Using LanguageⅡ教学创新设计

Unit 3 Book4 A taste of an English Humor

一、

Teaching aims Learning the language Use the language when needed

二、

Teaching contents: 1)New words Comedy, content, ordinary, bored, throughout, homeless, moustache, worn, failure, overcome, chew, outstanding, gesture 2）New phrases: humour,

performer, astonish, astonishing, fortunate, unfortunately, entertain, entertaining, convince, convincing, direct, up to now, feel/be content with, badly off, pick out, cut off, star in, break into, in search of, go by, look after 三、

Teaching steps: 1.

Warming up

A word game 2.

Exercise Words to be practice 四、

Teaching materials 1．(教材P17)Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? 你为什么闯入同一家商店三次？

break into 强行闯入；突然开始(笑、唱等)；打入；参与

break away

脱离；离开

break down

停止运转；出故障；垮掉

break off

结束(关系)；(使)折断

break out

爆发；突然发生

break through

冲破；突破；从云层后露出

break up

(使)破裂；分解

①His house was broken into last week. 上个星期，他的房屋曾有人闯入。

②The sun

at around lunch time. 大约午饭时分，太阳破云而出。

③Peter

and was unable to work for a year. 彼得身体垮掉后一年没能上班。

2．(教材P18)As Victor Hugo once said，“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face”，

and up to now nobody has been able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin. 正如维克多•雨果曾经说的“笑声如阳光，驱走人们脸上的

寒冬”。关于这一点，直到现在也没有人能比查理•卓别林

做得更好。

up to now 直到现在

①The scientist is doing an experiment no one has tried up to now. 这位科学家正在做一项迄今为止没人做过的实验。

[名师点津]

(1)up to now 意为“直到现在”，常与现在完成时连用，可放于句首、句尾或句

中。

(2)up to now 的同义词组有up to present, so far, till now 等。

①The scientist is doing an experiment no one has tried up to now. 这位科学家正在做一项迄今为止没人做过的实验。

[名师点津]

(1)up to now 意为“直到现在”，常与现在完成时连用，可放于句首、句尾或句中。

(2)up to now 的同义词组有up to present, so far, till now 等。

up to还可表示下列含义：

多达；至多”；后面常接数字

从事于；忙于”；有时含有“密谋干坏事”之意

由……决定”，常用it作主语

胜任；适合”

是……的职责”

4．(教材P18)You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk. 你可能会感到惊奇，查理刚会说话时大人就教他唱歌，他

刚会走路时大人就教他跳舞了。

astonishing adj.令人感到惊讶的

5．(教材P18)Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off, so Charlie spent his childhood looking after his sick mother and his brother. 不幸的是，他的父亲去世了，这使得他的家庭更加艰难，

所以查理的童年是在照顾生病的母亲和弟弟中度过的。

badly off 穷的；缺少的

be well off

境况很好；富裕

be better off

(经济)境况较好

be worse off

(经济)境况较差；比……更穷

go from bad to worse

每况愈下

to make matters/things worse ＝

what is worse

更为糟糕的是

五、

Conclusion