把英语影视欣赏融入高中课堂教学的探索（共5则）

第一篇：把英语影视欣赏融入高中课堂教学的探索

把英语影视欣赏融入高中课堂教学的探索

【摘要】：英文影视欣赏作为辅助英语学习的有效教学资源，在现今的高中英语教学中发挥着不可替代的作用；如何利用英文电影丰富的语言素材和有效的教学资源，提高英语学习者语感、对语言的直接理解能力、听说能力、跨文化交际能力等语言综合技能，培养他们积极的情感态度，助其形成正确的人生观、价值观和审美观，拓宽学习者知识面。

【关键词】：英文电影 教学资源 课堂教学 学习兴趣

一、引言

新课程标准规定：一个合格的高中毕业生的英语水平最起码应该达到七级；进入高等学校继续学习，则应达到八级或九级。新课程标准对八级的听力技能要求是这样描述的：“能识别不同语气所表达的不同情感；能听懂有关熟悉话题的讨论和谈话并记住要点；能抓住一般语段中的观点；能基本听懂广播或电视英语新闻的主题或大意；能听懂委婉的建议或劝告等。” [1] 显然，我们很难单纯利用教科书达到这种要求。

二、课程开设的理论依据

心理学家 Treidler 的实验表明 ：人类获取的信息83.5%来自于视觉、11%来自于听觉、3.5% 来自于嗅觉、1% 来自于触觉、1% 来

自于味觉。人们一般可记住自己看到内容的10%、听到内容的 20%、听到和看到内容的50%。由此可见,人类获取的知识来自多个方面, 其中视觉和听觉是人们获取信息的主要渠道。

“任务驱动” 是一种建立在建构主义教学理论基础上的教学法。在整个教学过程中,教师首先把教学内容设计在单个的任务中,让学 生以分组完成任务的方式掌握学习内容。在学生完成任务的同时培养学生的创新意识和创新能力以及自主学习的习惯,引导他们会如何去发现、如何去思考、如何去寻找解决问题的方法,最终让学生自己提出问题,并经过思考,自己解决问题。

三、电影欣赏是新课改下英语教学的需要 1.素质教育的需要 学生的教育除书本知识的教育，素质教育也尤为重要。外语教学中应以学生的发展为宗旨，寓思想教育于语言教学中，在教学过程中有机地渗透爱国主义、社会主义和思想品德教育。帮助学生形成健全的人格和良好的品德。通过优秀电影欣赏，能提高学生的审美情操，激发爱国热情，培养独立的人格。新课改的需要。

2.学生认知心理的需要

学生在学习同样的材料时，如能同时使用视觉、听觉，比单用听觉学习效果好。在英语课程中利用优秀英语电影进行欣赏能够激发学生的学习兴趣、提高学生的认知需求并巩固学生的认知成果。它能调动学生的视听器官和其他器官，达到最有效的语言学习目的。

3.教育现代化的进程使多媒体辅助教学成为推进英语教学改革的必然选择。高中英语教师必须确立新的教学理念，学习并探讨在教学的各个环节上使用多媒体来改进高中英语教学的方法和手段以取得最佳的教学效果。电影教学以其集声、形、貌于一体的特点在英语教学中的运用正体现了这一点，它是教学改革的需要。

四、开展英语电影教学应遵循的重要原则

要上好电影赏析课，提高课堂教学效率,使课堂教学有别于学生自己欣赏影片,教师需要按照以下原则来组织教学。

1.循序渐进

选择什么样的电影对开展英语电影教学的效果有着决定性的作用。开始的时候,可以选择故事情节简单、人物少、语音清晰、画面内容丰富的电影来学习。这样做有助于学生通过电影的情节猜出语言的含义，避免在教学中因听不懂、看不懂而导致学习疲劳。通过教学实践,我认为比较适合于英语电影选修课的影片是：《音乐之声》(Sound of Music)、《海底总动员》〈 Finding Nemo 〉、《魂断蓝桥》(Water-loo Bridge)等。而《卡萨布兰卡》虽然人物少 ,情节比较简单,但对自语速较快,不宜在课程开始的时候使用。同样 ,《傲慢与偏见》虽然是名著名片,但人物、情节复杂,也不适合在初始阶段使用。《阿甘正传》〈 Forest Gump 〉、《飘》(Gone With the Wind)等影片则可以在经过一段时间的教学后使用。

2.思想教育与英语学习并重

随着信息技术的发展,人们观看电影的渠道很多,可以去影院观看,也可以通过 DVD、VCD 和互联网来观看，从开阔学生的视野、丰富学生的文化生活的角度来看,这是件好事。但有些影片,甚至有些题材不错的影片,在内容、语言等方面的确不适合青少年观看。作为老师 ,我们虽然无法阻止学生去看什么样的电影,但我们可以引导他们欣赏优秀的影片如 ：利用影片《魂断蓝桥》对学生进行热爱和平的教育;通过《阿甘正传》和 “Goal” 进行世界观和人生观的教育;通过影片 “Jingle All the Way”感受美国的圣诞节和圣诞文化。

另外 ,好的影片是英语学习的一种重要资源,教师不仅可以让学生欣赏、学习经过精心挑选的台词,而且还可以复习近平时课堂所学的 英语知识。

3.激励学生参与

英语电影选修课的教学必须体现以学生为本的思想。要做到这一点,教师必须明确教学目标,精选影片片段,借助PPT 和网络资源,设计出能充分调动学生学习兴趣。激励学生参与的教学活动。例如：在上《音乐之声》单元时，我利用 PPT 加视频 ,就国外音乐剧《猫》、《剧院魅影》、《狮子王》和中国原创音乐剧《金沙》设计了音乐剧知识竞赛,让学生了解音乐剧,激发他们的学习兴趣。另外,在课堂上我还采用了多种活动形式：朗读、模仿表演、角色配音、问题讨论和话题辩论等。

五、电影欣赏在高中英语教学中的作用

学生作为个体有求得自身充分发展的内在需求。为了满足学生在身体、智慧、情感、态度、价值观和社会适应性等方面的全面和谐发展，英语课程设置正在走向多元、综合和均衡。而英语影视欣赏作为辅助英语学习的有效的教学资源，具有重要作用。

1.影视欣赏课有效提高了学生的语言技能

在对学生英语听、说能力的培养过程中，要创造一定的听、说环境。听、说是一种语言交流，若没有一个语言环境，要想提高学生的听、说能力则很难。电影欣赏在高中英语教学特别是听、说能力教学中的应用，可以实现文字、图画、声音、影象的有机结合，创造一个立体的语言环境，为学生提供了一个活动而真实的场景，使学生身临其境。让学生能够充分利用视觉、听觉的认知，产生对语 3 言学习的兴趣，从而更加激发学生对英语学习的热情。

2.传播英语国家文化，培养学生的跨文化意识

语言的习得过程绝不仅仅是单纯的语言知识和技能的学习过程，也是文化习得的过程。由于受到母语以及本国意识文化的影响，学生在对英语国家的人、事、物的理解上会有偏差，因此在语言学习及交流中就会遇到许多问题，例如，对词义的曲解，问及被英美人认为是隐私的年龄、财产、婚姻等问题及礼仪上的冒失。而英语电影是英语国家现实社会的浓缩，负载着大量的信息。影片中所呈现的社会状况、生活方式、风土人情、节日习俗、礼仪习惯和自然风光等会加深学生对英语国家的了解，增强他们的跨文化意识。

3.培养学生积极的情感态度，助其形成正确的人生观和价值观

基础教育阶段的英语教育有责任和义务培养学生积极向上的情感态度。学生在学习英语时的障碍及传统英语教学的弊端，使得英语学习成为一些学生的负担。有些学生在英语课上变得消极、沉默、麻木、呆板、焦虑和胆怯。这些消极的情感态度严重影响学习潜力的发挥。影视欣赏课的教学内容和课堂模式在一定程度上转变了学生对英语学习的紧张和厌恶。在电影课上学生们所表现出的浓厚的学习兴趣、大胆参与的精神和活泼开朗的个性慢慢延伸到了整个英语学习过程，提高了学习效果。同时，一些教育性的励志影片，如 《当幸福来敲门》、《铁腕校长》、《浩劫重生》或《弦动我心》等展现出的主人公的爱国精神、不屈不挠的求生品质、不懈追求理想的决心和勇于克服困难的意志都引导学生树立正确的人生观和价值观。

总而言之，英文原版电影的语言来自于真实的语言环境，文化内容丰富，在英语教学过程中的优越性有很大的利用价值和开发潜力。它不仅是学习英语的理想工具，还是熟悉和了解外国文化的很好材料，特别是它对于生活化语言和西方社会文化的传递，具有其他语言教学模式不可比拟的优势。一部好的电影蕴含着丰富的知识量，教师的课前准备工作也是相当重要的。如果教学方法得当，对英语语言学习者会起到事半功倍的效果。因此，作为英语电影欣赏课的教师，要对影视作品进行详细的准备和加工，设计好欣赏的目的和问题清单，组织有意义的教学讨论，努力探索教学方法，从真正意义上把英语学“活”。

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中小学英语教

第二篇：英语影视欣赏教案

Teaching Plan Appreciating English from the Screen

英语影视作品欣赏

Finding Nemo

授课学时3 第一课时：

教学目标：

1.通过看电影培养学生英语学习的兴趣，提高英语的听说能力，增强用英语表达思想的信心

2.提高学生的听力和口语

3.通过欣赏，练习片段，使学生能够进行简单的配音或是能够表演出其中自己欣赏的小片段。教学重点：

1.了解剧情，在老师的引导下根据自己的理解用英语简单说出自己对电影的理解。

2.给电影小片段配音 教学方法 ：

教师讲解，学生分组讨论和观看影片 教学过程：

1.介绍电影背景。通过幻灯片出示电影片头，和电影海报，带学生初步感知电影，引起他们的兴趣。由于这部电影很有名，估计有的同学已经看过，让学生讨论，说出对这部电影的初步认识，教师讲

解电影背景及大概剧情，调动学生的积极性。

影片介绍 主角是一对可爱的小丑鱼(Clownfish)父子。父亲玛林和儿子尼莫一直在澳洲外海大堡礁中过着安定而'幸福'的平静生活。鱼爸爸玛林一直谨小慎微，行事缩手缩脚，虽然已经身为人父，却丝毫不会影响它成为远近闻名的胆小鬼。也正因为这一点，儿子尼莫常常与玛林发生争执，甚至有那么一点瞧不起自己的父亲。直到有一天，一直向往到海洋中冒险的尼莫，游出了他们所居住的珊瑚礁。正当尼莫想要舒展一下小尾巴的时候，一艘渔船毫不留情地将欢天喜地的尼莫捕走，并将它辗转卖到澳洲悉尼湾内的一家牙医诊所。

在大堡礁的海底，心爱的儿子突然生死未卜的消息，对于鱼爸爸玛林来说却无异于晴天霹雳。尽管胆小尽管怕事，现在为了救回心爱的孩子，玛林也就只有豁出去了。它决心跟上澳洲洋流，踏上寻找自己儿子的漫漫征程。

虽说是已下定决心，但这并不代表玛林可以在一夜之间抛弃自己怯懦的性格。途中与大白鲨布鲁斯的几次惊险追逐，很快便令它萌生退意，险些使父子重聚的希望化为泡影。但幸运的是，玛林遇到了来自撒马力亚(Samaritan)的蓝唐王鱼(Regal Blue Tang)多瑞(Dory)。多瑞是一只热心助人、胸怀宽广的大鱼。虽然严重的健忘症常常搞得玛林哭笑不得，但是有多瑞在身边做伴，却也渐渐令玛林明白了如何用勇气与爱战胜自己内心的恐惧，也懂得了一生中有一些事情的确是值得自己去冒险去努力的道理。

就这样，两条鱼在辽阔的太平洋上的冒险使它们交到了形形色色的朋友，也遭遇了各式各样的危机。而鱼爸爸玛林也终于克服万难，与儿子团聚并安全地回到了自己的家乡。过去那个甚至连自己儿子都瞧不起的胆小鬼玛林，经过这次的考验后成为了儿子眼中真正的英雄！一场亲情团聚的大戏，就此在充满泪水的眼睛中落下了帷幕。

2.观看电影的前半部分。

作业：记下电影中你印象最深的片段，查出它们的英文台词。标出有疑问的词及句子。

第二课时

教学目标：

1.通过汇报自己所掌握的台词及记住的情节，提高英语的听说能力，增强用英语表达思想的信心

2.提高学生的听力和口语 教学重点：

1.把自己受激的台词分享给大家 2.跟进一步认真的欣赏电影 教学方法 ：

学生分组讨论，教师适时点拨和观看影片

Teaching step：

1、教师带领同学简单回顾一下上半集电影内容，找三到五个同学汇报一下他们课下查出的英文台词。大家共同分享。

2、同学提出不明白的台词，学生共同讨论解决，教师适当点拨。

3、继续观看电影。

作业：记下电影中你印象最深的片段，查出它们的英文台词并把两节课所记的单词、句子通过各种渠道读熟弄懂。分组表演自己喜欢的片段。

第三课时

教学目标：

1.使学生通过分享台词及自己的心得体会，加深对剧情的了解，体会电影主题。

2.总结经典台词，提高学生词汇量。

3.通过欣赏，练习片段，使学生能够进行简单的配音或是能够表演出其中自己欣赏的小片段。提高学生的听力与口语。教学重点：

1.帮学生记住经典台词。2.给电影小片段配音 教学方法 ：

教师讲解，学生分组讨论和观看影片

Teaching step：

1、通过幻灯片和学生一起回顾整个电影的主要内容。请学生汇报自己所查找的电影台词对白。教师总结经典台词：

1.Good thing I was here.If I hadn't shown up--还好我在这里— 2.He wasn't going to go.-He was too afraid.-他不会去的-没错,他胆小

3.No, I wasn't.不,不小

4.This does not concern you, kids...好了,孩子们 我不怪你们...5.and you're lucky I don't tell your parents.我也不会把今天的事 告诉你们家长

6.You know you can't swim well.你明知道你的游泳技术不行

7.I can swim fine, Dad, OK? 我行,老爸,你让我去吧!

8.No, it's not OK.You shouldn't be near here.不,不行,你不该来这种地方

9.OK, I was right.You'll start school in a year or two.看来,我是对了.我决定了 过两年我们再上学吧

10.No, Dad!Just because you're scared of the ocean--不,老爸!你不能 因为害怕大海就—

11.Clearly, you're not ready...显然你还没准备好...Marlin: Dory, do you see anything? Dory: Aah!Something's got me.Marlin: That was me.I am sorry.Dory: Who's that? Marlin: Who's that could it be? It's me.Dory: Are you my conscience? Marlin: Yeah, yeah.I am your conscience.We haven't spoken for a while.How are you? Dory: Can't complain.Marlin: Yeah? Good.Now Dory, I want you to tell me—Do you

see anything? Dory: I see a … I see a light.Marlin: A light? Dory: Yeah.Over there.Hey, conscience, am I dead? Marlin: No.I see it, too.What is it? Dory: It's so pretty Marlin: I am feeling happy, which is a big deal for me.Dory: I want to touch it.Marlin: Hey, come back.Come on back here.Dory: I am gonna get you.Marlin: I am gonna swim with you.I am gonna be your best friend.Good feeling's gone.2、观摩经典片段17′～21′，给学生十分钟左右分组练习配音.台词： Wait 等一下

-Will you quit it?Wait a minute.It's about time, mate.我找到同伴了 你总算找到了

We've already gone through the snacks...咱们把点心吃完还是很饿

We've already gone through the snacks...and I'm still starving.We almost had a feeding frenzy.差点就要大开吃戒

Come on, let's get this over with.咱们这就开始吧

Right, then.The meeting has officially come to order.好吧，会议正式开始

Let us all say the pledge.咱们一起宣誓

I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine.我是好鲨鱼 不是杀人机器

If I am to change this image...如果我想改变形象 就要先改变自己

I must first change myself.Fish are friends, not food.鱼是朋友、不是食物

Except stinkin' dolphins.除了海豚以外

Dolphins.Yeah.They think they're so cute.臭海豚，自以为很可爱

“Look at me.I'm a flippin' little dolphin.瞧，我会跳耶，我跳给你看 ”Let me flip for you.Ain't I something?"

Right, then.Today's meeting is Step 5...好吧，今天是第五阶段 带一个鱼朋友回来

Bring a Fish Friend.Do you all have your friends? 你们带来没有？ Got mine.How about you, Chum? 我有 你好 小沉，你呢？

I seem to have misplaced my friend.我的鱼朋友不见了

That's all right, Chum.我就知道你会忍不住 我替你带了一个鱼朋友 I had a feeling this would be a difficult step.You can help yourself to one of my friends.Thanks, mate.A little chum for Chum, eh? 谢了，老友 小沉的好朋友 I'll start the testimonies.我先做见证

Hello.My name is Bruce.大家好，我是布鲁斯

Hello, Bruce.How about you, Chum? 你好，布鲁斯

Hey, there.Amen.你

好

伟

大

哦!

没错 Right, then.Who's next? 下一个是谁？

Pick me, pick me.选我啦

Yes.The little Sheila down the front.好吧，前面的这位小姐 Come on up here.Hi.I'm Dory.请上来!嗨，我是多莉 Hello, Dory.I don't think I've ever eaten a fish 你好，多莉!我这辈子连一条鱼都没吃过

Good on you, mate.真是了不起 做得好，小妹子

I'm glad I got that off my chest.能一吐为快感觉真好 All right, anyone else? 还有人要说吗？

How about you, mate? What's your problem? 你呢？你有什么问题？

Me? I don't have a problem.我？ 我没有问题

Oh, OK.才怪Denial.驼鸟心态

4、请学生汇报表演配音。选出最佳的一组，给予奖励。

第三篇：假期英语影视欣赏

暑期英语影视欣赏

电影，以生动活泼的画而来塑造人物形象．讲述某个故事，抒发某类情感，说明某种道理，己经成了人们喜闻乐见一种艺术形式。对英语学习者来说，外语影片有利于我们了解西方文化．学习电影艺术的美学价值．掌握英语语言风格．丰富语言文化知识和技能。它具有其他英语学习方法不可替代的作用。

1．提高英语听力水平，锻炼口语表达能力。英语电影中说的英语大多数带着角色专有的气质、情感、13音等特征，是真正的英语口语。因此，从听开始着手使听与说成为学习开始阶段的主要方式进行外语教学。而看英文电影是培养学生听说能力的最直接、最有效的方法。电影中的精彩对白、原汁原味的英语环境，给我们提供了一个练习听力和13语的极好机会

2．观看英语电影可以帮助学生扩展词汇。看英文电影可为学生的口语词汇充电。怎样讲出地道的英语?表达时用上地道的词汇，不仅可使语言形象．生动，还可以体现出深厚的文化底蕴。如：Do you know how feel about you?／I feel like walking through fire for you!”这种衷心的表达难道不远比我们熟知的l love you更有震撼力吗?

3.背诵黄金句型，模仿经典对白。背诵是英语学习的有效手段，如果你能准确流畅地背诵一批电影的精彩对白，你在英语交流时就会得心应手。通过模仿句子．可把句子读得准确流畅，训练学生的发音和说话能力。

4．熟悉整部电影内容。用英语概括故事情节。通过概括故事情节。用精确的语言把故事大意概括出来，不但可以加深学生对电影的理解，还可提高学生应用英语语言的能力．使听说读写能力得到全面发展。总之，在外语学习中，英文电影是非常好的教学素材起着重要的作用。

按照新课程课本教材各模块每个单元的主题，我们精选了语言贴近生活，文化特色鲜明，思想性上佳的英文影视作品，鼓励大家利用假期，欣赏以下影片。通过欣赏以下影片可以帮助我们获取与课本内容相关的语言和文化精髓。

模块一

Unit 1 Friendship

Cast away《荒岛余生》

Friends 《老友记》

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》

Once upon a Time in America 《美国往事》

Unit 2 English around the world

The Holiday 《恋爱假期》

Notting Hill《诺丁山》

Unit 3 Travel journal

Out of Africa 《走出非洲》

The Motorcycle Diaries 《摩托车日记》

Unit 4 Earthquakes

National Geographic Anatomy: Of an Earthquakes 10.5 : Apocalypse 《毁灭日记》The Great Los Angeles Earthquake 《洛城大地震》

Unit 5 Nelson Mandela---a modern hero

Nelson Mandela 《纳尔逊.曼德拉》

模块二

Unit 1 Cultural relic

BBC: Around the World 80 in Treasures 《BBC：世界八十宝藏》

Time Machine《时移世易》

Unit 2 The Olympic Games

Chariots of Fire 《火之战车》

Olympia 《奥林匹亚》

Million Dollar Mermaid 《出水芙蓉》

Aka Tokyo Olympiad 《1964年东京奥林匹克运动会》

Unit 3 Computers

I, Robot 《我，机械公敌》

Bicentennial Man 《机器管家》

Robots 《机器人历险记》

Unit 4 Wildlife protection

Magic in the Water 《水怪传奇》

Loch Ness 《尼斯湖》

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant 《深湖巨兽》

Lake Wakatipu 《瓦卡蒂普湖》

Unit 5 Music

Sound of Music 《音乐之声》

Music and Lyrics 《Ｋ歌情人》

High School Musical 1 《歌舞青春1》

High School Musical 3 《歌舞青春3》

第四篇：The Legend of 1900英语影视欣赏

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900 is an Italian movie.It is known as one of the Giuseppe Trnatore’ s famous “Searching Trilogy”.The movie tells us a said story about a pianist who lived on the sea all his life.January，1900，the beginning of 20th century, a worker named Danny Boodman on the Virginian—a luxury ship—found a baby was abandoned on the piano.Danny was so warmhearted that he adopted the little boy and he gave the boy a new name Nineteen Hundred because the boy was found in the first month of new century.As time goes, 1900 grew up though they lived in a poor living condition.However, in a serious accident Danny was bad hurt and he went away several days later.1900 became an orphan again.But music saved him from sadness and confusion.1900 is quite gifted in music especially in piano and he became the pianist of the ship.1900 never go ashore but he can imagine the world outside the ship wonderfully.1900 lived a calm life until he met Max who was badly seasickness in a serious sea storm.Max was good at play trumpet and he appreciated 1900’s music.Max became 1900’s good friend soon.He told 1900 how is the outside world like and encourage 1900 go ashore because he held the view that 1900’s music would bring wealth and honor.But 1900 didn’t agree to leave because he knew nothing about outside so that he didn’t want to go out to see what the world really is.For 1900, the world is too remote.It came to a turning point when 1900 met a beautiful girl.After a couple of long voyage, 1900 decided to go ashore and to see the girl.On the day he left, all sailor waved hands to say goodbye to 1900.1900 put on the coat that Max gave him.He went down the stairs carefully, step by step, with his small suitcase.He saw the town, the street, the smoke from the high chimney.Suddenly he threw his hat to the ground and turn back to the ship.He said he would never go ashore again.1900 lost the world from then on.At the end of the movie, 1900 was disappeared in the sea with Virginian.Maybe this is his best choice.After watching the movie, I still remember a lot of details of the story, which moved me so much.I can’t forget Boodman taught 1900 reading on news paper.I can’t forget the smiling face on 1900 when he went through the hall playing piano in the sea storm.I can’t forget 1900’s confusion on his face when he was going to go ashore.1900 was so gifted but he was so lonely.In that world of movie, Max was the only person who knew his wonderful music after his death.Outside the screen, we feel the loneliness of 1900 and we will remember this talented pianist who spent all his life on sea.The said ending make me think about life and many complex things.The Legend Of 1900 is a movie really rewarding to see.

第五篇：英语影视欣赏课题Love

Love---Four Weddings and a Funeral

Preview 知识预测

1.Do you believe in “love at first sight”? Why or why not?

2.What is your interpretation of true love?

3.What makes a person get a happy marriage?

4.Have you attended any weddings? Describe a wedding which leaves you a deep impression.5.What kind of wedding do you expect?

Overview 知识概述

Background Information

Release Year: 1994Running Time: 117 minutes Genres: Comedy/ Romance/ DramaDirector：Mike Newell

Screenwriter: Richard Curtis

Awards: Won 4 BAFTA Awards(1995): Best Film, Best Director(Mike Newell), Best Actor(Hugh Grant), Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Kristin Scott Thomas);Won Golden Globe Award(1994)for Best Actor(Hugh Grant).Main Characters

Hugh Grant as Charles: a bewildered, silver-tongued English fellow who is fearful of commitment yet fascinated by a breezy American girl, Carrie.Andie MacDowell as Carrie: a charming American girl who has had more of her share in the romance category and doesn’t like to play games.If she wants something, and that something wants her, then go for it.James Fleet as Tom: the wandering love-starved gent of the group, who desperately hopes to find love one day.Simon Callow as Gareth: a boisterous character who unofficially presides over the merrymaking.John Hannah as Matthew: Matthew and Gareth is a gay couple.Kristin Scott Thomas as Fiona: a young lady who is desperate to get on with her love life.She finds it hard to do so when the only love(Charles)she still thinks about is an old flame.David Bower as David : Charles’ disabled brother who supports Charles to get his true love.Charlotte Coleman as Scarlett: a frisk, hot-tempered personality who had some of the flashiest, funniest moments.Her character also showed a deeply emotional and centered look upon life.Rowan Atkinson as Gerald: a priest on probation.His performance at the second wedding is the most bellyaching laugh attack.Cultural Notes In UK, before the wedding ceremony starts, the ushers hand out the correct books, flowers and the order of service on the guests’ arrival.They also ensure the guests are seated in the correct places.Traditionally, the side on which people sit depends on whether they are friends or family of the bride or of the groom.The front rows are generally reserved for close family or friends, with the very first seats reserved for the bridal party.The groom and his best man wait inside the church for the arrival of the bride and her “entourage” who arrive in elegant cars or in horse-drawn coaches, specially hired for the occasion.The bride then proceeds down the aisle, escorted by her father, to the accompaniment of music,and the ceremony starts.During the ceremony the bride and groom make their marriage vows.Marriage vows are promises a couple makes to each other during a wedding ceremony.In western culture, these promises have traditionally included the notions of affection(“love, comfort, keep”), faithfulness(“forsaking all others”), unconditionality(“for richer or for poorer”, “in sickness and in health”), and permanence(“as long as we both shall live”, “until death do us part”).Most wedding vows are taken from traditional religious ceremonies.Touching love poems or lyrics from a love song can be revised as wedding vows, rather than relying on standard ones spoken by the celebrant(priest).It is traditional for a couple to exchange wedding rings after they say their vows.The ring exchange is often the part of the wedding that couples remember as the most meaningful.After the wedding ceremony, the bride, groom, officiant, and two witnesses generally go off to a side room to sign the wedding register.Without this the marriage is not legal and a wedding certificate cannot be issued.Afterward, guests file out to throw petals, confetti, birdseed, or rice(uncooked)over the newly-married couple for good luck.Finally, a photographic session ensues of the couple leaving the church.Wystan Hugh Auden is an English-born poet(US citizen)who published as W.H.Auden, widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century.His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content.The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between couple of verses from his poem Funeral Blues(“Stop all the clocks......”)are recited in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.An American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist.He is best known for playing a TV character in the 1970s musical/ sitcom The Partridge Family named Keith Partridge, which turned David Cassidy into the all-time teen idol in the 1970s.Singing on the records of this TV show made him become an international pop star.He enjoyed a successful pop career in the 1970s and still performs today.In Four Weddings and a Funeral, Charles quotes the word of a song by David Cassidy in The Partridge Family---I think I love you.Reinforcement 知识复习

Multiple Choice:

1.The genre of the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral is _______.A.AnimationB.DocumentaryC.HorrorD.Comedy

2.Four Weddings and a Funeral was filmed entirely in _________.A.LoveB.MarriageC.DisasterD.Friendship

3.Four Weddings and a Funeral was filmed entirely in ________.A.the USB.FranceC.the UKD.Japan

4.In the wedding ceremony in UK, the bride proceeds down the aisle, escoted by her ________, to the accompaniment of music, and the ceremony starts.A.MotherB.FatherC.BrotherD.Sister

5.Charles attended the first wedding as ______.A.BridegroomB.Best manC.PriestD.Guest

6.Charles falls in love with Carrie at the _______ sight.A.FirstB.SecondC.ThirdD.Fourth

7.Gerald is a priest on probation, whose performance at _______ is a most bellyaching laugh attack by making quite a few mistakes.A.The first weddingB.The second wedding

B.The third weddingD.The fourth wedding

8.In Four Weddings and a Funeral, to confess his love for Carrie, Charles quotes the word of a song by ________ in The Partridge Family----I think I love you.A.John LemonB.Elton John

C.Elvis PresleyD.David Cassidy

9.A couple of verses from the poem Funeral Blues written by _______ are recited by Matthew in the film.A.HemingwayB.Shakespeare

C.W.H.AudenD.Mark Twain

10.“Bravo” is used to express ________, especially of a performance.A.ApprovalB.Fear

C.DoubtD.Disappointment