1、Unit 3 A taste of English humour Teaching goals 1. Target language verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisperb. I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. P222. Ability goals Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.3.
2、 Learning ability goals a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences.b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.
3、Teaching important points Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.Teaching difficult points Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.Teaching methodsUsing pictures, discussion, reading and imitation.Teaching aids A recorder and a projec
4、tor.Part One: Teaching Design reading(NONVERBAL HUMOUR)AimsTo help students develop their reading ability.To help students learn about English humour.ProceduresI. Warming upWarming up by defining “Humour”What is “Humour”? Does any one of you know anything about humour? Look at the sreen and read the
5、 definition of Humour from the Internet.Whose job .? This is the story about four people named Everybody,Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.There was an important job to be done,and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.Somebody got angry about thatbeca
6、use it was Everybodys job.Everybody thought Anybody could do it,but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldnt do it.It ended up that Everybody blamed SomebodyWhen Nobody did what Anybody could have doneII. Pre-reading Telling the truth Why do you like to laugh at?I like to laugh at cartoons,for theyre
7、lovely and fun.I like to laugh at fairy tales. They are amusing and interesting.Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so exceedingly fond of fine new clothes that he spent vast sums of money on dress. To him clothes meant more than anything else in the world. He took no interest in his army,
8、 nor did he care to go to the theatre, or to drive about in his state coach, unless it was to display his new clothes. He had different robes for every single hour of the day.III. Reading1. Reading aloud to the recordingNow please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text NONVERBAL HUMOUR.
9、Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses between the thought groups. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.2. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook
10、 after class as homework.3. Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragrapSkim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. You may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph. 4. Reading and transferring information Read the text again to complete
11、 the table.NONVERBAL HUMOURWhat is nonverbal humour?Who is Charlie Chaplin?How does he make a sad situation entertaining?What is the story of The Gold Rush?Facts about OscarA brief life history of Charlie Chaplin5. Reading and understanding difficult sentencesAs you have read the text times, you can
12、 surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me the teacher. IV. Closing downClosing down by doing exercisesTo end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exercises No. 1and 2 on pages 18 and 19. Closing down by watching a sil
13、ent movie by Charlie ChaplinDo you like watching movies? Do you like humourous movies? Now lets watch a silent humourous movie by Charlie Chaplin. Its Charlie Chaplins first film: Making a LivingClosing down by reading about Charlie ChaplinTo end the period we shall read an article about Charlie Cha
14、plin. Now look at the screen and read it aloud with me.The second period Learning about Language(The ing form as the Predicative, Attributive & Object)AimsTo help students learn about The ing form as the Predicative, Attributive & Object)To help students discover and learn to use some useful words a
15、nd expressions.To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures.ProceduresI. Warming upWarming up by discovering useful words and expressionsTurn to page 19 and do exercises No. 1, 2 , 3, 4 and 5. Check your answers against your classmates. II. Learning about The ing form as the Att
16、ributive What is attributive? It is something placed before the nouns to be modified: “red” is an attributive adjective in “a red apple”. “walking ” is also an attributive adjective in “a walking stick”.III. Ready used materials for The ing form as the Predicative, Attributive & ObjectWhich verbs ca
17、n be followed by the -ing form?IV. Closing downClosing down by discoveringTo end the period you are going to skim the text and the previous texts to find out all the examples containing ing forms used as the predicative, attributive and object.Closing down by exercisesIn the last few minutes you are
18、 to do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 on page 21. Check your answers against those of your groupmatesThe third period Using Language (Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson)AimsTo help students read the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor WatsonTo help students to use the language by
19、 reading, listening, speaking and writing.ProceduresI. Warming up Warming up by reading school jokesThere are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read these two to see whether you will laugh or not.Why must we learn this? 为什么要学这个呀？One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicat
20、ed concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask, “Why do we have to learn this pointless information“To save lives.“ the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture.A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. “So how does physics save lives?“ he persisted.“It keeps the ig
21、noramuses like you out of medical school,“ replied the professor.II. Guided reading1 Reading and translatingRead the paragraph on page 22 and translate it into Chinese sentence by sentence. 2. Reading and underliningNext you are to read the paragph and underline all the useful expressions or colloca
22、tions in it. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from the paragraph on page 22Go camp, in a mountainous area, lie in the open air, under the stars, look up at the stars, think of, try a third time, in ones beds3. Doing the exerciseNow you are going to do the exercise No.
23、1 on page 22. III.Guided SpeakingThink of funny stories in English and telll them to your group mates.IV.Guided WritingLearn to write jokesThere are two main parts to the structure of a joke. The first prepares you for the laugh by telling a story which creates a sense of expectation. The second par
24、t of the joke, the punch line, provokes laughter by telling an unexpected and different story, yet one which is still compatible with the first, as in this example: “My wife just ran off with my best friend. Boy, do I miss him.“ and “I had a mud pack facial done, and for three days my face looked mu
25、ch better. Then the mud fell off.“ Notice the assumption that is made in both these examples. In the first, you assume the person telling the story is angry with his wife, so the punch line surprises you because hes feeling something different and unexpected. Again, in the second example, youd most
26、likely assume the mud had been removed, leaving the face looking better, so the punch line takes you by surprise. So, to write jokes you need to practice reading statements and writing down the asumptions you make about them. You must be able to interpret the statement (first story line) in at least
27、 two different ways in order to provide the second, different story i.e. the punch line. And what to write about? Anything that interests you. Anything you have strong opinions about. Now write down your own jokes, in English. IV. Closing down by actingTo end this period, we are going to act the fil
28、m by Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator. Part Two: Teaching Resources 1 A text structure analysis of NONVERBAL HUMOURI. Type of writing and summary of the ideaType of writing This is a piece of describtive writing.Main idea of the passage Charlie Chaplin astonishes us with the deep feelings he can i
29、nspire in us for a character he is playing.Topic sentence of 1st paragraphSome humour can be cruel.Topic sentence of 2nd paragraphCharlie Chaplin is such an actor as to astonish us with the deep feelings.Topic sentence of 3rd paragraphHow did Charlie Chaplin make a sad situation entertaining?Topic s
30、entence of 4th paragraphThe film of The Gold Rush is set in California.Topic sentence of 5th paragraphCharlie Chaplin produced, directed, and wrote the movies he starred in.II. A tree diagram of the text Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin making a sad situation entertaining?(para 3)The fi
31、lm of The Gold Rush set in California where gold was discovered(para 4)Humours being cruel(para 1)Charlie Chaplin astonishing us with the deep feelings(para 2)III. A retold passage of the textGive A possible version:The fourth period ListeningStep 1 Listening on P23 Listen to the tape and answer the
32、 following questions1. Which is best title for this story?2. Why was Mary Smith frustrated?3. What turned the jam into wine? 4. Did you find this story funny? Why?5. What do you think of Johns behavior?Step 2 Listening text Hand out the listening material and listen to the tape ,then complete the pa
33、ssage Step 3 Listening on P551. Listen to the tape and tick the words you hear.2. Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions.1). Where did Peter get the potatoes?2). Why didnt Peter want to get up when the thief was in his house?3. Why couldnt the thief take away the potatoes?4. How
34、 did Peter stop the man stealing the potatoes？Step 4 Listening text Listen to the tape and complete the listening textThen ask some students to read the passage with the right answers , and tell the main idea Step 5 Listening task on P58 1.Listen to the tape and Choose the best picture that best des
35、cribes what happened.2. Choose the best answer to each question3. Listen to the tape again and answer the question.How do you think the teacher felt when he was offered the dog?Step 6 DiscussionDiscuss how you would solve these problems and help the teacher. Step 7 HomeworkPlease collect as many fun
36、ny stories as you can. They will be useful in the next period. And try to find some interesting words in these stories.Charlie Chaplin producing, directing, and writing the movies he starred in(para 5)The fifth period Speaking and WritingStep 1 Warming upLook at the following pictures about humourTh
37、en ask : How many kinds of humour do you know?Step 2 Enjoy a comedyListen to the tape and finish the following formBorn Died Job Acting type Masterpieces Step 3Other examples of English homour1. mime and farce Mr. Bean2. funny storiesMark Twain : Life on the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Tom SawyerExamples of Chinese humour funny playsStep 4 1. Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke with the explanation on P22.2.Show more jokesStep 5 HomeworkPreview the Reading material and finish the Comprehending ahead.
