Using LanguageⅡ第二课时教案

必修四

unit3 A taste of English humor

Using Language 一，教学目标

1.

Talk about different types of humor;a taste of English humor

2. Learn how to express one’s emotions

3. Learn the –ing form as the Predicative, Attributive and Object Complement

4. Learn to write humorous stories 二，目标语言

Reading on P22 The purpose of the reading is to introduce the kind of verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. Then check the answer. After that, teacher can show some other jokes on the screen. Joke 1: Patient: Doctor, I’ve lost my memory.

Doctor: When did this happen? Patient: When did what happen? Joke 2: Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone. Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank God.

Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God. Teaching aims: Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor. Key points: Help students divide the text into several parts according to the meaning. Difficult points: Divide the paragraphs and give the main ideas. Teaching aids: A recorder and a projector Teaching procedure Step 2. Pre-reading Questions: (1) What do you like to laugh at? (2 ) What does humor mean? Is humor always kind?

Give students some time to discuss. The purpose is to help students know that different people have different taste about humor. It is difficult to say which one is better or which one is worse. Step 3. Reading The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humor. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humor means; what is Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on. Task 1. Divide the text into several parts according to the meaning. Part One: the first and the second paragraph Part Two: the third and the fourth paragraph Part Three: the last paragraph Task 2. Give the main idea of each part The main idea of part one: It tells us that there are two kinds of humor. One is bad, while the other can inspire people. The main idea of part two: It tells us something about Charlie Chaplin’s acting style and how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining. The main idea of part three: it gives us a short biography about Charlie Chaplin. Task 3. Discussion Let students have a discussion about the text, then answer some questions. Questions: (1) What is behind fun? (2 ) Why did people like Little Tramp? (3 ) Do you think Charlie Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?

Step 4 Language points 1. content (adj.): satisfied, happy, not wanting any more phrases: content with sth; content to do sth e.g. (1) She is quite content to stay at home looking after her children.

(2 ) Are you content with your present salary? Content (n.): that which is contained in sth e.g. I like the style of her writing but I don’t like the content.

2. inspire sb. ( with sth.) inspire sth. (in sb.): To fill sb. with thoughts, feelings or aims. e.g. His speech inspired us with hope. 3. badly off: in a poor position, esp. financially The opposite is “ well off”

e.g. (1) They are too badly off to have a holiday. (2 ) In fact most people are better off than they were five years ago. Task 4: Homework