Using LanguageⅡPPT配套教学设计内容

Book4

Unit3

A Taste of English Humour

Teaching goals 1. Enable the students to understand the text. 2. Enable the students to improve their reading skills and spoken English. Teaching important point Help the students understand and enjoy English humour by Charlie Chaplin’s career. Teaching difficult point The understanding of the text. Teaching procedure Step1

Lead-in 1.

Show some funny pictures. 2.

Show some English jokes and lead in the word “humour”, “humorous”

and “humorist”. 3.

Show pictures of a great Chinese humorist Zhao Benshan and a great English humorist Charlie Chaplin. Try telling the difference between Chinese humour and English humor. 4.

Show some information about Charlie and his master piece “The Gold Rush”.

Step2

Reading. Para 4

1. Ask students to read the first six lines of Para 4 to get the background of the short piece of “The Gold Rush”. 2. Enjoy the part of the movie “The Gold Rush” which is mentioned in the text. 3. Finish reading the rest lines of Para 4 and fill in the blanks about how he eats the worn-out shoe with his fellow in the small hut. 1) Pick out the ______ and eat them.

2) _____ _____ the leather top of the shoe.

3)Try cutting and ________ the bottom of the shoe. Para 3

1. Show a picture of Charlie’s typical figure in his movie. Let students to describe his figure.

2. Read Para 3 and check their description.

3. Answer the question why this poor tramp could be loved by people. ----Because of his optimism

and determination.

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Para 2

1. Read Para 2 and answer the questions. 1).When was he taught to sing and dance? ----He was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.

2).How did he spend his childhood?

---- He spent his childhood looking after his sick mother and his brother

3).Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.

A. richer

B. earlier

C. poorer

D. later

4). You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could…

A. kind

B. great

C. amazing

D. exciting Para 1 ﹠

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1. Read these two paras and discuss Charlie’s achievements.

2. Fill in the blanks. Charlie Chaplin, who _________ the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and ________ in between, was _______a special _______ for his __________ work in films. He is loved and _______ as a great actor who could _______ people with great _________.

Step3

Summary Find one word to describe each part. Para 1 ﹠

5 -----Achievements. Para 2 -----Childhood.

Para 3 -----Figure.

Para 4 -----Master piece.

Step4

Homework To write a passage about a person you admire referring to the key words.

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