Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!教学设计

江苏省高邮中学2016级高二英语导学案M6U1

主备人：曹德海

Module 6 Unit 1

Reading

Stand up for your health! Teaching aims and demands:

1. Students are expected to know more about stand-up comedy.

2. Help students to write a short passage related to the topic of laughing.[来源:学科网]

Teaching procedures:[来源:学科网ZXXK]

Activity 1

Lead-in

Enjoy a joke(PPT) and get to know some benefits of laughing and what may make us laugh. Activity 2 Fast reading 1.Skim the passage quickly, and choose the best structure concerning the passage.

2. The main idea of each part.

Part 1: the ____________ of stand-up

Part 2: _________ types of stand-up

Part 3: a famous comedian --_____________

Part 4: the _____________ of stand-up Activity 3 Reading strategy 1. How can you guess the meaning of a new word? 1) Often the writer will give the meaning of difficult or technical vocabulary _______________. 2) ___________________________ may also give you some idea of the meaning. 2.Guess the meaning of a word by looking at the words around an unknown word. 1)What does the word ‘routine’ in Para. 3 probably mean?

A. road

B. performance

C. lines

D. style 2)What does the word ‘impressions’ in Para. 2 probably mean?

A. the effect that a person has on sb. B. a feeling that you get about sb. C. an amusing copy of the way a person acts or speaks

D. a drawing showing what a person looks like Activity 4 Careful Reading Part 1: What are the basic features of stand-up comedy? _____________________________________________________________________________ Part2:

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List the different types of stand-up mentioned in the paragraph 2. _____________________________________________________________________________

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江苏省高邮中学2016级高二英语导学案M6U1

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How does the writer help us understand the various types of stand-up comedy? _____________________________________________________________________________ ※

Practice choose the correct type of stand-up comedy to match the following description. 1.A comedian puts on glasses, changes his or her voice and pretends to be someone else.

___________________ 2. A comedian walks on stage. As she introduces herself, she falls down.

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3. A comedian says, ‘My Grandmother started walking 1 km a day when she turned 60. She’s 89 now, and we don’t know where she is!’

___________________ 4. A comedian stands on stage and holds a banana to his ear. He says, ‘Hello? Hello? I’m sorry I can’t hear you. Something must be wrong with my phone.’

___________________ Part3: A famous comedian His most eye-catching experience _________________________________________________ His special habit _______________________________________________________________ Reasons for his popularity ________________________________________________________ His idols and hope ______________________________________________________________ ※

Critical thinking: What special qualities should a comedian have? _____________________________________________________________________________ Part 4:

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Why is laughter good for your health according to the last paragraph? __________________________________________________________________________

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江苏省高邮中学2016级高二英语导学案M6U1

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Besides laughter, what else can we do to help ourselves to stay in high spirits and keep us healthy?

__________________________________________________________________________ ※

Critical thinking: What meanings is the title Stand up for your health intended to convey? __________________________________________________________________________

Activity 5

Consolidation Definition Stand-up is a kind of comedy (1)_________ a comedian talks straight to audience members either by (2)_________ an audience member or telling different jokes depending on how the audience reacted to his or her previous joke. Generally, there are (3)__________ of stand-up comedies. ●

In one kind of such comedy, comedians make fun of the way people behave or do in their daily lives. ●

Another type finds comedians making use of visual humor, which (4)_________ audience to not only listen but also watch closely. ●

Comedians who (5)_________ well-known persons are called impressionists. Their impressions can be fully (6)___________ only when both comedians and audience like or admire the persons being made fun of. A famous stand-up ●

Billy Crystal, who enjoys (7)___________ with all age comedian groups, intends to keep working until the end of his life like Bob Hope and George Burns. ●

Crystal is also known for (8)__________ the Academy Awards ceremony. ●

One reason why Crystal becomes so successful is that he is (9)___________, so he can think out new jokes about the people and things around them (10)_______________ It is believed by many that laughter is the best medicine.

Activity 6

Discussion and writing Laughter is good for you---- Take time to laugh -- it is the music of the soul.

Laughter is the closest distance between people.

A man isn't really poor if he can still laugh. We laugh, and we feel safe. 3

Types of stand-up

江苏省高邮中学2016级高二英语导学案M6U1

主备人：曹德海

Laughter helps create warm feelings and a sense of security. Through laughter, we will never fall apart and are always together sharing happiness. 人们都是知道，笑与我们的健康和幸福关系十分密切。但在现实生活中，随着生活节奏的加快，工作压力的增大，人们越来越不会笑了。请以“Laughter is the best medicine”为主题，写一篇150词左右的短文，谈谈你的看法。

（参考：笑,好比运动，能加快心率，促进呼吸，缓解肌肉紧张；笑还能缓解疼痛，增加免疫力；此外，笑还能使我们心理健康，甚至还可缓解矛盾、平息冲突…）

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江苏省高邮中学2016级高二英语导学案M6U1

主备人：曹德海

Module 6 Unit 1

Reading

Stand up for your health! Activity 2 Fast reading

A 2. The main idea of each part.

Part 1: the definition of stand-up

Part 2: four types of stand-up

Part 3: a famous comedian –Billy Crystal

Part 4: the benefits of stand-up Activity 3 Reading strategy 1. How can you guess the meaning of a new word? 1) Often the writer will give the meaning of difficult or technical vocabulary from the context. 2) The way a word is used may also give you some idea of the meaning. 1) B. performance

2) C. an amusing copy of the way a person acts or speaks

Activity 4 Careful Reading ※

What are the different characteristics regarding the four types of stand-up ? Telling jokes/visual humor/funny performance/doing impressions ※

How does the writer help us understand the various types of stand-up comedy? By providing vivid examples ※

Practice--choose the correct type of stand-up comedy. 1.Impressionist

2. Visual humour

3. Telling jokes

4. Visual humour ※

Critical thinking: What special qualities should a comedian have? sense of humor/quick thinking/acting skills/ability to read people/passion, diligence,

being knowledgeable ※

Besides laughter, what else can we do to help ourselves to stay in high spirits and keep

ourselves healthy? Smile to yourself in the mirror every day morning (Keep a positive attitude to life) Do what you are interested in (music, sports, reading …)

Make friends Accomplish what you are doing…

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Critical thinking: What meanings is the title intended to convey? Here “stand up” is a pun (双关语). One is a kind of comedy----stand-up; the other “stand up for sth” means “support or defend sth”. That is to say,

not only does comedy benefit our health but we ourselves should also care about our health.

Activity 5

Consolidation where/teasing/varieties/requires/imitate/appreciated/popularity/hosting/quick-minded Activity 6

With the fast pace of life, the pressure from our work increases dramatically. some people say that we are becoming more gloomy and unhappy each day. They believe that, in reality, we are losing our ability to laugh. What they say seems reasonable, but in fact it’s not at all. As we all know, if we laugh more often, we will feel happier and become more healthy because "laughter is the best medicine". First, laughter has a similar effect to physical exercise because it speeds up our heart rate, increases our blood pressure and quickens our breathing. In fact, it is a kind of "jogging" on the spot. Next, laughter is a kind of pain relief. When we laugh, we produce some chemical materials in our body that help us to relieve pain. In addition, laughter stimulates our immune system, preventing us from being infected by diseases. Last but not least, laughter helps to improve our state of mind and better the relationship between people. Whenever we are quarreling with each other for one reason or another, a humorous remark leading to laughter can always ease the situation. So laughter can really bring us a lot of benefits. In order to live a happy and healthy life, let’s laugh together.

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