Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!教案1

2nd period

Reading Teaching aims:

(1) Encourage the Ss to grasp the main topics of the three sections---types of stand-up, a famous comedian and the fact that laughter is good for your health. (2) Stimulate the Ss’ interest in learning English by talking about their own opinions when it comes to the topic “Laughter is the best medicine”.

(3) Students are expected to gain some knowledge about stand-up comedy and reinforce their reading comprehension. (4) Develop the students’ reading ability---how to guess the meanings of new words. Important points & difficult points: (1)

Find the main points in the three sections and express them. (2)

Understanding the text. Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Revision 1. Get some students to tell their funny stories. Step 2 Lead-in (1) Warming up:

Learn about famous comedians and well-known forms of comedy. (2)

General questions:

1. What is the article about?

Stand-up comedy. 2. How many types of stand-up are there?

There are four main types. 3. What is laughter good for?

Our health. Step 3 Reading comprehension 1. Get the students to give the structure of the passage.

Stand-up your health for Types of stand-up A famous comedian Laughter is good for your health!

2. Get the students to read Types of stand-up, and try to judge what types of stand-up it is.

A comedian puts on glasses, changes his or her voice Impressionist and pretends to be someone else. A comedian stands on stage and holds a banana to his Prop ear and pretends to be making a phone call. A comedian walks on stage. as she introduces herself, Physical she fell down.

A comedian tells jokes about the way people behave Observational when they queue up in lines. 2. Will you create similar situations to perform the four types of stand-up comedy?

3. Allow students several minutes to read and try to answer the following questions:

(1). What does Billy Crystal always keep when he hosts the Academy Awards? Why? (2). Who were Bob Hope and George Burns? (3). What types of stand-up is it when Crystal told a joke about the very old actor who forgot to turn on the microphone? 4. Get the students to read laughter is good for your health and finish the following. Fill in the blanks with proper words:

Doctors are _______ to find that people who laugh a lot live _____ after researching what _______ stand-up and other forms of comedy have on us. When we laugh, our ______ sends chemicals around the body which are good for us. _______ keeps the body healthy, as the saying goes, ‘Laughter is the best ________’.

(Keys:

surprised ;longer; effect; brain; Laughing; medicine ) Step 4 Further reading Choose the correct answer: 1. A stand-up comedian _____ while performing.

A. enjoys laughing

B. enjoys making fun of himself

C. usually takes advantage of the audience D. has prepared a lot of jokes in advance

2. Which of the following is the style of prop?

A. jokes in everyday life

C. body action

B. visual humour

D. imitation of a well-known person 3. Billy Crystal started his career ____.

A. as a television actor

B. as a film actor

D. as a host

C. as a stand-up comedian

4. What does the word ‘routine’ in Para 3 probably mean?

A. road B. performance

C. lines

D. style 5. What does the word ‘improvise’ in Para 4 probably mean?

A. perform with permission

C. act well

B. perform without preparation

D. act fast 6. At the 2004 Academy Awards, a very old actor ______ at first.

A. was asked to make a silent speech

B. didn’t turn on the microphone on purpose

C. made the audience laugh

D. couldn’t make himself heard

7. What does the word ‘appropriate’ in Para 4 probably mean?

A. proper

B. clear

C. silly

D.

enjoyable

8. We can infer from the 5th paragraph comedians are expected to ______.

A. enjoy a very long life

B. work till the end of life

C. have no plans to stop work

D. perform stand-up

Step 5 Developing reading ability through usage 1. E(p5) Complete the passage. 1. comedians

2. got his start 3. variety

4. stage 5. performance 7.affetion

Step 6 Consolidations and Expansion

F(p5)

Discuss the questions: 1. What kind of comedy do you enjoy the most? Why? 2. Laughter is good for you and for everyone else. How do you make other people laugh? 3. Tell a funny story to your classmates.

Step 7 Homework 1.

Write a funny story.

6. previous

8. perform