Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!第二课时教学设计

Module6-Unit1 Laughter is good for you

Reading: Stand-up for your health

Teaching aims: 1. To talk about a magazine article about stand-up comedy and why people love it. 2. To help the students develop the ability of reading. Teaching procedures: Step1.

Lead-in 1. Show students pictures of Mr. Bean and Steven Chow, and ask them who is excellent. 2. Show students pictures about Mr. Charlie Chaplin for them to guess who he is. Then make a brief introduction about him. Based on the introduction, one of his films will be shown for students to enjoy. 3. Review some other art forms that can also amuse people, such as sketch, crosstalk and circus. When the three steps above have been finished, remind students that there is one more form----stand-up. In this way, lead in the topic for this class. Step2. Pre-reading 1. Lead students to read the reading strategy about how to guess the meaning of new words from the context.

2. Encourage students to guess the meanings of those new words in Exercise D in their textbook with the skill they learned above. Step3. Scanning Give students two minutes to go through the text and find out the following three questions: 1. What is the article about? It is about stand-up comedy.

2. How many types of stand-up are there? There are four. 3. What is laughter good for? It is good for health. Step4. Activity

1. Ask students to find out the names for those four types as well as the detailed explanation for each one. 2. Encourage students to match each type of stand-up with an appropriate example as follows. 1) A comedian stands on stage and holds a banana to his ear. He says, “Hello? Hello? I’m sorry I can’t hear you. Something must be wrong with my phone.”------ Prop. 2) A comedian walks on stage. As she introduces herself, she falls down.

----- Physical.

3) A comedian puts on glasses, changes his or her voice and pretends to be someone else. ----- Impressionist. 4) A comedian says, “My Grandmother started walking 1 km a day when she turned 60. She’s 89 now, and we don’t know where she is!” ----- Observational.

Step5. A brief introduction of Billy Crystal Show students some pictures about Billy Crystal and his famous films, such as Mr. Saturday Night, Analyze This, Analyze That, When Harry Met Sally, and so on. Then ask students to listen to the tape to get detailed information about Mr. Billy Crystal for the following questions: 1. What does he keep in his pocket? And why? 2. Who that were mentioned in the passage lived to be 100 years old and kept working until the end of their lives?

When the steps above are over, encourage students to read it again and complete the gap-filling in Exercise E. Step6. Summary Ask students the following question for summary: Why do people love laughing? •

Your brain sends chemicals around your body that are good for you.

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Laughing can help you stay healthy and fight (reduce) pain. In this way, lead students to find out the conclusion that Laughter is the best medicine.

Step7. Discussion 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? 3. Tell a funny story to your classmates. Step9.

Homework

1. Read the passage carefully and review the new words and phrases. 2. Finish exercises in the 13th English Weekly.