Unit 3 A taste of English humour 教案

Unit 3 A taste of English humour
The First Period Words and Expressions
Teaching goals
1. Target language
a. 重点词汇
content, entertain, overcome, content with, convince, direct, entertaining, slide, whisper, react, react, , difficulty, fortunate, snowstorm, pick out, cut off, chew, star in, outstanding,
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to learn new words and expressions
3. Learning ability goals
Help the students learn how to use these words
Teaching important points and difficult points
Help the students to grasp the new words and expressions
教学过程：
1.content adj.满足的; 满意的(satisfied; happy)vt.使满足(make sb. feel happy or satisfied) n.满足;内容；含量
Content with what I had done, my mother gave me a hug.
The fact that John is always polite contents his parents. John
She hasn’t read the book and so i s unaware of its contents.
2.entertain vt.使欢乐(amuse sb.) vt. & vi.款待；宴客
The party held in our school entertained every foreign teacher.
She entertained us with stories of her travels.
They entertained us to lunch in their new house.
I don’t entertain very often. 我不常在家请客。

(provide food and drink for sb.)
3 .overcome vt. & vi. (overcame, overcome)战胜；克服
As senior 3 students, we should try to overcome the difficulties.
There will be no difficulty in the world that they cannot overcome.
4.convince vt.使信服; 使明白(cause sb. to realize); 说服
My classmate tried his best to convince me of what he had said. 我同学想尽办法让我相信他所说的话。

(make sb feel certain)
What she said convinced me that I was mistaken.
I’ve been trying to convince him to see a doctor.我一直劝他去看病。

(persuade)
5.direct vt. & vi.导演；指示；指挥adj.直的；直接的；直率的
Homeless to Harvard, directed by Peter Levin, is based on the biography of Liz Murray.
You are expected to be in direct contact with your manager. 。

6.slide v. (使) 滑动; (使) 滑行n.滑; 滑动; 幻灯片
I slid my book into my schoolbag. 我把我的书塞进了书包。

The truck went into a slide. 卡车打起了滑
7.whisper n.耳语；低语vt. & vi.低语; 小声说
The doctor said something to the patient
in a whisper so that others couldn’t hear. 医生低声对病人说些什么以防他人听到。

It is impolite to whisper in such a situation.
8.react vi.作出反应；回应
They reacted violently to this result. 他们对这个结果反应强烈。

9 .up to now 直至现在
Doctors haven’t found a cure for the disease up to now.
10.feel／be content with 对……满足
It is what the students do rather than what they say that makes their teacher feel content with. 正是学生们的实际行动而不是所说的话让老师感到满足。

11.badly off 穷的; 缺少的(not having much money; poor)
We were badly off at that time. 那时我们很穷。

(反义well off)
Some of the developing countries are badly off for fresh water.
12.pick out 挑出；辨别出
It is very difficult for me to pick out the books suitable for me.
(choose; select; recognize)
13.cut off 切断；断绝
I was about to cook dinner when the gas supply of my house was cut off.
14.star in 担任主角；主演
To his sadness, he failed to star in this film.
15.break into
break into 破门而入break away from 逃脱……；从……挣脱break down 出故障，失败；垮掉；分解
break up 拆开，粉碎；解散break out 爆发break through 突破He found his house ________(break) into when he came home. 16.astonish
astonish sb. 使某人惊诧astonishing adj.令人惊诧的astonished adj.感到惊诧的astonishment n.惊诧
to one’s aston ishment 使某人惊诧的是…
⑴She __________us by saying she was leaving.
⑵She seemed _________that I had never been to Paris.
⑶I find it absolutely ___________that you didn’t like it.
⑷To my ____________，she knew my father.
StepⅡHomework:Read and copy the new words.
板书设计
二次备课
三次备课
课后反思
The Second Period Reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇
slide, skin, cruel, content with, badly off, particular, entertaining, throughout, homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, fortunate, snowstorm, pick out, cut off, chew, star in, outstanding, Switzerland
b. 重点句子
Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner, or falling down a hole in the road? P17
Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life ... P17
He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce. P17
But he was lived by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him. P18
Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe. P18
That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin in one of his most famous films. P18 He solved it by using nonverbal humour. P18
Finally he tries cutting and eating the bottom of the shoe. P18
Then he cuts off the leather top of the shoe, treating if as if it were the finest meat. P18
He makes it seems as if it were one of the best meals he has ever had! P18
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to learn what humour means and what is nonverbal humour.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help the students learn how to describe what nonverbal humour is by Chailie Chaplin’s career.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Help the students to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning of the passage.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
a. Decide the divide of the paragraphs of the text.
b. Help students to learn the Subjunctive Mood.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Scanning, careful reading, and discussion.
Teaching aids 教学准备
A recorder and a projector.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式
StepⅠRevision
T: Glad to see you, everyone! Classmates in Group one, have you prepared a joke for us? Ss: Yes.
T: Who would like to tell us?
S: I’d like to. My joke is very short. In order to let all of us understand the joke, I’d like to act it out. But there is a new word in the story. It is “leash”. It means a rope used to tie a dog. The title of the joke is A blind man in a store. Look, this is my dog. Ok, now I’ll act out the joke.
A blind man in a store
A blind man walks into a store with his Seeing Eye dog. All of a sudden, he picks up the leash and begins swinging the dog over his head. The manager runs up to the man and asks, “What are you doing?!!” The blind man replies, “Just looking around.”
S: Tha t’s all for the joke. Thank you.
T: Woo! It’s so wonderful. Thank you for bringing us so wonderful joke and your performance. Let’s clap our hands for him. Ok, let’s continue to check your home- work. Last time we learned something about humour. Some jokes made us laugh. Well, what is humour?
S1: Humour, like jokes, can make people laugh.
S2: I think, humour includes nonverbal, mime and farce, verbal jokes, funny stories and funny poems.
S3: Humour is a sense. Some people have it. It’s natural.
S4: Humour is quality of being amusing; it’s an ability to appreciate the comic or
amusing. I think my answer is the most correct answer, because I looked up the dictionary.
T: All right, I think these explanations give us a full understanding about humour. I think, humour can also reflect a person’s wit or intelligence. For example, what do you think of a banker? S1: A banker is a millionaire.
S2: A banker is a big potato. He owns large houses, cars, and he can enjoy plenty of good things in the world.
T: Yes. All of you are right. But Mark Twain once said: “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining; but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” That is why Mark Twain is Mark Twain. OK, now let’s look at the two questions in Pre-reading.
StepⅡPre-reading
T: What do you like to laugh at?
S1: Some funny things, such as funny looks, funny acts, funny words and so on.
T: Good. Is humour always kind?
S2: I guess mostly humour is kind. But it depends on who is joking and who is listening.
T: Right. Different people have different understanding about the same jokes. One day, if one of your friends says to you: “Dog, I’ll pick your head and beat it like a basketball.” You are shouting at him/her “Stop! You pig.” What an interesting thing it is! Do you like this?
S3: I don’t think this is funny. It’s crazy! If he really says this to me, he will lose me. T: But some people like this. It is difficult to see who is right and who is wrong. Some people think it is funny; while other people will think it will make them throw up. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This sentence means what one person considers beautiful may not be beautiful to another. So we can see that humour is not always kind.
Step ⅢReading
The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humour. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humour means; what’s
Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on. What do you know about Charlie Chaplin?Task 1, find the main idea of each paragraph. Work in groups to decide how many passages the material can be divided. Task 2, discuss the following questions：
1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?
2. Why did people like The Little Tramp?
3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?
Step IV Summary of the passage:
In Britain and America people were feeling miserable because of the bad economic situation. Charlie understood their problems. His character “the little tramp” was poor and homeless, but everybody loved him for his kind heart and the way he dealt with his difficult situation. Charlie Chaplin made people laugh at some of these terrible situations like being without food or money. He wrote and directed his own films and received an Oscar for his outstanding work.
Step V Homework Preview grammar by finishing Exercises on Page 21.
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The Third Period Using Language
Aims
To help students read the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Procedures
I. Warming up
Warming up by reading school jokes
There are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read these two to see whether you
Read the paragraph on page 22 and translate it into Chinese sentence by sentence.
2. Reading and underlining
Next you are to read the paragraph and underline all the useful expressions or
Now you are going to do the exercise No. 1 on page 22.
III. Guided Speaking
Think of funny stories in English and tell them to your groupmates.
IV. Guided Writing—Learn to write jokes
There 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 part 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 much 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 he's feeling something different and unexpected. Again, in the second example, you'd most 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 assumptions you make about them. You must be able to interpret the statement (first story line) in at least 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 acting
To end this period, we are going to act
Homework：Revision
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The Fourth Period Writing
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
2. Ability goals能力目标
Enable the students to write some types of English humour and Chinese humour.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Let the students read, and imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Help the students learn how to understand and write English humors.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours. Teaching methods教学方法
Using pictures, discussion, and imitation.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
Step I Lead-in
如何写幽默故事Think of a funny English or Chinese story and tell it to your partner. 写作时应注意以下几点：
1. 确定文体：幽默故事大多属于记叙文。

2. 主体时态：文章以一般过去时或一般现在时为主。

3. 主体人称：第一人称或第三人称。

4. 内容要点：①故事场景；②展开情节；③意外结尾。

Step II 思路引导
写幽默故事首先要设计好故事发生的场景，即时间、地点、主要人物和发生的事。

做好前文的铺垫之后，故事最后的点睛之笔（punchline）才显得既在情理之中又出乎意料之外。

相声中称之为“抖包袱”，即把之前设置的悬念揭开，或者把前文铺垫酝酿好的笑料关键部分说出来。

写幽默故事时要注意前文的逻辑顺序，结尾处要与人们的生活常识或经历相矛盾，这样才能使人联系上下文体会到幽默所在。

写英文幽默故事，还应注意东西
方人思维方式的差异以及汉英语言文化背景的差异。

Step III 实战演练
根据所给的提示，续写故事，要有出人意料的结局。

A year ago, my grandmother was walking down the street, stopping from time to time to look in the shop windows.
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A year ago, my grandmother was walking down the street, stopping from time to time to look in the shop windows. At one store, she stopped to admire a dress in the window. Just as she turned to enter the store, a businessman, walking very fast and not looking where he was going, ran into her, knocking her down.
“Oh, I’m so sorry!” said the man. “Are you OK?”
My grandmother was too frightened to reply. But after a while she said she was fine.
“Look!” she heard someone say from across the street. “An old woman just fell down!”
She quickly sat up and looked around with great concern and said, “Where?”Homework：write a passage.
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