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Unit 3 Using Language Listenin, Speaking and Writing 教学设计

西安东方中学

李瑛

Teaching goals: Enable students to understand and enjoy English humor. Enable students to learn to use the language by listening, speaking and writing. Teaching important and difficult points: How to help students understand and enjoy English humor. How to help students use the language by listening, speaking and writing. Teaching methods: Task-based learning, cooperative learning. Teaching procedures: Step1 Lead in

Greet the whole class as usual. T: As Victor Hugo once said, "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." Life depends on air, food and water, but it is made easier to live with a good sense of humor. T: Let’s study some ways of showing humor (comedy, sketch, cross talk, mime, funny stories, cartoons and so on) T: Today, we’ll listen to a funny story which may happen to anyone who has a farm and chickens. Step2 Revision

T: Before listening, let’s revise some words together. Jar, plum, chicken, jam, porridge, pan Step3 Listening

This is a story that English-speaking people find funny. It is the kind of story that might happen to anybody who has a farm and chickens.

At first let students read the questions to make sure that they know what they should do in this listening. Ask students to listen to Part 1 twice and finish

Task one:

1.

Listen to Part 1 and write down the title and the main idea. Title: The Story of the Drunken Chickens. Main idea: Mary made some jam but left some on the kitchen table for a few days as she had to go to look after her sick mother. Some days later, John, knowing nothing about the jam, came home and threw it into the kitchen yard. 2.

Listen to Part 1 again and fill in the blanks. 1). When she had finished the cooking, she______

all her empty ________ and left _________ the jam in the pan. She would put it in the fridge when ____________. 2). As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan with a dark red _____ inside it. He _________ and smelled it. It smelled _____. 3). So he poured all the jam into the ___________ and cleaned the pan. Then feeling ___________, he began to eat a piece of cake. T: Before you listen to Part 2, try to put these sentences below in order. Then listen again and check if you were right. 3.

Listen to Part 2 and check the answers.

___ Mary got angry with John. ___ Mary saw the chickens behaving strangely. ___ John was sorry. ___ The chickens enjoyed the jam. ___ John said he thought the jam was porridge. ___ Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. ___ John said the chickens were drunk. ___ Mary came home. 4. Fill in the blanks while listening to Part 2 a second time. “You _________ my jam,” she shouted.“Oh, _____ what it was,” he said. “I’m ______ but I thought it was _______ which had gone bad in the hot weather. The chickens have _______ the jam, but it’s made them ______.”

Task two Discussion 1. Funny or not? 2. Give your reasons.

Words and Expressions 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…

Step 3 Speaking

Think of a funny English or Chinese story and tell it to your partner. Step 4 Writing 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. Step 5 Homework 1) Rewrite your story and put it into a class collection of funny stories. 2) Do you think the jokes/story/play you have read/watched funny? Give your reasons.