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Unit 3 A Taste of English Humor: Using Language 1. Teaching aims: Talk about different types of humor；a taste of English humor Enable students to understand the humor in the listening material. 2. Ability goals:

Enable the students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor, then learn what humor means. 3. Learning ability goals: a. Help the students to learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humor, and then find their differences. b. Let the students listen and read the jokes, so that they can realize that humor is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.

4. Teaching important points: Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humor.

Train the students to get the key wards by reading the questions before listening. 5. Teaching difficult points: a. Help the students know the differences between the English and Chinese humors b Get the main idea from the listening materials while listening.

6. Teaching methods: Using pictures, discussion, reading, speaking and listening

8. Teaching aids: A recorder and a projector Teaching procedures: Step 1.

Discussion

Discuss the forms of humors with the help of the pictures. Step2.

Reading Read the three short dialogues and try to find out the funny points.

Read more jokes in English and try to help the students understand where the humor lies. Step 3. Reading and speaking Read the funny

story about Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson and then change it into a dialogue. Make the students act it out in pairs. Step4.

Listening

This is a funny story. Mary made some plum jam and left some in the pan. Five days later, her husband came home and poured the jam into the chicken. Later Mary came home and found all of her chickens were behaving strangely. What had happened? Give students two chances to listen to part 1 of the story. Make the students know what are the things they will do while listening. After that teacher plays the tape for them to finish the exercises of part1. The second

time listening is to check the answers. Play the tape again and try to get the main idea of this part. Listen to part 2, teacher should leave some time for students to read the short passage, and then fill in the blanks. Step 5.

Discussion

After listening the whole story, try to guess what will happen next? What will Mary do with the mess at home? Read a short passage and fill in the blanks with the words given.

Step 6. Homework

Collect as many funny stories as possible, do some preparations for the writing in the next period.