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New Horizon College English Book 3???????3

• School of Foreign Studies
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• Unit 2
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Unit 2 Section ACharlie Chaplin
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Warm-up Discussion

1. Brainstorm the comedians(????)you know at home
   and abroad?
2. Which one makes you laugh the most?

The Four Levels of Comedy Make your friends
laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make
strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you
because its so much fun. ---
Jerry Seinfeld (????????)
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Warm-up Which level do they belong to?
Ge You
Stephen Chaw
Jim Carrey
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Watch and Discuss Warm-up
Which level does Chaplin belong to?
Gold Rush ???
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Watch and Discuss Warm-up
Which level does Chaplin belong to?
The Tramp ???
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Discussion
Warm-up

• Which level does Chaplin belong to?

The Four Levels of Comedy Make your friends
laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make
strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you
because its so much fun. ---
Jerry Seinfeld (????????)
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Contents
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I. New Words

• revolt N./V.
• N. A protest against authority, esp. government
  in violence. (???????)??,??,??

Example
On 11 February, the nationwide revolt in Egypt
overthrew the government of President Mubarak who
has been in power for three decades.

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I. New Words

• revolt N./V.
• V. a. to take violent action against the people
  in power
• (???????)??,??
• b. to behave in a way opposite to others
  expectations of you
• ??,??

Example
Youngsters attitude to revolt against social
conventions and authorities deserves praise if
not extreme otherwise. ??????,????????????????????

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I. New Words

• 2. postpone V.
• delay sth to a later date or time ??,??

delay, put off
Example
Last year, NASA has postponed the launch of Space
Shuttle Discovery no less than three times. At
last, on Feb.25, 2011, it was launched to finish
its last mission.
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I. New Words

• 3. rouse V.
• to wake sb up, ??
• to make people have interests in doing sth, or
  have a particular feeling ??????, ????????

Mark Zuckerberg
Example
His interests in computer roused him to found a
social networking site, i.e. the
Facebook. ????????????Facebook???????
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I. New Words

• 4. execute V.
• to kill sb, esp. as a legal punishment ??,??
• b. to put a plan, an order into action ??,??

Example
2006?12?30?,????????,????????
On 30 December 2006 Saddam was executed by
hanging for crimes against humanity?
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? tragedy ?? ? tragic
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
--Carol Burnett

• 5. comedy N
• ??
• comic Adj.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up(????),
but a comedy in long-shot(????).

--Charlie Chaplin ?????????????,?????????

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• 6. word-formation
• Survey the new words to single out those composed
  of more than one element and decompose(??) them.

Nationality Postpone Nonsense Doubtful Extraordina
ry Sunset Christmas Burial memorial
nation al ity post pone non sense
doubt ful extra ordinary sun set Christ
mas(s) bury (i)al memory (i)al
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Contents
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Structure Analysis
What is the real Charlie Chaplin?
Introduction
Artistic Achievement
Emotional Life
End of Life Story
Writing device General statement supported by
details
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Structure Analysis
Part I (Paras. 1-2)
A general introduction to Charlie Chaplin
Part II (Paras. 3-6)
Charlie Chaplins artistic achievement
Part III (Para. 7-8)
Charlie Chaplins emotional life
Part IV (Para. 9)
Incident after Charlie Chaplins death
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Contents
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Passage Reading

• Part I (Para.1) General Introduction of Chaplin

1. Language points
2. Questions

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Charlie Chaplin

Para. 1 He was born in a poor area of South
London. He wore his mothers old red stockings
cut down for ankle socks. His mother was
temporarily declared mad. Dickens might have
created Charlie Chaplins childhood. But only
Charlie Chaplin could have created the great
comic character of the Tramp, the little man in
rags who gave his creator permanent fame.
sometimes

1. Where is the birthplace of Chaplin?
2. Was Chaplin born with a silver spoon in his
   mouth?

Part I . General introduction of Chaplin
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• cut down sth
• reduce the size, quantity of sth., such as
  clothing, writing, etc.
• ??,??,??

Example
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Modern people need to cut down the meat they eat
per day, in order to lower the cancer risk.
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• Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplins
  childhood.

Charlie Dickens a Victorian novelist who wrote
many novels on the subject of orphans and
misfortuned youngsters. Meaning Chaplins
childhood was so miserable that it resembles the
stories written by Dickens, like Oliver Twist,
Tome Jones, etc.
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for ever
Para. 2 Other countriesFrance, Italy, Spain,
even Japanhave provided more applause (and
profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land
of his birth. Chaplin quit Britain for good in
1913 when he journeyed to America with a group of
performers to do his comedy act on the stage,
where talent scouts recruited him to work for
Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.
How was Chaplin found as a talented comedy actor
in US?
General introduction of Chaplin
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Passage Reading

• Part II (Para.3-6) Artistic Achievements of
  Chaplin

1. Language points
2. Questions

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• Read para. 3 and work out the English or Chinese
  equivalents of these expressions

1. middle class
2. working class
3. ????
4. ????
5. ???????
6. sport tiny moustaches
7. screen career

???? ???? clap for revolt against
authority a well-placed kick ????? ????
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Para. 3a Sad to say, many English people in the
1920s and 1930s thought Chaplins Tramp a bit,
well, crude. Certainly middle-class audiences
did the working-class audiences were more likely
to clap for a character who revolted against
authority, using his wicked little cane to trip
it up, or aiming the heel of his boot for a
well-placed kick at its broad rear. All the same,
Chaplins comic beggar didnt seem all that
English or even working-class.
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Artistic achievement of Chaplin
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• trip up sb/sth
• a. cause sb. fall by putting the foot in front
  of them when theyre moving ??
• b. make a mistake, or force sb to make a mistake
  by tricking them
• ??????

Example
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Dont let your past trip up your present.
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• all the same
• ????

Example
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His life is full of frustrations, but he never
loses his courage to seek a better life, all the
same.
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Para. 3b English tramps didnt sport tiny
moustaches, huge pants or tail coats European
leaders and Italian waiters wore things like
that. Then again, the Tramps quick eye for a
pretty girl had a coarse way about it that was
considered, well, not quite nice by English
audiencesthats how foreigners behaved, wasnt
it? But for over half of his screen career,
Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his
British nationality.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
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1. Which was the first movie in which Chaplin spoke?

Para. 4 Indeed, it was a headache for Chaplin
when he could no longer resist the talking movies
and had to find the right voice for his Tramp.
He postponed that day as long as possible In
Modern Times in 1936, the first film in which he
was heard as a singing waiter, he made up a
nonsense language which sounded like no known
nationality. He later said he imagined the Tramp
to be a college-educated gentleman whod come
down in the world. But if hed been able to speak
with an educated accent in those early short
comedies, its doubtful if he would have achieved
world fame. And the English would have been sure
to find it odd. No one was certain whether
Chaplin did it on purpose but this helped to
bring about his huge success.
2. Did Chaplin speak with an educated British
accent in his film?
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
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• come down
• become poorer or less successful than used to be
• ??,??

Example
A lot of stars are fully aware that as their age
grows, they will naturally come down from their
previous glory.
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• he made up a nonsense language which sounded like
  no known nationality.

Make up invent a story in order to cheat sb.
Meaning he sang in a silly language which
sounded like one not heard or known before.
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greatly
groups
Para. 5 He was an immensely talented man,
determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks
of Hollywood stars. His huge fame gave him the
freedomand, more importantly, the moneyto be
his own master. He already had the urge to
explore and extend a talent he discovered in
himself as he went along. It cant be me. Is
that possible? How extraordinary, is how he
greeted the first sight of himself as the Tramp
on the screen.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
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• have the urge to do sth
• Have a strong desire to do sth. ????., ????.

Example
This world is a vanity fair in which many a
people have the strong urge to hunt for fame and
fortune.
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• go along
• move further with sth. ??,????,??

Example
The audience will find this movie not merely
laugh-rousing, but also thought-inspiring as they
go along.
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• Read para. 6 and find the English or Chinese
  equivalents of these expressions

rouse his imagination in advance physical
senses make contract with sb undergo surgery
prime cuts of fish

1. ???????
2. ??
3. ?????
4. ?????
5. ????
6. ?????

the most important, the best, etc.
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Para. 6 But that shock roused his imagination.
Chaplin didnt have his jokes written into a
script in advance he was the kind of comic who
used his physical senses to invent his art as he
went along. Lifeless objects especially helped
Chaplin make contact with himself as an artist.
He turned them into other kinds of objects. Thus,
a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker
became a sick patient undergoing surgery boots
were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and their
soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts
of fish (the nails being removed like fish
bones). This physical transformation, plus the
skill with which he executed it again and again,
is surely the secret of Chaplins great comedy.
What is the secret for Chaplins success in comic
performance?.
Artistic achievement of Chaplin
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• Lifeless objects especially helped Chaplin make
  contact with himself as an artist.

Meaning For Chaplin, things in daily life were
especially useful in his creative performance.
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• Part III (Para.7-8) Emotional Life of Chaplin

PLAY
LIFE
Life is a play. --Shakespeare

1. Language points
2. Questions

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Para. 7 He also had a deep need to be lovedand
a corresponding fear of being betrayed. The two
were hard to combine and sometimesas in his
early marriagesthe collision between them
resulted in disaster. Yet even this
painfully-bought self-knowledge found its way
into his comic creations. The Tramp never loses
his faith in the flower girl wholl be waiting to
walk into the sunset with him while the other
side of Chaplin makes Monsieur Verdoux, the
French wife killer, into a symbol of hatred for
women.
a character in Chaplins movie, who has killed
his wives.
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• 1. corresponding adj.? correspond
• matching or connected with sth. ???,???

Example
The wax and wane of Moon can induce the
corresponding fall and rise of tides.
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• 1. corresponding adj.? correspond
• matching or connected with sth. ???,???

Example
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In China, the age of retirement for males is 60
year-old while the corresponding age for females
is 55
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• 2. find its way into
• to come to a place or situation by chance not
  on purpose
• ????,?????.

Example
In the novel Lost Horizon, a group of westerners
find their way into a utopia in the mountains of
Tibet, which is remembered as Shangri-la.
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• 3. lose ones faith in sb/sth
• lose ones trust or confidence in sb/sth
• ?????????????

Example
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is
an ocean a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the
ocean does not become dirty.
--Mahatma Gandhi ?????????????????????????????
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• 4. walk into the sunset with sb.
• ???????????/???????

Example
He wants to find a girl who can walk into the
sunset with him, other than walk into the villa
and the jewelery shop with him.
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• Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge
  found its way into his comic creations..

Meaning Chaplin has realized a lot from his
early painful marriages. And these realizations
were reflected in his performance.
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Para. 8a Its a relief to know that life
eventually gave Charlie Chaplin the stability and
happiness it had earlier denied him. In Oona
ONeill Chaplin, he found a partner whose
stability and affection spanned the 37 years
age difference between them, which had seemed
so threatening, that when the official who was
marrying them in 1942 turned to the beautiful
girl of 17 whod given notice of their wedding
date, he said, And where is the young man?
Chaplin, then 54, had cautiously waited
outside.
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Whats the age gap between Chaplin and his young
wife?
Emotional life of Chaplin
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Para. 8b As Oona herself
was the child of a large
family with its own
problems, she was well prepared for
the battle that Chaplins life became as
many unfounded rumors surrounded them bothand,
later on, she was the center of calm in the
quarrels that Chaplin sometimes sparked in his
own large family of talented children.

Did Chaplin lead a harmonious life with his young
wife?
Emotional life of Chaplin
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• find in sb.
• discover certain qualities in someone

Example
People have found diligence in Chinese,
discretion in German, romance in French, and
superstition in Indians.
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Passage Reading

• Part IV (Para.9) Incident after Chaplins Death

1. Language points
2. Questions

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Para. 9 Chaplin died on Christmas Day 1977. A few
months later, a couple of almost comic body
thieves stole his body from the family burial
chamber and held it for money. The police
recovered it with more efficiency than Mack
Sennetts clumsy Keystone Cops would have done,
but one cant help feeling Chaplin would have
regarded this strange incident as a fitting
memorialhis way of having the last laugh on a
world to which he had given so many.
Incident after Chaplins death
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• but one cant help feeling Chaplin would have
  regarded this strange incident as a fitting
  memorial.

Meaning but we can easily imagine that Chaplin
would have seen it as a proper way to memorize
him.
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Contents
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Summary
Chaplin is a great comic not only for his own
mother country but more for the world. Chaplins
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
(To be continued)
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Text StudySummary
Summary
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
ONeil. Chaplin died on _________ Day 1977.
collision
betrayed
emotional
happiness
Christmas
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Summary of expressions(1)
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to give sb. permanent fame
to provide applause where sb. is concerned
to quit a place for good
to clap for
ones quick eye for sb./sth.
to confirm ones nationality
to be a headache for sb.
to achieve world fame
to bring about huge success
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Summary of expressions(2)
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to explore and extend the talent
to rouse ones imagination
to have sth. written into a script in advance
painfully-bought self-knowledge
to span the 37 years age difference
to spark quarrels
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Summary of expressions(3)
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sad to say
all the same
to have the urge / a deep need to do sth.
to find ones way into
to lose ones faith in sb./sth.
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Contents
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Who Is He/She? Activity
3 students one group. Student A, B provide
information of a particular person, student C
guesses who this person is.
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Assignment

• Directions Write a composition of no less than
  120 words with a general statement supported by
  details.
• Topic Describe a friend you like or a guy you
  hate.

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Thanks for your attention