Unit 4 Stage and screen Developing ideas （ppt课件）(4)-2023新外研版（2019）《高中英语》必修第二册.pptx

1、1.Have you ever read any of these books?2.How much do you know about them?author setting main idea importance.红楼梦了不起的盖茨比夏洛克福尔摩斯骆驼祥子伊利亚特京华烟云Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books?What do you think of them?Now lets read the passage to find out the authors opinion.1They say that

2、“a picture is worth a thousand words”,but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying.All too often,great words end up being turned into cinematic“turkeys”brief adj.短暂的变成v.询问；对提出异议时常;通常end up doing sth.以做某事而告终cinema电影院(电影或戏剧的)失败之作 2Good mo

3、vies need good stories.If so,why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling,Homers The Odyssey,never had an equally great movie based on it?Movies need strong characters.So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as“great”?Movies of course need impres

4、sive images,so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as“interesting”?同样地角色给人印象深刻的当然图像导致，造成描述 3One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read,a movie typically lasts under two hours.This means that great books can lose plot detail

5、s and characters when they move to the big screen.This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies cant escape from,with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.一般，通常v.持续take time to do sth.花费时间做某事屏幕从逃跑/逃离版本失望的情节 4Movies

6、 also disappoint us when things dont look the way we imagined them in the books.Take,for example,the epic movie Troy,which is in part based on Homers The Iliad and was met with mixed reviews from the audience.The most questionable issue was the actress chosen to play the part of Helen.Many people th

7、ought she didnt live up to Helens title of“the most beautiful woman in the world”,influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.使失望想像以为例史诗般的部分地评论可疑的；有问题的重要议题女演员符合(标准)头衔在某种程度上影响 5There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes.Furthermore,books and movies are two different forms of media a

8、nd therefore have different rules.With this in mind,perhaps we should judge a movie in its own right,and not against its original source.此外；而且形式with.in mind把放在心上判断凭借自身，靠自己来源，根源Interestingly,audiences have in recent years turned to television series such as Sherlock or Mad Men,which can have many cha

9、racters and gradual plot development.Perhaps,one day,readers of F.Scott Fitzgeralds most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.有趣的是转向渐进的被赞美的粘住一集发展Find out the answer.Whats the text type of this passage?A.narrationB.practical writingC.argumentationD.

10、expositionphenomenon:great words turned into cinematic“turkeys”para 1-2para 3-4para 5reasons behind this problemconclusion Match the authors opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage.1 Some parts of the story and some characters are missing in the movie.2 The visual image

11、s are not as striking as the descriptions in the book.3 The movie is not as great as the book.4 The movie doesnt look the way we visualised while reading the book.5 The characters do not stand out.adceb1.Whats the main idea of Paragraph 1?A.A picture is worth a thousand words.B.We should read books

12、briefly.C.Many people doubt the common saying.D.Many good books cant be filmed into good movies successfully.2.What does“turkeys”mean in the first paragraph?A.Successes B.failures C.large birds D.highlights3.Whats the function of Paragraph 2?A.To raise the readers cultural awareness.B.To prove good

13、movies need good stories.C.To further confirm that good books always end up being turned into bad movies.D.To show that movies need impressive images.4.From Paragraph 3,we can know that _A.reading a book is a waste of timeB.a film results in something important lost compared with the book versionC.a

14、 film only needs less than two hoursD.Harry Potter is a great success5Which of the following is true?AGood movies need good stories.BMovies need strong characters.CMovies need impressive images.DAll the above are wrong.6.What does the author want to talk about in this article?A.We shouldnt judge a movie by the rules of its book version.B.Books are better than their movie versions.C.Movies have more impressed characters than books.D.Movies always make us disappointed.THANKS