Improve Your Reading Skills through Watching English Movies ---- Bride Wars
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Teaching aims:
Knowledge objects
1. To rai students’ interests in English through watching an English movie
2.To make the students know how to appreciate an English movie
3.To help the students learn some uful and common phras in the movie
4.To help the students pay attention to the oral English
5.To develop students’ reading ability by learning the uful expressions in the movie.
Moral objects
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6.To encourage students to be themlves no matter what happens and be brave enough to overcome all kinds of difficulties.
Teaching Key Points:
1. To develop students’ reading ability by learning the uful expressions in the movie
Teaching Difficulties:
1.To help the students pay attention to the oral English
2.To develop students’ reading ability by learning the uful expressions in the movie.
Teaching Aids:
Multi-media computer; overhead projector; Software: PowerPoint
Teaching Methods
1.Task-bad Approach
2.Communicative Approach
Teaching Procedure：
step1: lead in
海洋保护Give a brief introduction of this movie to the students关于信任的故事
Step2: Watching the movie to learn some usages
Show the movie to students, and ask students to pay attention to some oral English and write down some ntences during watching the movie.
Step3: Talking
Ask some of the students to say something about the movie and share their feelings with the class
Step4: Reading
Show students some comments on this movie from ordinary people, and then ask students to read and speak out their opinions.梦见包包子
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1. If you're looking for a comedy with weird plot twists and a sprinkling of humor, then you'll still be arching - Bride Wars excels at the former and sadly fails at the latter. It's not entirely silly sabotage and witless laughs as a few scenes and characters do stand out of the cliché wedding comedy crowd, but ultimately the tragic outcomes and easy clean-up of a far too messy situation will leave viewers wishing for a more comfortably predictable plot line.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) have been best friends since childhood and both have always dreamed of a gorgeous June wedding at the luxurious Plaza Hotel. When both girls' boyfriends ask for their hands in marriage, Liv and Emma enlist the highly reputable wedding planner Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen) to acquire their dream locale. Unfortunately a clerical error has their weddings t on the same day and t
毛孔堵塞怎么疏通毛孔hus begins a rivalry of increasingly ruthless sabotage as both girls refu to reschedule their most important day.
No experimentation or originality can be en in Bride Wars. Everything is terribly formulaic, from the music-narrated montages to the carefully patterned dialogue to the high points and low points for each of the heroines. When a half-expected love triangle forms, it is completely unnecessary and sorely mislaid - this is the kind of film where each event is better off contributing solely to comedy and every sad moment is best coated with ridiculous gags and off-the-wall mood-shifting resolutions. Touches of riousness have no place in Bride Wars, which struggles so greatly with its adult dilemmas that the moments of humor feel forced - shoved into the cracks to even out the heartbreak most won't be feeling for the cookie-cutter characters.
If it wasn't bad enough that no individuality finds its way through all the girl-oriented giggling, hormonal wedding craze and subdued cat-fighting, the humor itlf is oftentimes indecipherable from the drama. Sometimes it's funny to e the girls bitterly attack one another even if we're meant to sympathize, and other times it's disheartening when we're
suppod to be laughing. Either way, so little of the film sparks interest or concern over two hopelessly contrived, generic best friends that it would be as wasteful to debate over them as it was to spoil two hours of valuable time watching the film. Hopefully even the target audience will realize the recycled, uninspired nature of Bride Wars.
2. Martin Scor once famously said he does one movie for the studio and one for himlf, and so do many other directors or actors (George Clooney admits he did Ocean's Thirteen becau that way he could do Michael Clayton next). Although Anne Hathaway hasn't explicitly said she does that, one can assume it's the only rational explanation for a piece of anti-cinematic trash like Bride Wars. Shooting The Devil Wears Prada after Brokeback Mountain is one thing, tainting your Oscar-nominated legacy with this bunch of nonn is another.
And yet it sounded like it could be a lot of fun, at least judging by the premi, which revers the classic wedding stereotype: women are in it for the romance, guys are game becau it's fun (that's what they make it look like in American comedies, anyway). This time around, the dudes are in it for the love, and the girls want to get married just to make
a childhood dream come true. Apparently, if you're a woman and live in Manhattan, the ultimate dream of your life is to get married at the Plaza in June, so when best friends Liv (Kate Hudson with a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears haircut) and Emma (Hathaway) get asked the fundamental question by their beaus, they immediately try to book the right place and date. A mix-up occurs, and so they're both stuck with the same date, June 6th. Neither wants to postpone what's suppod to be the happiest day of their lives, therefore a full-on war is declared on both parts.
水稻的生长过程At this point, the real silliness kicks in: diet sabotage, tans gone awry and the occasional witty remark, like "Your wedding's gonna be huge, just like your ass at prom". What started as a potentially entertaining critique of materialism and shallowness is revealed to be a poorly executed farce, with a succession of lame jokes instead of a plot (then again, one of the screenwriters is best known for performing on Saturday Night Live, where the skits have no connection whatsoever, so that may be an explanation) and two atrocious caricatures instead of leading ladies.
In fairness, no one ever expected any true brilliance from Hudson, given the last really g
ood movie she appeared in was Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous in 2000, but surely someone could have told Hathaway you just don't choo something this bland after working with Jonathan Demme (or Ang Lee, for that matter). Maybe she wanted to return to her comedic roots, but sadly there's nothing even remotely funny in Bride Wars, save for a few brief scenes featuring the reliable Candice Bergen. Everything el is just like Liv and Emma: obsd with getting everything right, but ultimately too lf-centered to get any sympathy from others.
The romantic comedy is a type of film that relies on two obvious traits; the ability to make its audience laugh, and the ability to make that very same audience tear-up or at least feel some degree of warmth towards the central characters' love story. Bride Wars, which ostensibly at least, takes the form of your typical rom-com is an example of such that constantly tries to do the former -while constantly failing-, and only hints at the latter only in the background in order to advance plot. The result from this is a middling and sluggishly mundane feature that neither offers memorable characters or even a few cheap laughs. To be fair, there has to be something said for the fact that I am not exactly
within the movie's target demographic. Yet judging by the reactions of tho around me, I got the feeling that what I was experiencing wasn't exactly gender exclusive.
3. The story here, which revolves around two best gal-pals Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) as they try to cope with their simultaneous weddings, is one that is likely to get a few chuckles from females, but less so with their male counterparts. Yes, this is somewhat expectant of a movie titled Bride Wars, but then again, if half of your audience are neglected to the sidelines then you're needlessly cutting yourlf short. This stunted, polarising depiction of "every girl's biggest day" feels fitting to its source material, so women will enjoy this moreso than men, but not by much. You e, aside from the fact that Bride Wars wants nothing more than to cater to cheap gags and sappy melodrama fit to plea the Legally Blonde crowd, there also remains blatant problems in just about everything el that fills the movie's first two acts. With little romance to back up the meagre plot, dull, dry characterisation coupled with non-existent chemistry between either the friends and their partners, or even themlves, the vast majority of Bride Wars turns ugly, rather quickly; the movie pushes that this cat fight between Hudson and Hatha
way is meant to be fun and airy with plenty of laughs, but it's too transparent and formulated to even move beyond dry caricature.
It doesn't help at all that the majority of the performances from the main cast are border line negligible. Hudson and Hathaway, who are suppod to playing long-time best buddies who suddenly fall out over a petty dispute, are strangely forgettable, if not repelling. In all fairness, both hit the proverbial hammer on the head with their portrayals as stock-pile, cardboard cut-out typecasts befitting of the genre and only the genre, but this isn't exactly saying much. The remainder of the cast, who each have around ten minutes tops of total screen time are just as unremarkable, with Kristen Johnston giving the movie its only real favour and edge. So, what's wor than a romantic comedy with next to no compelling or memorable performances? Not much.
To be fair however, Bride Wars isn't really a romance at all. At least, that's what I hope director Gary Winick was trying to put across (somehow I get the feeling that I'm giving too much benefit of the doubt). If anything, the movie exists more as a mildly poignant example of companionship in the form of friends rather than romance. This tangent, whic
h takes full form in the third act, for the most part surpass the drudgery that comes beforehand, and establishes a touching, if slightly overly done ntimental climax. By all means, it's far too little, all too late, but I at least found mylf moved by the movie's final statement, even if it was by means of extreme contrast. Yet had Winick went with this theme for the majority of his film, rather than save it for after all the silly, perfunctory cat fight scenes that in turn just about destroy all human shades within his characters, Bride Wars could have been a much more flowing, and relevant feature. Instead it exists simply as throwaway popcorn fodder for girls on a night out who have nothing better to do than to revisit the same old characters, wacky situations and sit-com dialogue typical of your average Will & Grace episode.
