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Unit 3 A taste of English humor

Warming up and Reading

高一英语

李海辛

☆Teaching Aims:

Knowledge aim: 1).Master important words and phrases: humor, comedy, up to now, be content

with, performer, badly off, entertaining, throughout, homeless, failure, overcome, fortunate, pick out, cut off, star in, outstanding

2).Master important sentence styles

a. As Victor Hugo said, “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”

b. You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.

c. Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off. Ability aim:

Enable the students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humour Emotion aim Help the students learn how to sense the humor of the passage and enjoy the process of learning.

☆Teaching difficult points Help the students to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning of the passage. Teach the students some useful reading ways and improve their reading ability ☆

Teaching methods 1.

Task-based teaching and learning methods 2.

Cooperative learning and individual learning

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Teaching aids Multi- media facilities, paper learning materials ☆

Teaching procedures: Step1.Greetings Step2.Revision and lead-in

Revise reading new words and present the topic we will talk about . Step3.Warming up 1)

Talk about different types of humor.

How many kinds of humor do you know?

Do you know these types of humor?

Can you translate them into Chinese? 哑剧________ 笑话________ 滑稽的故事_________滑稽的诗歌________ 喜剧_________ 2)

. present some pictures to students about typical actors:

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Charlie Chaplin and Mr Bean Step4. Pre-reading

1. What do you know about Charlie Chaplin?

2. What do you know about his films?. Step5.Reading

Task 1 Skimming

1) Ask and answer some questions 1 查理.卓别林

是谁？

2卓别林

能让人们在感到沮丧时使他们开怀大笑吗？

3他自己的生活容易吗？

4小流浪汉是一个社会的失败者吗？

5查理.卓别林在电影方面取得了什么成就？

2) Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para 1

a) What Charlie’s most famous character was like Para 2

b) Why people needed cheering Para 3

c) His achievements Para 4

d) What Charlie’s childhood was like Para 5

e) An example of a sad situation that he made funny Task 2 Scanning: Fill in the chart

Charlie Chaplin

Name

Early life

①He was born in 1889 and his parents were poor music hall __________.②He learned to sing and dance at an early age.③He spent his ________ looking after his sick mother and his brother.④By his teens he became one of the most popular child _____ in England. His charming character, _____________, became known throughout the world. ①The character was a poor _______ man wearing a __________, large trousers, ________ shoes and a small round black hat.②He walked about stiffly carrying a

___________.③He was a social failure but was loved for his optimism and determination to overcome all difficulties. ①In The Gold Rush, the little tramp and his friend haven’t discovered ____ and live with cold and hunger. ②They try boiling a pair of ______ shoes. ③The little tramp eats each mouthful with great _________. ④The acting is so _________ that it seems as if it is one of the best meals he has eaten.

2 Model Model

①He wrote, _______ and produced the films he starred in. ②In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his __________ work Late life in films.

③He lived in England and the USA but spent the last years in __________.

Influence He brightened the lives of Americans and British as a great

actor.

Task 3: Careful reading Read the passage again and do True or False 1. Charlie Chaplin influenced the lives of American and British through two world wars and the hard years in between.(

) 2. Charlie Chaplin wasn’t badly off when he was a child.(

) 3. The character Charlie acted was a social failure but was loved.(

) 4. The Gold Rush is set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century.(

) 5. Chaplin’s movies were produced, directed and written by other people.(

) 6. Chaplin won a special Oscar for his lifetime outstanding work in films

in 1972.(

)

Step 6

Summary (make a better use of the passage)

语法填空:根据课文“A Master of Nonverbal Humor”,在下文空格中填上

适当的词语，使文章连贯完整。

Charlie Chaplin, born in 1______ poor family, showed an 2 _______(astonish) talent as a performer as soon as he could walk. 3_________(fortunate), his father died young, 4________ (leave) his family even worse off. By his teens, he could act the fool doing daily tasks, but no one was bored watching. Later on, Chaplin directed, produced and 5_________(star) in a series of funny movies, which made people laugh at a time 6_________ they felt depressed, so they could feel more content with 7 _________(they) lives. The little tramp,

8_______ was a homeless man with a moustache, large trousers, worn-out 9_______ (shoe) and

a small round black hat, was one of the most outstanding parts he had ever played. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar 10_______ his outstanding work in films.

Step7. Homework 1. Review what we have learnt today 2. Read the passage fluently and finish the exercises 3. Prepare for the next lesson

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Unit 3 A taste of English humour Warming up and Reading学案

Step1.Warming up. 1)

Talk about different types of humor. How many kinds of humor do you know? Do you know these types of humor? Can you translate them into Chinese? 哑剧_____________ 笑话_______________滑稽的故事________________ 滑稽的诗歌____________________

喜剧_____________ 2)

Present some pictures about typical actors: Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Bean.

Step2. Pre-reading: Read and answer.

1. What do you know about Charlie Chaplin? 2. What do you know about his films?

Step3. Reading. Task 1 Skimming

1) Ask and answer some questions. 1 查理.卓别林

是谁？

2卓别林

能让人们在感到沮丧时使他们开怀大笑吗？

3他自己的生活容易吗？

4小流浪汉是一个社会的失败者吗？

5查理.卓别林在电影方面取得了什么成就？

3)

Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para 1

a) What Charlie’s most famous character was like Para 2

b) Why people needed cheering Para 3

c) His achievements Para 4

d) What Charlie’s childhood was like Para 5

e) An example of a sad situation that he made funny

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Task 2 Scanning: Fill in the chart

Charlie Chaplin

Name

①He was born in 1889 and his parents were poor music hall __________.②He learned to sing and dance at an early age.③He Early life spent his ________ looking after his sick mother and his brother.

④By his teens he became one of the most popular child _____ in England. His charming character, _____________, became known throughout the world. ①The character was a poor _______ man wearing a __________, large trousers, ________ shoes and a small round black hat.②He Model walked about stiffly carrying a

___________.③He was a social failure but was loved for his optimism and determination to overcome all difficulties. ①In The Gold Rush, the little tramp and his friend haven’t discovered ____ and live with cold and hunger. ②They try boiling a pair of ______ shoes. Model ③The little tramp eats each mouthful with great _________. ④The acting is so _________ that it seems as if it is one of the best meals he has eaten.

①He wrote, _______ and produced the films he starred in. ②In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his __________ work Late life in films.

③He lived in England and the USA but spent the last years in __________.

Influence He brightened the lives of Americans and British as a great

actor.

Task 3: Careful reading Read the passage again and do True or False 1. Charlie Chaplin influenced the lives of American and British through two world wars and the hard years in between.(

) 2. Charlie Chaplin wasn’t badly off when he was a child.(

) 3. The character Charlie acted was a social failure but was loved.(

) 4. The Gold Rush is set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century.(

) 5. Chaplin’s movies were produced, directed and written by other people.(

) 6. Chaplin won a special Oscar for his lifetime outstanding work in films

in 1972.(

)

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Step 4

Summary (make a better use of the passage) 语法填空: 根据课文在下文空格中填上适当的词语，使文章连贯完整。

Charlie Chaplin, born in 1______ poor family, showed an 2 _______(astonish) talent as a performer as soon as he could walk.

3_________(fortunate), his father died young, 4________ (leave) his family even worse off. By his teens, he could act the fool doing daily tasks, but no one was bored watching. Later on, Chaplin directed, produced and 5_________(star) in a series of funny movies, which made people laugh at a time

6_________ they felt depressed, so they could feel more content with 7 _________(they) lives. The little tramp,

8_______ was a homeless man with a moustache, large trousers, worn-out 9_______ (shoe) and a small round black hat, was one of the most outstanding parts he had ever played. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar 10_______ his outstanding work in films.

Step5. Homework 1. Review what we have learnt today 2. Read the passage fluently and finish the exercises 3. Prepare for the next lesson

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