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Unit 1 Laughter is good for you （Welcome to the unit）

Aims and requirements 1. Train the students’ speaking abilities.

2. Get the students to understand what kind of art forms can amuse people.

3. Help the students understand how important laughter is to people.

Teaching Methods:

1. Speaking and discussing to improve students’ integrating skills.

2. Individual, pair work and group work to make every student take an active part in class.

3. Discussion to help the students cooperate with each other.

Teaching Aids:

The multimedia.

Procedure: Step 1: Lead-in (T—teachers; S—students) T: Boys and girls, are you happy today? S: Yes. T: Have you laughed today? S: Yes./No. T: If you haven’t laughed today, I’ll give you a chance. Let’s enjoy a film together.

(show the film performed by Mr. Bean to the students)

Are you familiar with Mr. Bean? S: Yes, quite familiar. T: How do you like him? S: Very funny. T: Do you know any other funny man? S: Yes. Charlie Chaplin, Zhao Benshan, Feng Gong, etc. T: So many funny men! If I show you some pictures about them, will you be able to recognize them at first sight?(Show students pictures about Charlie Chplin and Steven Chow with briel introduction.)

After students’ guess, ask them the following question: T: How do they amuse us? All by themselves or with somebody else? S: They amuse us with others. T: But do you believe they alone can also make people laugh? S: We don’t know. T: Then let’s welcome Mr. Frank Funnybones from America with his special performance “stand-up”!(Show students the picture of stand-up on the screen) T: Can you guess how he will entertain us with only a microphone? S: By telling jokes, making funny actions or something else. T: Great! A funny man in the stand-up can usually amuse the audience in the ways above. And besides the art form of stand-up, there are many other humorous art forms

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that can also bring people laughter. Please enjoy the following pictures and guess what they are. Step 2: Enjoying other humorous art forms

Picture 1

T: What kind of books are these two? S: Humorous books T: Exactly! What can we read in a bumorous book? S: Funny stories and pictures. T: Yes. Let’s enjoy some examples. Example1: “Your brain has two sides:

the left one and the right one.

But your left brain has nothing right,

and your right brain has nothing left.”

Example2: A new story about Tom and Jerry. Picture 2 After showing the pictures about circus, lead students to find out the difference between foreign circus and Chinese acrobatics. Picture 3

Lead students to conclude the development of tradtional Chinese crosstalk and show them one example “虎口遐想”. Picture 3 When the example crosstalk is over, encourage students to think of the other art form that is similar to this---- sketch. Then show them the example “卖拐”. Picture 4 After the brief introduction to the different traditional art forms above, inform students that with the development of modern science and technology, we are able to enjoy more and more new art forms, for example, situation comedy. So show students pictures about “武林外传”and “Growing pains”. Point out that situation comedy is mainly about the stories happening at the same place. Step 3: Conclusion Encourage students to draw a conclusion about what ways can be used to amuse people and fill in the table below. Events Ways are used Stand-up Jokes, Funny actions, Humorous books Facial expressions, Circus Funny stories and pictures, Crosstalk Performing animals Sketch Situation Step 4: Discussion Encourage students to discuss what laughter can bring us. Then show them some famous proverbs and old sayings as follows:

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1). Laughter is the best medicine. 2). You will be ten years younger with a smile. 3). Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. 4). Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. Based on these proverbs, give out the summary to students that laughter is a bridge that can lead people to health, happiness and peace and it is effective to help people fight pain and forget all the problems. In this way, emphasize the topic of this unit---- Laughter is good for you. Step 5: Homework 1. Make up a joke or a funny story. 2. Preview the Reading part.

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