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Unit3 A Taste of English Humor Period 3 Using language 教学设计

Analysis of textbook This period is about the useful words, expressions and structures learned in the reading part, from the exercises in this period, the students can consolidate what they learnt in the reading part, and learn some jokes in English. Teaching objectives 1.Learn some key words and some important structures 2. Enable the students to learn how to make jokes and give their opinions. Teaching important points Students should master how to make jokes in English and understand some typical English humors. Teaching difficult points

Help the students to learn some expressions and constructions about their opinions to classical English humors. Preparations A computer and a projector. Teaching Procedures StepⅠ Warming up

Show students some riddles and let them guess the answers about them. And then introduce some parts of “Play on Words”, such as riddles, jokes, puns, funny stories...

Task 1 Preparation T: Now let’s have a look at these jokes. Here are some sentences for you to understand. 1.He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. 其中的grave有两个含义, 一个是“严肃的”(形容词), 一个是“坟墓”(名词)，因此这句话的意思是：

他不是一个严肃的人, 除非他躺到坟墓里才能严肃起来。 2.They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow. 其中的pray(祈祷)和prey(捕食), 发音相同, 外形相似。因此这句话的意思是：

他们今天为你祈祷, 明天就会加害于你。

After that , teacher can let the students read the two puns and enjoy playing on words.

A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two-tired. A small boy went to the counter to pay for his lunch but he was a little short. And then, teacher can explain these two puns like that: 1) Two-tired, when spoken, can have two meanings: a. with two tires; b. too tired. 2) Short, when spoken, can have two meanings: a. small in height; b. not having enough money. Task 2 Presentation Ask the students to look at exercise on Page 22. And then work in pairs to finish the Exercise. In order to make sure the quality, the teacher can ask some of the students

to explain some of the phrases in the Exercise. T: Now let’s finish the exercise on Page 22. I’ll give one minute for you to check your answers. And then I’ll choose some of them to let you explain. Are you clear? Ss: Yes. T: OK, do the Exercise now. One minute later. Ask some students to check the answer for the whole class. Then show students four jokes to have a break and after that give them some expression about how to express their opinions. How wonderful! I’m pleased we both like…

I felt happy because…

What fun! It surprises me that…

I (don’t) laugh at that kind of thing

because…

It is (not) very amusing/funny that…

I (don’t) enjoy this very much because…

Before the discussion, give them a sample dialogue S1: What fun! I enjoyed that story. I always laugh at that kind of thing. S2: Me too. I’m pleased we both like the same kind of funny stories.

S1: The punch line was good. You were wondering what would happen. So I’m happy that it all turned out well in the end.

S2: It surprises me that John didn’t see the plum stone if Mary did.

S1: That’s because Mary did the cooking, but John didn’t look at the

jam carefully. He just thought it was a mess and threw it away. S2: I think it’s very amusing and always try to read stories like that. That make me smile. Task 3 Practice

To consolidate students’ vocabulary ,give them some practice about some words learnt in this text. Like following: 一、单词拼写

1. _____________ n. 皮肤; 外壳

2. _____________ adj. 残酷的; 令人痛苦的

3. _____________ n. & adj. 底部; 底部的 4. _____________ vt. 使惊讶 5. _____________ n. 一口; 满口 6. _____________ vt. 使欢乐; 款待 7. _____________ adv. 特别地 8. _____________ adj. 无家可归的 9. _____________ n. 富有; 运气 10. ____________ v.& n. 煮沸; 沸腾

二、单词运用。

1. Today the Chinese teacher began the class with an amusing _______ show. 2. I kept a diary at times when there was something ___________ to keep down. 3. The class were cheered up by her _____________ performance. 4. We like to stay with him, for he’s a man

with a pretty _______ of humour.

5. The woman sat there, __________ (chew) a piece of gum. 词语派生

1.As a result of their impatience, that plan ended in _________ (fail). 2. ____________ (fortune), we two were selected for the Olympic torch bearers in Guangdong. 3. Besides the point, the accident happened for some other _________ (direct) reasons. 4. You are expected to spend an _____________ (entertain) evening in this place of public _______________ (entertain). Task 4 Homework Choose one topic and do your writing. 1) The play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 2) Do you think the jokes/story/play you have read/watched funny? Give your reasons.