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Period 3: Reading and writing

Objectives To learn to read and write reviews of movies

Procedures

A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, or book. In addition to a critical statement, the review's author may assign the work a rating (for instance, one to five stars) to indicate its relative merit. More loosely, an author may review current events or items in the news. ▇Before you read We shall go on to read the text on page 57. But before that please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. ▇While you read Now open your book to page 57 to read the text and cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives at the same time. Saving Private Ryan (1998) A review by Jenny Carter, aged 15 Saving Private Ryan is

a film/ which was directed/ by Stephen Spielberg. The two main characters are Captain John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, and Private James Ryan, played by Matt Damon. James Ryan is

the fourth brother/ to be involved/ in the Second World War. His three brothers have already been killed, two of them/ in the D-Day landings/ in Normandy, the other/ in a battle/ in another part of the world. Their heart-broken mother receives news/ about all her dead sons/ on the same day. The US army decides to send a group of men/ into the French countryside/ to try to find the fourth brother. Captain Miller, a hero and survivor of the Omaha Beach battle, is chosen/

to lead the rescue team of eight men. The film opens/

with a 30-minute sequence of the invasion of Normandy, probably the most

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violent images of war/ ever shown/ in a film. We see the full horror of war, and the chaos and senseless waste of life. Saving Private Ryan

is an unforgettable anti-war film/ and also a story of courage and sacrifice. Spielberg has made a lot of good films, but he has never made one/ with such a strong message. And the message is simple---We want peace; we don't want war. ▇After you read Now take time to copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book and make your own sentences with them. be directed by…, two main characters, be played by…, the fourth brother, be involved in…, in the D-Day landings, in a battle, in another part of the world, the heart-broken mother, receive news about…, on the same day, send a group of men into…, a hero and survivor of…, be chosen to do…, lead the rescue team of eight men, open with…, a 30-minute sequence of the invasion of…, the most violent images of war, be shown in a film, see the full horror of war, the chaos and senseless waste of life, an unforgettable anti-war film,

a story of courage and sacrifice, make a lot of good films, with such a strong message ■Writing a review of a film We shall try to sum up ways of writing a movie review. The followings are some of the things we have to pay enough attention to. ●

What you liked about the product.

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What you didn't like about it.

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What you would like to have known before you bought the product.

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Sum up key strengths and weaknesses.

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Reviews of no valuable content may be deleted.

FEARLESS

is a dramatization of the life of Huo Yuan Jia (also known as Fok Yun Gap), the legendary founder of the Jin Wu Sports Federation, a famous Wu Shu school which still exists today. Determined to prove himself as the greatest fighter in China, his arrogance leads him to discover important lessons about life, and consolidate his martial arts philosophy.

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I think FEARLESS is better than Fong Sai Yuk, but worse than ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA.

A Time to Kill A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher, is a film that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990’s. The film opens with two young men, James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb joy riding. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses, until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from the grocery store. The men pull over, trap her, rape her repeatedly, beat her, hang her, throw her off a bridge and leave her for dead.

Her siblings find Tonya later that day, barely alive, her father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) and the black community is outraged.

The next morning Carl Lee shoots the two men on the way to their arraignment, both men die and King of Horror Horror movies have never particularly interested me but when Evil Dead II was first introduced to me, I immediately fell in love with it.

The basic plot this horror movie is that a scientist found The Book of the Dead, which he had been looking for his entire life. After finding this book, he travels to a remote cabin somewhere in the United States and summons demons that possess any human beings in the area. Our brave hero Ash is unaware of this in the first Evil Dead and plays a tape recording that summons the spirits from the woods. All hell breaks loose and Ash is the only survivor at the end. Ash’s girlfriend, his best friend, and his best friend’s girlfriend all become possessed and ultimately

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hacked to pieces. After going through an ordeal like this, one would think that it would be highly unlikely for Ash ever to set foot within one hundre

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