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Unit3 A Taste of English Humor

Reading and Speaking

1.教材分析

This unit focus on English humour .It talks about the differences between English humour and Chinese humour.

2.学情分析

Humour plays an important role in life .The students are familiar with it and they like it very much. But most of them just are familiar with Chinese humour so the teacher should pay more attention to the differences between English humour and Chinese humour and types of English humour and Chinese humour.

3.教学目标

a. Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour. b. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences. c. 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. 4.教学重难点

教学重点Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors. 教学难点Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours. 5.教学过程

Step ⅠRevision Have a dictation about the words and expressions that appeared in Unit 2.

Step Ⅱ Warming up T: Ok, here are some pictures. Look, who are they?

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S: It’s Charlie Chaplin. And I know picture one is from a film called The Gold Rush. T: Right. Who know the man in picture 3? S: I dare say that everyone know him. He’s Mr. Bean, one of the most famous and successful British actor. T: You are right. He’s now recognized as the most popular British comedy expert. And how about the last one? S: It’s difficult to say. I guess he’s an American because the picture behind him looks like an American flag. T: Right. He is Mark Twain, the famous American writer. Do you know something about him? S: Mark Twain was good at tell some funny stories.

T: Right. Well, do you know these persons in the pictures? What are they good at? Nonverbal, mime and farce, funny stories or funny poems? （1）

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S: Picture 1 is Chen Peisi. I think he is famous for his mime and farce. S: Picture 2 is Zhao Benshan. He is famous for his Xiao pin. And he is also for his mime, I think. S: The two persons in picture 4 are Liu Quanhe and Liu Quanlin. They are good at Ya ju (哑剧). T: Do you know the third person? No? He is the famous cross talk actor—Hou Baolin. When he was living, he was the most popular actor. Many of his works are the classic.

Step Ⅲ

Reading on P22

The purpose of this reading is to introduce the kind of humour we can laugh at -verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let the students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. T: Well, boys and girls, just now we learned something about English and Chinese jokes. Now let’s read some English jokes on Page 22. I’ll give three minutes for you to read them and then match

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the joke with the explanation. If you like, you may have a discussion. And then we’ll check the answer. OK, read them. The students read and finish their task, and the teacher can show some other jokes on the screen. After they have finished the task, check the answer and ask them to enjoy the jokes on the screen. T: Have you finished the reading? What’s the answer?

S: The answer is 1 to B, 2 to C and 3 to A. T: Good. Now, please look at the screen. Here are more jokes on it. Read them and enjoy them. If you have some troubles in understanding, discuss, or ask me. Give the students some time to read the jokes. Patient: Doctor, I’ve lost my memory.

Doctor: When did this happen? Patient: When did what happen? Anisha: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone. Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank god.

Anisha: Then I’ll pay the fees to god.

A man with two red ears went to see his doctor. Doctor: What happened to your ears? Man: I was ironing a shirt and the phone rang but instead of picking up the phone, I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear. Doctor: Oh Dear! But ... what happened to your other ear? Man: The scoundrel (恶棍) called back! T: Funny?another joke is waiting for you. Please read the neat joke on Page 22. And then finish the question followed. Give the students three minutes to do it.

T: Now decide which of these two kinds of jokes you like better. Give your reason. S: We must understand the background of the funny story at first, and then we can know what a humor Sherlock Holmes was. I think to understand this kind of jokes needs wisdom to understand. We must know that he was a detective, so he was always thinking of the things such as stealing.

T: What you said is reasonable. Now let’s listen to the tape, pay attention to the intonation, and try to bring out the humorous meaning.

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If time permits, the teacher can ask some students to act out the jokes. Step IV

Speaking T: Now, we’ve learned some jokes and listened to some too. How about speaking out what you feel funny in class? I’ll give you five minutes to prepare this task, and then ask some of you to tell us your story. There are some steps for you to finish the task. If you think they are useful, follow them. Five minutes later. T: We know that in our life, there are full of happiness, sorrows, boredoms, and joys. When we meet with sorrows or boredoms, don’t forget to read these jokes. Maybe they can bring you sunshine. Am I right? Ss: Yes. Thank you. Step V

Homework A类: Give a joke us at the beginning of next class.

B类: Perform the joke we had learnt.

C类:Reading the jokes three times.

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