[00:00.00]CHAPTER FOUR
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[00:-3.00]FATHER AND SON
[00:-4.00]Most films these days are easy to describe
[00:-5.00]because they fit into types such as martial arts films or love stories.
[00:-6.00]But Father and Son is different.
[00:-7.00]It is a film about the love and conflict between a father and his son.
[00:-8.00]It is a film about real Hong Kong people.
[00:-9.00]The film is set in Hong Kong in the recent past.
[00:10.00]It shows us the life of the Law family during the 1960s,
[00:11.00]when they were living in a squatter area,
[00:12.00]and then in the 1970s,when they were living in a resettlement estate.
[00:13.00]3.The two main characters are the father,Mr Law,and his son,Law Ka Hing.
[00:14.00]Mr Law is a low paid clerk in an office.
[00:15.00]He cannot get promotion because of his lack of qualifications.
[00:16.00]Therefore,he is determined that his only son,Ka Hing,
[00:17.00]should get good exam results.
[00:18.00]Ka Hing,however,is not very interested in school work.
[00:19.00]His only ambition is to make films.
[00:20.00]4.The film starts with the tragic ending to the story.
[00:21.00]Old Mr Law opens a letter from his son and his face lights up.
[00:22.00]'At last,'he says.He rushes up the stairs of his resettlement block,
[00:23.00]but he is so excited that he suffers a heart attack and falls down the stairs
[00:24.00]A piece of paper drops from his hand and floats down to where he is lying.
[00:25.00]It is his son's graduation certificate.
[00:26.00]Just as he has achieved his life's ambition,he dies.
[00:27.00]After this sad opening,the film goes back about 15 years,
[00:28.00]to show us the early relationship between father and son.
[00:29.00]The Law family is very poor,and the father works hard to support them.
[00:30.00]Ka Hing's sisters do well in school
[00:31.00] but their father is mainly interested in Ka Hing since he is the only son.
[00:32.00]7.Ka Hing is fascinated by the cinema.
[00:33.00]He always wants to watch films or to make his own.
[00:34.00]He has such a strong love of films that it distracts him from his studies.
[00:35.00]As a result,he finally fails his 'A' Levels.
[00:36.00]Because of this failure,Mr Law decides that Ka Hing must go to America to study
[00:37.00]To pay for this,he forces one daughter to marry a wealthy husband,
[00:38.00]and the other to give up college and get a job.
[00:39.00]Their loyalty is so strong that they accept his wishes.
[00:40.00]Ka Hing is reluctant to go to America.
[00:41.00]But finally he sees that his father will be heartbroken if he disobeys,
[00:42.00]and thus he agrees to go.
[00:43.00]The film is sad because it is partly based on the life of its brilliant director
[00:44.00]Fong Yuk Ping.
[00:45.00]Fong also had a difficult relationship with his father,
[00:46.00]and studied film in America.
[00:47.00]Tragically,Fong's own father and his mother were killed in a plane crash as they flew to America for his graduation ceremony
[00:48.00]The film is always interesting to watch as it is very realistic.
[00:49.00]The director's use of little details of everyday life is very good.
[00:50.00]For example,we see Ka Hing (as a young boy) making a simple toy cinema
[00:51.00]with a candle and a box,to show his interest in films.
[00:52.00]This film shows us many things about Hong Kong family life
[00:53.00]and problems which we can all understand.
[00:54.00]It is a serious film,but it is also very entertaining and often very funny.
[00:55.00]I would definitely recommend it.
[00:56.00]INTEGRATED SKILLS
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[00:58.00]B Combining information(1)
[00:59.00]SPEAKING
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[-1:-1.00]A Consonant clusters with I and r
[-1:-2.00]1 play,pray fly,fry, climb,crimb, bled,bread, glass,grass
[-1:-3.00]2.conflict, clerk, floats, flew
[-1:-4.00]3 promotion, distracts, heart, broken, crash
[-1:-5.00]4 a block of flats, a graduation ceremony, their strong loyalty, serious problems
[-1:-6.00]5 The pilot flew the broken plane brilliantly,landing on the green grass.
[-1:-7.00]Frequent robberies lead to a career in crime and probably prison.
[-1:-8.00]Gary promised Glenda frequent promotion to an appropriate level.
[-1:-9.00]MORE LANGUAGE INPUT
[-1:10.00]ReadingPage 74
[-1:11.00]Love Norrows The Gap As children approach adulthood,
[-1:12.00]they often Find that they think differently from their parents on a number of issues
[-1:13.00]beliefs and values,family and friends,work and study,
[-1:14.00]career and life goals and so on.
[-1:15.00]'Generation gap'is a term coined by sociologists
[-1:16.00]in the 1960s to describe such differences between young adults and their parents.
[-1:17.00]The generation gap is not limited to modern times.
[-1:18.00]Documents from Ancient Roman times
[-1:19.00]show that parents were concerned about their children not following traditions.
[-1:20.00]However,the gap is not always negative.
[-1:21.00]Very often,the gap can help people realize their own problems, e.g.
[-1:22.00]lack of respect,lack of communication,
[-1:23.00]lack of tolerance of imperfection,and so on.
[-1:24.00]Through efforts generated by love and understanding between parents and their offspring,
[-1:25.00]problems get solved,personalities change,
[-1:26.00]conflicts turn into harmony and the family thrives.
[-1:27.00]In the development of human history,the generation gap is a very natural thing.
[-1:28.00]A positive attitude and communication between parents and children
[-1:29.00]will help close the gap.
[-1:30.00]Listening
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[-1:32.00]Listen to some statements about the brief history of films and TV.Supply the missing information
[-1:33.00]1 Moving images have always been popular.
[-1:34.00]There were'shadow play'...years ago in..
[-1:35.00]2....became possible in the middle of...
[-1:36.00]when projection and photography came together.
[-1:37.00]3 The film industry started in the ...,
[-1:38.00]when...picture's were invented.
[-1:39.00]4...pictures first appeared in....
[-1:40.00]5.Millions of people went to the cinema due to the introduction of..films in ..
[-1:41.00]6...because very popular in the ......
[-1:42.00]By the early'50s,weekly cinema audience had been cut in half to....
[-1:43.00]7 By the mid-1960s,...of the households in the U.S
[-1:44.00]had at least one TV set,and....had two or more sets.
[-1:45.00]8 In the ...,films were still.....because of the common use of video recorders.
[-1:46.00]People enjoyed rending films to watch at home or recording films from the TV.
[-1:47.00]9 Today...of all box office tickets are sold to people between the ages of...
[-1:48.00]10 It is said that modem films have...lives instead of one.
[-1:49.00]First they appear in the...,then on...,and finally they are shown on..
