Module 6 Films and TV ProgrammesPeriod One Introduction; Reading and VocabularyThe General Idea of This PeriodThis period includes Introduction as well as Reading and Vocabulary. Introduction can serve as a warming up of the class. To make Ss fully prepared for the study of the passage, the teacher may encourage the Ss to talk about the film Harry Potter, which leads to Reading and Vocabulary. The reading passage is a film review which mainly represents to us the Chinese martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is suggested that Ss should first skim the reading passage and get the general idea of each paragraph and then join them into a short passage. If necessary, deal with some difficult language points. Teaching Aims 1) Vocabularies about films and TV programmes: actor, actress, adventure film, argue, channel, character, chat show, come out, comedy, crime, desert, direct, disagree, entertaining, female, fiancé, fight, graceful, leap, male, martial arts film, masterpiece, moving, play a part, quiz show, romantic film, roof, soap (opera), sports programme, star(v.), sword, take place, thriller, TV/radio drama2) Develop the Ss’ reading ability. 3) Talk about the items of a film.Teaching Methods 1) Individual work or pair work to get Ss to participate in class.2) Explanations to make Ss master some language points.3) Fast-reading to make Ss get the main idea of the passage.Teaching Important Points 1) Help Ss make sense of the whole passage.2) Help Ss to improve their reading ability.3) Help Ss learn and use the vocabularies about films and TV programmes. Teaching Difficult Points Help Ss use the talk about films. Teaching ProceduresStep 1 Lead-inBefore the class teachers may ask Ss...
