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Teaching Design(教学设计) Unit 3 A taste of English humor

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teaching plan for reading (A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR) Introduction In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to read aloud to the recording. Then they will read and underline and read to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. The discourse study can also be done by students reading to decide on the type of writing and summary of the text and reading the text to turn out a diagram. The text can be used for retelling the story.

Objectives To help students understand the text’s forms and contents and learn about English humor

To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, expressions and structures learned in this unit

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Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedures 1. Warming up(Checking) Warming up by learning something about “Humor”

What is “Humor”? Does any one of you know anything about humor? Look at the screen and read the definition of Humor from the Internet. Humor (humour in British English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to invoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses any form of entertainment or human communication which invokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.

2. Pre-reading by telling the truth —What do you like to laugh at?(Leading-in) I like to laugh at cartoons, for they’re lovely and fun.I like to laugh at fairy tales. They are amusing and interesting. Although we have different sense of humor, it seems that the humor that all cultures enjoy is non-verbal humor. We all laugh at the antics of Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Bean. It is good that we can all laugh at something together! 3. Reading aloud to the recording

Reading aloud to the recording of the text improves our literacy skills -- reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses between the thought groups.

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Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph

Skim 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.

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Closing down by reading and transferring information

Read the text again to complete the table. A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR What 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 Oscar A brief life history of Charlie Chaplin

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Going over the text to decide on the type of writing and summary of the text Determining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condemning, objective, etc.) Type of writing Main idea of the passage

Main idea of 1st paragraph This is a piece of descriptive writing. Charlie Chaplin astonishes us with the deep feelings he can inspire in us for a character he is playing. It may arouse in people a sense of satisfaction laughing at other’s bad luck.

Main idea of 2nd paragraph Charlie Chaplin is such an actor as to impress us deeply by using a particular form of acting.. Main idea of 3rd paragraph Charlie Chaplin could make a sad situation entertaining by using nonverbal humour. Main idea of 4th paragraph The film of The Gold Rush, set in California where gold was discovered, is an good example of nonverbal humour. Main idea of 5th paragraph Charlie Chaplin produced, directed, and wrote the movies he starred in. 7.

Reading to make a diagram of the text and retelling the text with the help of the diagram

It’s possible to make a sad situation entertaining by using a particular

form of acting. (para 3)

By using nonverbal humour, Chaplin gave a very funny performance, eating a boiled shoe, in The Gold Rush (para 4)

Charlie Chaplin’s charming character The little Tramp

impressed people a great deal.

(para 2)

why enjoying laughing at other’s bad luck?

(para 1)

A special Oscar was given to Charlie Chaplin for his lifetime outstanding work.. (para 5)

8.Summary（Retelling the text）

Charlie Chaplin was born in a ____ family in ____and at that time films were silent. He was a famous ____, especially in ____. His silent films are still popular today. His charming character was __________ ,who was very poor, but very____even when people were unkind to him. He was a social _______, and he was homeless, but he had ____________ to overcome difficulties. What he wore were ________ shoes, large

trousers and a small round black hat, and he was always carrying a walking stick.

Charlie Chaplin _______ in the film The Gold Rush. He played a man with bad luck eating

with great enjoyment when he was hiding in a small wooden house during a .

9.Homework: (1. )Write a short passage about what you have learned about Charlie Chaplin ?

(2. ) Preview the language points.