Using LanguageⅡ教学设计(教案)

Book4 Unit 3

Using language 一

教学内容分析

幽默能给人们带来乐趣，幽默能给人们带来享受，幽默还能带给人们深思——幽默是生活中的有益要素。本单元就以“品尝英语幽默”为主题，让人领略到不同的文化背景下的英语幽默，同时，也让人认识到因为文化的差异，人们对同一个幽默的理解也会有所不同。通过本单元的学习，不单单是在语言知识上有所收益，还鼓励了学生发掘，感受生活中的幽默，保持一种活泼乐观的生活态度，让生活更轻松、更美好。因为这个单元，是把多个幽默贯穿起来了，所以学生都能在一种轻松的氛围下学英语。

Using Language部分中包括了听、读、写三个部分的内容。读的部分目的在于欣赏，同时让学生了解到英语幽默也有和汉语有相同的地方，即都用一些双关语，或是同音字等“文字游戏”达到幽默的目的。听的部分都是围绕笑话和幽默故事展开的，说的部分则围绕录音中的故事，谈谈对这些故事的理解并说明喜欢或不喜欢的原因。本节课侧重读和听的训练。

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教学重点和难点

Teaching Goals:

1. To get Ss to enjoy and learn more about English humour. 2. To improve Ss’ listening ability.

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教学步骤：

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Reading (Using Language)

1. Leading-in Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic and arouse Ss’ interest in the reading text. (1) Ask Ss the following question.

Do you find the short story funny that we listened in the first period of this Unit?

(2) Help Ss to get the answer to the question. The key words are: at night, thief, potatoes, husband and wife. (3) Tell Ss you are going to enjoy some jokes that are even more funny. 2. Reading (1) Purpose: To read the first three jokes and learn more about English humour. (1) Ask Ss to enjoy the three jokes of Ex1 on P22 in a few minutes.

(2) Ask Ss to answer the following question and give their reasons. Why do you think they are funny?

(3) Ask Ss to match the jokes with the explanation.

Suggested Answers:

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C

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A 3. Reading (2)

Purpose: To get Ss to enjoy another funny story and have another sense of English humour.

(1) Ask Ss to enjoy the story of Ex2 on P22. Before that, teacher may say, “

Some jokes are longer and tell a short, funny story. The following is one joke about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are two characters in the detective novel called Adventures of Holmes.”

(2)

Ask Ss to discuss the following question.

Which of these two kinds of humour (joke and short, funny story) do you like better? Why?

(3) Divide Ss into several groups of three. Each group is to choose one role to play: Holmes, Watson or the narrator. Remind Ss to pay attention to the intonation and bring out the humorous

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meaning. Step 2. Listening (Using Language) Purpose: To improve Ss’ listening ability.

To enjoy English houmour and know some common sense in real life. 1. Ask Ss to answer the following questions and talk about them.

(1)

Have you have the experience of eating plums?

(2)

What do you think will happen if chickens eat them? 2. Ask Ss to finish Ex2,3,4,5on P23. 3. Ask Ss to discuss the following questions. (1)

Do you think the story funny? Why? (2)

How do you feel about John’s behaviour? Step 3. Listening task (Workbook)

1. Ask Ss to turn to P58, compare the three pictures and guess what will be the humour.

2. Ask Ss to listen to the tape and finish Ex2 on P58. 3. Ask Ss to describe picture C. Sample Description:

(1) The teacher see some boys looking at a dog.

(2) The dog is thin and he feels sorry for it.

(3) He asks what they intend to do with it.

(4) He finds they all want to look after it but only the person who tells the biggest lie can have it as a pet.

(5) The teacher is angry and lectures the boys about telling lies and how honest he was at their age.

(6) The boys decide to give him the dog. Step 4. Homework

1. Ask Ss to get on the Internet to search for a humorous story or a humorous conversation.

2. Ask Ss to find an experience in their real lives that was very funny and make up a story.

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