1、单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： The Second Period ReadingTeaching aims: Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor.Key points: Help students divide the text into several parts according to the meaning.Difficult points: Divide the paragraphs and give the main ideas.Teaching aids: A
2、 recorder and a projectorTeaching procedure:Step 1. RevisionCheck homework: ask students to present their jokes in class.Step 2. Pre-readingQuestions: (1) What do you like to laugh at?(2 ) What does humor mean? Is humor always kind?Give students some time to discuss. The purpose is to help students
3、know that different people have different taste about humor. It is difficult to say which one is better or which one is worse.Step 3. ReadingThe purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humor. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humor means; w
4、hat is Charlie Chaplins style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.Task 1. Divide the text into several parts according to the meaning.Part One: the first and the second paragraphPart Two: the third and the fourth paragraphPart Three: the last paragraphTask 2. Give the main
5、idea of each partThe main idea of part one: It tells us that there are two kinds of humor. One is bad, while the other can inspire people. The main idea of part two: It tells us something about Charlie Chaplins acting style and how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining.The main idea of p
6、art three: it gives us a short biography about Charlie Chaplin.Task 3. DiscussionLet students have a discussion about the text, then answer some questions.Questions: (1) What is behind fun?(2 ) Why did people like Little Tramp?(3 ) Do you think Charlie Chaplins eating boiled shoes funny? Why?Step 4
7、Language points 1. content (adj.): satisfied, happy, not wanting any morephrases: content with sth; content to do sthe.g. (1) She is quite content to stay at home looking after her children.(2 ) Are you content with your present salary?Content (n.): that which is contained in sthe.g. I like the styl
8、e of her writing but I dont like the content.2. inspire sb. ( with sth.) inspire sth. (in sb.): To fill sb. with thoughts, feelings or aims.e.g. His speech inspired us with hope.3. badly off: in a poor position, esp. financiallyThe opposite is “ well off”单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： e.g. (1) They are too
9、 badly off to have a holiday. (2 ) In fact most people are better off than they were five years ago.Step 5 PracticeFinish the exercises on page 18, 19, it is a good time to consolidate the whole content of the text and the useful words and expressions from the text. It is easy for most students to finish. So leave students several minutes to finish and check the answers by showing them on the screen.Step 6 HomeworkPreview grammar by finishing Exercises 3, 4 on page 20, all the exercises on page 21.
