Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!PPT配套教学设计内容

Unit 1 Laughter is good for you 教学设计

Reading 第一课时

Teaching aims:

(1) Encourage the Ss to grasp the main topics of the three sections---types of stand-up, a famous comedian and the fact that laughter is good for your health. (2) Stimulate the Ss’ interest in learning English by talking about their own opinions when it comes to the topic “Laughter is the best medicine”.

(3) Students are expected to gain some knowledge about stand-up comedy and reinforce their reading comprehension. (4) Develop the students’ reading ability---how to guess the meanings of new words. Important points & difficult points: (1)

Find the main points in the three sections and express them. (2)

Understanding the text. Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Revision 1. Get some students to tell their funny stories. Step 2 Lead-in (1) Warming up:

Learn about famous comedians and well-known forms of comedy. (2)

General questions: 1. What is the article about?

Stand-up comedy. 2. How many types of stand-up are there?

There are four main types. 3. What is laughter good for?

Our health. Step 3 Reading comprehension 1. Get the students to give the structure of the passage.

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Stand-up your health for Types of stand-up A famous comedian Laughter is good for your health!

2. Get the students to read Types of stand-up, and try to judge what types of stand-up it is.

A comedian puts on glasses, changes his or her voice and

pretends to be someone else. A comedian stands on stage and holds a banana to his ear and

pretends to be making a phone call. A comedian walks on stage. as she introduces herself, she fell

down. A comedian tells jokes about the way people behave when they

queue up in lines. 2. Will you create similar situations to perform the four types of stand-up comedy? 3. Allow students several minutes to read and try to answer the following questions:

(1). What does Billy Crystal always keep when he hosts the Academy Awards? Why? (2). Who were Bob Hope and George Burns? 4. Get the students to read laughter is good for your health and finish the following. Fill in the blanks with proper words:

Doctors are _______ to find that people who laugh a lot live _____ after researching what _______ stand-up and other forms of comedy have on us. When we laugh, our ______ sends chemicals around the body which are good for us. _______ keeps the body healthy, as the saying goes, ‘Laughter is the best ________’.

(Keys:surprised ;longer; effect; brain; Laughing; medicine ) Step 4 Further reading Choose the correct answer:

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1. A stand-up comedian _____ while performing.

A. enjoys laughing

B. enjoys making fun of himself

C. usually takes advantage of the audience

D. has prepared a lot of jokes in advance 2. Billy Crystal started his career ____.

A. as a television actor

B. as a film actor

D. as a host

C. as a stand-up comedian

3. What does the word ‘routine’ in Para 3 probably mean?

A. road

B. performance

C. lines

D. style 4. At the 2004 Academy Awards, a very old actor ______ at first.

A. was asked to make a silent speech

B. didn’t turn on the microphone on purpose

C. made the audience laugh

D. couldn’t make himself heard

5. What does the word ‘appropriate’ in Para 4 probably mean?

A. proper

B. clear

C. silly

D.

enjoyable 6. We can infer from the 5th paragraph comedians are expected to ______.

A. enjoy a very long life

B. work till the end of life

C. have no plans to stop work

D. perform stand-up Step 5 Developing reading ability through usage 1. E(p5) Complete the passage. 1. comedians

3. variety 2. got his stsrt 4. stage

6. previous 5. performance 7. affection

8. perform Step 6 Consolidations and Expansion

F(p5)

Discuss the questions: 1. What kind of comedy do you enjoy the most? Why? 2. Laughter is good for you and for everyone else. How do you make other people laugh?

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3. Tell a funny story to your classmates.

Step 7 Homework 1.

Write a funny story.

Reading 第二课时

Teaching aims:

(1)

Encourage the Ss to raise reading ability by focusing on language points. (2)

Get the Ss to grasp the new language usage in the text by learning them. Important points & difficult points: Language usage: make fun of; in response to; make up; the way; it;

Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Revision

Retell the article: 1.

Tell the differences among observational, prop, impressionist, and physical. 2.

Say something about Billy Crystal. 3. Why is laughter good for health? Step 2 Language points (Learn and use) 1.. Some comedians tell jokes about the way people act…

The way that/ which/省略

he introduced to us was easy to learn.先行词作宾语

The way that/ in which/ 省略

he introduced the book to us was easy to understand. 先行词作状语

相关短语

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in the way

2. in a way 3. by way of

4. by the way 5. lose one’s way

6. feel one’s way

7. fight one’s way

8. push one’s way

9. make one’s way

10. all the way

11. on one’s/ the way to

In Britain today women __c__44% of the work force, and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work..

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A. build up

B. stand for

C. make up

D. conform to When he realized the police had spotted him, the man __b__ the exit as quickly as possible.

A. made off

B. made for

C. made out

D. made up 2. .…, he told himself jokes while standing in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth. (2006湖北) Don’t sit there _c__ nothing. Come and help me with this table.

A. do

B. to do

C. doing

D. and doing

3. …, Crystal made up a new one.(line39)

make up

编造;化妆;准备;构成;补齐; make up for

补偿;弥补; I think they’re making the whole thing up.

They made him up as an old man in the play. We can make up a bed for the boy on the sofa. The research group is made up of 5 scientists and 19 workers. I saved as much as I could, and my mum made up the rest of the money for the bike. I’m trying to make up the time I lost while I was playing games.

The dinner made up for all the disappointments I’d had.

其它短语

1. make it

2. make a difference

3. make the most of

4. make good/ full use of

5. make out

6. make for 7. make a contribution to

8. make sense of

9. make sth out of

……

In Britain today women ____44% of the work force, and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.

A. build up

B. stand for

C. make up

D. conform to When he realized the police had spotted him, the man ____ the exit as quickly as

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possible.

A. made off

B. made for

C. made out

D. made up 4. F (P5) I like it when the …

某些及物动词,如:like, love, enjoy, prefer, hate, appreciate, etc.之后若没有出现宾语, 而直接跟if/ whether引导的状语从句, 要在从句前使用代词it. She doesn’t like it when her children tell lies to her.

I hate it if you use my bike without my permission. We should much appreciate it if you would arrange this trip for us. (98)I hate __a__ when people talk with their mouths full.

A. it

B. that

C. these

D. them (04) I like _c__ in the autumn when the weather is clear and bright.

A. this

B. that

C. it

D. one (06山东) I’d appreciate _b__ if you would like to teach me how to use the computer.

A. that

B. it

C. this

D. you Step 3 Consolidation A.. Fill in the blanks, using the correct form. 1. I _______________ tennis every day for a month. I don’t understand why I’m not losing weight. (play) 2. Like other stand-up comedians who ___________to act in films, Crystal still enjoys stand-up. (go on) 3. Instead of telling the jokes he ___________, Crystal made up a new one. (plan) B . Fill in the blanks, using proper preposition or adverb. 1.

Only a few stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film actors later ____ in life. 2. The audience howled ______ laughter. 3. Doctors have been researching what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have _____ us. 4. He hopes to follow ___ the footsteps of other famous comedians, such as Bob Hope and George Burns, who lived to be 100 years and kept working _____the end of their lives.

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Step4 Homework 1.

Read through the magazine article. 2.

Finish A1 and A2 at page100. 3.

Preview word powder.

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