Using LanguageⅡ课堂实录【2】

Unit 3 A taste of English humour 一．教材分析

The topic of this unit is about English humour. 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 is Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on. 二.学情分析

Learning English is not only about studying the language itself, but also the culture in western contries, Students should develop the ability of appreciating humor in English, which is different from that in Chinese. In the former periods of this unit, students have known some ways of being humorous, using verbal form and nonverbal form of humor. In this lesson, they will get to know more ways of showing one's humor and sense more humor in English. 三.Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇

verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisper b. 重点句型

I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted.

P22 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences. b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around. Teaching important points 教学重点

Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Using pictures, discussion, reading and imitation. Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式S Step1 Revision Go over the words and key phrases. Fill in the blanks.

Step2 Enjoy some jokes There are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read these two to see whether you will laugh or not.

Step3 Guided reading 1.Reading and translating Read the paragraph on page 22 and translate it into Chinese sentence by sentence.

2.

Reading and underlining Next you are to read the paragph and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in it. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from the paragraph on page 22

Go camp, in a mountainous area, lie in the open air, under the stars, look up at the stars, think of…, try a third time, in one’s beds

3.

Doing the exercise Now you are going to do the exercise No. 1 on page 22.

Step4 Guided Speaking Think of funny stories in English and telll them to your group mates. Step5 .Guided Writing—Learn to write jokes There are two main parts to the structure of a joke. The first 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 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 asumptions 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.

Step6. Homework

Write down your own jokes, in English.