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Book 4 unit 9 Section A Make Euro Disney More European Ⅰ. Warm-up Activity Topic Discussion ⅰ. Student’s Discussion ( Teacher asks students to discuss the topic on the passage.) What do you know about Disney? -- It is a world famous cartoon corporation. It contains movie company, TV program company, and theme park company. 2) How many Disney theme parks are there around the world? -- There are six.( Two in USA, one in France, one in Japan and one in Hongkong) ⅱ. Teacher’s Summary This passage narrates the Walt Disney orgnization’s experiences in setting up its first theme park in Europe near paris: Euro Disneyland. Different people and different organizations may have different responses to Euro Disney. These have included objections from French intellectuals that the park is polluting the French culture and legal issues in respect of the dress code for its employees. Euro Disney has, however, made strong efforts to Europeanize its theme park. The author looks into the questions such as: Would Euro Disney be a site of a pleasant blend of cultures or a painful clash? Would it make money and expand or lose money and close? Questions on the Topic and the Passage Why did a labor inspector take the Disney organization to court? --Because he believed that the company’s dress and appearance code offended individual liberty and violated French labor law. What is the writer’s purpose to cite the case in the passage? --To show that the company faces some delicate culture issues while it gets ready to open its theme park near Paris. How did the Disney management react to charges like this? --It argued that all employees have to obey the company’s code about appearance and it believed that an employee should think a job is more important than his appearance. What did the French government do to attract Euro Disneyland to Paris? --It made an extraordinary series of tax and financial concessions in order to attract it. What attitudes did French intellectuals hold