Charlie Chaplin

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Unit 2
Charlie Chaplin
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Stage 1 Warming-up Activities
Stage 2 Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3 After-Reading Activities
Stage 4 Listening-and-Speaking Practice
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Warming-up Activities

• Group work
• Questions for thought and discussion
• Background information
• Enriching your vocabulary
• Comparing the following words

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Group work

• Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions
  and the title of the text before listening to the
  summary of the story and anticipate what we are
  going to read.

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Questions for thought and discussion

• Listen to a short passage carefully and then
  answer the following questions.

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Background information

• Charlie Chaplin
• Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16th
  April 1889 in Walworth, London, and lived a
  Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother,
  Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses
  and seeing his mother's mental decline put her
  into an institution. Both his parents, though
  separated when he was very young, were music hall
  artists, his father quite famously so. But it was
  his mother that Charlie idolised and was inspired
  by during his visit of the backstage while she
  performed, to take up such a career for himself.
  

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• Dickens
• Charles Dickens, 18121870, an English
  novelist, considered by many to be the greatest
  one of all. His many famous books describe life
  in Victorian England and show how hard it was,
  especially for the poor and for children. They
  include The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A
  Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great
  Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

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• Hollywood
• an area of Los Angeles which is known as the
  center of the American film industry. In terms of
  geography, Hollywood refers to an area consisting
  of the City of West Hollywood and its vicinity
  that form part of the Greater Los Angeles
  metropolitan area. It is generally thought that
  everyone living in Hollywood is extremely rich,
  famous, and concerned with appearances but in
  fact many parts of Hollywood today are poor,
  dirty and badly cared for.

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• Mack Sennett
• (18801960) US film producer, born in
  Richmond, Quebec. He worked in the theatre as a
  comic in burlesque companies, and from 1908 in
  silent films. He later formed his own company and
  hundreds of shorts, establishing a whole
  generation of players and a tradition of
  knockabout slapstick under the name of Keystone
  Komics (1912), and later the Sennett Bathing
  Beauties (1920). He received a Special Academy
  Award in 1937.

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Enriching your vocabulary

• Read the sentences carefully and guess the
  meaning of the italicized term in each sentence
  according to the context and your own
  experiences.

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• The speech is rich in comic sensitivity.
• The children received a greeting card and a comic
  for Christmas.
• If youre a comic and people recognize you, it
  means a lot of people are watching your show.
• A lot of Shakespeares plays are comedies.
• At last he saw the comedy of the situation and
  laughed.

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• He used to be a tramp when he was young.
• Ive tramped the whole town looking for work.
• The elderly woman must have thought I was a
  beggar, because she refused to let me speak to
  the young ladies.
• The poor child was dressed in rags.
• I used a piece of rag to dust the wooden
  furniture.

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• speech met with loud applause.
• The audience clapped and cheered when she stood
  up to speak.
• He was spotted by a scout at the age of 13.
• He sent four scouts ahead to take a look at the
  bridge.

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• The people in the north have revolted against the
  foreign rule and established their own
  government.
• Troops were called in to put down the revolt.
• Shoes with high heels are no longer in fashion.
• She had developed a blister on one heel.

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• You must behave (yourself) at the party!
• How does your new car behave?
• Hes applied for Chinese nationality.
• There are many minority nationalities in China.
• Now that we have made the decision, we may
  execute the scheme as previously agreed.
• It now seems certain that the prisoner will be
  executed tomorrow.

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• The money corresponds roughly to the amount I
  need for my course.
• Who have you been corresponding with in China?
• There has been a decline in the value of the
  pound and a corresponding increase in the
  strength of the dollar.
• He was accused of betraying his country during
  the war.
• He tried to seem angry, but his smile betrayed
  him.

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• It was such a relief to hear Glen had been found
  safe and well.
• For relief of headaches take aspirin.
• The rumours being spread about him are totally
  untrue.
• This proposal will almost certainly spark another
  countrywide debate.
• The church service is a memorial to those killed
  in the war.

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• We need to cut the article down to 1,000 words.
• The days of happiness had gone for good.
• careful you dont trip up on the step.
• He made up some excuse about his daughter being
  sick.
• He was once wealthy, but now he has come down in
  the world.

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• Most pop music is influenced, to a greater or
  lesser degree, by the blues.
• You may have difficulty with this book at first,
  but youll find it much easier as you go along.
• Its cheaper if you book the tickets in advance.
• He eventually found his way into acting.

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Vocabulary Comparing

• stockings hose sock
• ankle foot toe heel hoof paw nail
• crude rude coarse offensive
• crude raw uncooked
• moustache beard
• pants trousers levis jeans panskirt
• postpone delay suspend put off

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• doubtful skeptical dubious undecided
  uncertain questionable
• immense huge colossal vast enormous
  gigantic tremendous titanic monstrous
  large
• immensely very much extremely
• extraordinary unusual special unexpected
  strange abnormal extra
• incident event occurrence accident

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• rouse wake waken awaken
• rouse animate kindle excite provoke stir
  stimulate
• script playscript tapescript draft
  manuscript
• pepper cayenne chili paprika
• collision clash crash conflict
• sunset sunrise
• clumsy awkward
• cop police policeman

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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of
  the text.
• Analyze the structure of the text.

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Reading-Centred Activities

• 1. Global Reading Task
• Reading Skills
• Text structure analysis
• 2. Detailed Reading Task
• Language points
• Simulated writing
• Summary of the text

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• Understand the reading skills mixture of fact
  and opinion
• What are facts? And what are opinions?
• Facts are statements that tell what really
  happened or really is the case whereas opinions
  are statements of beliefs, judgments, or
  feelings.

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• Some tips for distinguishing facts from opinions
  
• Test the writer's opinion by asking whether a
  different opinion is possible.
• Look for words that interpret one's opinions such
  as pretty, ugly, handsome, dangerous, evil,
  attractive, well-dressed, good, etc. Other words
  say clearly that an opinion will follow these
  are words like I believe, I think, in my opinion,
  I feel, I suggest, etc.

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• Text structure analysis
• In this reading passage the author introduces us
  a famous figure Charlie Chaplin from different
  aspects
• the introduction
• his professional success
• his emotional life
• the end of his life story.

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• Divide the text into 4 parts according to the
  main idea given
• Part 1 the introduction
• Part 2 his professional success
• Part 3 his emotional life
• Part 4 the end of his life story

Paragraphs 1 and 2
from Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 6
Paragraphs 7 and 8
Paragraph 9
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• Introduction
• Chaplin was from ____________ but a man that
  created ___________________ of lasting fame. He
  won __________ in many countries and he was
  spotted by _____________ of Hollywood.

a poor family
comic characters
reputation
talent scouts
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• Charlie Chaplins professional success
• Charlie Chaplins huge success with his
  ________.(Para. 3)
• Charlie Chaplins success with _____________.(para
  . 4)
• Charlie Chaplins secrets of great _______.(paras
  5 6)

Tramp
sound movies
comedy
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• Charlie Chaplins emotional life
• Charlie Chaplins emotional ___________ resulted
  in ________________ and found its way into his
  ________________.
• Charlie Chaplins stable ____________ in his
  later years.

collision
personal disaster
comic creation
happiness
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Reading-Centred Activities

• 1. Global Reading Task
• Reading Skills
• Text structure analysis
• 2. Detailed Reading Task
• Language points
• Simulated writing
• Summary of the text

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• Charlie Chaplins death
• Charlie Chaplin died on _____________________. A
  strange incident after his death is taken as a
  ________________ to the worlds most famous
  ______.

Christmas day 1977
fitting memorial
comic
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After-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises
• Translating and Writing

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Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text
• Listening and speaking practice in XP center