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Book 4 Unit 3

A taste of English humor A master of nonverbal humor Warming Up，Pre-reading and Reading

授课教师：无极县第二中学

赵采芹

Teaching aims: (Let students read the aims together .) 1. To help students learn to know some kinds of humor and enjoy them.

2. To help students know about Chaplin’s life and masterpieces. 3. To improve the students’ reading skills.

4. From what we have learned about Chaplin, let students realize only through hard work can we succeed. Analysis of the students：

Because there is no broadcasting room in our school, I have to give a lesson to students in another school .The students of Senior Grade One are mostly from the countryside. Their English is poor, but they have a desire for English. In this class, I will try to interact smoothly with them. I am sure that we can cooperate well with each other. Teaching important points and difficult points:

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Let students learn about types of English humor. 2.

Get the students to read the passage to learn about Charlie Chaplin and learn different reading skills. Teaching methods: 1.

Task-based teaching and learning

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2.

Cooperative learning 3.

Discussion Teaching aids: The multimedia and other normal teaching tools Procedures: Step 1.Warming-up

1. By looking at some funny and dynamic pictures, let Ss understand what humor is, know some kinds of humor and the differences between verbal humor and nonverbal humor. 2. Introduce students to Charlie Chaplin. Step 2.Pre-reading

Let students say something about Charlie Chaplin. Step 3.Reading Task 1:

Listen to the tape and try to catch the general idea. ( pair work) What’s the main idea of the text?

A. The history of English humor. B. The films that Chaplin made. C. The humor that Chaplin made in his films. D. The Gold Rush in California. Task 2:

Read the passage again and match the main idea of each paragraph. ( pair work)

Paragraph 1:

Charlie’s childhood

Paragraph 2:

His achievements

Paragraph 3:

An example of his work

Paragraph 4:

The world situation

Paragraph 5:

His famous film character

Task 3:

Read para.1 and 2 and finish the exercises 1. How do you understand the sentence “Laughter is the sun that

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drives winter from the human face.”?

A.

Laughter is the power to drive winter away and welcome warm spring.

B.

Laughter can keep one’s face warm, especially during freezing winter.

C.

Laughter can make people forget their problems and make them feel happy.

D. Laughter can give people warmth，so their faces are not cold.

True or false ? 2. Until nowadays, Chaplin did the best in entertaining people. (

)

3.

His childhood was hard but meaningful. (

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Task 4:

Read para.3 carefully and finish the tasks. 1. Chaplin acted as a little

，which was famous throughout the world. 2. Find out the descriptions of his appearance in this paragraph.

The Little Tramp

The Little Tramp was

a ______and

________ person .

Task 5: Watch a short video, read para.4 and fill in the blanks. First he

the laces and eats them as if they were

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spaghetti. Then he

the leather top of the shoe, treating it as if it were the finest

. Finally he tries cutting and chewing the

of the shoe. You can imagine how difficult it is to

, but he seems to eat every

with great enjoyment.

Sum up

His job is

_________

He was in________

born

His type of acting

is_________.

He died in

His charming character is _________

______________ in__________

In 1972, he was

His costume: given__________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________.

____________________

____________________

____________________

Discussion:

( group work)

What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin and the little tramp?

Homework 1.

Read the text fluently. 2.

Recite para.3 and 4.

______________

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