Unit 03 On the Screen

Unit 3 Page 30 READING exercise 5 A new kind of SUPERHERO Tim Burton is one of the most famous American film directors. His most popular films include: Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992) and Dumbo (2019). In 1990, he got a Daytime Emmy Award for his cartoon series Beetlejuice and in 1991 he got a Hugo Award for Edward Scissorhands. Tim grew up watching horror films and cartoons. He read Edgar Allan Poe's horror stories and he loved drawing. He also made short films in his back garden. After leaving school, Burton studied animation. Then, he got a job at Walt Disney studios. He was a very good animator, but he didn't draw in the Disney style. So he left Disney and started to make his own films. One of his most successful films is Batman. At first, people were upset when Tim Burton chose the comedy actor Michael Keaton to play Batman. Batman is a superhero who is taller and stronger than ordinary men, and Michael Keaton was too short. At 1.75 m, he was in fact the shortest actor ever to play Batman. However, the film was very successful and everybody loved Michael Keaton as Batman. One of Tim Burton's most interesting characters is Edward Scissorhands. The idea for the character came from a drawing that Burton made in high school. Edward isn't human and he has got scissors instead of hands. In the film, Johnny Depp plays Edward. However, his character in the film is not as scary as Tim Burton's original drawing. In one of his latest films, Dumbo, Dumbo the elephant has got bigger ears than the other elephants and they laugh at him. However, his big ears are an advantage. He can fly. This new film is more exciting than the old Disney film, but the CGI elephant is not as cute as the cartoon elephant in the 1941 film. There are some changes in the plot, but the new film is still as sad as the old one. Tim Burton has directed many other films, including some of the best-loved children's stories like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. He still produces films today, and sometimes he shows some of his drawings and cartoons at exhibitions around the world.

第三单元 第30页 阅读练习5 一种新型的超级英雄 蒂姆·伯顿是美国最著名的电影导演之一。 他最受欢迎的电影包括：《蝙蝠侠》（1989）、《剪刀手爱德华》（1990）、《蝙蝠侠归来》（1992）和《小飞象》（2019）。 1990年，他凭借动画片《甲壳虫汁》获得了日间艾美奖 1991年，他凭借《剪刀手爱德华》获得雨果奖。 蒂姆从小就看恐怖电影和动画片。 他读埃德加·爱伦·坡的恐怖故事，他喜欢画画。 他还在自家后花园拍摄短片。 离开学校后，伯顿学习了动画。 然后，他在华特迪士尼工作室找到了一份工作。 他是个很好的动画师，但他没有画出迪士尼风格的画。 于是，他离开了迪士尼，开始制作自己的电影。 他最成功的电影之一是《蝙蝠侠》。 起初，当蒂姆·伯顿选择喜剧演员迈克尔·基顿饰演蝙蝠侠时，人们很沮丧。 蝙蝠侠是一个比普通人更高、更强壮的超级英雄，而迈克尔·基顿则太矮了。 他身高1.75米，实际上是有史以来最矮的蝙蝠侠演员。 然而，这部电影非常成功，每个人都喜欢迈克尔·基顿饰演的蝙蝠侠。 蒂姆·伯顿笔下最有趣的角色之一是剪刀手爱德华。 这个角色的想法来自伯顿在高中时画的一幅画。 爱德华不是人，他有剪刀而不是手。 在电影中，约翰尼·德普扮演爱德华。 然而，他在电影中的角色并不像蒂姆·伯顿的原作那么可怕。 在他最近的一部电影《小飞象》中， 大象小飞象的耳朵比其他大象大，他们嘲笑他。 然而，他的大耳朵是一个优势。他能飞。 这部新电影比迪士尼的老电影更令人兴奋， 但CGI大象并不像1941年电影中的卡通大象那么可爱。 剧情发生了一些变化，但这部新电影仍然和老电影一样悲伤。 蒂姆·伯顿执导过许多其他电影， 包括一些最受欢迎的儿童故事，如《查理和巧克力工厂》和《爱丽丝梦游仙境》。 他至今仍在制作电影，有时他会在世界各地的展览上展示他的一些绘画和漫画。

Page 32 PRONUNCIATION exercise 1 Why don't we go to the cinema? We can see The Monster in the Computer. Tammy Baker plays the monster. Well ... there's also River Adventure. Tom Webster's a doctor in it. I know he's a better actor than Tammy Baker but River Adventure is a lot longer. If we see the shorter film, we can have dinner after. OK – it looks much funnier, too. And let's go to the Super Burger for dinner! Page 32 PRONUNCIATION exercise 3 Why don't we go to the cinema? We can see The Monster in the Computer. Tammy Baker plays the monster. Well ... there's also River Adventure. Tom Webster's a doctor in it. I know he's a better actor than Tammy Baker but River Adventure is a lot longer. If we see the shorter film, we can have dinner after. OK – it looks much funnier, too. And let's go to the Super Burger for dinner! Page 33 LISTENING exercise 7 Most of you will know what Lego is – the small coloured building bricks for children. Well, today we're with local girl Emma Harding, who's just won a prize for her Lego film. So, Emma, well done, how does it feel? Well, very cool. I was school when I heard that I'd won. I couldn't wait to get home and tell my Mum and Dad. I was so happy! And I still get emotional now when I think about it. What was the prize? Quite a lot of money! Page 33 LISTENING exercise 8 I'm going to use it to make my next film, I hope. Next film? So you're planning to do another one? Sure. And maybe one day, I'll be a film director full-time. I'd like to work on animated films. Really, you're an artist as well? Kind of – I love drawing and I like writing too. Great. Tell me, how do you go about making a Lego film? I'm sure it's far more difficult than it looks. Erm, it's not difficult but it takes a lot more time than most people think it does. First though, before you start, you should watch some Lego films. They'll give you some ideas. And then, of course, you need some Lego. OK, so what did you do first? Well, first I built the set! There was a Lego castle and a lake and two Lego mountains. I built everything with Lego. Then of course you need to get yourself a camera. Or you need to find a friend with a camera! So which did you do: get yourself a camera or find a friend with a camera? A friend with a camera. Her name's Lily and she helped me make the film. She took the photos and I moved the characters. And what about lighting? That was easy. We used two desk lamps. Then I suppose you also needed a good story. . Yeah, I already had the script. Lily read it and she had some ideas, too. And together we made the script a little better. We had to make it much shorter too. And then ... Were you ready to film? No ... we practised moving the characters first and we had some fun doing that. So what came next? We took a lot of photos. How many? Let's see. For every second of film there were more than 10 photos. Actually there're 18 photos per second. Eighteen photos look a lot better than 10 photos. It looks a lot more professional. So how many photos did you take? The film is 20 seconds long and we took 360 photos. Wow. So just one more question. When can we see your next film? Well, I only have a script – oh, and it's not a Lego film. Oh, right. So what is the new film about?

第32页 拨款练习1 我们为什么不去看电影呢？我们可以看到电脑里的怪物。 塔米·贝克扮演怪物。 好。..还有河流探险。汤姆·韦伯斯特是这方面的医生。 我知道他比塔米·贝克演得好，但《河流历险记》要长得多。 如果我们看短片，我们可以在之后吃晚饭。 好的，它看起来也更有趣。 我们去超级汉堡吃晚饭吧！ 第32页 拨款练习3 我们为什么不去看电影呢？我们可以看到电脑里的怪物。 塔米·贝克扮演怪物。 好。..还有河流探险。汤姆·韦伯斯特是这方面的医生。 我知道他比塔米·贝克演得好，但《河流历险记》要长得多。 如果我们看短片，我们可以在之后吃晚饭。 好的，它看起来也更有趣。 我们去超级汉堡吃晚饭吧！ 第33页 听力练习7 你们大多数人都知道乐高是什么——为儿童设计的彩色小积木。 好吧，今天我们和当地女孩艾玛·哈丁在一起，她刚刚凭借乐高电影获奖。 那么，艾玛，做得好，感觉怎么样？ 嗯，很酷。当我听说我赢了时，我正在上学。 我迫不及待地想回家告诉爸爸妈妈。我太高兴了！ 现在，当我想到这件事时，我仍然会情绪化。 奖品是什么？ 相当多的钱！ 第33页 听力练习8 我希望我会用它来制作我的下一部电影。 下一部电影？所以你打算再做一次？ 当然。也许有一天，我会成为一名全职电影导演。 我想拍动画电影。 真的，你也是艺术家吗？ 我喜欢画画，也喜欢写作。 太棒了告诉我，你是怎么拍乐高电影的？ 我敢肯定，这比看起来要困难得多。 嗯，这并不难，但需要的时间比大多数人想象的要长得多。 不过，在开始之前，你应该先看一些乐高电影。 他们会给你一些想法。然后，当然，你需要一些乐高玩具。 好吧，那你先做了什么？ 好吧，首先我建了布景！ 有一座乐高城堡、一个湖泊和两座乐高山。 我用乐高做了所有的东西。 当然，你需要给自己买一台相机。 或者你需要找一个带相机的朋友！ 那么，你做了什么：给自己买一台相机还是找一个带相机的朋友？ 一个带着相机的朋友。 她叫莉莉，她帮我拍了这部电影。 她拍了照片，我移动了角色。 那么照明呢？ 这很容易。我们用了两个台灯。 那我想你也需要一个好故事。 . 是的，我已经拿到剧本了。 莉莉读了它，她也有了一些想法。 我们一起把剧本做得更好。 我们也必须把它缩短很多。 然后。你准备好拍摄了吗？ 不。..我们先练习移动角色，这样做很有趣。 那么接下来呢？ 我们拍了很多照片。 多少？ 让我们看看。电影的每一秒都有10多张照片。 实际上，每秒有18张照片。 18张照片比10张照片好看多了。 它看起来更专业。 你拍了多少张照片？ 这部电影有20秒长，我们拍了360张照片。 哇！所以，还有一个问题。 我们什么时候能看你的下一部电影？ 好吧，我只有一个剧本——哦，这不是一部乐高电影。 哦，对了。那么这部新电影是关于什么的？

Page 34 READING exercise 2 THE HISTORY OF Watching TV The changing world of TV Television (TV) has been in people's homes since the 1930s, but our way of watching TV has changed significantly over the years. In the 1950s, families that had TVs, only had one TV set and three channels to choose from. Nowadays, we can watch a TV show on many different devices, anywhere and at any time of the day or night. Consequently, our generation is watching TV more frequently than any other generation before. TV as a family activity TVs were luxury items in the 1950s, and the families that did have one had to sit very close to it as the screens were very small. Then in the 1960s, TVs became cheaper and more families owned one. Most people had a TV in their livingroom and families sat together and watched their favourite shows. Oh, and there was no 'Watch next episode' button. People had to wait patiently for a week to watch the next part of their favourite soap opera. Non-stop drama Then, in the mid-2000s, TV broadcasters started to make programmes available via the internet. It was called on-demand TV and became very popular because people could choose when they wanted to watch a programme. Now, you could watch an episode of a sitcom straight away. Instead of watching one episode, people happily binge-watched six hours of their favourite TV series in one afternoon. Drama series became like one long film. And if you missed a documentary or an episode of your favourite reality show, you could easily watch it online later. During this decade, far fewer people sat down with their families to watch a TV show. However, people still preferred to watch major sports events (such as the FlFA World Cup) live. The rise in screen time In the 2010s, children and young adults began to watch much less broadcast TV than in the past. They watched their entertainment on smartphones, games consoles and via streaming services. This meant they could watch a show more easily at any time. Now, people spend more hours watching TV. In fact, the average person in Britain spends almost ten years of their life watching TV! As well as watching a show, they also need to read all the posts about it quickly, and tweet about it, too. This adds up to a lot more screen time.

第34页 阅读练习2 看电视的历史 不断变化的电视世界 电视（TV）自20世纪30年代以来一直在人们的家中， 但这些年来，我们看电视的方式发生了很大变化。 在20世纪50年代，有电视的家庭只有一台电视机和三个频道可供选择。 如今，我们可以在许多不同的设备上观看电视节目， 无论白天还是黑夜，无论何时何地。 因此，我们这一代人比以往任何一代人都更频繁地看电视。 电视作为一种家庭活动 电视在20世纪50年代是奢侈品， 而那些确实有一个的家庭不得不坐得离它很近，因为屏幕很小。 然后在20世纪60年代，电视变得更便宜，更多的家庭拥有一台。 大多数人的客厅里都有一台电视，家人坐在一起看他们最喜欢的节目。 哦，而且没有“观看下一集”按钮。 人们不得不耐心等待一周才能观看他们最喜欢的肥皂剧的下一部分。 不间断的戏剧 然后，在2000年代中期， 电视广播公司开始通过互联网提供节目。 它被称为点播电视 它变得非常受欢迎，因为人们可以选择什么时候看节目。 现在，你可以直接看一集情景喜剧。 人们在一个下午愉快地狂看了六个小时他们最喜欢的电视剧，而不是看一集。 这部连续剧就像一部长篇电影。 如果你错过了一部纪录片或你最喜欢的真人秀节目的一集，你可以稍后在网上轻松观看。 在这十年里，与家人坐在一起看电视节目的人要少得多。 然而，人们仍然更喜欢观看大型体育赛事（如FlFA世界杯）的现场直播。 屏幕时间的增加 在2010年代，儿童和年轻人开始比过去少看广播电视。 他们通过智能手机、游戏机和流媒体服务观看娱乐节目。 这意味着他们可以随时更轻松地观看节目。 现在，人们花更多的时间看电视。 事实上，英国人一生中平均有近十年的时间在看电视！ 除了观看节目，他们还需要快速阅读所有关于它的帖子，并在推特上发布。 这增加了更多的屏幕时间。

Page 36 DEVELOPING SPEAKING exercise 1 Hi, Josh. Have you got a moment? I'd like some help with a Maths question. Hey, Megan. Sure. How can I help? Is everything OK? Looks like you haven't slept for about a week! Well, I didn't sleep much last night. Or the night before. In fact, I haven't slept well for three nights. Why not? It's that new drama – The Big Show. It came out last week. It's fantastic. And last night I watched it until ... well, quite late. How late? Well, three o'clock in the morning. I watched all 20 episodes in three nights. Wow! I'm not surprised you're tired and can't concentrate. But it's so good! Last night there were only two more episodes to watch, I had to keep going. It's like running a long race – it starts to hurt but you have to carry on! My parents always tell me not to give up halfway through something. But you shouldn't stay up all night. I know. But it's brilliant. Anyway – could you help me with the Maths problem? Please? Here, have a look at this. A book!? Yes, it explains everything. Just don't fall asleep while you're reading it, OK? Oh come on, Josh! Please help me. Sorry, I can't. I've got to go now. So, you'll have to do it yourself after all. Oh, and guess what? You've got ten minutes to do it before the lesson starts!

第36页 发展口语练习1 嗨，乔希。你有空吗？我想在数学问题上得到一些帮助。 嘿，梅根。当然。我能帮上什么忙吗？ 一切还好吗？看来你已经一个星期没睡觉了！ 嗯，我昨晚没睡多少。或者前一天晚上。 事实上，我已经三个晚上没睡好了。 为什么不呢？ 这就是新剧《大戏》。它上周出版了。 太棒了。昨晚我一直在看。..好吧，很晚了。 多晚了？嗯，凌晨三点。 我在三个晚上看了全部20集。 哇！你累了，无法集中注意力，我并不感到惊讶。 但它太棒了！昨晚只剩下两集了，我不得不继续看。 这就像跑一场长跑——它开始疼了，但你必须继续！ 我父母总是告诉我不要半途而废。 但你不应该熬夜。 我知道。但它太棒了。 不管怎样，你能帮我解决这道数学题吗？拜托？ 来，看看这个。 一本书！？ 是的，它解释了一切。 读的时候别睡着，好吗？ 哦，得了吧，乔希！请帮帮我。 对不起，我不能去。我得走了。 所以，毕竟你必须自己做。 哦，你猜怎么着？上课前你有十分钟的时间做这件事！