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Unit 3 A Taste of English Humor Teaching aims: Enable students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor.

Key points: Help students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.

Difficult points: Help students know the differences between English and Chinese in humor.

Teaching aids: pictures

Teaching procedure:

Step 1: Lead-in Show some pictures to students, let them talk about the pictures and then ask them what they think of the pictures, whether they are funny or not.

Questions: 1) Do you know who these comedians are? What makes them funny?

2) Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?

3) Have you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them?

Step 2: Warming up

Task 1. Brain-storming

Ask students to name some types of humors they know. Write those they are not familiar with on the blackboard, then show some pictures and summarize.

Types of humor Example of English humor Chinese humor

Nonverbal Charlie Chaplin Pantomimes（哑剧）刘全和，刘全利

Mime and farce Mr. Bean

Funny plays 陈佩斯，赵本山

Verbal jokes Play on words, usually Cross talk

马季，

姜昆

Funny stories Two lines Jokes Funny poems Edward Lear Doggerel（打油诗

Task

2.

Talking

Ask

students

to

talk

about

some

funny

stories,

any

English

or

Chinese

humors

they

know.

Task

3.

Reading

on

P22

The

purpose

of

the

reading

is

to

introduce

the

kind

of

verbal

jokes.

They

use

a

“play

on

words”

to

be

funny.

Let

students

read

the

three

jokes

and

then

match

the

joke

with

the

explanation.

Then

check

the

answer.

After

that,

teacher

can

show

some

other

jokes

on

the

screen.

Joke

1:

Patient:

Doctor,

I’ve

lost

my

memory.

Doctor:

When

did

this

happen?

Patient:

When

did

what

happen?

Joke

2:

Garcia:

Thank

you

doctor.

My

fever

is

gone.

Doctor:

Don’t

thank

me.

Thank

Go Garcia:

Then

I

will

pay

the

fees

to

God.

Step

3

Homework

Ask

each

student

to

give

a

joke

and

present

it

in

class

next

period.

Step

4

课后反思