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Unit Title 1 The Last Samurai ……………………………………………… 9 2 Finding Nemo ……………………………………………………15 3 Crocodile Dundee ………………………………………………21 4 Chariots of Fire …………………………………………………27 5 ………………………………………………………33 6 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner ……………………………39 7 Patch Adams ……………………………………………………45 8 Gandhi ………………………………………………………………51 9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ………………57 10 Spirited Away ……………………………………………………63 11 Mrs. Doubtfire ……………………………………………………69 12 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring …75 13 East of Eden ………………………………………………………81 14 The Birds …………………………………………………………87 15 The Sound of Music ……………………………………………93

Tests 6 Review Match the words with their meanings. Unit My Fair Lady ___ 1. boar d a. to feel very disappointed 5 ___ 2. follow in one ’s footsteps b. to get on (a ship) Warner Brothers, 1964 ___ 3. bound for c. to succeed in doing something diffi cult ___ 4. excel d. to be going to ___ 5. accomplish a feat e. dislike towar ds Jewish people ___ 6. anti-Semitism f. to do very well Directed by George Cukor g. to c arry on work that som eone else has been doing Screenplay by h. to r un very fast Story by

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CD ▼ 1-20 7 Behind the Scenes Read the following passage. Audrey Hepburn as as Professor Henry Higgins 1 Do you remember the dash that the Jewish athlete, Abrahams, made around the c o u r t y a rd o f C a m b r i d g e ? T h a t w a s n o t rea l l y C a m b r i d g e , b e c a u s e t h e y ref u s e d Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering permission to film there. It seems that the school feared that it would be portrayed as being anti-Semitic in the film. 5 T h e d i re c t o r h a d t o fi l m t h e run a t h i s o w n alma mater: Et on col l eg e . An d t h e person who won the courtyard dash was not Abrahams. The real winner was Abrahams ’ companion in the dash, Lord David Burghley, but the producer of C h a r i o t s o f F i re w a s a s o c i a l i s t a n d s u p p o r t e r o f t h e l o w e r c l a s s , a n d d i d n o t l i k e showing a Lord winning a race.

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portray ~を描写する alma mater [ `ælm mὰ:t r]e 母校 companion 仲間 Lord ~卿 ( 公爵をのぞく侯[伯、子]爵の略式の称号で、呼称としても使う。)

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32 33 ④ 1 General Questions Answer the following questions. D: ______. How does the professor ’s plan come out?

1. What type of teachers do you like? L: She is slow at first, but she suddenly catches on. 20 ⑤ 2. What English sounds do you have tr ouble with? D: ______, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” 3. Besides pronunciation, what other problems do you have in learning English? 4. What ar e some good ways to impr ove your English? 3 Useful Words 5. Do you know Audrey Hepburn? What famous movie actresses do you F i l l i n e a c h b l a n k w i t h o n e o f t h e w o r d s b e l o w. C h a n g e t h e f o r m o f a know? verb or noun, if necessary.

1. Eliza dances with a prince at the embassy ______. 2. Eliza learns how to ______the “h” sound.

CD ▼ 1-21 2 Dialog Listen to the dialog and fill in the blanks. 3. Eliza makes a ______impression on the audience. 4. Professor Higgins is a famous ______. Dan asks Lisa about My Fair Lady. 5. Professor Higgins is a ______because he’s not married. 6. Professor Higgins gets out his pencil to______some 1 D: You often talk about My Fair Lady. Please fill me in on it, Lisa. notes. L: It’s a musical about a young lady named Eliza and a professor. 7. Eliza ______her flowers when a person runs into her. D: ① ______the song that goes “The rain in Spain 8. People ______a concert hall into the rain. stays mainly in the plain” or something like that? 5 L: You said it perfectly. How did you learn that song, Dan? D: Our English teacher had us say it many times to improve our pronunciation. words

CD ▼ 1-22 L: Oh, ② ______what happened in the movie. patron 後援者 stream out of ~から続々と出てくる D: Maybe our teacher got the idea from My Fair Lady. But tell me the story. collide with ~とぶつかる spill = to drop L: OK. There is a girl selling flowers on a street. A professor named Higgins retort ~と言い返す jot down = write down 10 ③ n o t i c e s h e r s t ro n g a c c e n t a n d ______c o r re c t i n g linguist 言語学者 pass ~ off as ...... として~を通用させる her pronunciation. duchess 公爵夫人 ball ( 公式の ) 大舞踏会 D: Why on earth does he want to do that? enunciate ( 言葉 ) を明確に話す stunni ng = marvelous 非常に魅力的な 独身 L: Well, Higgins thinks her accent is preventing her from getting ahead in life. bachelor D: What an eager professor! What mo tivates him to teach her? 15 L: Professor Higgins makes a bet with another famous professor that he can make her talk like a princess.

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CD ▼ 1-23 4 Read and/or listen to the summary. Summary a. He has her as a student in one of his college classes. b. He hears her complain when she spills her fl owers. 1 It begins to rain heavily as wealthy patrons stream out of a concert hall in London. c. He is introduced to her by Colonel Pickering. P e o p l e ru s h t o f i n d t a x i s , a n d i n t h e c o n f u s i o n a p o o r f l o w e r g i r l , E l i z a D o o l i t t l e , d. He meets her at the embassy ball. collides with a young man. She spills her flowers and starts to complain, when she i s w a r n e d t h a t a m y s t e r i o u s m a n i s w r i t i n g d o w n e v e r y t h i n g s h e s a y s . S h e t h i n k s 3. What does Professor Higgins mainly find wrong with Eliza? 5 he is a policeman and retorts she isn ’t doing anything wr ong. An elderly gentleman a. She doesn ’t pronounce words correctly. defends Eliza. b. She complains too much about her work. The man who is jotting down notes is no policeman, but a famous linguist , c. She wears too much makeup. P rof e s s o r H e n r y H i g g i n s . T h e e l d e r l y g e n t l e m a n i s a l s o a f a m o u s l i n g u i s t , C o l o n e l d. She is too proud of herself. P i c k e r i n g . H i g g i n s t e l l s P i c k e r i n g t h a t i t i s h e r s p e e c h t h a t k e e p s E l i z a s t u c k i n t h e

10 lower class. Higgins then invites Pickering to stay at his house. 4. Why is Professor Higgins so concerned about her problem? The next day, ther e is a knock at Higgins’ door. It is Eliza who wants to take speech a. Because it is keeping her in the lower class. l e s s o n s . H i g g i n s b o a s t s t h a t h e c o u l d pass t h i s f l o w e r g i r l of f as a duchess at the b. Because it is keeping her from making friends. embassy ball. Pickering accepts the bet, and the training of Eliza begins. She is given c. Because it is keeping her from selling flowers. a b a t h , h e r c l o t h e s a re b u r n e d , a n d s h e i s g i v e n s p e e c h l e s s o n s a l l d a y, e v e r y d a y. d. Because it is keeping her from being happy. 15 They have six months until the ball. At first, Eliza makes no pr ogr ess at all, but one day she can enunciate the following phrase perfectly: “The rain in Spain stays mainly 5. How well does she perform at the embassy ball? in the plain.” a. She makes a big mistake and fails completely. Finally, it is time for the embassy ball. Eliza dr esses in a gor geous gown, makes a b. She impresses Professor Higgins but no one else. stunning impr ession, and catches the eye of a prince. She is thought to be a princess. c. She impresses everyone except Professor Higgins. 20 H i g g i n s b o a s t s o f h i s s u c c e s s , b u t E l i z a i s g i v e n n o c red i t a t a l l . E l i z a i s h u r t , a n d d. She impresses everyone including a prince. l e a v e s H i g g i n s , w h o s e a rch e s e v e r y w h e re f o r h e r. E l i z a e v e n t u a l l y ret u r n s t o h i m , and we know that Higgins, a lifelong bachelor, has fallen in love with Eliza. 6. What happens at the end of the story? a. Eliza becomes a professional singer. b. Eliza returns to her job as a flower girl.

CD ▼ 1-24 5 Comprehension Questions Choose the best answers. c. Professor Higgins falls in love with Eliza. d. Eliza r uns away from Professor Higgins and never comes back. 1. What is Eliza at the beginning of the story? a. She ’s a duchess. b. She’s a princess. c. She ’s a rich flower girl. d. She’s a poor flower girl.

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