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Unit 3 A Taste of English Humour

Period 4

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教学设计（人教）

I．

教学目标

Help the students to appreciate the jokes. II．核心素养

1.

Enable students to appreciate and enjoy the fun by studying the English jokes.

2.

Encourage students to involve in a group activity.

3.

Develop students’ sense of English humor.

4.

Motivate students to think critically, creatively and logically.

III．教学重难点

How to improve the students’ reading ability.

How to train students to appreciate the English humor.

IV. 教学过程

Step 1 Revision T: Glad to see you, everyone! This is the first period of today. You don’t feel hungry, do you?

Ss: No, we don’t, but we feel hungry for more humor T: OK, be quick! Let’s first check your homework. Look at the screen and fill in the missing words and try to retell the reading passage.

Not all the _________ is kind.

Some are bad,

others can inspire people.

Some actors can _________ us with the characters they are playing. Chaplin was such an actor. He became famous for using a _________ form of acting in silent films. The little tramp gives people courage

to overcome _________ with his firm _________ and he is always kind even when people are _________ to him. Chaplin developed his own acting style, the one in one of his most famous films _________ __________ __________, he uses __________ humor to eat a __________ shoe.

Chaplin produced, __________ and wrote the movies he __________ in. He was given a special Oscar for his __________ work.

He and his movies are __________ by people __________ the world.

T: Not all the humor

is kind. Some are bad, others can inspire people. Some actors can astonish us with the characters they are playing. Chaplin was such an actor. He became famous for using a particular form of acting in silent films. The little tramp gives people courage to overcome difficulties with his firm determination and he is S: Now let me go on with the second paragraph. Chaplin developed his own acting style, the one in one of his most famous films The Gold Rush, he uses nonverbal humor

to eat a boiled shoe. Chaplin produced, directed and wrote the movies he starred in. He was given a special Oscar for his outstanding work. He and his movies are remembered by people throughout the world.

Well done! Now please look at the screen and check the information in the chart yourself.

Born Died Job Type of acting Character Costume black hat Charming, social failure with a determination to Reason for success overcome difficulties T: You see, it’s a good way to make some notes while reading. It can help you to grasp the general ideas of what you are reading, and if you like, you can also say or write something about what you are reading with the help of the notes after class, and you will see it is not so difficult to do so.

Step 2 Reading in Using Language T: So much for your homework. Just now you said you felt hungry for more humor, didn’t you?

Note on Charlie Chaplin’s career

1889 1977 Actor Mime and farce “the tramp”, a poor and homeless person

Large trousers, worn-out shoes and small round

Ss: Yes. T: OK, please turn to Page 22 and look at the reading. The reading will satisfy you by introducing the kind of humor we can laugh at—verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. I’d like you to read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. If you like, you may have a discussion. And then we’ll check the answer. OK, read them.

T: Have you finished the reading? Are the jokes funny? Ss: Yes, they are very funny. We’ve never found that English jokes so funny.

T: What’s the answer?

S: The answer is 1 to B, 2 to C and 3 to A.

T: Good. Now, another joke is waiting for you. Please read the next joke on Page 22. And then finish the questions followed.

Three minutes later.

T: Now decide which of these two kinds of jokes you like better. Give your reason.

S: I find the first kind jokes are easier to understand.

S: We must understand the background of the funny story at first, and then we can know what a humor Sherlock Holmes was. I think to understand this kind of jokes needs wisdom to understand. We must know that he was a detective, so he was always thinking of the things such as stealing.

T: What you said is reasonable. Now let’s listen to the tape, pay attention to the intonation, and try to bring out the humorous meaning.

After listening.

T: Now I’d like you to change the joke about Sherlock Holmes into a short play and first act it out in groups of three-Holmes, Watson and a narrator. Try to imitate the intonation so that you can bring out the humorous meaning, and then we will ask some groups to come to the front and act their plays out, and see which group will be the best.

Several minutes later.

T: Excellent performances! Thank you. Now we’ll go to the reading task, it is a very famous story. It once made fun of many people. Now let’s turn to Page 59.

Step 3 Reading task on Page 59 T: The reading task gives us another joke. The title is An April Fool’s Joke: The Noodle Harvest. I believe that all of us know April

Ss: Yeah.

T: Now, we are going to read the text. What will it tell us? At first, please read the questions below the text; maybe they can give us some details of the text.

Give the students one minute to go through the questions.

T: OK, what can you get from the questions? S: From the first question, we can guess that the story happened on April Fool’s Day.

S: From the second question, we can see that the

S: I think that BBC was making a joke with people. We know noodle very much. It’s impossible to grow noodle trees. S: From the last questions I can see that this story gives us a way to treat something around us.

T: OK, I think all of your guesses are reasonable. Now let’s read the text and make sure whether your guesses are right. While you are reading, try to find out the answers to the four questions, you may have a discussion to check their answers.

Several minutes later.

T: Well, have you finished the text? Ss: Yes.

T: What’s the answer to the first question? S: On April Fool’s Day, children make fun of each other.

T: Right. Why did people believe the program Panorama? S: I think the most important reason is that there were always many serious program on the television. And the Panorama explored problems and progress all over the world. So nobody was surprised when it reported the

T: I think so. People would like to believe those who are authority. Any opinions? S: I think there is another important reason. It is that the reporter showed many noodle trees with the farmers pulling noodles off them and putting them into baskets.

T: I agree with you. We often say that seeing is believing. Any opinions? S: I think that their cheating was true. It also mentioned two reasons for the good crop: an unusually warm winter and the disappearance of the insect that attacked the noodle crop every year. What’s worse, they still gave some other details to prove the news. If I was hungry then, I would be cheated too.

T: Maybe. Well, do you think the advice that the BBC gave people who asked how to grow noodle trees was serious? Give a reason.

S: No, it could not be serious as no trees could be grown in this way.

T: I agree with you. What would you do to find out whether a story like this was true? S: I think at first you must think whether it is possible to have noodle trees. Noodle doesn’t have any life, how could they be grown? T: You mean that when we hear a story, we should at first think about its nature.

S: Yeah.

T: Well, do you have any other opinions? S: The reason that there were so many people caught in is that they forgot that day was April Fool’s Day. If they knew this, I believe that they would think whether it was true or false. T: That’s right. If I was not sure whether a story was true or not, I would go the library to check the facts in an encyclopedia or go on the Internet.

T: OK, this class is full of joy and thinking. I really should be proud of you, for your good performances and logical thinking.

Step 4 Homework T: So far we have learned much about humor and appreciated many English jokes, and funny stories. So I’d like each of you to prepare one English joke or funny story and tomorrow we will share them in class to make our class more interesting and lovely. Another task as your homework, read the text once again and try to find the sentences in the reading passage where the -ing form is used and tell the function of each -ing form word or phrase. In the next period, we will learn the usage of -ing form. Well, that’s all for today. See you tomorrow.

Ss: See you. Additional Information English jokes and funny stories To Go to Heaven Sunday School teacher: Hands up all those who want to go to Heaven?Hands up. . . what about you, Terry?You haven’t got your hand up, don’t you want to go to Heaven?

Terry: I can’t. My mum told me to go straight home.

When was Rome built

Teacher: When was Rome built? Tom: At night.

Teacher: Who told you that? Tom: You did. You said Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Two Birds

Teacher: Here are two birds, one is a swallow, the other is a sparrow. Now who can tell us which is which? Student: I cannot point out but I know the answer. Teacher: Please tell us. Student: The swallow is beside the sparrow and the sparrow is beside the swallow. A kiss At a dinner party, the speaker, who was the guest of honor, was about to deliver a speech when his wife sitting at the other end of the table, sent him a piece of paper with the word “KISS” scribbled on it.

The guest seated next to the speaker said, “Your wife must love you very much, I see her send you a ‘KISS’ before you begin your speech. ”

The speaker smiled and explained, “You don’t know my wife. The ‘KISS’ she gives me stands for ‘Keep It Short, Stupid. ’”

Key to one’s success

One day a father was teaching his son and said, “The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you promise somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter what will happen. This is called ‘keeping one’s word. ’”

“What

is cleverness?”asked his son.

“Cleverness is that you’ll never make such a promise, ” the father answered.

Deadly Email An Illinois lady left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. Her husband was on a business trip and was planning to meet her there the next day.

When she reached her hotel, she decided to send her husband a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which she had written his email address, she did her best to type it in from memory.

Unfortunately, she missed one letter and her note was directed instead to an elderly widow, whose husband had passed away only the day before.

When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

DEAREST HONEY: JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR YOUR ARRIVAL TOMORROW.

P. S. SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE.

Only when he’s drunk

John and Jessica were on their way home from the bar one night and John got pulled over by the police. The officer told John that he was stopped because his tail light was burned out. John said, “I’m very sorry officer, I didn’t realize it was out, I’ll get it fixed right away. ”

Just then Jessica said, “I knew this would happen when I told you two days ago to get that light fixed. ”

So the officer asked for John’s license and after looking at it said, “Sir your license has expired. ”

And again John apologized and mentioned that he didn’t realize that it had expired and would take care of it first thing in the morning.

Jessica said, “I told you a week ago that the state sent you a letter telling you that your license had expired. ”

Well by this time, John is a bit upset with his wife contradicting him in front of the officer, and he said in a rather loud voice, “Jessica, will you shut up!”

The officer then leaned over toward Jessica and asked. “Does your husband always talk to you like that?”

Jessica replied, “Only when he’s drunk. ”

Two drunks are walking along. One drunk says to the other, “What a beautiful, night, look at the moon. ” The other drunk stops and looks at his drunk friend. “You are wrong, that’s not the moon, that’s the sun. ”

Both started arguing for a while when they came upon another drunk walking, so they stopped him. “Sir, could you please help settle our argument?Tell us what that thing is up in the sky that’s shining. Is it the moon or the sun?”

The third drunk looked at the sky and then looked at them and said, “Sorry, I don’t live around here. ”