本书不仅从理论上说明了真实影像资料(指在电影院、电视中和DvD光盘上所载的故事片、纪录片、电视新闻、各种电视节目等)在外语课堂教学中的实用性，并提供了多达1503页案例来据实说明它们在课堂中的使用方法。

以电影和电视节目为主的影像材料一直是英语教学的宠儿。但如何更加有效地利用这些语言地道的影像材料，而不仅仅是将其用作课堂上的附加视听内容，却是使很多教师头疼的问题。本书提供了以各种影像材料为蓝本的数十种课堂活动，涵盖了英语教学中听力、语法、对话、写作、交际等各个方面。每个活动均针对具体的影像材料进行设计，给出活动的目的、适用的英语水平、活动材料和具体的活动程序，可操作性极强。

Thanks and acknowledgements

Introduction

 Why use authentic video？

 What you need

 Ways of using video

 HOW to use this book

 General guidelines for video activities

Part A

 Ⅰ Video drama

 Introduction

 1 Full—length feature films

Doing a film

The film and the book

 2 Other video drama

Drama series

Sitcoms

Soap operas

 3 Short dramatic sequences

Drama clips

Comedy sketches

 Ⅱ Non．fiction video

 Introduction

 1 Programmes about real life

Documentaries and educational films

The TV news(including weather,national events．speeches

Interviews and talk shows

Sports programmes

Game shows

 2 Short sequences and promotions

Non-fiction clips

TV commercials

Part B Activities with authentic video

 1 Video comprehension

 2 Activities

Accents

Act along

Ad angles

Ad language

Adopt a character

Advice

Answers

Awkward questions

Before and after

Best image

Best scene

Body language

Body parts

Book and film

Case study

Casting couch 1

Casting couch 2

Celebrity interview

Changes

Character network

Chases

Choose your words

Climax

Comment

Commentary/Copywriter

Completions

Cross-cutting

Culture

Daily life

Decisions

Describe an ad

Describing real interaction

Describing speech style

Diary

Dossier

Dress

Effects

Enigmas

Experts

Eye on the object

Famous films

Famous people

Fashion parade

Favourite scene

Feeling flow

Fights

Film presentation

Floor

Fly on the wall

Follow the news

Getting things done

Gossip

Grading

Heard and seen

Holophrases

How it's done

I spy

Interactive language

Interview

Interview article

Invisible music

Issues

Jumbled statements

Labelling and linking

Lead-in

Learning English with films

Letters to the editor

Lifestyle

Lipreading and mindreading

Long and short

Loves and hates

Make a case

Make a case for character

Maps and journeys

Matching

Misapprehensions

Missing character

Missing scene

News leads

News script

News story

One-liner

Organization man

Oscar

Other people's shoes

Over the top

Panning

Parallels

Pick of the news

Picture it

Place and period

Plan a chase

Plot idea 1

Plot idea 2

Preview

Problem

Programme proposal

Puff

Purrs and slurs

Puzzle

Question types

Questions

Quotes

Quoting and illustrating

Racing

Reaction shots

Reading aloud

Rhetoric

Rules

Runabout

Scenario

Schema

Script

Scriptwriter

Seen it before

Sequel and prequel

Set the scene

Silly soaps

Situation report

Soap chronicles

Soap write-out

Speculations

Speech acts

Sports highlights

Sports quiz

Stage directions

Stand by it

Structures

Subtitles 1

Subtitles 2

Summary

Talk show

Telephone conversations

Tenses

Themes

Tone up

Transcript

Trigger

Turning points

Twin texts

Viewshare

Voice 1

Voice 2

Voxpop

Walkthrough

Weather words

What next？

What's going on？

What weather where

Why and How？

Wordhunt

Writing the book

Your movie

 3 Glossary