高中英语Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumourWarming-up﹠Reading

汇报课教案
The First Period
Warming-up﹠Reading
Teaching goals
1. Target language
a. key vocabulary
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisper
b. Key sentence and structure
I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. P22
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.
3. 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.
Teaching important points
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.
Help students to get to know more about Charlie Chaplin.
Teaching difficult points
Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.
Teaching methods
Using pictures, movie clip, reading and imitation.
Teaching aids
A slide projector
Teaching procedures & ways
Step one: Warming-up (6 minutes)
1. To share a Chinese joke with students and lead in the English word “punchline”.
2. Explain the word “punchline” by giving definition and examples.
3. Ask students how many kinds of humour do they know and help them to divide the humour into two types.
4. Explain what’s nonverbal humour to students and list two typical actors.
Step two: Pre-reading (4 minutes)
1. Ask students what do they know about Charlie Chaplin.
2. Then show a picture of young Charlie and a brief introduction about him to students.
3. Play a clip of The Gold Rush that Charlie Chaplin act in.
Step three: Reading (18 minutes)
1. Fast reading: Try to finish the following tasks quickly after reading.
Para 1
Para 2 Para 3
Para 4Para 5 Task1: Match the main idea of each para.
.Charlie ’s childhood An example of his work:
The Gold Rush
His achievements
His famous film character:
the little tramp
Why people needed cheering up
Task2: Choose the best answers.
(1).What’s the passage mainly about? ( )
A. The history of English humour.
B. The films Chaplin made.
C. Chaplin’s life and the humour Chaplin made in his films.
D. The gold rush in California.
(2). At the end of the 19th century people went to California to look for____.
A. films
B. gold
C. entertainment
D. water
(3). Chaplin was given a special Oscar for___.
A. they enjoy doing so
B. the films he directed
C.the joy he gave us in his films
D.the contributions he made in films
(4). The little tramp is well known because___.
A. Chaplin played a poor and homeless person
B. The character was a social failure
C. Chaplin wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat and carried a
walking stick
D. Chaplin played a role as a man who determined to overcome difficulties and was kind even
when people were unkind to him
(5). What’s the author’s attitude to Charlie Chaplin?
A. positive
B. Negative
C. serious
D. appreciative
2. Detailed reading: (listen to the tape)
Read the passage carefully and underline the main information you need to finish the following tasks.
Step four: Post-reading (5 minutes)
Summary: Use about 30 words to summarize the main idea of the passage.
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______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Step five: Play a game( who is the best actor or actress in our class) (5 minutes)
Act out(表演) a situation by using nonverbal humour.
Situations:
choke on your dinner （choke呛，噎）
slide on a banana skin
carry a heavy box
in a hurry
bump into someone else round a corner
…
Step six: conclusion (1 minute)
Laughing is better than medicine. ---- Jewish saying
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ----Victor Hugo
Today we have learned something about humour. Humour is everywhere in our daily life. I hope you can be optimistic(乐观的) no matter what difficulties you meet with, just as Charlie Chaplin was.
Homework: (1 minute)
1. To read the passage loudly after class.
2. Preview Learning about Language by finishing Exercises on Page 32---34.。