Using LanguageⅡ教案和课堂实录

Unit 3 A taste of English humor 教材分析和教材重组

教材分析

本单元的中心话题是“幽默”，内容涉及“幽默的种类”、“什么是幽默”、“喜剧演员”、“喜剧”、“笑话”和“文字游戏”等。语言技能和语言知识几乎都是围绕“幽默”这一话题展开的。通过本单元的语言技能训练和阅读能力训练，使学生领会英语国家的幽默表达。

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Warming Up 让学生了解幽默的种类，讨论各种英语幽默及与汉语幽默的比较。这部分的目的有两个，一是呈现本单元的话题——幽默，二是为本单元Reading部分做好了铺垫。

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Pre-reading 通过两个问题，引发学生对幽默的思考，幽默不仅仅是轻松一笑，好的幽默在一笑过后发人深省，耐人寻味。

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Reading 是一篇介绍性文章，揭示了人们接受、喜欢幽默的微妙心理，同时介绍久盛不衰的喜剧之王查理﹒卓别林以及他的代表作影片《淘金记》，帮助吸引学生的注意力，引起学生的极大兴趣。

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Comprehending 共有2个练习，这2个练习的设置从卓别林的生平信息和课文关键词两方面入手，非常科学。

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Learning about Language 分为两部分，Discovering useful words and expressions是本单元的词汇练习题，引导学生加深对新词汇的理解和记忆，同时也指导学生养成通过语境记忆词组、句型的方法; Discovering useful structures是本单元的语法练习题，通过本单元的学习，要求学生熟练掌握-ing形式作表语、定语、宾补的语法功能。

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Using Language分为两部分，Reading and listening同时读英语笑话和听英语笑话，让学生进一步体验幽默，培养语感。Speaking and writing部分要求学生先口头讲述笑话或幽默故事，体会其中的幽默，然后引出

writing的内容，把上述讨论的故事写下来，并按照讲故事的逻辑顺序组织文章结构。这个任务不但提供了机会让学生亲身实践讲幽默故事，并用笔头的形式进行强化，而且内容新颖有趣，有利于调动他们的学习积极性。

将Warming Up，Pre-reading，Reading与Comprehending整合在一起上一节“阅读课”。

将Learning about Language和Workbook的using words and expressions及using structures整合在一起上一节“语言学习课”。

将Using Language设计为一节包括听说读写在内的“综合技能课（一）”。

将Workbook的READING AND LISTENING和TALKING结合在一起上一节“听说课”。

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将Workbook的LISTENING TASK，READING AND WRITING TASK和SPEAKING TASK设计为一节“综合技能课（二）”。

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Reading 2nd Period

Language study 3rd Period

Integrating skills(I) 4th Period

Listening and Speaking 5th Period

Integrating skills(II)

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As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to the teacher.

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Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language (Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson) Aims To enjoy reading the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson To learn to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures I. Warming up

Warming up by reading school jokes There are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read one to see whether you will laugh or not. Why must we learn this?

One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask, "Why do we have to learn this pointless information" "To save lives." the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. "So how does physics save lives?" he persisted. "It keeps the ignoramuses like you out of medical school," replied the professor.

II. Guided reading 1. Reading and underlining

Read the paragraph and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in it. Copy them into your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from the paragraph on page 22 go camping去野营, in a mountainous area山区, lie in the open air露营, under the stars在星空下, look up at the stars抬头看星星, think of…考虑；思考, try a third time试第三次, in one’s beds在床上

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Doing the exercise Now you are going to do the exercise 1 on page 22.

III. Guided Speaking Think of funny stories in English and tell them to your group mates. IV. Guided Writing—Learn to write jokes There are two main parts to the structure of a joke. The first part prepares you for the laugh by telling a story which creates a sense of expectation. The second part of the joke, the punch line, provokes laughter by telling an unexpected and different story, yet one which is still compatible with the first, as in this example: "My wife just ran off with my best friend. Boy, do I miss him." and "I had a mud pack facial done, and for three days my face looked much better. Then the mud fell off." Notice the assumption that is made in both these examples. In the first, you assume the person telling the story is angry with his wife, so the punch line surprises you because he's feeling something different and unexpected. Again, in the second example, you'd most likely assume the mud had been removed, leaving the face looking better, so the punch line takes you by surprise.

So, to write jokes you need to practice reading statements and writing down the assumptions you make about them. You must be able to interpret the statement (first story line) in at least two - 2 -

different ways in order to provide the second, different story i.e. the punch line. And what to write about? Anything that interests you. Anything you have strong opinions about.

Now write down your own jokes, in English.

IV. Closing down by acting To end this period, we are going to act the film by Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.

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