Book IV Unit 2 Section A Charlie Chaplin Tan Xiaochun College of Foreign Studies
Book IV Unit 2 Objectives of Section A Learn more about related background information about Charlie Chaplin and his life Learn more about related background information about Charlie Chaplin and his life; Grasp the main idea and structure of the text; Understand the important words, phrases and sentence patterns in the text; Be able to conduct text-based written and oral practices.
Book IV Unit 2 Pre-class Task Checking Text Understanding Summary Difficult Sentences Writing Words and Phrases Post-class Tasks
Book IV Unit 2 Text Understanding Structure of the Text 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
Book IV Unit 2 Detailed Understanding Biography of Charlie Chaplin Part I. General Introduction Place of birth: _______________________ A poor area of south London Parents: ___________________________________ Mother — temporarily declared mad Fame: a Hollywood comic star 1. __________________________ __________________________ 2. __________________________ _____________ Receiving permanent fame for the comic character of The Tramp. Winning reputation in other countries.
Book IV Unit 2 Part II. Artistic Achievement In the time of silent movies The huge success: ___________ The Tramp In the time of sound movies The success: e.g. ______________ Modern Times immensely talented man; the urge to explore and extend his talent Secrets of great success Why? __________________________ __________________________ ______
Book IV Unit 2 Special features of The Tramp: Critics towards The Tramp: famous comic beggar: sport tiny … a character revolted against authority … To many English people — too crude; didn’t all that English; not how the English behaved 1. The TrampThe Tramp
Book IV Unit 2 Specialties about his singing: Language: __________ Nonsense Effect of his singing: To Chaplin:_______________________ _________ Help to bring about his huge success 2. Modern Times
Book IV Unit 2 Secrets of great success: Immensely talented man; The urge to explore and extend his talent Evidences: His script — In his great comedy — Not written in advance Physical senses / physical transformation: Lifeless objects other kinds of objects
Book IV Unit 2 3. Gold RushGold Rush Boots were boiled and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like fish bones).
Book IV Unit 2 Part III. Emotional Life Chaplin’s emotional collision: need to be loved & fear of being betrayed Personal disaster; The collision found its way into his comic creations.
Book IV Unit 2 City Lights Chaplin’s need to be loved.
Book IV Unit 2 Difficult Sentences Main structure: might have v-ed: used to say that something was possible in the past, but it did not in fact happen Paraphrase: 1. Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplin’s childhood.
Book IV Unit 2 2. Sad to say, many English people in the 1920s and 1930s thought Chaplin’s Tramp a bit, well, “crude”. sad to say: 遗憾的是；很遗憾
Book IV Unit 2 Words and Phrases 1. cut down Meaning: to reduce cut down for sth. to size on sth. Collocation e.g. She cut the old stockings down for ankle sock. I have to cut my essay down to 2000 words. You should cut down on fatty foods.
Book IV Unit 2 3. crude a. Meaning: ① rude;.He’s always telling crude jokes. ② in its natural state crude oil 原油e.g.
Book IV Unit 2 4. trip it up 李伸出脚把约翰绊倒了。 Lee stuck out his foot and tripped John up. Translation Key Usually she was careful, but once she tripped up by a plot. 她一向谨慎，但有一次还是中了圈套。 Meaning: to cause sb. to fall or nearly fall over; force someone to make a mistake by tricking them
Book IV Unit 2 5. all that Meaning: very; particularly 事情并不那么顺利。 He wasn’t all that older than we were. Things aren’t all that good. 他并不比我们年纪大多少。 Translation Key
Book IV Unit 2 6. sport v. Meaning: to wear or show publicly and sometimes proudly Back in the 1960s he sported bell-bottom trousers, platform heels and hair down past his shoulders. Translation 回顾 20 世纪 60 年代，他那时穿着喇叭裤、 木屐式坡形 高跟鞋、蓄着 过肩的长发。 e.g.
Book IV Unit 2 8. come down in the world Meaning: to have less money and a worse social position than one had before 她感到她的确已经穷困潦倒了。. She felt she had really come down in the world. Translation Key
Book IV Unit 2 9. rouse v. Meaning: to make sb. very angry, excited, interested; to make sb. wake up; arouse 唤醒 arise 出现 She was sleeping so soundly that I couldn’t rouse her. e.g. 辨析
Book IV Unit find one’s way Meaning: to arrive or get somewhere after some time Rivers find their way into the sea. 据说多媒体将很快进入家用市场。 条条江河通大海。 It’s said that multimedia will soon find its way into the home market. Translation Key
Book IV Unit relief n. Meaning: the easing of a burden or distress What a relief! I pass the exam finally! release 释放，放开 v. relieve e.g. 辨析
Book IV Unit find … in sb. Meaning: to discover that sb. has certain qualities Who is your idol? What did you find in him/her? Use It
Book IV Unit unfounded a. Meaning: not based on fact What would you like to react to the unfounded rumors( 谣言 ) to you? Use It
Book IV Unit 2 Summary Chaplin is a great comic not only for his own mother country but more for the world. Chaplin’s Tramp was considered a little _____ and thought that he had too much of an eye for the ladies and that his clothes gave him an __________ more like an Italian waiter than anything else. He resisted making a ______ movie until 1936 when he made up a _________ language which sounded like no known nationality. Chaplin achieved great success because he was an immensely _______ man and the kind of comic who used his _______ senses to invent his art as he went along. crude appearance talking nonsense talented physical
Book IV Unit 2 However, the _______ between the need to be loved and the fear of being _______ resulted in disaster in his ________ life which was shown in his movies. Eventually, life gave Chaplin the stable _________, that is, his marriage with Oona O’Neil. Chaplin died on _________ Day collision betrayed happiness emotional Christmas
Book IV Unit 2 Writing Structured Writing One of the writing techniques is to present specific details first, then come to a general statement or a conclusion based on the details. Sample Section A Para8
Book IV Unit 2 Writing Task: Write your own paragraph, with specific details to a general statement or a conclusion. Topic: Famous people shoulder more responsibilities.
Book IV Unit 2 Post-class Task Idea Sharing: To know more about Charlie Chaplin, the best way is to watch his films. Choose one or more Chaplin’s films and enjoy his show.
Book IV Unit 2 Written Tasks: 1) Finish the Exercises on the textbook: Vocabulary, Collocation; Word Building, Sentence Structure; Translation, Cloze; 2) Write a passage with the given topic.