get swollen-headed.
8,to do sth,on purpose
In general,it is much more difficult to
reform those who commit a crime on
purpose than those who offend through
negligence.
9,to have the urge/a deep need to do sth.
It is important to have the urge to prove
one’s worth to society,but more
important is the ability to turn the urge
into reality.
10,to find one’s way into…
Once your noble sentiment finds its way
into your behavior,you will find your life
rich with interest and taste.
11,to lose one’s faith in sb./sth.
He who has lost his faith in his future
has to be at the mercy of fate.
12,to find in sb,a man/woman of…
We have found in her a woman of trained
hand,eye,and brain; disciplined and good
mannered.
Step Four,Summary
Interestingly,____________ Chaplin came from
Britain,he was __________ popular in other countries
than in his own mother country,The truth is that most
English people _________ the Tramp a little _____,It was
generally thought __ them that he had ________ of an eye
for the ladies ________ his clothes gave him an
appearance more ___ an Italian waiter than ________ else,
________ the image was not gentleman-like according to
many English people,________,the silent movies helped
Chaplin to _______ his true nationality
from American audiences,He ______ making a talking
movie ____ 1936 when he ________ a nonsense language
which sounded like no known nationality,He ____ said he
thought of the Tramp __ an educated man who had fallen
__ hard times,The truth is,however,that he was
probably popular because he ________ as character
who revolted _______ the privileged classes,
The End