Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!课堂实录【1】

M6

U1

Laughter is good for you

Reading

Teaching aims and demands:

1, Read the passage and know about stand-up.

2,Train the students’ reading ability

3,Help the students to understand the text better and master the useful words and expressions

Teaching important points and difficult points:

1,How to understand the text better

2,To know about stand-up Teaching methods:

1,Fast reading to train the students’ reading speed

2,Practising to help students master what they have learned Teaching aids:

multimedia ,

a

tape

recorder Teaching procedures:

Step 1

Lead-in

Play the tape and let the students listen a period of sketch , then encourage them to collect some kinds of comedy: sketch,

crosstalk,

farce,

circus , joke,

comedy , story , humour

,talk show ,etc.

Step 2 Fast reading

Let the students read the passage quickly to finish some questions:

1, What is the article about?

2, How many types of stand-up are there?

3,What is laughter good for?

Step 3 Reading

Let the students read the passage more carefully to answer some other questions:

1, What is special about stand-up comedy?

2,What are the four main types of stand-up?

3,When did Billy Crystal begin practicing stand-up?

4,What is one reason Billy Crystal has become so famous?

5,How many times has Billy Crystal hosted the Academy Awards?

6,Who were Bob Hope and George Burns?

7,What does your brain do when you laugh?

Step 4

Listening

Play the tape , and let the students listen to the passage to do some exercises about T or F:

(

) 1,A stand-up comedian performs side by side with the audience.

(

)2,Observational,prop,physical and impressionist are the four major forms of stand-up comedy.

(

)3,Prop comedians

use

their bodies to make jokes.

(

)4,An impressionist is a well-known person.

(

)5,Billy Crystal is the only one stand-up comedian who has become famous.

(

)6Crystal is good at improvising.

(

)7,Billy Crystal hopes to live a long life like

other well-known comedians.

(

)8,The saying “Laughter is the best medicine”

is probably widely accepted.

Step5

Practice

Fill in the blanks:

There are _____style of s_____ comedy. They are o______, prop, physical, and i_____. The comedian makes jokes about h______ things he or she observes in everyday life, the form of which is observational. Prop comedians use things, called props, to tell jokes. Physical comedians make use of their b_____ to make jokes. And an impressionist acts or speaks as if he or she w_____ a well-known person.

Today, stand-up comedy is well r_____ by

people , whether old or young, throughout the world . Doctors have been r_____ what effect comedies have on us. What they have d_____ is that people who laugh a great deal live l______ .It is b______ your brain sends chemicals a_______ your body, which are good to you that makes it p_______ for you to live longer. Laughing helps your body to stay h_____ and can even help you fight pain. The s_____ ‘ Laughing is the best m_______ ’ ______ to be true .

Step 6 Consolidation

Give the students some time to read the passage, then ask several to retell the main idea of the passage.

Step 7 Homework

1,Read the text after class and try to find the important words and expressions.

2,Finish Exercise D and E on page 4 and 5.