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(共19张PPT)
Extended reading
Unit 1 Lights, camera, action!
Do you know which film the lines come from
Lead-in
Forrest Gump is a 1994 film starring Tom Hanks. It tells the story of Forrest Gump, a simple man with a warm personality. Despite an IQ of 75, he lives a truly amazing life. He sees, and sometimes influences, some of the major events of the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
Forrest Gump
Type
Year
Director
Actor
Actress
Storyline
It tells the story of Forrest Gump, a simple man with a warm personality. Despite an IQ of 75, he lives a truly amazing life. He sees, and sometimes influences, some of the major events of the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
An American comedy-drama film
Robert Zemeckis (罗伯特.泽梅斯基）
Tom Hanks（汤姆.汉克斯）
Robin Wright（罗宾.怀特）
1994
Now let’s read the excerpt from the script of the film.
Pre-reading
Instructions and tips
Characters
Dialogue
Voice-over
Activity 1
Fast-reading
Watch the video and then think about the following three questions：
When does the story happen
Where does it happen
How many characters are there in the story
ONE
TWO
Mrs Gump
Forrest
Jenny
bus driver
boys
...
Forrest Gump
Character
Personalities
Supporting details
Mrs Gump
loving,
kind
careful
wise
You do your very best now.
Momma said not to be taking rides from strangers.
Momma says stupid is as stupid does.
Careful-reading
Read the script again and fill in the chart.
Forrest Gump
Character
Personalities
Supporting details
Bus driver
kind,
patient,
responsible
She pushes the bus door open for Forrest.
She gives a smile when Forrest says “We aren’t strangers any more.”
Forrest Gump
Character
Personalities
Supporting details
Boys 1, 2, 3
A large girl
unfriendly,
indifferent，
arrogant,
rude, prejudiced
Boy 1 and Boy 2 say, “This seat’s taken”.
The girl moves over so Forrest can’t sit next to her and she shakes her head.
Boy 3 looks angrily at Forrest.
Forrest Gump
Character
Personalities
Supporting details
Jenny
gentle,
friendly,
warm-hearted,
innocent,
pure
the only one to offer Forrest a seat;
Are you stupid or something
puts her hand out towards Forrest to shake hands with him.
Forrest
His conversation with the bus driver.
He is willing to share his name with strangers.
He remembered the sweet voice.
He can always repeat mother's words.
My back is crooked like an arrow.
Stupid is as stupid does.
simple
sincere
grateful
obedient
humorous/positive
clever
Appreciation
L21. Forrest begins to walk down the bus.
(It means walking towards the back seats of the bus.)
L42.My legs are just fine and dandy.
(There’s nothing wrong with his legs.)
Appreciate through lines
Let's talk about our understanding of these lines.
Appreciate through lines
L53. Momma says stupid is as stupid does.
(Forrest may be stupid in others’ eyes, but his mom thinks he is no different and tries her best to protect and encourage him. She tells him that only those who do stupid things are stupid and he is not. This line shows his mom’s love and wisdom, which inspires and encourages Forrest a lot.)
Appreciation
Appreciate through lines
L57. From that day on, we was always together.
(The grammatical mistakes in lines 57 and 58 reflect Forrest’s low IQ, which makes the character true and vivid. )
Appreciation
Appreciate through lines
L58. Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.
(“Peas and carrots” is an American idiom, which means keeping each other’s company very often as peas and carrots are two ingredients the western people always mix to decorate dishes when cooking, which people think can’t be separated.
This phrase is used to indicate the friendship between Forrest and Jenny.)
Appreciation
Characters Personalities
Forrest Gump
Mrs Gump
Jenny
simple, warm, positive, confident
loving, wise, careful
kind, warm-hearted and direct.
She is the only one to offer Forrest a seat, and introduces herself and asks Forrest questions.
Summary of the personalities for each main character.
On the first day of school, Forrest Gump 1._______(take) the bus ride as soon as the bus pulled 2._____ at the bus stop after saying goodbye to his mother. 3.________(get) on the bus, he was told that the seats 4._________(take) by several boys, one of 5._______ even looked 6.________(angry) at him when Forrest looked at the other side where a boy sat alone on a 7._______(large) seat. At that time, a girl 8._______(name) Jenny Curran about Forrest’ s age asked him to sit down next to her. They had a conversation all the way to school. On 9._____________(arrive), Jenny put her hand out toward Forrest and he also reached over and shook her hand. From that day on, Forrest felt that they were together 10._______ peas and carrots.
took
up
were taken
whom
named
larger
like
arrival/arriving
angrily
Getting
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