Using LanguageⅡ优质课教案整理

Period 5 Reading (Using Language), Listening (Using Language) & Listening task (Workbook) Teaching Goals:

1. To get Ss to enjoy and learn more about English humour. 2. To improve Ss’ listening ability.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Reading (Using Language)

1. Leading-in Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic and arouse Ss’ interest in the reading text. (1) Ask Ss the following question.

Do you find the short story funny that we listened in the first period of this Unit?

(2) Help Ss to get the answer to the question. The key words are: at night, thief, potatoes, husband and wife. (3) Tell Ss you are going to enjoy some jokes that are even more funny. 2. Reading (1) Purpose: To read the first three jokes and learn more about English humour. (1) Ask Ss to enjoy the three jokes of Ex1 on P22 in a few minutes.

(2) Ask Ss to answer the following question and give their reasons. Why do you think they are funny?

(3) Ask Ss to match the jokes with the explanation.

Suggested Answers:

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B

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C

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A 3. Reading (2)

Purpose: To get Ss to enjoy another funny story and have another sense of English humour.

(1) Ask Ss to enjoy the story of Ex2 on P22. Before that, teacher may say, “ Some jokes are longer and tell a short, funny story. The following is one joke about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are two characters in the detective novel called Adventures of Holmes.”

(2)

Ask Ss to discuss the following question.

Which of these two kinds of humour (joke and short, funny story) do you like better? Why?

(3) Divide Ss into several groups of three. Each group is to choose one role to play: Holmes, Watson or the narrator. Remind Ss to pay attention to the intonation and bring out the humorous meaning. Step 2. Listening (Using Language) Purpose: To improve Ss’ listening ability.

To enjoy English houmour and know some common sense in real life. 1. Ask Ss to answer the following questions and talk about them.

(1)

Have you have the experience of eating plums?

(2)

What do you think will happen if chickens eat them?

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2. Ask Ss to finish Ex2,3,4,5on P23. 3. Ask Ss to discuss the following questions. (1)

Do you think the story funny? Why? (2)

How do you feel about John’s behaviour? Step 3. Listening task (Workbook)

1. Ask Ss to turn to P58, compare the three pictures and guess what will be the humour.

2. Ask Ss to listen to the tape and finish Ex2 on P58. 3. Ask Ss to describe picture C. Sample Description:

(1) The teacher see some boys looking at a dog.

(2) The dog is thin and he feels sorry for it.

(3) He asks what they intend to do with it.

(4) He finds they all want to look after it but only the person who tells the biggest lie can have it as a pet.

(5) The teacher is angry and lectures the boys about telling lies and how honest he was at their age.

(6) The boys decide to give him the dog. Step 4. Homework

1. Ask Ss to get on the Internet to search for a humorous story or a humorous conversation.

2. Ask Ss to find an experience in their real lives that was very funny and make up a story.

Period 6 Reading task (Workbook) & Speaking and writing task (Workbook) Teaching Goals: To get Ss to know that not all special days are serious and some can be fun.

To train Ss’ ability of talking about a material.

To introduce Ss to amusing limericks.

To make Ss try some funny poems. Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Reading task(Workbook) 1. Leading-in Purpose: To lead Ss to the topic and arouse the Ss’ interest in the reading text. (1)

Ask Ss to look at the picture and guess what is on the tree and what the two farmers are doing? (2)

Ask Ss to talk about the following question and encourage Ss to use a variety of words. Do you think newspapers will play a trick on the readers by some fake news?

2. Fast reading Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

(1) Ask Ss if they believe the following things and then answer them in pairs.

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that pigeons follow roads and road sings when they find their way home.

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that the earliest football has been found in a grave dated to 1000 years ago.

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that earliest human paintings on cave walls are all modern fakes.

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that advanced computers can “talk” to each other without the aid of humans. (2) Ask Ss to read the text quickly and discuss the following question. Do you believe the story is true? 3. Intensive reading Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

To train Ss’ ability of speaking. (1) Ask Ss to read the text carefully and discuss what they cannot understand (2) Ask Ss to answer the following questions.

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Read the first paragraph and tell the class what is April Fool’s Day?

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Read the second and third paragraph and tell the class why so many people believe the programme Panorama? ③

Read the last paragraph and tell the class: Was the advice given by BBC was serious when the people who believe the news and telephoned The BBC? Suggested Answers: ①

April Fool’s Day falls on the 1st of April every year. On this day , Children enjoy playing jokes on each other. When they “fool” someone they say “April Fool” to them. The most common kind of joke is to say something like “Your dress is hanging down at the back”. When you turn round they say “April Fool”. ②

People believed the programme Panorama because it was always serious and known for its factual correctness. It is always telling true news.

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The advice that The BBC gave to people wanting to grow their own noodle tree could not be serious as no tree could be grown in this way. It is unbelievable.

Step 3. Speaking and writing task (Workbook)

Purpose: To get the Ss to know about limericks for fun. To arouse Ss’ interest in collecting funny poems and make them enjoy life.

1. Ask Ss to read the short poems of Speaking and writing task on P60.

2. Introduce to Ss what is the limerick. Limerick is a very old way of writing a funny poem that originated in Britain. It was first devised by the nineteenth-century poet, Edward Lear. H e wrote a lot of this kind of poem which seems “nonsense verse” for children.

3. Ask Ss to answer the following questions to make a summary.

(1) How many lines are there in the poem?

(2) What is the rhythm pattern?

(3) Are all the lines the same in length?

(4) Is it simple and amusing? Suggested Answers: (1)

There are only five lines.

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(2)

The first, second and fifth line end the same. The third and the forth end the same. So the rhythm pattern is aabba. (3)

Not all the lines are the same in length, the first, the second and the fifth are a bit longer than the third and forth. (4)

Yes, they are simple, and some seems nonsense and musing.

4. Ask Ss to finish Ex2 of Speaking and writing task on P60.. 5.Ask Ss to write some other limericks to appreciate, compare and make fun.

(1) There was an old woman they say

Who would eat an apple a day

When asked she replied

It’s good for my inside

For I am never ill anyway.

(2) There was a young boy of Harbin

Whose face was incredibly clean

He washed it each day

With soap mixed with clay

And scrubbed it until it would gleam.

Step 4. Homework 1.Ask Ss to search for some funny stories or limericks on the Internet and copy them. 2.Ask Ss to read Learning Tip on P24 and make some notes.

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