Rain Man: Chapter 1 Bad News
Characters:
Charlie Babbitt:
Susanna:
John Mooney
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: Describe Charlie Babbitt: age, personality, appearance, profession.
Q2: Describe Susanna: personality, nationality, profession, appearance
Q3: What kind of trouble was Charlie Babbitt in?
Q4: Where did they plan to go have a vacation?
Q5: What was the bad news?
Q6: How did Charlie respond when he heard the bad news?
Q7: When did Charlie’s mother die?
Q8: How was the relationship between Charlie and his father?
Q9: Why didn’t Charlie like his father?
Q10: Would Charlie go to the funeral?
Vocabulary
1. Palm Spring
2. desert n.
3. funeral n.
4. continue v.
5. lip n.
6. silent adj.
Let’s learn more: Describe a person(Guessing game)
Height and Weight
He is tall/short/thin/heavy.
He is average height and weight.
He is five ten. (1 cm=0.3937 inches.)
He weighs 56 kilograms. (1 kilogram=2.2 lbs)
Age
He is young/old/in his mid-teens/in his forties/middle-aged
Hair
His hair is blond/black/gray/long and straight/short and curtly/medium
length and wavy
He is bald.
He has a crew cut/spiky hair.
He has bangs. (瀏海)
He has thick/thin hair.
face
He has freckles.
He has pimples.
He has a mole on his nose.
He has a scar on the left arm.
He has beard.
Chapter 2 A Map of the Past
Characters:
Sanford Babbitt
John Mooney
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: Why did Susanna say “This is a Charlie Babbitt that she didn’t know?”
Q2: When did Charlie leave his home?
Q3: Describe the Buick Roadmaster.
Q4: Why does Charlie hate the roses?
Q5: What did Charlie do after he found his car was gone?
Q6: What happened to Charlie later?
Q7: How did Charlie feel when he found a coat in his father’s house and what did he call it?
Q8: What did Rainman do to Charlie?
Q9: What did Sanford try to say to his son in the letter?
Q10: What did Charlie get from his father?
Q11: How much money did Sanford leave?
Q12: Did Charlie listen to his father’s words?
Vocabulary
1. beside prep.
2. suitcase n.
3. towards prep.
6. expression n.
7. anxiously adv.
8. look after verb phrase
4. arm n.
5. will n.
9. upset adj.
10. straight adv.
Let’s learn more: Parents vs. children(Discussion)
1. argue
2. avoid
3. punish
4. get along with
5. perfect
6. communicate
7. be grounded
8. nag at/scold
10. generation gap
11. career woman
12. look after
13. support
14. surf the Net
15. allowance
16. patient
Discussion:
1. What are ideal parents for you? List at least three features.
2. What do you often argue with your parents about?
2. If you could change one thing about your parents, what would you choose to change?
3. What do ideal children do? List three examples.
Chapter 3 Father’s Secret
Characters
Dr. Walter Bruner
Raymond
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: How did Charlie Babbitt know who looked after the money?
Q2: What kind of place is “Wallbrook Home?”
Q3: Who was Dr. Walter Bruner?
Q4: Describe Raymond: age, appearance, the hairstyle, his facial expression, the way of walking, what he
did all the time and what he wore.
Q5: When did Charlie see Raymond for the first time?
Q6: How does Dr. Burner describe Charlie’s father?
Q7: What did Raymond say about the car surprised Charlie?
Q8: How did Raymond react when Charlie questioned him how he knew the car?
Q9: Why did Raymond know Charlie Babbitt’s birth date and address?
Vocabulary
1. roof n.
2. tidy adj.
3. neither …nor….
4. cost an arm and a leg
Let’s learn more: idioms (Discussion)
1. He is a hard nut to crack.
2. I eat crow.
3. I’ll eat my hat.
4. You cannot eat the cake and have it, too.
5. You’ll be a fish out of water in a foreign country.
6. His goose is cooked.
7. She has a bun in the oven.
8. I’ll find time to chew the fat with you.
9. This is a hot potato.
10. It must be a lemon.
5. frightened adj.
6. mutter v.
7. avenue n.
8. astonished adj.
Chapter 4 Raymond
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: What did Raymond write in the notebook?
Q2: Why did Raymond write those things down in the notebook?
Q3: What’s the problem with autistic persons?
Q4: How did Raymond look and feel when Charlie took him for a vacation?
Vocabulary
1. relationship n.
2. intelligent adj.
3. autistic adj.
Autism
A genius or an abnormal person? A person who is more interested in objects than in people. He looks
indifferent. But should we change them or can we? How about Einstein?
Act out Time: Two as a pair and act out the following skit
Vocabulary to learn
1. remote control
2. chart
3. electricity
4. cheat
5. slope
6. cramp
7. fly
8. be stuck
9. penguin
10. scold
11. drown
12. roller coaster
13. lottery
14. wait in line
15. go bowling
Chapter 5 TV and Pizza
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: How did Raymond react when he found the room was not his?
Q2: Why did Raymond become calmer when he heard the word “pizza?
Q3: What’s the book in the room?
Q4: How did Raymond eat his pizza?
Q5: Why did Raymond go into Charlie and Susanna’s room?
Q6: How did Charlie respond when he found Raymond was in his room?
Q7: Why did Susanna want to leave Charlie?
Q8: What did Charlie say about taking his brother away?
Vocabulary
1. tiny adj.
5. Italian
2. square n. ‘
3. widen v.
n.
6. kidnap v.
Activity Sheet: TV guide (All the same or all different)
1. variety show
2. cartoon
3. soap opera
4. quiz show
5 talk show
6. reality show
7. live broadcast
8.re-run
9. channel
10. actor/actress
11.. film
12. cable
13. host/ hostess
14. commercial
15. TV series
Chapter 6 Toothpicks
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: How did Raymond know the waitress’ phone number?
Q2: How did Raymond decide what to eat for breakfast?
Q3: Why did Charlie call Dr. Bruner?
Q4: How much did Charlie ask for?
Q5: Why did Dr. Bruner say Raymond was better with them?
Q6: How did Raymond know there were two hundred and forty-six toothpicks on the floor?
Q7: Why did Charlie have to be back to Los Angeles?
Q8: Why did Raymond not want to take a airplane?
Q9: How did Raymond react when Charlie put his hand on his?
Q10: How long does it take to drive to Los Angeles?
Vocabulary
1. toothpick n.
2. criminal n.
4. knock …off
5. crash v.
3. custody n.
6. scream
v.
Activity Sheet: Menu (Write your own dialogue)
Meals
Food
breakfast
omelette, sandwich , bagel, donut, soybean milk, coffee, tea, juice,
waffle, cake, pancake
yogurt
lunch/dinner
salad, soup, salad spaghetti, steak, coke, diet, bubble tea, wine,
hamburger, pizza, dumplings,
dessert, ice cream sundae
Dialogue Sample:
A: Are you ready to order? (May I take your order?)
B: Yes, I’d like a tuna sandwich, please.
A: Would you like French fries with it?
B: Yes, please and a cup of tea.
A: And what about you, sir?
C: I’ll have beef steak.
A: Ok. How would you like your steak?
C: Medium, please.
A: Anything to drink?
C: Umm…a small diet soda.
Drinks
Chapter 7 Rain Man
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1: How did Charlie find Raymond was Rainman?
Q2: How old was Raymond at that time?
Q3: When did Raymond leave Charlie?
Q4: Why did Raymond start to scream when Charlie turned on the water?
Q5: Why did Charlie call Susanna?
Q6: What did Charlie have to do to get custody for Raymond?
Vocabulary
1. tooth paste n.
2. Beatles n.
Activity Sheet: Tell the story “a bad day”. See which group can come up with the worst day.
1. cut my finger
2. sprain my ankle
3. break my arm/leg
4. hit my head
5. bruise my arm
6. hurt my back
7. ambulance
8. slip on the ice
9. fall
10. hurt my knees
11. earthquake
12. car crash
13. accident
14. bandage
15. be on fire
Chapter 8 Las Vegas
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1. What happened to Charlie’s business?
Q2. How did Charlie know the bill?
Q3: Why did Charlie say Raymond was like a computer?
Q4. Why did Charlie buy Raymond a television the size of a small clock?
Q5: How did Charlie solve his money problem?
Q6. How much did Charlie and Raymond win?
Q7. Why can’t Charlie find a girl to dance with Raymond?
Q8. Who did Raymond dance with?
Q9: Where did Susanna dance with Raymond?
Q10 Why did the two big men in suits bring Charlie away?
Q11: What did Charlie tell Raymond and Susanna they had to leave?
Vocabulary
1. bill n.
2. plate n.
3. casino n.
4. lift
n.
5. must
aux.
Activity Sheet: Poker games (? activities:終極密碼)
1. a deck of cards
2. suit
3. heart
4.club
5. diamond
6. spade
7. Joker
8. ace
9. king
10. queen
11. jack
12. king of hearts
13. two of clubs
14. shuffle
15. deal
Chapter 9 A Very Good Driver
Characters
Dr. Marston
Comprehension Questions on the plots:
Q1. Why did Charlie think he should have the custody of Raymond?
Q2. How much did Dr. Bruner agree to pay Charlie to have Raymond back?
Q3: What did Raymond tell Dr. Marston he did during the holiday? Did they sound good.
Q4: How did Dr. Bruner show Charlie that Raymond was still autistic?
Q5: When Charlie saw Raymond was upset, what did he do?
Q6: What did Charlie give to Raymond, which couldn’t be given by the Home?
Q7: Who was the winner? Why?
Q8. What did Charlie decide at last?
Vocabulary
1. empty adj.
2. flat n.
3. breathe v.
Activity Sheet: Review: wrap up
1. Why are these things important in the story?
a. the Buick
b. the bath
c. 21st January 1965
e. $89,756
f. $250000
g. the Beatles
2. What is your favorite scene?
(1) the dance
(2) the trip to Las Vegas
(3) the kidnapping
(4) the drive
3. Themes:
(1) autism
(2) brotherly love
(3) the voyage of discovery for Charlie
d. $93.40
h.