Warming-up 1. What do you use if you want to see you own face ? 2. What do you need if you want to make fire? 3.What do you need if you want to know the news around the world? 4. What do you use to kill animals if you are a hunter? 5. What do you use if you want to cut down a big tree ? 6. What do you need if you want to tie your pet dog to a tree? 7. What do you need if you want to strike a nail into the wall ? 8.What do you want to need if you want to get out when it is raining ? 9. What do you need if you want to study ? 10. What do you need if you want to tell the direction ? 11. What do you need if you want to fry an egg for breakfast?

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1988./2000 Golden Globe

1988 Big Golden Globe

1993 Philadelphia Best Actor in a Leading Role

1994 Forrest Gump Best Actor in a Leading Role

1994 Sleepless in Seattle

1998 Saving Private Ryan

Chuck’s Friend Who is Chuck’s friend in the text ?

2000 Cast Away Golden Globe Tom Hanks ( directed by Robert Zemeckis) Plays Chuck Noland

Scanning 1.Why did Chuck come to the deserted island? 2.How long did Chuck stay there ? 3.Why did Chuck make friends with Wilson? 4.What things Chuck learn in order to survive on the deserted island? 5.What kind of person was chuck before he came to the island? What kind of person is Chuck after he leaves the islands?

Huck returns home after five years’ stay on the island. He rings the doorbell. His wife answers the bell and opens the door….( work in groups and make up a dialogue or a short pay that happens after she opens the door. Then act it out )

Four people are in an airplane that is going to crash. One is a policeman. One is a doctor, one is a teacher and one is a scientist. There is only one parachute.Who should get it and explain why.

Language points: 1. Tom Hunks plays a man named Chuck Noland. play : 扮演（角色） =play the part /role of =act =act the part / role of 2. Chuck survives the crash and lands on a deserted island where there are no people desert:v 遗弃；抛弃；离弃 eg He is so selfish that all his friends have deserted him. deserted :adj 无人的；被抛弃的；被遗弃的 deserted street 3.Chuck has to learn survive all alone. alone : adv “ 独自，单独 adj 只作表语 “ 独自一人 ” 表示客观状态 ” lonely: adj 人 “ 孤独的 ” “ 寂寞的 ” ；地方 “ 荒凉的 ” “ 人烟稀少的 ” eg: I am alone,but I am not lonely.

4. In order to survive, Chuck developed a friendship with an unusual friend…… in order to : “ 为了 ” 引导目的状语 eg. He hurried through his homework in order to//so as to play football with other boys. in order to = so as to ( 不放于句首） in order to do / /in order not to do eg. He left school early in order not to be late for school. 5. Even though Wilson is just a volleyball,Chuck becomes fond of Wilson. even though =even if “ 即使 ” “ 纵使 ” eg. We cannot get the work done even if (even though )we stay up all night. It would not matter even though he should refuse.

6. He talks to him and treats him as a friend. 把 … 当作 eg. Don’t treat me as an idiot. He treated his mistake as a joke. 7. Chuck learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow. share （ in ） sth. 分享；分担 share sth with sb 于别人共有或合用某物 将某物告诉某人 8. Chuck also learns that he should have cared more about his friends Should have done :“ 本该 ….” 指过去的动作，含有责备的意味 eg. You shouldn’t have gone to bed so late last night.

Have you read Robinson Crusoe. It is a very famous book.In the book the hero has lived alone on an island for over 20 years. He met and overcame a lot of difficulties. He even met some savages( 野人 )…At last he came back home.