新视野大学英语第4册教案.pptVIP

Charlie Chaplin ;Stage 1: Warming-up Activities ;Warming-up Activities;Group work;Questions for thought and discussion;Background information;Dickens: Charles Dickens, 1812—1870, an English novelist, considered by many to be the greatest one of all. His many famous books describe life in Victorian England and show how hard it was, especially for the poor and for children. They include The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. ;Hollywood: an area of Los Angeles which is known as the center of the American film industry. In terms of geography, Hollywood refers to an area consisting of the City of West Hollywood and its vicinity that form part of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is generally thought that everyone living in Hollywood is extremely rich, famous, and concerned with appearances but in fact many parts of Hollywood today are poor, dirty and badly cared for. ;Mack Sennett: (1880—1960) US film producer, born in Richmond, Quebec. He worked in the theatre as a comic in burlesque companies, and from 1908 in silent films. He later formed his own company and hundreds of shorts, establishing a whole generation of players and a tradition of knockabout slapstick under the name of Keystone Komics (1912), and later the Sennett Bathing Beauties (1920). He received a Special Academy Award in 1937. ;Enriching your vocabulary;The speech is rich in comic sensitivity. The children received a greeting card and a comic for Christmas. If you‘re a comic and people recognize you, it means a lot of people are watching your show. A lot of Shakespeare‘s plays are comedies. At last he saw the comedy of the situation and laughed. ;He used to be a tramp when he was young. I‘ve tramped the whole town looking for work. The elderly woman must have thought I was a beggar, because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies. The poor child was dressed in rags. I used a piece of ra