Using LanguageⅡ教学设计(第二课时)

Unit 3 A taste of English humour教学设计

英语组：郭晓敏

指导教师：李春艳

Teaching aims:

1, let students learn from nonverbal humor. 2, Train the students’ skimming and scanning skills.

3, Encourage students to keep optimistic attitude to life, foster sense of humor and cultivate their taste. Important points:

1, Enable students to master the reading skills. 2, Enable students to learn what nonverbal humor is by Charlie Chaplin’s career.

Difficult points: 1, Get students to analyze the personality of Charlie Chaplin and learn from him. 2, Help students improve the reading skills and use English to express their ideas. Teaching methods:

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1.Task-based teaching and learning. 2. Cooperative learning. 3. Discussing.

Teaching Procedure: Step1 warming-up Enjoy some funny pictures Step 2 Fast-reading Task1:Find the main idea of each paragraph and then match them. Para1:

A. Charlie Chaplin’s Childhood Para2:

B.His most famous character Para3:

C.Social background Para4:

D.His achievements Para5:

E.An example of his works(The Gold Rush) Task2:What’s the main idea of the text ? A. The history of English humour . B. The films that Chaplin made . C. The humour Chaplin made in his films . D. The Gold Rush in California .

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Step 3 careful-reading Para1:Read para1 loudly and find out the answers to the questions. 1.What effect does Charlie Chaplin's acting have? Charlie Chaplin __________ the lives of Americans and British when they were going through _____________ and the Great Depression(大萧条). He made people l_____ and feel ______________with their lives.

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How do you understand the sentence “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”?

A. Laughter is the power to drive winter away

and welcome warm spring. B. Laughter can keep one’s face warm , especially

during freezing winter. C. Laughter can make people forget their problems and make them feel happy. Para2: Listen to para2 carefully and find out the answers to the questions.

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1,What was Charlie’s childhood like? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2,When did Charlie first learn to sing and dance? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3,Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.

(L9) A.

happier

B. richer

C. sadder

D. poorer Para3:Read para3 silently and finish the tasks. Find out the descriptions(描述) of his appearance（外貌）

in this paragraph. The character was a _____

______ but was loved because of his _________and ________.

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Para4: Watch the video then use “First,--- Then,--- Finally”

to describe his actions.

1. First, he ___________the laces and eats them. 2.Then, he ___________the leather top of the shoe. 3.Finally, he _________and _______ the bottom of the shoe. He eats each mouthful with great enjoyment and treats it as if it were the finest steak. Para5:Read para5 together and finish the task. Chaplin wrote , _______ , and produced many movies he _______. He was given a ____________for his lifetime ____________ work. Discussion:group work 1.What made Chaplin so successful?

2.What should we learn from him?

Homework：

1,Do the exercises on page38---40. 2,Find more humorous stories around you.

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