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New Horizon College English Book 3
新视野大学英语3
School of Foreign Studies
外国语学院
Unit 2
王晓培
Unit 2 Section A
Charlie Chaplin
Warm-up
Discussion
1. Brainstorm the comedians(喜剧演员）you
know at home and abroad?
2. Which one makes you laugh the most?
The Four Levels of Comedy:
Make your friends laugh,
Make strangers laugh,
Get paid to make strangers laugh, and
Make people talk like you because it‘s so much fun.
--- Jerry Seinfeld (美国著名喜剧演员）
Warm-up
Which level do they belong to?
Ge You
Stephen Chaw
Jim Carrey
Watch and Discuss:
Warm-up
Which level does Chaplin belong to?
Gold Rush
《淘金记》
Watch and Discuss:
Warm-up
Which level does Chaplin belong to?
The Tramp
《流浪汉》
Warm-up
Discussion
Which level does Chaplin belong to?
The Four Levels of Comedy:
Make your friends laugh,
Make strangers laugh,
Get paid to make strangers laugh, and
Make people talk like you because it‘s so much fun.
--- Jerry Seinfeld (美国著名喜剧演员）
Contents
• New Words
• Structure and writing device
• Passage Reading
• Summary
• Activity & Assignment
1. revolt N./V.
N. A protest against authority, esp. government in violence. (尤指针
对政府的）反抗，起义，叛乱
Example
On 11 February, the
nationwide revolt in Egypt
overthrew the government of
President Mubarak who has
been in power for three
decades.
二月十一日，埃及全国范围的抗议活动推翻了执
政三十年的穆巴拉克政府。
I. New Words
1. revolt: N./V.
V. a. to take violent action against the people in power
(尤指针对政府的）反抗，起义
b. to behave in a way opposite to others’ expectations of you
叛逆，违抗
Example
Youngsters’ attitude to revolt
against social conventions
and authorities deserves praise
if not extreme otherwise.
如果不走极端，年轻人反抗社
会成规和权威的态度值得褒奖。
I. New Words
2. postpone V.
≈ delay, put off
delay sth to a later date or time 推迟，延期
Example
Last year, NASA has postponed the launch of Space
Shuttle Discovery no less than three times. At last, on
Feb.25, 2011, it was launched to finish its last mission.
去年以来，美国宇航局已经
不止三次推迟发现号航天飞
机的发射。不过今年二月二
十五日，发现号终于发射升
空，执行其最后一次任务。
I. New Words
3. rouse: V.
a. to wake sb up, 唤醒
b. to make people have interests in doing sth, or have a particular
feeling 使人产生兴趣, 使人激起某种情感
Example
Mark Zuckerberg
His interests in computer
roused him to found a social
networking site, i.e. the
Facebook.
对电脑的兴趣激发他创建了
“Facebook”这个社交网站。
I. New Words
4. execute: V.
a.
b.
to kill sb, esp. as a legal punishment 处决，处死
to put a plan, an order into action 执行，实施
Example
2006年12月30日，萨达姆被绞刑处死，罪名是反人类罪。
On 30 December 2006
Saddam was executed by
hanging for crimes against
humanity。
I. New Words
≠ tragedy
5. comedy N Comedy
is tragedy plus time.
悲剧
喜剧
--Carol Burnett
≠ tragic
comic Adj.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up(特写镜头）,
but a comedy in long-shot（远景镜头）.
--Charlie Chaplin
人生从近镜头来看是一出悲剧，远观则是一出喜剧。
人生，从出生到死亡，就是一个接一个的杯具。
6. word-formation
Survey the new words to single out those composed of more than
one element and decompose(分解) them.
Nationality
Postpone
Nonsense
Doubtful
Extraordinary
Sunset
Christmas
Burial
memorial
nation + al + ity
post + pone
non + sense
doubt + ful
extra + ordinary
sun + set
Christ + mas(s)
bury + (i)al
memory + (i)al
Contents
• New Words
• Structure and writing device
• Passage Reading
• Summary
• Activity & Assignment
Structure Analysis
What is the real Charlie Chaplin?
Introduction
Artistic Achievement
Emotional Life
End of Life Story
Writing device: General statement supported by details
Structure Analysis
Part I (Paras. 1-2)
A general introduction to Charlie Chaplin
Part II (Paras. 3-6)
Charlie Chaplin’s artistic achievement
Part III (Para. 7-8)
Charlie Chaplin’s emotional life
Part IV (Para. 9)
Incident after Charlie Chaplin’s death
Contents
• New Words
• Structure and writing device
• Passage Reading
• Summary
• Assignment
Part I (Para.1): General Introduction of Chaplin
A.Language points
B.Questions
Passage Reading
Charlie Chaplin
Para. 1 He was born in a poor area of sometimes
South London. He wore his mother’s
old red stockings cut down for ankle
socks. His mother was temporarily declared mad.
Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplin’s
childhood. But only Charlie Chaplin could have
created the great comic character of “the Tramp”,
the little man in rags who gave his creator
permanent fame.
1. Where is the birthplace of Chaplin?
2. Was Chaplin born with a silver spoon
Part Iin his
. General
mouth? introduction of Chaplin
cut down sth:
reduce the size, quantity of sth., such as clothing, writing, etc.
改短，减少，删减
Example
现代人应该减少每日肉的摄入
量，以降低癌症风险。
Modern people need to cut down the meat they eat
per day, in order to lower the cancer risk.
Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplin’s
childhood.
Charlie Dickens: a Victorian novelist who wrote many
novels on the subject of orphans and misfortuned
youngsters.
Meaning: Chaplin’s childhood was so miserable that it
resembles the stories written by Dickens, like Oliver
Twist, Tome Jones, etc.
for ever
Para. 2 Other countries—France, Italy, Spain, even
Japan—have provided more applause (and profit)
where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his
birth. Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913 when
he journeyed to America with a group of
performers to do his comedy act on the stage,
where talent scouts recruited him to work for
Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.
How was Chaplin found as a
talented
comedy
actor inof
US?
General
introduction
Chaplin
Part II (Para.3-6): Artistic Achievements of Chaplin
A.Language points
B.Questions
Passage Reading
Read para. 3 and work out the English or Chinese
equivalents of these expressions
1. middle class
中产阶级
2. working class
劳动阶层
3. 拍手称赞
clap for…
4. 反抗权威
revolt against authority
5. 对准狠狠踢一下
a well-placed kick
6. sport tiny moustaches
留着小胡子
7. screen career
银幕生涯
遗憾的是。。
Para. 3a Sad to say, many English people in the
1920s and 1930s thought Chaplin’s Tramp a bit,
well, “crude”. Certainly middle-class audiences did;
the working-class audiences were more likely to
clap for a character who
revolted against authority,
肥大的臀部
using his wicked little cane to trip it up, or aiming
the heel of his boot for a well-placed kick at its
broad rear. All the same, Chaplin’s comic beggar
didn’t seem all that English or even working-class.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
trip up sb/sth :
a. cause sb. fall by putting the foot in front of them when they’re
moving 绊倒
b. make a mistake, or force sb to make a mistake by tricking them
诱导某人犯错
Example
别让你的过去牵绊你的现在。
Don’t let your past trip up your present.
all the same :
尽管如此
Example
他的一生充满坎坷，但他从未失
去追求更好生活的勇气。
His life is full of frustrations, but
he never loses his courage to
seek a better life, all the same.
Para. 3b English tramps didn’t sport tiny
moustaches, huge pants or tail coats: European
leaders and Italian waiters wore things like that.
Then again, the Tramp’s quick eye for a pretty
girl had a coarse way about it that was considered,
well, not quite nice by English audiences—that’s
how foreigners behaved, wasn’t it? But for over
half of his screen career, Chaplin had no screen
voice to confirm his British nationality.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
1. Which was the first movie in
Para. 4 Indeed, which
it wasChaplin
a headache
for Chaplin when he
spoke?
could no longer resist the talking movies and had to find
“the right voice” for his Tramp. He postponed that day as
long as possible: In Modern Times in 1936, the first film in
which he was heard as a singing waiter, he made up a
nonsense language which sounded like no known
nationality. He later said he imagined the Tramp to be a
college-educated gentleman who’d come down in the world. But
if he’d been able to speak with an educated accent in those early
short comedies, it’s doubtful if he would have achieved world
fame. And the English would have been sure to find it “odd”.
No one was certain whether Chaplin did it on purpose but this
Did
Chaplin
speak with an
helped to bring2.
about
his huge
success.
educated British accent in his film?
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
come down:
become poorer or less successful than used to be
落魄，失势
Example
A lot of stars are fully aware
that as their age grows, they will
naturally come down from
their previous glory.
很多名人充分意识到随着年龄的增
长，他们自然而然会失去往昔曾有
的辉煌。
he made up a nonsense language which sounded like
no known nationality.
Make up: invent a story in order to cheat sb.
Meaning: he sang in a silly language which sounded
like one not heard or known before.
greatly
groups
Para. 5 He was an immensely
talented man,
determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of
Hollywood stars. His huge fame gave him the
freedom—and, more importantly, the money—to be
his own master. He already had the urge to explore
and extend a talent he discovered in himself as he
went along. “It can’t be me. Is that possible? How
extraordinary, ” is how he greeted the first sight of
himself as the Tramp on the screen.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
have the urge to do sth:
Have a strong desire to do sth. 十分想做…., 迫切希望….
Example
This world is a vanity fair in
which many a people have the
strong urge to hunt for fame
and fortune.
这个世界就是一个名利场，许多人有
着追名逐利的强烈欲望。
go along:
move further with sth. 前进，进行下去，继续
Example
The audience will find this
movie not merely laugh-rousing,
but also thought-inspiring as
they go along.
继续看下去，观众会发现这部电
影不仅仅引人发笑，而且还令人
深思。
Read para. 6 and find the English or Chinese
equivalents of these expressions
1. 激发他的想象力
rouse his imagination
2. 提前
in advance
3. 身体的感觉
physical senses
4. 与某人接触
make contract with sb
5. 接受手术
undergo surgery
6. 上好的鱼片
prime cuts of fish
the most important, the
best, etc.
Para. 6 But that shock roused his imagination. Chaplin
didn’t have his jokes written into a script in advance; he
was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent
his art as he went along. Lifeless objects especially helped
Chaplin make “contact” with himself as an artist. He turned
What is the secret for
them into other kinds of objects. Thus, a broken alarm clock
Chaplin’s success in
in the movie The Pawnbroker became a “sick” patient
comic performance?.
undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush
and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish
(the nails being removed like fish bones). This physical
transformation, plus the skill with which he executed it again and
again, is surely the secret of Chaplin’s great comedy.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
Lifeless objects especially helped Chaplin make
“contact” with himself as an artist.
Meaning: For Chaplin, things in daily life were
especially useful in his creative performance.
Part III (Para.7-8): Emotional Life of Chaplin
PLAY
LIFE
Life is a play. --Shakespeare
A.Language points
B.Questions
Para. 7 He also had a deep need to be
loved—and a corresponding fear of
being betrayed. The two were hard
to combine and sometimes—as in his early marriages—
the collision between them
resultedininChaplin’s
disaster. Yet even
a character
this painfully-bought self-knowledge
found
its way into
movie, who has
killed
hisnever
wives.loses his faith in
his comic creations. The Tramp
the flower girl who’ll be waiting to walk into the sunset
with him; while the other side of Chaplin makes
Monsieur Verdoux, the French wife killer, into a symbol
of hatred for women.
Emotional life of Chaplin
1. corresponding adj.← correspond
matching or connected with sth. 相应的，相关的
Example
The wax and wane of
Moon can induce the
corresponding fall and
rise of tides.
月亮的圆缺可以引发相应的潮水涨落。
1. corresponding adj.← correspond
matching or connected with sth. 相应的，相关的
Example
中国男性的退休年龄是60岁，
而女性相应的年龄则为55岁。
In China, the age of
retirement for males is 60
year-old
while
the
corresponding age for
females is 55
2. find its way into
to come to a place or situation by chance not on purpose
偶然来到，无意中处于….
Example
In the novel Lost Horizon, a group of westerners find
their way into a utopia in the mountains of Tibet,
which is remembered as Shangri-la.
在《消失的地平线》这部
小说中，一群西方人无意
中来到了西藏山区的一个
理想世界，那个地方被称
作香格里拉。
3. lose one’s faith in sb/sth
lose one’s trust or confidence in sb/sth
对某人、某物失去信心、信任
Example
You must not lose faith in
humanity. Humanity is an ocean; a
few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
--Mahatma Gandhi
绝对不能对人性失去信念。人性就
像是大海；如果大海中有几滴水脏
了，大海也不会变脏。
4. walk into the sunset with sb.
与某人共同走进夕阳之中/与某人白头偕老
Example
He wants to find a girl who can walk into the sunset
with him, other than walk into the villa and the
jewelery shop with him.
他想找个能跟他白头偕老
的姑娘，而不是看中他钱
财那样的。
Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge
found its way into his comic creations..
Meaning: Chaplin has realized a lot from his early
painful marriages. And these realizations were
reflected in his performance.
Para. 8a It’s a relief to know that life eventually gave
Charlie Chaplin the stability and happiness it had
跨越
earlier denied him. In
Oona O’Neill Chaplin, he found
a partner whose stability and
affection spanned the 37 years age
difference between them, which had
seemed so threatening, that when the
official who was marrying them
inthe
1942
What’s
age gap
turned to the beautiful girl
of 17Chaplin
who’d and
given
between
hisnotice of
their wedding date, he said, “And
youngwhere
wife? is the young
man? ”—Chaplin, then 54, had cautiously waited
outside.
Emotional life of Chaplin
Para. 8b As Oona herself was the
child of a large family with its own
problems, she was well prepared for
the battle that Chaplin’s life became as
many unfounded rumors surrounded them both—
and, later on, she was the center of calm in the
quarrels that Chaplin sometimes sparked in his
own large family of talented children.
Did Chaplin lead a
harmonious
life with his
Emotional
life of Chaplin
young wife?
find … in sb.
discover certain qualities in someone
Example
People have found diligence in Chinese, discretion in
German, romance in French, and superstition in
Indians.
人们在中国人身上看到勤奋，
德国人身上看到谨慎，法国
人身上看到浪漫，印度人身
上则看到迷信。
Part IV (Para.9): Incident after Chaplin’s Death
A.Language points
B.Questions
Passage Reading
Para. 9 Chaplin died on Christmas Day 1977. A few
months later, a couple of almost comic body thieves
stole his body from the family burial chamber and
held it for money. The police recovered it with more
efficiency than Mack Sennett’s clumsy Keystone
Cops would have done, but one can’t help feeling
Chaplin would have regarded this strange incident
as a fitting memorial—his way of having the last
laugh on a world to which
he had given so many.
Incident after Chaplin’s death
…but one can’t help feeling Chaplin would have
regarded this strange incident as a fitting
memorial….
Meaning: but we can easily imagine that Chaplin
would have seen it as a proper way to memorize
him….
Contents
• New Words
• Structure and writing device
• Passage Reading
• Summary
• Activity & Assignment
Summary
Chaplin is a great comic not only for his own mother
country but more for the world. Chaplin’s Tramp
crude and thought that he had
was considered a little _____
too much of an eye for the ladies and that his clothes
appearance more like an Italian waiter
gave him an __________
than anything else. He resisted making a ______
talking
movie until 1936 when he made up a _________
nonsense
language which sounded like no known nationality.
Chaplin achieved great success because he was an
talented man and the kind of comic who
immensely _______
used his _______
physical senses to invent his art as he went
along.
(To be continued)
Summary
Text Study—Summary
However, the _______
collision between the need to be
loved and the fear of being betrayed
_______ resulted in
emotional life which was shown
disaster in his ________
in his movies. Eventually, life gave Chaplin the
happiness that is, his marriage with
stable _________,
Oona O’Neil. Chaplin died on _________
Christmas Day
1977.
Summary of expressions(1)
使某人声名永驻
to give sb. permanent fame
给予某人掌声
to provide applause where sb. is concerned
永久地离开了某地
to quit a place for good
为······拍手喝彩
to clap for
瞟某人/某物的眼神
one’s quick eye for sb./sth.
证明某人的国籍
to confirm one’s nationality
是某人头疼的事
to be a headache for sb.
闻名世界
to achieve world fame
获得巨大的成功
to bring about huge success
Summary of expressions(2)
发掘并扩展天才
to explore and extend the talent
唤起了某人的想象
to rouse one’s imagination
把······事先写成文字
to have sth. written into a script in
advance
以沉重代价换来的自知
之明
painfully-bought self-knowledge
跨越37岁的年龄差距
to span the 37 years age difference
引发争吵
to spark quarrels
Summary of expressions(3)
令人遗憾的是/不幸的是: sad to say
尽管如此:
all the same
有一种要做······的欲望: to have the urge / a deep need to do
sth.
到达；进入:
to find one’s way into
对······失去信心:
to lose one’s faith in sb./sth.
Contents
• New Words
• Structure and writing device
• Passage Reading
• Summary
• Activity & Assignment
Who Is He/She?
Activity: 3 students one group.
Student A, B provide information of a particular person,
student C guesses who this person is.
Group 1
李
清
照
Group 2
Group 3
Assignment
Directions: Write a composition of no less than 120 words with
a general statement supported by details.
Topic: Describe a friend you like or a guy you hate.
Thanks for your attention