Using LanguageⅡ优秀教案内容

Using Language -----reading, listening, speaking, writing

Aims To enjoy reading the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson To learn to use the language by reading, listening, speaking . Procedures Step1 Warming up

Warming up by reading school jokes There are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read one to see whether you will laugh or not. - 1 -

Why must we learn this?

One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask, "Why do we have to learn this pointless information" "To save lives." the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. "So how does physics save lives?" he persisted. "It keeps the ignoramuses like you out of medical school," replied the professor.

Step2 Reading

1. Reading and underlining

Read the paragraph and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in it. Copy them into your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from the paragraph on page 22 go camping去野营, in a mountainous area山区, lie in the open air露营, under the stars在星空下, look up at the stars抬头看星星, think of…考虑；思考, try a third time试第三次, in one’s beds在床上

(1) Ask Ss to enjoy the story of Ex2 on P22. Before that, teacher may say, “ Some jokes are longer and tell a short, funny story. The following is one joke about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are two characters in the - 2 -

detective novel called Adventures of Holmes.”

(2)

Ask Ss to discuss the following question.

Which of these two kinds of

humor (joke and short, funny story) do you like better? Why?

(3) Divide Ss into several groups of three. Each group is to choose one role to play: Holmes, Watson or the narrator. Remind Ss to pay attention to the intonation and bring out the humorous meaning.

2.

Doing the exercise Now you are going to do the exercise 1 on page 22.

Step 3

Listening 1. Ask Ss to answer the following questions and talk about them.

(1)

Have you have the experience of eating plums?

(2)

What do you think will happen if chickens eat them? 2. Ask Ss to finish Ex2,3,4,5on P23. 3. Ask Ss to discuss the following questions. (1)

Do you think the story funny? Why? (2)

How do you feel about John’s behavior?

Step4

Speaking - 3 -

Think of funny stories in English and tell them to your group mates. 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…

Step5: Writing—Learn to write jokes There are two main parts to the structure of a joke. The first part prepares you for the laugh by telling a story which creates a sense of expectation. The second part of the joke, the punch line, provokes laughter by telling an unexpected and different story, yet one which is still compatible with the first, as in this example: "My wife just ran off with my best friend. Boy, do I miss him." and "I had a mud pack facial done, and for three days my face looked much better. Then the mud fell off." Notice the assumption that is made in both these examples. In the first, you assume the person telling the story is angry with his wife, so the punch line - 4 -

surprises you because he's feeling something different and unexpected. Again, in the second example, you'd most likely assume the mud had been removed, leaving the face looking better, so the punch line takes you by surprise.

So, to write jokes you need to practice reading statements and writing down the assumptions you make about them. You must be able to interpret the statement (first story line) in at least two different ways in order to provide the second, different story i.e. the punch line. And

what to write about? Anything that interests you. Anything you have strong opinions about.

Now write down your own jokes, in English.

Step5 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.

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