Transcript The Silver Screen

Unit 5 The silver screen
Ⅰ Revision
Ⅱ Reading
Teacher: Bai Fang
Fill in the blanks:
1. A _____
scene in a play, or a film is part of it in which
some events happen in the same place.
director of a play, or film is the person who
2. The _______
decides how it will appear on the stage of screen,
and who tells the actors/actress what to do.
actress is a woman whose job is acting in
3. An _______
plays or films.
script of a play, film, or television programme
4. The _____
is the written form of it.
role is one of the characters that an actor can
5. A ____
play in a film, or play.
Oscars are the main national film award in the
6. ______
USA.
Getting to Know Steven Spielberg
Who knows Steven Spielberg Best ?
Name
Steven Spielberg
Gender
Year of Birth
1946
Occupation
________
Director , producer and screenwriter
Education
California State University at Long Beach
Father
Place of Birth
Male
Electrical engineer Mother
Cincinnati,Ohio.
Music teacher
Name of his wife Cate Capshaw Occupation Actress
Try to find out Attributive Clauses in the
paragraph 1. Then answer the following
questions.

Which are Restrictive Attributive Clauses?

Non
Which are ____restrictive
Attributive Clauses?
Steven Spielberg, whose mother was a
music teacher, was born in a small town in
America. He started making short films
when he was still a young boy. He made his
first real film when he was twelve. This was
a film in which Spielberg used real actors
instead of toys. He wrote the scripts for the
films himself. In 1959 Spielberg won a prize
for a short film which he made when he was
thirteen years old. A few years later, when
he was sixteen, he made a film called
Firelight.
When Spielberg was young, his dream
was to go to the Film Academy, but he
couldn't. The reason why he could not go
there was that his grades were too low. After
studying English, he got a small job at a film
studio. Here he worked on a short film, which
won him a job as the youngest film director in
the world. This was the moment when
Spielberg's career really took off.
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Is the first sentence an Attributive Clause?
Why?
No. It’s an Adverbial Clause.
Here the word “when” is not a relative
adverb, but a conjunction that leads an
Adverbial Cause.
Jaws(1975), one of his first films, was a
real blockbuster. It is about a big white
shark that attacks swimmers who are
spending their holidays in a small village by
the sea. Many people who are spending
their holidays in a small village by the sea.
Many people who saw the film were afraid
to swim in the sea when they remembered
the scenes in which people were eaten by the
shark.
What are some of his most
famous films about?
Jaws(1975):
It is about a big white shark that attacks
and eats swimmers who are spending
their holidays in a small village by the
sea.
Spielberg has made two films about
creatures that come to the earth from outer
space. For example, ET(1982) is about a
young boy called Elliott who makes friends
with a small creature from outer space and
helps him to find a way to go home. The world
of adults is cold. Scientists want to find ET to
cut him into pieces to do research. But in the
world of children and the world where ET
comes from, love and friendship are the most
important things in life.
ET(1982):
It is about a young boy called Elliott
who makes friends with a small
creature from outer space and helps
him to find a way to go home.
Jurassic Park, which Spielberg made in
1993, is about a park where a very rich man
keeps different kinds of dinosaurs. When the
park is hit by a storm, things start going
wrong. The film becomes very exciting when
the children are hunted by meat-eating
dinosaurs.
Jurassic Park(1993):
It is about a park where a very rich man
keeps different kinds of dinosaurs. When
the park is hit by a storm, things start
going wrong.
After these highly successful films
Spielberg made several follow-ups of Jaws
and Jurassic Park. His later films such as
Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are
about the cruelty of war. In his war films, he
has shown that love and peace will win over
war in the end.
Schindler’s List(1993):
It is about the cruelty of war.
A German who saved thousands of
Jewish people from being killed in
the war.
Saving Private Ryan(1998):
It is about the cruelty of war.
An American captain who led his team
to search for a soldier named Ryan.
Steven Spielberg is one of the top
directors in the film industry and also has
many fans in China. When asked about the
secret of his success, Steven Spielberg said
that he owes much of his success and
happiness to his wife and children. He met
Cate Capshaw, who is an actress, when he
was working on one of his films. After that it
still took seven years before they finally got
married. The couple has seven children in
all.
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