2. Unit 1 Disneyland Lesson 3 Disneyland Li Jianning

3. Walt Disney’s life Walt Disney, a great film-maker, was born in Chicago in 1901. His greatest wish was to be a famous artist. At first he worked in a newspaper office in Kansaa City, and then got work as an artist. His first cartoon character is MickeyMouse and was well received by people, especially by children. He soon drew other cartoon characters like Donald Duck and during the 1920s and the 1930s he made scores of cartoons about them. He died in 1966. But the studios which he started are still busy today, producing more and more interesting films.

4. Disneyland Park

5. Cleanest Streets

6. Cartoon characters

7. The Sleeping Beauty Castle

8. Wearing 19 th -century clothes

9. The Tomorrow Land

10. Say “True”or “False”: ( )1. The company of Walt Disney only makes films. ( )2. The workers of all the Disney parks are always friendly. ( )3. You can find all the characters from Disney’s films in Disneyland. ( )4. Many of the students in Disneyland are built like streets in the USA in the 18 th century. T F T F

11. Note making: 1953: the first Disney Park was opened in Los Angeles. 1971:________________________________________ 1983:________________________________________ 1992:________________________________________ Rules:________________________________________ ________________________________________ The Sleeping Beauty Castle: ________________________________________ The Tomorrow Land Building:___________________ Euro-Disney was opened Tokyo Disney was opened Wear clean shoes and trousers and allowed To have beards; tie back the long hair; always smile and be friendly A favourite place for visitors Disney World was opened in Florida Go inside the space

12. 1. makes films 2. on the west coast of the USA 3. be operated by the same company 4. strict orders 5. be friendly and polite to visitors 6. a favourite place for visitors 7. in the 1890s 8. be worked by the computer 9. get what you need Phrases:

13. Language Points: 1. The parks are the cleanest parks that you can imagine. that you can imagine 是定语从句, 修饰先行词 parks e.g. This is the best film (that) I have ever seen. He is the longest fellow (that) I ever know. Uncle Wang is one of the richest men that live in our town.

14. Language Points: 2. You can see as far as the coast. as far as: 远到, 到 …… 为止 ; 据 ……, 就 …… e.g. He usual to take a walk after supper, often as far as two or three miles. He walked as far as the village where I lived. As far as I know, he is still working there.

15. Language Points: 3. … wearing nineteenth century clothes. 句中的 -ing 短语作状语, 表示伴随动作 e.g. She lay on the grass looking at the stars. He rushed to his seat, forgetting to show his ticket.

16. Language Points: 4. …then it is brought on along a very small railway line to your seat… bring on: 1) cause sb. or sth. to appear 2)cause sth. such as illness e.g. The first dish that was brought on was potato crisps. The sudden cold weather brought on his fever again.

17. Welcome to Disneyland!

18. Homework: Finish off the exercises.