Learning about Language教案2

A taste of English humour

Teaching Aims:

Develop the students’

reading ability and let them learn different reading skills . Knowledge goals: Get the students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this unit. Emotional goals: Let the students learn to find and enjoy humour to make their life easy and happy . Teaching important points: Get the students to learn about Charlie Chaplin and learn different reading skills. Teaching difficult points: Develop the students’

reading skills in different forms of exercise. Step 1

lead in

Show the students some pictures of films in which Charlie Chaplin starred in and ask some students to say something about him. Step 2

Enjoy a short video

Show the students a short video about Charlie Chaplin’

performance in The Gold Rush . Step 3

Fast reading

1.

Ask the students to find out the main information about Charlie Chaplin to fill in the blanks and then check the answers. 2.

Ask the students to discuss the following questions . A.

What is the main idea of the text ? B.

How do you understand the sentence “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race”? C.

Two questions about the new words and phrases. Step 4

Careful reading

A .Ask the students to read para 2 carefully and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the words. Ask two students to the front and write down their answers and then check . B .Find out the mistakes in the passage about the main information of the text and let the students write down their answers. Step 5

Writing

Use the new words and phrases learned in the passage to write a short essay . Ask two students to present their essays. Step 6

Make a summary of the whole period. Step 7

Homework