• On the way through Harvard, she makes many friends, saves a wrongly accused woman from murder charges, and soon discovers …
Comprehension for Part 1(Para.1-2)
4. What food of thoughts can you get from Elle’s speech at the graduate ceremony?
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Notes
• 4.0 grade point average (GPA): all A’s for grades.
• LSAT: Law School Admission Test
• Movie: Legally Blonde 1 • Movie: Legally Blonde 2 • Speech :
• Graduate Students’ Competence and Commitment (HW) 无忧PPT整理发布
Gryou think of Elle’s pursuit (from boyfriend to her own career) as a graduate?
• At first, Elle is emotionally crushed, but she soon decides to get Warner back by applying to Harvard Law School herself, as a way of impressing him with how smart she really is.
Unit 1 From Competence to Commitment
Warming-up activities Words and expressions Questions or translations
Contents
I. Warming-up Activities
II. Comprehension for Part 1
• I graduated from…
• This is the story of Elle Woods, a very cute and friendly student who is also the most popular girl in her Los Angeles sorority (A house and club for female students).
• Still, Elle is accepted to the school, and after a few months of struggling, she soon becomes an accomplished law student who clearly has the potential to become an actual lawyer.
• Elle has just finished her studies in Fashion, and is getting prepared to marry her boyfriend, Warner, who will soon be going to Harvard Law School, in Boston.
• Unfortunately, Warner, who is actually a somewhat superficial ass, decides to break up with Elle, because he wants to find a more serious looking girlfriend who will help his career in politics after he gets out of law school (Elle, unfortunately looks like the stereotypical dumb blonde, though sexy).
• Extracurricular activities: things they do outside of class (sports, clubs, volunteer projects, mixes, formals, clambakes, etc.)
• I have a bachelor’s / master’s 无/ 忧aPPpT整h理.D发布in …from (CULA,…)
• In fact, Elle is extremely smart (much more so than Warner!), but it's also true that her bubbly "sorority personality" is very different from the type of people who go to Harvard Law School.
III. Comprehension for Part 2
IV. Comprehension for Part 3
V. Comprehension for Part 4
VI. Translation and Writing (Home
Work)
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Warming-up Activity
2. What do you think of a college students’ extracurricular activities (take Elle as an example)? (benefits and 无忧PPT整理发布 problems)
3. What are your opinions about Elle’s first class in Harvard Law School? (Teacher’s method etc.)