Task(1): Writing to a foreign friend: Skills building 1 and 2教学设计(第二课时)

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M 6 Unit 1 Laughter is good for you

Task 1

学情分析：

本节课是Task板块的第一课时，围绕这一板块的任务”给一位外国友人写一封关于相声的Email”来收集相关的信息。本课对教材做了一定的整合和调整。以有关于相声的8个问题为教学线索，课堂上的所有环节都紧紧围绕这8个问题展开，有助于学生有兴趣有针对性的通过听、说、读来获取有关信息，完成任务。

教学目标：

1. get necessary information about crosstalk in English via listening, reading and discussion 2. know more about the similarities and differences between the western stand-up and Chinese crosstalk. 3. be more aware of protecting our traditional culture.

教学重难点：

1. Get some information about Chinese crosstalk. 2. Listen and get useful information.

教学过程：

Step 1 lead in Tell the Ss one of the best ways to learn English well is to communicate with others. Then introduce a foreigner (if you have a foreign friend, you can introduce him to the class, which will increase the Ss’ interest. If not, just suppose there is a foreign friend Bill.) to the Ss and tell the Ss: “Bill is interested in Chinese culture. Recently he is interested in Chinese crosstalk and asks me a lot of questions about it.. In addition, he asked me to email the answers to him.”

( Show the Ss 8 questions about crosstalk) Questions about crosstalk 1.

What is crosstalk? 2.

When did it start? 3.

What different parts does a crosstalk performance contain?

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Where can you see or hear it? 5.

Could you name some famous performers (both living and dead) and give some detailed information about them.Could you give some information about famous foreign performers? 6.

What should you do if you want to learn it? 7.

What are the similarities and differences between the western stand-up and Chinese crosstalk? Ask the Ss to go through the questions and see if there is one or two questions that they already have the answers.

Step 2 Listening 1. Since the Ss can only answer one or at most two questions, we need help. Ask the Ss to listen to the talk show to get some information. Play the tape for the Ss, and then allow them some time to compare notes with their partners to see if they have the same idea. Then ask the Ss if they need to listen to it again. If they need, listen to it again. If not, check the answers.

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After checking the answers, ask the Ss to go back to the questions and see if there are any questions that can be answered. It will be easy now for the Ss to find the answers to question No. 1, 3, 4.

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Ask the Ss about question No. 2. The answer doesn’t lie in the notes on Page 11, but they can get some hints from the listening material. Some Ss can get the word “Qing Dynasty”. Since the Ss can not get all the necessary information, give the Ss some key words and ask them to make up sentences about the history of crosstalk. The key words are: “Qing Dynasty, 150 years, the first crosstalk performer, Zhu Shaowen, Beijing”, then we can get “Crosstalk began in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty, over 150 years ago. The first crosstalk performer is called Zhu Shaowen and he started such a comedy form in Beijing.”

3. Ask the Ss if there is any other question that can be answered. That will be question No. 7. It is not difficult for the Ss—They must understand the Chinese language and Chinese culture to enjoy crosstalk.

Step 3 Reading The teacher may say to the Ss: “So if you want to learn crosstalk, you have to learn the language, but if you want to become a crosstalk comedian, is it enough to learn the Chinese language? What else do you need to do if you want to become a crosstalk performer?”

1. Ask the Ss to read the passage Part C on Page 11. Ask the Ss to find the three stages to become a crosstalk performer.

(1) Have an interest in it; (2) Listen to and copy the traditional pieces of crosstalk; (3) Create crosstalk dialogues in pairs. From the three stages, we can conclude that besides language we also need “interest”, “practice/hard work” and “creativity”.(Ask the Ss to summarize it ) 2. Ask the Ss to go back to the questions and see if there is any more questions that can be answered.

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The Ss will find that question No. 5 and 6 can be answered. After each question, allow the Ss a chance to enjoy a short video about foreign performers. Ask the Ss about their favorite crosstalk performer. Usually the Ss can only name their favorite comedian, so ask the Ss to collect information about their favorite performers and add the information to the email. 3. After question 6, the teacher can show the Ss a video of the foreign performers to add to the interest.(It depends.)

Step 4 Discussion

Tell the Ss: “Now we have only question No. 8 left, and we cannot get any information from the listening and reading. Fortunately, we talked about “stand-up” in the reading part of this unit, and we have talked a lot about crosstalk today, so now it is your turn to come up with something about this question.”

1. Allow the Ss around 5 minutes to discuss in groups of four and then collect their opinions. (During this part, the teacher should give some help according to the Ss’ reaction.) Similarities: (1) The comedians are right in front of the audience, and communicate with the audience and amuse the audience;

(2) The comedians will use different skills

to makes jokes;

(3) The comedians try to reveal something about life Differences: (1)Stand-up-- Only involves one comedian; Crosstalk—Involves one, two, three or more people;

(2) Stand-up---Involves more improvising; Crosstalk—is more fixed. (The similarity like “they are both comedies and about telling jokes” and the difference like “the languages are different, one is in English, the other is in Chinese” are obvious, and can be dealt with orally.)

Step 5 Conclusion

Back to the 8 questions, and encourage the Ss to think positively that they have get much information about crosstalk. Say to them: “Don’t you feel surprised that you, as Chinese, don’t know much about our traditional form of culture? It is true that it is less and less popular nowadays. So we are losing our culture. Do you think it is a good way if we write emails to foreigners and introduce our culture to them. Actually, besides crosstalk, we have many other forms of traditional culture, such as Chinese calligraphy, Chinese painting, and Chinese musical instruments. So as Chinese, as students, we should

Respect our culture Treasure our culture Spread our culture Develop our culture Will you?

Step 6 Homework 1.

Write down all the answers in complete sentences; 2.

Collect information about your favorite crosstalk performer.

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