Using LanguageⅡ公开课参赛课教案

Teaching goals Ask students to learn the main idea of passage Learn important words and phrases Learn some skills of speaking and writing Talking Humour makes people laugh, fell happy and relaxed. In groups, tell each other something you think is funny. These expressions below may be useful for you.

Useful expression

It’s interesting that we both find … funny.

I burst into laughter when …

I found it extremely funny that …

I enjoy watching …

How enjoyable that was!

I laughed till my sides split when …

What’s so funny about that?

I don’t think that’s funny at all.

I couldn’t help laughing when…

I’ve never laughed so much as when…

Isn’t it amusing that…?

I can’t understand why you laughed

at that.

Sample dialogue:

S1: What do you find funny? I enjoy

Mr Bean because he makes such

wonderful faces as he does

stupid things.

S2: I’m not surprised you like Mr

Bean, because all my family are

crazy about him and cannot get

enough of his programmes.

S1: We enjoy this kind of humour

because my father loves Charlie

Chaplin films. When he sees his

stick and hat and that funny walk,

he always bursts into laughter.

S2: What I like best is the problems

Mr Bean has with everyday

situations (like changing his

clothes on the beach). I laughed

till my sides split when I was

watching it.

S1: Yes. I know that one. It

reminded me when I stayed in

England and I watched

everybody try to change into

their swimming costume, under

a towel. It’s good that we both

laughed at that!

1) Use a logical order: explain the situation, what happened and then give the punchline.

2) Read it through when you have finished checking for mistakes.

3) Read it to your partner and ask for advice.

4) Rewrite your story and put it into

a class collection of funny stories.

Sample writing:

Stages in the story

1. Mr Hills buys a hedge cutter made in China.

2. It breaks and he tries to mend it himself.

3. The instruction booklet says it should not be touched “without permission”.

4. He decides to get a new one so no one will ever know.

A TRUE STORY OF MR HILLS

Mr Hills in London bought a hedge cutter made in China. It was very small and very cheap and it worked very well.

At first he was very pleased with it. It made his hedges look smart and neat. Then one day it broke down. There was nothing he could do to make it work.

He took it apart and put it together again but still it would not work. Next he took out the booklet of instructions to see if they had any advice for him. Imagine his amazement when he saw these words written in the booklet. “No one is to touch or try to repair this hedge cutter without permission.”

What was he to do? Should he have written to the manufacturers in Beijing before he had his hedge cutter mended?

Mr Hills thought long and hard. Finally he went back to the shop and bought another hedge cutter. He put his old one in the dustbin. He thought no one would ever know what he had done.

Homework

Make a summary about what we learned in this unit by filling up the SUMMING UP on Page 24 and CHECKING YOURSELF on Page 61.