Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!ppt配套教案和课堂实录

M6 U1 Reading 1

Laughter is good for you

教案

Teaching aims:

1.Enable students to know the special aspects of stand up and its different types.

2.Enable students to know about a famous comedian “Bill Crystal”

3.Enable students to know the importance of laughter to our health and our life.

Teaching important points & difficult points: 1.How to make the students understand the passage better. 2.How to help the students learn to find information and deal with information by themselves. Teaching aids: the multimedia and the blackboard Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Show students many pictures with smiling faces.

Ask: People all over the world love to laugh. Do you love laughing ? Do you think laughter is good for us? Why?

1. When you are in low spirits, what will you do to stop unpleasant feeling?

2. Can you name these great comedians? Who is your favorite comedian? Step2：Reading Strategy

Go through the reading strategy, and find out how to guess the meaning of new words. 1. The writer will give the meaning of difficult or technical vocabulary in

. 2.

may also give you some idea of the meaning. Step 3:Fast Reading Task 1

Go through the passage as quickly as possible and find answers to the three questions in Part A. 1. What is the article about?

(Stand-up comedy.) 2.

After starting as a stand-up comedian,what did Billy Crystal go on to do later in life?

(He went on to act in films.) 3. What is laughter good for?

( Our health.)

Step4 Detailed Reading

1 . Read

the part of “Types of stand-up”, Work in groups and try to find out the different types of stand-up comedy and examples.

2. Read the part of “A famous comedian”

(1) Ask the Ss to read the first few lines and answer the question “Who is mentioned here as a famous comedian?”—Billy Crystal (2) Ask the Ss to read this part carefully and try to complete the file for Billy Crystal. When talking about Billy’s idols, give the Ss some information about Bob Hope and George Burns. 3. Read the part of “Laughter is good for your health” and answer some questions . (1) What does your brain do when you laugh? (2)What is the English idiom about laughter mentioned in the text?

4.Read the sentences and decide T or F. (1).Visual humour can be boring when you cannot see what the

comedian is doing. (2).One comedian did not lose any weight even though he had been

doing a lot of physical exercise for a month. (3). People usually laugh at comedians doing impressions because they

do not like the person being made fun of. (4).The old actor’s speech at the Academy Awards was like a silent film

because there was no sound. 5. Bob Hope and George Burns lived for a long time probably because

they laughed a lot. More questions (Part C2)

1.

How might a stand-up comedian decide what jokes to tell? 2.

What is one reason Billy Grystal has become so famous? 3.

When did Billy Crystal begin practising stand-up? 4.

What does your brain do when you laugh? 5.

What is the English idiom about laughter mentioned in the text? Step4

Task-based reading（Read the text and fill in each blank with

a proper word）（Task3）

One of the most well-known and well-loved types of 1. _______ is called stand up. There are 2. _______different3._______ of stand-up comedy. There has always been 4. ________ in them to make people watching them laugh.

Billy Crystal, a famous stand-up comedian has 5. _______ the Academy Awards 6. _____ times. Each time, he performs his stand-up 7.________ in front of millions of people when the show is broadcast 8._______ on TV. His outstanding ability to 9. _____10._____11.______ jokes has impressed people around the world. Doctors have discovered that people who laugh a lot live 12________ after researching what 13. ______ stand-up and other forms of comedy have on us. When we laugh, our brain sends 14.________ around the body that are good for us. Laughing helps the body stay healthy, as the 15. ________ goes, ‘laughter is the best 16. __________.’ So we should try to make someone laugh, which might help them live longer. Step5

Discussion

What special qualities should a comedian have?

(The teacher can give some answers after the discussion, but don’t limit the students’ answers.)

a sense of humor quick thinking acting skills

ability to read people

passion,

diligence

……

Step6 Conclusion

Laughter is a bridge that can lead people to health, happiness and peace. It is a good therapy to help people get rid of bitterness and forget all the problems. Step7Homework

1. Finish Part A1 and Part A2 on page96 in the textbook.

2.Try to retell the whole passage in your own words.