Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!第一课时教学实录

Module 6 unit 1

Stand up for your health. Reading Teaching aims: 1. To read and enjoy an expository essay about stand-up;

2. To train the students’ reading ability;

3. To let the students know the importance of laughter Teaching keys and difficulties: 1. To train the students’ reading ability;

2. To let the students know the importance of laughter

Teaching Procedures: Step I Greetings& Lead in

Greet the whole class as usual

Step II

Lead in

Present some pictures and a short video to lead in.

Step III

Fast Reading

1. What is the article about?

2. After starting as a stand-up comedian, what did Billy Crystal go on to do later in life?

3. What is laughter good for? Step III Careful Reading

Go through Paragraph one ,then answer the following question.

1.What is

stand-up comedy?

2. How might a stand-up comedian decide what jokes to tell? Go through Part two and filling the following table. Type

One Type

Two Type Three It’s a kind of ___________which is not very funny if you’re only listening and not watching the comedian’s performance. Comedians tell jokes about_____________________________________. Comedians rely on_____________ inspired by objects. Type Four Comedians ___________ like a well-known person. Go through Part three and finish the Multiple choices. 1. Billy Crystal started his career ____.

A. as a television actor

B. as a film actor

C. as a stand-up comedian 2. At the 2004 Academy Awards, a very old actor ______ at first.

A. was asked to make a silent speech

B.

made the audience laugh C. Couldn’t make himself heard 3.

Which one is true? A: Bill Crystal wants to stop making films. B: Bill Crystal is 100 years old now.

C: Bob Hope is a famous comedian.

4.

What does the word ‘routine’

in Para 3 probably mean?______

A. road

B. performance

C.

Style Read the last paragraph and fill in the blanks with proper words (no one than one word). Doctors have discovered that people ___ laugh a lot live longer when they have been researching what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have _____ us. When we laugh, our brains send chemicals around the body _________ are good for us.

Laughing keeps the body healthy and helps us fight pain. Maybe this explains the reason _____ the men like Bob Hope and George Burns lived so long. ____ the saying goes, ‘Laughter is the _____ medicine’. So, go and make someone laugh, because ___ help(s) not only them ____ also you live longer. StepⅣ

Further comprehension. Read the sentences below and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F) according to the article. 1.Visual humour can be boring when you cannot see what the comedian is doing. 2.One comedian did not lose any weight even though he had been doing a lot of physical exercise for a month. 3.People usually laugh at comedians doing impressions because they do not like the person being made fun of.

4.The old actor’s speech at the Academy Awards was like a silent film because there was no sound. 5.Bob Hope and George Burns lived for a long time probably because they laughed a lot. Step VI, Summary

The types of stand-up Step

VII Homework:

Finish the exercise on P7 in Kekelian

Preview the language point.

What other benefits can laughter bring us? Laughter is the best thing in the world ,which can help us to be more confident, to gain more friends, to face all the challenges and to endure all kinds of sorrows!