Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!教学设计第一课时

Module 6 Unit1 Reading Stand-up for your health Teaching goals:

1.Students can learn the main types of stand-up and typical comedians after reading. 2. Students can improve their reading skills by reading and guess the meanings of words after learning Reading Strategy. 3. Students can form optimistic attitudes towards life. Important and difficult points: Improve students’ reading skills and guess the meanings according to the context.

Step1.

Read and answer these question. 1.

What is stand-up? 2.

How many kinds of stand-up are there? 3.

Who is the famous comedian mentioned in the text?

Step2. Detailed reading

1) Match the types of stand-up with examples

Types of stand-up

examples

ask when it only rains when you forget your umbrella

Telling jokes

use a huge hammer to break watermelons

Visual humour talk about how people act when they when they queue up

point to a video tennis game, and ask why he can't lose

Absurd humour

act and speak like a well-known person

Doing impressions

trip over chairs, walk into doors, and fall down on stage

2). Fill in the blanks according to the text. Billy Crystal is one of the most famous stand-up 1. ___________ . He has also become well-known as 2.___________________________later on in life. he has hosted the Academy Awards 3.____________. One reason Crystal has become so famous is that he is very 4.____________ , and he is often able to 5.____________ new jokes about the people and things around him. Crystal is popular with all age

groups and is able 6._________ people all over the world . He hopes to 7. ____________________ other famous comedians like Bob Hope and George Burns who lived to be 8._________________ .

3). Who are Bob Hope and George Burns and how old were they? _______________________________________________________ 4). Why is laughter good for your health? _______________________________________________________

5). Which English saying proves the importance of laughter? _______________________________________________________

Step3. further reading 1). which of the following is true?

A. Crystal has become famous because he always puts a toothbrush in his pocket.

B. Crystal has become famous because he is quick thinking and can come up with new jokes.

C. Crystal is only popular in western countries.

D. Only old people like Billy Crystal’s performance.

2). What can we infer from the passage?

A. At the 2004 Academy Awards, the audience couldn’t hear the old actor because he had turned off the microphone on purpose.

B. People usually laugh at comedians doing impressions because they do not like the person being made fun of.

C. Bob Hope and George Burns lived for a long time probably because they laughed a lot.

D. Crystal might stop performing stand-up in order to make more films.

3).

After reading the passage carefully, which word below cannot be used to describe Billy Crystal?

A. quick thinking

B. confident

C. hard-working

D. persevering (坚持不懈的）

4). What does the word “routine” in L29 mean?

A. process

B. route

C. court

D.

show

5). How do you understand the title “Stand up for your health”?

Step4. Discussion Besides stand-up, what else can bring us laughter?