Using LanguageⅡ课程导入

Unit 3 A Taste English Humour Using Language I. Teaching aims:

(1) Know something about play on words (2) Master the elements of a funny story (3) Improve the ability of speaking 2 Teaching steps (1)

Introduction Ask students what English joke is. Introduce other plays on words such as Tongue Twisters, Pun,Riddles.... To present students these plays on words to get a deep understanding of them. (2)

Learn about jokes

Read the 3 jokes which use “

play on words”

to amuse us and match the joke with the explanation on P22. a:

C: What’s that fly doing in my soup?

W: Swimming. I think!

b:

C: What’s that?

W: It’s bean soup. C: I don’t want to know what it’s been. I want to know what it is now.

C:

C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long?

W: No, sir. Round. (3)

Master the elements of a funny story Let students enjoy a funny story together. One day a man called a taxi company for a taxi to take him to the airport from his house. He waited but it did not arrive.

So he called again. The girl said, “I’m sorry the taxi hasn’t come, but don’t worry as the plane is always late.”

“Well, it certainly will be this morning,”

the man said, “because I happen to be flying it!”

Analyse the elements of it

Situation: time; place; the characters; background information Development:How is the story going on? Punchline:.....

(4)

Carefully reading

Ask students to finish these questions: Is there anything wrong with their camping? What happened to them? When and where did the story happen? How did they find that their tent

was stolen? (5)

Speaking

Imagining you are Sherlock and Watson, act the dialogue out with your partner vividly. (6)

Master some useful words and expressions

Fill the blanks using the key points while listening

Know the usage of word “amuse”

amuse

vt. 娱乐；消遣；使发笑

amuse sb. with sth. 用…逗乐某人

e.g. I amused the children with stories.

be amused at 对

…

感到好笑

be amused by 被

…

逗笑

e.g. I was amused at Mr. Bean’s funny acting.

== I was amused by Mr. Bean’s funny acting. 3 Conclusion

Draw a conclusion of what we have learned in this class 4 Assignment Ask students to find an English jokes or a Chinese joke and translate it into English.