The pursuit of happyness电影赏析导学案1

这是一份The pursuit of happyness电影赏析导学案1，共2页。

1. Read the Plt
The Pursuit f Happyness is a 2006 American bigraphical drama film based n Chris Gardner’s (Will Smith) nearly ne-year struggle with hmelessness. The stryline features Chris, a salesman wh invests his family’s savings in prtable bne-density scanners which he tries t sell t dctrs. The investment prves t be a failure which financially breaks the family and as a result his wife leaves him and their sn, Christpher.Meanwhile, Chris has a sht at an intern stckbrker. Being unable t pay the rent and the taxes, he becmes hmeless and has t lk fr hmeless shelters fr him and his sn day by day. Despite his limited wrk hurs, he wrks ut varius ways t make phne calls and t maximize his client cntact. At the end f the internship, his struggle has paid back and he is ffered a paid psitin. The epilgue reveals that Chris ges n t frm his wn multi-millin-dllar brkerage firm.
Character Intrductin
Put the pictures in rder accrding t the brief intrductin t the main characters.
Will Smith as Chris Gardner: a salesman f prtable scanners as well as an intern stckbrker. With his dream f pursuing happiness and his hard wrk, he succeeds in getting hired in a brkage firm.
2)Jaden Smith as Christpher Gardner Jr.: Chris's five-year-ld sn.
3) Thandie Newtn as Linda Gardner: Chris's wife.
4) Brian Hwe as Jay Twistle: head f Resurces Department f Dean Witter.
1)____2)_____3)____4)______
3.American dream
Read the definitin. Then cmplete the paragraph with the crrect frms f the wrds.
The American Dream is a natinal 1)_________ f the United States in which freedm includes a prmise f the pssibility f prsperity and success. In the definitin f the American Dream by James Truslw Adams in 1931, “Life shuld be better and richer and fuller fr everyne, with pprtunity fr each accrding t 2)______ r 3)_____________,” regardless f scial class r circumstances f birth. The idea f the American Dream is rted in the United States The 4)___________ f Independence which prclaims that “all men are 5)_________ equal” and that they are “endwed by their Creatr with certain inalienable Rights” including “Life, Liberty and the 6)________ f Happiness.”
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smene's level f intelligence r skill
achievement[əˈtʃiːvmənt]n.
smething imprtant that ne succeeds in ding by his wn effrts
create [kriˈeɪt]vt.
t make smething that did nt exist befre
declaratin [ˌdekləˈreɪʃ(ə)n]n.
a statement fficially giving infrmatin
eths [ˈiˌθɑs] n.
the set f ideas and mral attitudes belnging t a grup
pursuit [pərˈsut] n.
the act f trying t achieve smething in a determined way