1、Teaching Plan for Unit 3 A Taste of English Humor单元教学目标Talk about different types of humor；a taste of English humorLearn how to express ones emotionsLearn the ing form as the Predicative, Attributive and Object ComplementLearn to write humorous stories 目标语言话题 Different types of humor; a taste of Eng
2、lish humor词汇1. 四会词汇： slide, skin, cruel, content, astonish, particular, entertain, entertaining, throughout,homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, boil, fortunate, snowstorm, chew, bottom, mouthful, direct, star, outstanding, Switzerland, fortune, swing, pancake, mountainous, whisper, va
3、st, sense2. 词组：be content with, badly off, pick out, cut off, star in, knock into功能情感 ( Emotion )I enjoy this very much because It surprises me thatI laugh at that kind of thing because I felt happy becauseThis is fun because Im pleased we were both amused atHow wonderful / surprising Its amusing th
4、at语法动词的-ing 形式作表语，定语和宾语补足语的用法Their job is “panning for gold”. That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin.Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin?课时分配1st Period Reading2nd Period Speaking3rd Period Grammar4th Period Listening5th Period Writing6th Period Summary分课时教案The First Per
5、iodTeaching aims: Enable students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor.Key points: Help students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.Difficult points: Help students know the differences between English and Chinese in humor.Teaching aids: picturesTeaching procedure
6、:Step 1: Lead-inShow some pictures to students, let them talk about the pictures and then ask them what they think of the pictures, whether they are funny or not.Questions: 1) Do you know who these comedians are? What makes them funny?2) Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?3) H
7、ave you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them? Step 2: Warming upTask 1. Brain-stormingAsk students to name some types of humors they know. Write those they are not familiar with on the blackboard, then show some pictures and summarize. Types of humor Example of Engli
8、sh humor Chinese humorNonverbal Charlie Chaplin Pantomimes（哑剧）刘全和，刘全利Mime and farce Mr. Bean Funny plays 陈佩斯，赵本山Verbal jokes Play on words, usually Cross talk 马季， 姜昆Funny stories Two lines JokesFunny poems Edward Lear Doggerel（打油诗）Task 2. TalkingAsk students to talk about some funny stories, any Eng
9、lish or Chinese humors they know.Task 3. Reading on P22The purpose of the reading is to introduce the kind of verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. Then check the answer. After that, teacher can show some
10、 other jokes on the screen.Joke 1:Patient: Doctor, Ive lost my memory.Doctor: When did this happen?Patient: When did what happen?Joke 2:Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone.Doctor: Dont thank me. Thank God.Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God.Step 3 HomeworkAsk each student to give a joke a
11、nd present it in class next period. 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.Teac
12、hing aids: A 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 he
13、lp students 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 hu
14、mor means; what 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. Gi
15、ve the main 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 ma
16、in idea of part 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?
17、 Why?Step 4 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 l
18、ike the style 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”e.g. (1) They are too badly off t
19、o 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 le
20、ave 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.The Third Period GrammarTeaching aims: Enable students to learn how to use the ing form as the attribute, the
21、 object complement and the predicative.Key points: Let students know the structures of the sentences with the ing formDifficult points: Help students to tell the ing form as the predicative and the use of the present continuous tense.Teaching aids: A computerTeaching procedure:Step 1. RevisionCheck
22、homework: the exercises on page 20 and 21.Step 2. Word formationSuffix Example-able valuable lovable comfortable-ing amusing misleading neighboring-ful hopeful cheerful useful-less endless homeless harmless-ed excited interested moved-ish Irish childish selfish-ive active attractive expensive-ate fo
23、rtunate affectionate passionate-ant important pleasant ignorant-ly friendly orderly costlyThere are ten suffixes in the chart. And there are some new words in it. But the purpose of showing this chart is to let students learn more about the adjective suffix.Step 3. Discovering useful structuresTask
24、1. RevisionHave a revision about the ing form used as the subject and object. Give students some sentences to translate:(1) Talking to him is useless.(2) Smoking does harm to your health.(3) Walking is my sole exercise.(4) Collecting stamps is my hobby.(5) I suggested bringing the meeting to an end.
25、(6) He admitted taking the money.(7) I couldnt help laughing.(8) Your coat needs washing.Task 2. New usage of the ing formAsk students to look at the Exercises 4 on page 20. And then wake in pairs to finish the exercises. Teacher checks the answers and give the explanations.(1) A cooking pot: A pot
26、that is used for cooking.(2) A drinking horse: A horse that is drinking water.(3) The man sitting on the sofa is a friend of my brothers.Here the ing form are used as attribute.(4) I saw the man sliding on a banner skin yesterday.(5) Did you notice the man picking up that broken bottle and putting i
27、t in his bag?Hear the ing form are used as object complement The structure of the sentence with an object complement is:Subject + Predicate + Object + Object complement(6) Her job is looking after babies.(7) What he likes is playing chess after supper.Here the ing form are used as predictive. Pay at
28、tention to the differences between ing form used as predicative and present continuous tense.(1) Her hobby is painting.(2) Her favorite sport is skiing.(3) This was very disappointing.(4) The test results are very discouraging.(5) She was very pleasing in her appearance.(6) His concern for his mothe
29、r is very touching.(7) The photograph is missing.(8) The article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized.In the first two sentences, the ing form is used to show the character of the subject. In the next four sentences the words of the ing form are all about the feelings. In the last two se
30、ntences, the words of the ing form show some states and qualities.(9) It is snowing hard.(10) She is teaching in a night school. In these two sentences, the ing form are used as the predicate in the present continuous tense.Step 4. Using StructuresTurn to page 56. Look at the Using Structure. There
31、are two exercises in this part. Exercise 1 is to let students correct some errors in the sentences. This is not an easy job for most students, because it needs other knowledge, besides what the students learned today. So better leave them more time to do this exercise. For exercise 2, let students f
32、inish it in a short time. With the help of the pictures, students can easily understand the meaning and correctly use the ing form to finish the blanks. Teacher can check the answers in class.Step 4. HomeworkFinish all exercises on page 56.The Fourth Period ListeningTeaching aims: Enable students to
33、 understand the humor in the listening material.Key points: Train the students to get the key wards by reading the questions before listening.Difficult points: Get the main idea from the listening materials while listening.Teaching aids: A recorder Teaching procedure:Step 1. RevisionCheck homework:
34、(1) Ask a couple of students to tell their jokes in class.(2 ) Ask some students to come to the blackboard to write their translation. After they have finished, teacher correct some errors with the whole class.Step 2. Listening ( page 23 )This is a funny story. Mary made some plum jam and left some
35、in the pan. Five days later, her husband came home and poured the jam into the chicken. Later Mary came home and found all of her chickens were behaving strangely. What had happened? Give students two chances to listen to the story. First, go through Exercise1 and 2 to know what are the things they
36、will do while listening. After that teacher plays the tape for them to finish Exercise 1. The second listening is to check the answers. For Exercise 2, teacher should leave some time for students to discuss the question.Questions: (1) Did you find this story funny? Give the reason.(2 ) What do you t
37、hink of Johns behavior?Step 2. Listening ( page 55 )This is a story about a thief and a man. The situation is very interesting. Before listening, ask students what they would do if they find a thief in their home one day; whether they will be afraid of the thief and so on.There are three steps for t
38、his listening. At first let students read the questions to make sure that they know what they should do in this listening. Next, play the tape for the first time to let students finish Exercise 1. Then play the tape again and let the students finish the questions in Exercise 2. After that, let the s
39、tudents check their answers with each other. At last, listen to the tape again, teacher can make a pause where there is an question to the question, in this way students can check all the answers.Step 3. Listening ( page 58 )There are four exercises in this listening. The first one requests students
40、 to get the general idea of the material. The second one is to ask the students to know some details of the material. The third one is a question that asks the students to speculate the teachers feeling. And the last one is a good exercise, it gives the students another chance to practice their oral
41、 English.Step 4. HomeworkCollect as many funny stories as possible, do some preparations for the writing in the next period.The Fifth Period Writing Teaching aims: Help the students learn how to write funny stories using the target language and according to the writing steps.Key points: Teach studen
42、ts to write according to the writing of the writing steps.Difficult points: Help students make up a dialogue, using the target language.Teaching aid: A projectorTeaching procedure:Step 1. RevisionCheck homework: Ask several students to read their funny stories in class.Step 2. Writing ( page 23 ) Gi
43、ve students some instructions on writing a funny story.1) Writing down your story in a logical order.2) For each of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happing.3) Then write out your story using these interesting words.4) Read through your s
44、tory.5) Then show it to your partner. Let him/ her suggest some new and exciting words.6) Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.Give students enough time to finish the task and give them enough help in the writing. Tell them to give the outline first, then finish the stor
45、y.Step 3. TalkingTask 1. Show students some pictures. Ask them to describe the pictures and explain what is happening, whether it is funny or not.Task 2. Imagine you want to play a trick on someone, maybe an April Fools trick. Work with partners, think up a funny thing and share it with the class.St
46、ep 4. Speaking and writing taskThis is a chance for students to learn limericks. It has only five lines. Three of them are longer than the other two. The longer lines all rhyme with each other and the shorter ones rhyme with each other. When introducing the poems, teacher read them first, and let th
47、e students enjoy the beauty of the rhyme. And at the same time point out that there must be two sets of rhyming words in the same poem, so the students can grasp the main feature of the poem.After reading, ask students to tell the rhyme of the first and the second poem. Let students read the poems s
48、everal times and feel it. Find more limericks for students to enjoy. Give students some instructions on how to write a poem, let them think of rhyming words before writing. They need two sets of rhyming words.Step 5. Homework1) Finish Exercise 5 on Page 20.2) Make a summary about what has been learnt in this unit.The Six Period SummaryTeaching aims: 1) Learn to express the sentences that are connected with the positive and negative view of the same thin
