Using LanguageⅡ教案（名师）

必修四第三单元教案

BOOK4

Unit3

A taste of English humour Using language

1. Teaching goals 教学目标

(1) Target language 目标语言

Enable the students to master key words, key phrases and key sentences.

(2) Ability goals 能力目标

① Enable the students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor. ②

Develop the students’ ability of acting and expressing by making up a joke by themselves. (3) learning ability goals 学能目标

① Let the students listen and read the jokes, so that they can realize that what humor means.

② Help the students to learn some types of English and Chinese humor. 2. Teaching focuses教学重点

（1）Lead the students to understand and feel English humour through the cultural differences. （2）Help the students to learn some types of humour. 3. Teaching difficulties教学难点

(1) Improve the students’ spoken English. (2) Help the students understand and enjoy English humor. 4. Teaching methods教学方法

(1) Using pictures and video;

(2) Brainstorming; (3) Discussion;

(4) Reading;

(5) Group work. 5.Teaching aid教具准备

Multi-media 6.Teaching procedures教学过程

Step I: Lead-in

Aim:

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Show a piece of funny video about Mr. Bean.

To attract the students’ interest and 2.

Show some interesting sentences and ask the attention. students to guess what they mean.

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Step II: Thinking and answering

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The definition of punchline

Punchline means the last few words of a joke or a story, that give meaning to the whole and cause amusement or surprise. 2. Try to find the punchlines of the following two jokes.

①POLICEMAN: Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? THIEF: Well, I stole a dress from that shop but my wife didn’t like it. So I had to go back and change it twice!

②TEACHER: You say that john Jones has a cold and cannot come to school today. Who am I speaking to? VOICE: Oh, this is my father. 3. What characteristics do you think the punchline has? Can you give me some key words of the punchline?

Aim:

Let the students have a clear idea about punchline and be able to find the punchlines of the jokes.

Step III: Thinking

Aim: (1) What is humour?

Let the students have a clear Humour is a word that means making others laugh. If idea about humour and understand someone often makes others laugh, we say he is humorous different types of humour. and we call him a humorist. The question of whether or not something is humorous is a matter of personal taste. (2) How many kinds of humor do you know? Nonverbal: mime Verbal : Jokes; sketch; comedy; funny poems; funny stories; cross talk.

Step IV: Discussion

Aim:

Discuss in groups of four: Is humour helpful? Give

Let the students realize the your reasons.

importance of humour.

Step V:

Homework Aim:

Let the students have a better Write down a funny story according to the material on understanding of humor; page 24. Develop the students’ writing and

self-studying ability.

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