摇1 摇 摇 Unit 1 Western Campus Life I. Unit Overview The unit is to find the differences between Chinese campus life and western campus life through showing the features about western campus life. The stories of western campus life in movies have become one of the most mainstream subjects in western movie industry. During nearly one century, with the development of movie industry from the silent era to the present, the movies are not only the simple depictions of the situation of western campus life, but also the development, the boom and the expected future about western campus life. The audiences all over the world start to accept this sort of movies, to be affected by this sort of movies and even to shape the popular perceptions in their own colleges and universities. These depictions of campus life have even altered the attitudes of the students themselv东软电子出版社es, serving as both a mirror of and a model for behavior. II. Key Points & Difficult Points 1.Key Points Western campus life in English movies Memorable quotes in Mean Girls Analyzing western campus life 2.Difficult Points The features of western campus life Analysis of western campus life in Mean Girls Analysis of the differences between Chinese campus and western campus life 摇2 英语电影赏析 3.Solutions 摇 摇 The open questions help the students to think among themselves and discuss with classmates about the topic, and the teacher's explanation helps them enlarge their knowledge and understand the methods of western campus life. With Mean Girls as an example, the students learn to analyze western campus life and find out the differences between Chinese campus and western campus life. The students can achieve the goal of attaining abilities through working out the exercises with the knowledge and skills learned in the unit. 东软电子出版社 Unit 1 Western Campus Life 摇3 摇 摇 摇 Surviving the Western Campus Life 玉.Surviving the Western Campus Life Cady Heron had never known what "high school" truly meant. She lived her first 15 years in the African jungle, home schooled, living life with only her parents and 鄄 the animals of the wilderness, knowing only the rules of the animal kingdom. (Watch the clip of Mean Girls) 域.Western Campus Life and Its Feature The stories of western campus life in movies have become one of the most mainstream subjects in the industry. During the last century, the movie industry grew from the silent era to the present. Movies are not only simple depictions of situational western campus life, but also the development, the boom and the expected future of western campus life. Audiences all over the world are starting to accept these sorts of movies, to be affected by them and even using them to shape popular perceptions of their own colleges 东软电子出版社and universities. These depictions of campus life have even been altering the attitudes of the students themselves, serving as both a mirror and a model for behavior. a) Continuous improvement in study Generally, whether one attends a western campus or a Chinese campus, continuous study is always of prominent importance. Every student is eager to enter a good junior and senior high school as well as a prestigious university. Therefore, working hard is a necessary burden of all students. Elle Woods, inLegally Blonde (2001), had it all. She was the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dated the cutest fraternity boy and wanted nothing more than 摇4 英语电影赏析 to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But there is just one thing stopping Warner from popping the question: Elle is too blonde. Growing up across the street from Aaron Spelling might mean something in LA, but nothing to Warner ' s East Coast blue 鄄 blood family. So, when Warner packed up for Harvard Law and reunited with an old sweetheart from prep school, Elle rallied all her resources and got into Harvard, determined to win him back. However, law school was very different from the comforts of her poolside and the mall. Elle was forced to wage battle every day of her life. She had to be strong for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless stereotypes every day. At last, she found that the only way to succeed in her dreams was to work hard and be the best that she could be. This movie illustrated that studying hard and doing well is just as important to western students as it is to students elsewhere. b) Colorful activities in campus Topics of western campus movies can range anywhere from school admissions, freshman experience, academic work, professor student relations, student romance, fraternity 鄄 and sorority life, sports, political activism, to any other form of extracurricular activities. On a western campus, all sorts of colorful and highly regarded activities can make campus life more meaningful. People from many different countries enjoy watching these stereotypically Western college activities, such as parties, competitions, salons and so on. c) Personal consciousness about life Into the Wild (2007) was a story based on a real life novel. It was written and 鄄 directed by Sean Pen东软电子出版社n. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encountered a series of characters that shape his life. This film is a wonderful glimpse into the life of a western student, wise beyond his years, and the bonds that he created with people along his journey. He was a victim, suffering from an excess of wealth and a shortage of love. Christopher McCandless hid inside his mind and behind knowledge and philosophy, while he built up his intellectual strength, as well as the physical, in order to complete his trek, which ultimately led him to Alaska. This film really showed how the personal consciousness is extremely significant for growth of western students. Unit 1 Western Campus Life 摇5 摇 摇 摇 芋.Mean Girls a)Plot 1 Her parents being zoologists , Cady Heron has never known 1.动物学家 摇 摇 what "high school" truly meant. She lived her first 15 years in the 2 African jungle , home schooled, living life with only her parents and 2.丛林 鄄 3 the animals of the wilderness , knowing all of the rules of survival. 3.荒地 Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady 4 Heron thinks she knows all about the " survival of the fittest ". 4.适者生存 However, when she moves out of Africa, she has to learn the rules of high school, a jungle in itself. The law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home schooled 16 year old enters public 鄄 鄄5 鄄 6 high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare 5.遭遇 and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today. She instantly 6.心理战 makes friends with two sweet teenagers, Damian and Janis. Her new friends warn her to stay away from the Plastics: the A list, popular, 鄄 7.预感 crude7 , and beautiful clique8 headed by Regina George with Gretchen 8.小圈子 and Karen. 9 10 Trying to find her place between jocks , mathletes , and other 9.受欢迎的人 11 12 subcultures , Cady crosses paths with the meanest species of all 10.奥数竞赛者 13 鄄 the Queen Bee, aka the cool and calculating Regina George, leader 11.亚文化群 14 of the school's most fashionable clique , the Plastics. 12.最卑鄙的 However, events turn for the worse when Cady falls for 13.又叫做 Regina's ex boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. When Cady sees Aaron 鄄 14.小圈子 Samuels, she falls in love. When Regina finds out, she seeks revenge15 of Cady by taking Aaron back. When Cady finds out, what 15.报复 报仇 东软电子出版社 , began as a game to discover secrets turns into a plan to destroy Regina. Now, Cady, Janis, and Damian plot16 together to bring 16.密谋 Regina' s status down. Cady gets revenge on her, by feeding her Kalteen bars, which make you put on weight, giving her foot cream for her face, and using the classic three way calling method that 鄄 plenty of girls these day use. However, as Cady spends more time with the Plastics, she, too, begins to become one. Cady becomes a Plastic for real, and Regina gets revenge by writing about herself in the ' Burn Book ' , copying all of the entries, throwing them around the school, then blaming the whole thing on Cady. Everyones hates her. 摇6 英语电影赏析 Cady is away with the Mathletes at a competition. When she 摇 摇 gets to the dance, her name is called as Queen. She apologises17 17.抱歉 for being so cruel to everyone in the 'Burn Book', even though it wasn't her, and breaks up her crown18 , tossing19 bits of it to the 18.王冠 crowd. We then flash forward a year, we see how they got on, 19.丢 with Cady turning into a normal person again b)Cast Lindsay Lohan Cady Heron 摇 摇 …摇 摇 Rachel McAdams Regina George … Lacey Chabert Gretchen Weiners … Amanda Seyfried Karen Smith … Tina Fey Ms. Sharon Norbury … Tim Meadows Principal Ron Duvall … Daniel Franzese Damien … Amy Poehler Mrs. George … Ana Gasteyer Betsy Heron … Neil Flynn Chip Heron … Rajiv Surendra Kevin Gnapoor … Diego Klattenhoff Shane Oman … c)Analysis Mean Girls was a 2004 American and Canadian teen comedy film. The screenplay was based, in part, on the non fiction book called 鄄 "Queen Bees and Wannabes " by Rosalind Wiseman.