Using LanguageⅡ第二课时教学实录

Unit 3 A taste of English humour

The Second Period

Reading 灵璧中学

程飞

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇

slide, skin, cruel, content with, badly off, particular, entertaining, throughout, homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, fortunate, snowstorm, pick out, cut off, chew, star in, outstanding, Switzerland b. 重点句子

Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner, or falling down a hole in the road? P17 Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life ... P17 He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce. P17 But he was lived by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him. P18 Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe. P18 That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin in one of his most famous films. P18 He solved it by using nonverbal humour. P18 Their job is “panning for gold”. P18

Finally he tries cutting and eating the bottom of the shoe. P18 First he picks out the laces and eats them as if they were spaghetti. P18 Then he cuts off the leather top of the shoe, treating if as if it were the finest meat. P18 He makes it seems as if it were one of the best meals he has ever had! P18 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn what humour means and what is nonverbal humour. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to describe what nonverbal humour is by Chailie Chaplin’s career.

Teaching important points 教学重点

Help the students to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning of the passage. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

a. Decide the divide of the paragraphs of the text. b. Help students to learn the Subjunctive Mood. Teaching methods 教学方法

Scanning, careful reading, and discussion. Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

StepⅠ

Revision T: Glad to see you, everyone! Classmates in Group one, have you prepared a joke for us? Ss: Yes. T: Who would like to tell us? S: I’d like to. My joke is very short. In order to let all of us understand the joke, I’d like to act it out. But there is a new word in the story. It is “leash”. It means a rope used to tie a dog. The title of the joke is A blind man in a store. Look, this is my dog. Ok, now I’ll act out the joke.

A blind man in a store A blind man walks into a store with his Seeing Eye dog. All of a sudden, he picks up the leash and begins swinging the dog over his head. The manager runs up to the man and asks, “What are you doing?!!” The blind man replies, “Just looking around.”

S: That’s all for the joke. Thank you.

T: Woo! It’s so wonderful. Thank you for bringing us so wonderful joke and your performance. Let’s clap our

hands for him. Ok, let’s continue to check your home-

work. Last time we learned something about humour. Some jokes made us laugh. Well, what is humour? S1: Humour, like jokes, can make people laugh. S2: I think, humour includes nonverbal, mime and farce, verbal jokes, funny stories and funny poems.

S3: Humour is a sense. Some people have it. It’s natural.

S4: Humour is quality of being amusing; it’s an ability to appreciate the comic or amusing. I think my answer is the most correct answer, because I looked up the dictionary. T: All right, I think these explanations give us a full understanding about humour. I think, humour can also reflect a person’s wit or intelligence. For example, what do you think of a banker? S1: A banker is a millionaire. S2: A banker is a big potato. He owns large houses, cars, and he can enjoy plenty of good things in the world. T: Yes. All of you are right. But Mark Twain once said: “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining; but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” That is why Mark Twain is Mark Twain. OK, now let’s look at the two questions in Pre-reading.

StepⅡ

Pre-reading T: What do you like to laugh at? S1: Some funny things, such as funny looks, funny acts, funny words and so on. T: Good. Is humour always kind? S2: I guess mostly humour is kind. But it depends on who is joking and who is listening. T: Right. Different people have different understanding about the same jokes. One day, if one of your friends says to you: “Dog, I’ll pick your head and beat it like a basketball.” You are shouting at him/her

“Stop! You pig.” What an interesting thing it is! Do you like this?

S3: I don’t think this is funny. It’s crazy! If he really says this to me, he will lose me.

T: But some people like this. It is difficult to see who is right and who is wrong. Some people think it is funny; while other people will think it will make them throw up. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This sentence means what one person considers beautiful may not be beautiful to another. So we can see that humour is not always kind.

Step Ⅲ

Reading The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humour. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humour means; what’s Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.

What do you know about Charlie Chaplin? This step can have three tasks. Task 1, find the main idea of each paragraph. Work in groups to decide how many passages the material can be divided. Task 2, discuss the following questions：

1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?

2. Why did people like The Little Tramp? 3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?

Step IV Summary of the passage: In Britain and America people were feeling miserable because of the bad economic situation. Charlie understood their problems. His character “the little tramp” was poor and homeless, but everybody loved him for his kind heart and the way he dealt with his difficult situation. Charlie Chaplin made people laugh at some of these terrible situations like being without food or money. He wrote and directed his own films and received an Oscar for his outstanding work.

Step V Homework

Preview grammar by finishing Exercises on Page 21.