Using LanguageⅡ教学设计

Teaching Design Teaching aims

1.

Ss can discover some kinds of “play on words” on their own through reading materials, like riddle, tongue twister, joke, pun, etc.

2.

After this class, Ss will pay attention to the punchline in the English jokes. 3.

Ss get to know some words, like: amuse, amusing, pancake, explanation, detective, Sherlock Holmes, mountainous, whisper, vast, mushroom, riddle, tongue twister, joke, pun, fever, fee, memory, etc.

4.

By independent study and cooperative research, Ss can automatically practice reading and speaking.

Teaching important points

1.

Ss know and enjoy some kinds of “play on words”, especially jokes.

2.

Ss can find the punchline in a joke.

3.

Get Ss interested in reading and speaking.

Teaching difficult points

1.

Ss read the card, understand it in short time and do the task.

2.

Ss read 3 jokes on the book and find the explanations to them.

3.

Ss read, remember and retell the short joke to their partners.

4.

Teaching Procedure

Step 1.

Show the head

the title:

Unit 3 A taste of English humour

show

the part:

Using language

the type: reading and speaking

Step 2.

Check the preview work

There will be quick flash of some words that will be used later. Divide the whole class into 4 big groups. There will be a fierce competition among these 4 big groups. The words will appear and disappear instantly. Ss whoever knows the pronunciation and the meaning of the word, they can just stand up and yell out. First read the word, and then tell the meaning.

Step 3. Group work 1.

Everyone gets in a group of 4

and has a number according to the seat, like the chart on the right. Before the class, every group of 4 has a handout. Now they can divide it into 4 cards. Students of No.1 take in charge of the 1st card. No.2, 2nd. No.3, 3rd. No.4, 4th. There is only one task on each card. They have 2 minutes to read the card and do the task individually.

2.

2 minutes later,

turn around and share their results in the group.

3.

Group members discuss together: why are they funny? Or what are they in common? 4.

The whole class check the answer together. Anyone who can tell the right answer can get 1 point.

5.

Come to a conclusion of “play on words”, and then highlight the JOKES.

Step 4. Read and match Read some customer-waiter jokes and match the jokes to the explanations that have been simplified.

Step 5.

Read and retell (pair work) Every pair has one on the left, and the other on the right, just like the chart on the right.

First round, partners on the left (called left babies) turn around and don’t look at the screen. Right babies read and understand the short joke appearing on the screen without writing down any word on the paper, silently. 1 minute later, left babies turn back and listen to their partners’ retelling.

Second round, exchange the role.

Step 6.

Read a short passage

1.

Read the short passage on the book quickly and find the punchline.

2.

Read it for the second time carefully and answer 3 questions.

Step 7. Role play 3.

Work in pairs, change the short story into a dialogue and act it out.

Step 8. Homework 1.

Write down the dialogue on your exercise book.

2.

Read the short passage again and observe the structure of a funny story. Tomorrow we’ll write a funny story of our own.