Unit 5 Entertainment

Brainstorming Entertainment/recreaction/relaxation To entertain / relax All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Outdoor activities Indoor activities (pair work) List as many leisure activities as possible. Tell others what you like to do in your spare time.

Cultural Briefing Which city of the United States is called “entertainment capital of the World”?

Las Vegas (Nevada)

Las Vegas of Nevada State Las Vegas California State

Las Vegas bills itself as the Las Vegas bills itself as the “Entertainment Capital of the World,” “Entertainment Capital of the World,” Tourism, gaming, and entertainmentTourism, gaming, and entertainment represent a large portion of the city’s represent a large portion of the city’s revenue. revenue.

Extravagant Hotels and Casinos The MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park was the largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1993.

Outdoor shows simulated volcanic eruptions

Tourist Attractions Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

Tourist Attractions The Grand Canyon

Cultural Briefing Where is the “center of motion pictures industry and televisions industry of the United State ”? Which city does it belong to? And which state?

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

History By the early 1920s motion picture producers moved most of their operations from the East Coast to Los Angeles to take advantage of the year-round fair weather, reliable light, and diverse filming locations, from ocean beaches to deserts to snowy mountains. Hollywood, on the western edge of the City of Los Angeles, and Culver City, farther south and closer to the ocean, became the centers for movie production.

History The industry was given a giant boost in technical capacity and prestige with the production of the controversial (because it was highly racist), three-hour epic The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.

History By the end of the 1920s, the came the “golden age” of the movie industry. Five major studios—Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Warner Brothers, and Paramount—and two minor studios—Columbia and Universal—had come to dominate the motion picture industry.

With the invention of Television, TV program has become one of the most popular and cheapest entertainment activities for people all around the world.

Questions 1.How long do you watch TV everyday when at home? 2.Why do you watch TV? 3.What are your favorite TV programs?

3.What are your favorite kinds of TV program? sports programs, the news, TV series, cartoons, game shows, films, talk shows, music programs

Cultural Briefing Can you name some of the most famous TV series made in the United State of the past 15 years?

The X-Files

The West Wing

ER (Emergency Room)

The Sampson's

Everybody Love Raymond

Friends

Sex and the City

24

Lost

CSI (Crime Scene Investigation)

Desperate Housewives

Can you name some famous Chinese TV series you like?

Homework: Find a story(TV series or movie) you like most and share with us in the next class. You can refer to BAIDU or sth else to download its pictures and plots.

The Fact is that TV programs have become so popular among us that most of us can not deny, to some extent, that we are couch potatoes.

a couch potato A couch potato is someone who watches lots (some would say too much! ) of television. “ 沙发马铃薯 ” 。它不是马铃薯的变 种, 而是现代社会里的产物, 指浪费 太多时间看电视的人。

A person who works very hard and finds it difficult to stop working and do other things. He is a workaholic. 工作狂 工作迷 醉心于 工作的人

How do we call this kind of people?

Mouse Potato Mouse potato Mouse potato （网虫）跟 couch potato （电视虫）走到一起；这个词语终于登 堂入室，从通俗文化行列转入英语主流 语言。近日， 100 个热门新词被收入 2006 年新版的美国畅销词典《韦氏大词 典》中。 mouse potato - someone who spends a great deal of time on the computer

Are you a couch potato or a workaholic or a mousepotato?

Debate Although TV has played a major role during the last 50 years in providing entertainment and news within the homes of people worldwide, it has some bad influence on the people, especially on the children. So let’s have a debate now.

Debate (group work) Is TV good or bad?

Debate: As we all know, a coin has two sides. There is no exception for TV. Watching TV has both advantages and disadvantages. Is TV good or bad?

For 1.TV provides us a lot of information such as the latest news, sports and daily-life stories etc. 2.TV provieds us all kinds of entertainments, games, TV series, movies, and talk shows and so on. 3.TV is the cheapest way of relaxation 4.TV is good before-breakfast entertainment.TV is good after school entertainment. TV is good before-bed entertainment.

Against 1.People spend too much time on TV that they may miss the best chance to do what they ought to do. 2.Children are so addicted to TV that they cannot concentrate on their study. 3.TV is passive way of relaxation in that you just sit in front of TV without thinking or without moving. 4.Many shows are filled with vilence, bad language and a display of moral behavior not appropriage for children to view.

Global Reading

Now you are required to read Reading A on page 55 and try to underline the answers for task 3 accordingly within 8 minutes.

Skill Focus 1.Read each statement and mark the key words (content words) of it. 2.Use the key words to locate the original sentence that contains the information of the statement listed in the task. 3.Finish the task accordingly.

para.2 para.3.. “reasons” para.5.. “I always thought...”

para.4 & 6 “I found that...” para.4, 6 & 9 para.7