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Teaching plan:

Using Language (Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson)

Aims:

1.To enjoy reading the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 2.To learn and try to understand English jokes

Procedures: I. Warming up (Introduction) Warming up by introducing “pun”: 1.

He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. 其中的grave有两个含义, 一个是“严肃的”(形容词), 一个是“坟墓”(名词)，

因此这句话的意思是：他不是一个严肃的人, 除非他躺到坟墓里才能严肃起来。

2.

They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow. 其中的pray(祈祷)和prey(捕食), 发音相同, 外形相似。因此这句话的意思是：

他们今天为你祈祷, 明天就会加害于你。

Introducing English jokes: 1. C: What’s that fly doing in my soup?

W: Swimming. I think!

B

2. 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

3. C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long?

W: No, sir. Round.

A

II. Guided reading (Role-play) 1. Introducing

Sherlock Holmes is a character created by the English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes became the prototype (原型) for the modern mastermind detective. Doyle introduced Holmes in 1887 in the short story A Study in Scarlet. Doctor Watson is Sherlock’s best friend and partner.

Collocations from the paragraph on page 22 go camping去野营, in a mountainous area山区, lie in the open air露营, under the stars在星空下, look up at the stars抬头看星星, think of…考虑；思考, try a third time试第三次, in one’s beds在床上

2.

Role-play Read a short, funny story on Page 22 about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson. Then change the story into a short dialogue. Act it in groups of three —Holmes, Watson and a narrator.

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III. Speaking Give Ss more English jokes and ask them to read and try to understand them by themselves. Then, ask some of them to explain them. 1.

A teacher asked a student to write 55.

Student asked: How?

Teacher: Write 5 and beside it another 5!

The student wrote 5 and stopped.

Teacher: What are you waiting for?

Student:

I don't know which side to write the other 5!

2.

A man goes to the doctor and says,

“Doctor, wherever I touch, it hurts.”

The doctor asks, “What do you mean?”

The man says, “When I touch my shoulder, it really hurts. If I touch my

knee - OUCH! When I touch my forehead, it really, really hurts.”

The doctor says, “I know what’s wrong with you –

you’ve broken your finger!”

3.Patient: Doctor, I’ve lost my memory.

Doctor: When did this happen?

Patient: When did what happen?

4.Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone.

Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank God.

Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God.

IV. Homework Choose one topic and do your homework: 1.

The play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 2.

Do you think the jokes/story/play you have read/watched funny? Give your

reasons. 3.

Try to your own jokes.

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