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Unit3 Using Language Teaching Design Book 4 Unit 3 English Humor (Reading for Writing) I. 教材分析

The topic of this unit is about humor. Students are interested init. The Using Languag is about English Jokes students are not familiar with. Because of culture differences, maybe students have some difficulty in understanding jokes. II.学情分析

Students have learnt English for many years,but they seldom have chance to access English humor, so they cannot isentify the speakers intention.Therefore it is necessary for them to learn the three factors of joke to understand the jokes. III. 教学目标

1. Students can guess what the speakers‟ intention. 2. Students can predict the expected answer from the speaker. 3. Students can try to identify the punchline. 4. Students can read and appreciate some English humors. 5. Students can finish the jokes with filling in the punchlines. 6. Students can create some jokes with information given. 7. Students can finish the continuation writing with funny ending or punchlines based on underlined information. IV. 重点难点

My teaching focuses on understanding the punchlines. The students might find it difficult to make a joke with a good logic order. V. 教学方法

The task-based approach; Cooperative learning; Using pictures,discussion,reading and imitation 教学步骤

Step I. Lead in Students will express their anxious feelings due to the coming mid-exam next week, which brings about how to solve it or how to relieve the stress from studying for a mo

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ment. “Laughter is the best medicine!”

My purpose is to arouse their interest in the subject and prepare for the prediction. Step II. Appreciation SS will read a joke and to appreciate which sentence makes it funny, which is called “thepunchline”. My purpose is to improve students ability to find out the puncline. Step III. The explanation of three factors of a joke I will ask SS to read the joke and explain and introduce the three factors: the speaker‟s intention; the expected answer, the unexpected reply (the punchline).

My purpose is to introduce the three factors of a joke to students. Step IV Jokes explanation Students try to find out the three factors, and especially, students will predict the expected answer of the speaker, compared with the unexpected reply My purpose is to develop students ability to identify three factors of a joke and practice them. StepV. Check your humor

Joke 1: Money is not everything, and sometimes we also need _______.(no more than 3 words) Joke 2: Everyone should love animals. __________________________________________(one sentence)

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Situation 1: Noodle (spaghetti VS fool) Situation 2: “Wei

Xin” (Power VS Wechat) Situation3: “You Fan Er” (to be beautiful/ handsome VS to have rice to eat) Situation 4: “Xia

Zai” (to download sth. VS to give birth to ) ___________________________________________________________(create your own jokes) My purpose is to train the students ability to try what is the punchline, thus developing students ability to think logically Step VI. A longer joke/ funny story 1. Explain the situation 2. Describe what happened 3. Give the punchline Continuation Writing Tom worked in San Francisco. One day he received an invitation to visit his friend in Italy ……

The police officer came from Italy by chance and told him in Italian too.________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ He looked for a policewoman and asked her, but he was amazed to find she didn't understand Italian!___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ My purpose is to cultivate the ability to finish the continuation writing with the funny ending or the punchline and consolidate what we have learned. Step VII. Further thinking

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Show students the sentence “Humor is a light which brightens students studying life.”My purpose is to develop the ability to have a positive attitude towards studying life. Step VIII. Homework: Finish the continuation writing. My purpose is to train their ability to apply and consolidate what they have learned. Blackboard Design: The three factors of a joke 1. The speaker‟s intention 2. An expected answer 3. An unexpected reply Funny Story 1. Situation 2. Description a logical order 3. Punchline Feedback A piece of sheet to check yourself 1) What expressions do you remember after class? 2)Which part or parts of the lesson interested your most? 3) Are the writer’s suggestions on how to .happily helpful to you? Next time, the leader of each group will give us a brief presentation of your group’s results.

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