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Teaching content:

Unit 3 A Master of Nonverbal Humour

Teaching class: Class 8, Senior 1 Teaching time: June 19th, 2013 Teacher: Mao Zhuqing

Unit 3

A Master of Nonverbal Humour

Teaching aim: Understand the whole text and grasp the main idea to improve reading ability and know

something about Charlie Chaplin. Teaching important point: Understand the whole text and improve the students’ reading ability. Teaching difficult point: How to train the students’ reading ability in the process of learning the passage. Teaching methods: 1. Explanation to get the students to have a clear idea of the passage. 2. Discussion to help the students understand the passage easily. Teaching Aids:

A computer and multi-media player Teaching procedures: Procedure I Show aims Step 1 Revision Let the students read the new words learnt in this unit. Step 2 Lead-in Show a short movie on the screen and let the students guess the leading role-----Charlie Chaplin. Step 3 Show learning aims Show learning aims to the students on the screen. Understand the whole text and grasp the main idea to improve reading ability and know something about Charlie Chaplin. Procedure 2 Achieve aims Step 1 Guidance on the students’ self-study 1 Let the students read the passage quickly and finish tasks 1 and 2. Task 1 Complete the notes about Charlie Chaplin Born:

________________

Job: ___________

Famous character:

_______________

Type of acting:

_______

Died: ____________________ Task 2 Decide the following statements are true or false. 1 Charlie Chaplin was poor when he was a small boy.

2 People who don’t know English cannot enjoy Chaplin’s films.

3 In The Gold Rush, Chaplin and his friend are fortunate to find some gold.

4 In the film the meal he eats is hard to chew.

5 Chaplin not only acted in films but also wrote and directed films as well.

Step 2 Check the students’ self-study 1 After the students read the passage for the first time, ask some students finish tasks 1 and 2. Suggested answers: Task 1 Complete the notes about Charlie Chaplin Born:

He was born in a poor family in 1889.

Job: actor, director, producer

Famous character:

little tramp

Type of acting:

mime Task 2 Decide the following statements are true or false. 1 Charlie Chaplin was poor when he was a small boy. (T) 2 People who don’t know English cannot enjoy Chaplin’s films. (F) 3 In The Gold Rush, Chaplin and his friend are fortunate to find some gold. (F) 4 In the film the meal he eats is hard to chew. (T) 5 Chaplin not only acted in films but also wrote and directed films as well. (T) Step 3 Cooperation and exploration 1Let the students discuss and finish the following tasks in groups and give answers. Task 3 Find out or sum up the topic sentences of each para. When the teacher asks the students to find out the topic sentences, the teacher should tell the students to pay more attention to the first and last sentences in the para and find the key words in each sentences. Task 4 Answer the following questions after reading the passage. 1 Why did people like Chaplin? 2 What was Chaplin’s childhood like? 3 What is Chaplin’s famous character like? 4 When and where did The Gold Rush happened? 5 Why did Chaplin and his friend eat a pair of shoes in The Gold Rush?

6 Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why? 2 Ask some students to show their results. Task 3

Main idea of each para Para 1: Why did people like Chaplin? Para 2: What was childhood like? Para 3: What is Chaplin’s famous character like? Para 4: An example from one of his most famous film, The Gold Rush. Para 5: Chaplin’s achievement. Task 4

The answers to the questions 1 He made people laugh at a time when they felt depressed, so they could feel more content with their lives. 2 Chaplin lived a hard and unhappy life when he was a child. 3 Chaplin’s famous character was a little tramp, who was a poor homeless man with a moustache, wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat. 4 The Gold Rush happened California in the mid-nineteenth century. 5 Chaplin and his friend went to search for gold, but without success. Instead they are hiding in a small hut on the edge of a mountain during a snowstorm with nothing to eat. They were so hungry that they had to eat a pair of shoes.

6 Chaplin lived a poor, hard and unhappy life and experienced many difficulties when he was a child, so this strengthened his willpower and personality. Besides, he understood the problems of the people who were very poor, so his poor childhood helped him in his work. Step 4 Instructions and explanations Teacher gives some explanations to the difficult points that students can not understand clearly. Procedure 3 Quiz Let the students read the passage on the testing paper and finish the related exercise. (The detailed content is shown on the testing paper.) Procedure 4 Summary First, ask the students to sum up the main idea of this passage in their own words. Then, ask two students to read their summaries to the whole class. Finally, teacher corrects and modifies their summaries. Suggested answers: This passage mainly talks about the master of nonverbal humour ------ Charlie Chaplin. The passage introduces Chaplin’s childhood, famous character and his achievement to us. By

learning this passage, we should learn some excellent qualities from Chaplin-------optimistic, confident, sympathetic and industrious. Procedure 5 Homework

1 Practise reading the passage after class to further understand the passage. 2 Study the related language points in the workbook and finish exercise 9 in the workbook. 3 Preview the grammar in this unit in the workbook.

Procedure 6 Design on the blackboard

Unit 3 A master of nonverbal humour Task 1 Complete the notes about Charlie Chaplin Task 2 Decide the following statements are true or false. Task 3 Find out or sum up the topic sentences of each para. Task 4 Answer the following questions after reading the passage. Task 5 Discuss the following two questions.

Procedure 7 Post-teaching notes