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Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

Teaching Aims: 1. Knowledge and skill aims: a. Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor. b. Students are expected to improve the reading skills, ie, skimming and scanning skills as well as translating , interpreting and word guessing abilities, which are examined in recent years in NMET. 2. Moral culture aims: By learning the passage, students will know that humour is particular to each culture. So the Enlish humour is certainly different from Chinese humour. However , there is a kind of humour that may be enjoyed by all cultures --- that is nonverbal humour. It is good that we can all laugh at something together. 3.Learning methods aims: a. self-learning and cooperative learning methods; and use such kind of ability to gain and deal with language information. b. develop the students’

questioning spirit to improve their ability of finding, analyzing and solving problems. C. Teaching methods:

a. Task-based Language Teaching : During the course, different tasks are designed for Ss to carry out. Whether and how they finish the tasks can reflect on how much information they grasp from reading. In return, the teacher can adjust his/her teaching. b. Cooperative Learning: Divide the class into small teams, each with students of different levels of ability. Every member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. D. Important and difficult points. a. Help students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors. b. Help students know the differences between English and Chinese in humor. E. Teaching aids: Multi-media pictures blackboard Teaching procedures: Step one: Lead-in and Warming up( 5 mins) In order for students to get into the topic of humor quickly and smoothly, a piece of sketch video “Eating noodles”by Chen Peisi will be played for the students. Question: Do you know who the Chinese comedian is ?( Chen Peisi)

What makes his performance funny? ( his body gestures) Then show some pictures of Charlie Chaplin to students. Questions: Do you know who he is ? What do you know about Charle Chaplin? What do you expect to learn about from this reading? ( students’

answers may vary) Step Two: Reading ( 22 mins) Fast Reading ( Skimming) (7 mins) Task 1: Fast Reading (3 mins) What’s the passage mainly about? A. The history of English humor. B. The films Chaplin made. C. The life and humor career of Charlie Chaplin D. The Gold Rush in California. ( Key : C ) Task 2: Read to summarize the main idea of each paragragh and match the paragraph with its main idea. (4 mins) Para 1: (E ) A. His achievements Para 2: (C ) B.An example of a sad situation that he made funny. Para 3: ( D) C. What Charlie’s childhood was like. Para 4: ( B ) D. What his most famous character was like.

Para 5: ( A) E. Charlie Chaplin brightened the people’s lives through two world wars and the hard years in between. Scanning: Reading for details ( 15 mins) Task 1: Read the passage again and then fill in the chart. . Notes on Charlie Chaplin’s career Born 1889 Died 1977 Job Actor Famous Character “

the tramp”, a poor and homeless person Costume Large trousers, worn-out shoes and small round black hat Reason for success Charming, social failure with a determination to overcome difficulties and always kind Task 2: Work in pairs to read for difficulties. 1. Explain in your own words the sentence “Charlie brightened the lives of American and British through two world wars”. 2. Why was“The Little Tramp ”loved by many people around the world? A. Because the appearance of the character is so funny. B. Because the tramp is a social failure. C. Because he is always made fun of by others.

D. Because of his optimism and determination fo overcome all difficulties. 3. Find a sentence in the passage similar in meaning to the following one: Charlie’s real life was not so comfortable as it was showed in his films. 4. Translate the sentence into Chinese “You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk”. 5. Guess the meaning of the word “convincing”

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People may laugh at others_______ on a banana skin, or falling down a hole, for it makes them _______ with themselves seeing others _______ _______ than themselves. As an outstanding humourous actor, Chaplin could always _______ in the people deep feelings by using _________ forms of acting in the time of silent films. His charming _________ “the little tramp”

is well-known all over the world, a poor and _________ person wearing large trousers, ________ shoes, and carrying a walking _______. A social _______ as he was, he was loved by all the people for his ____________ in overcoming difficulties and being kind to people _______ to him. When playing the famous film The Gold Rush, Chaplin managed to

make the sad situation—eating a _______ shoe, entertaining by using __________ humour. Such is Charlie Chaplin who produced, _______ , and wrote the movies that he _______ in. He was given a special Oscar for his lifetime work ____________ of bringing humour to us all. Step Four: Pair work. ( Enjoying 4 mins) Part 1: JOKE 1 Wife talking to her husband (who reads newspaper all day): I wish I were a newspaper so I'll be in your hands all day. Husband: I wish that too, so I could change you daily JOKE 2 TOM'S EXCUSE Teacher: Tom, why are you late for school every day? Tom: Every time I come to the corner, a sign says, "School-Go Slow". Part 2: Show the students some pictures of nonverbal homour to let them appreciate . (omitted) Step Five: Interview ( Group activity 8mins) The students are divided into groups of 4 . Then in each group students will take their turns to be Charlie and the other 3 act as reporters to interview him/her using the information from the reading.

Step Six: Home work Find more information about Chaplin through The Internet or from books and you are expected to present it to your classmates in the next class. 一．The analysis of the teaching material The purpose of this reading is to introduce the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and the kind of humour we can all laugh at --- nonverbal humour. This lesson is designed as a reading lesson. According to the new curriculum standards of senior high school English, students are expected to achieve the skills of a. understanding the main idea; b. scanning for the needed information; c. grasping the details; d. guessing the meaning of new words; e. understanding the intension and attitude of the author and f. understanding the background and culture information. 二，教学目标

根据新课标关于阅读课主要教学目标的详细描述，结合本课教学内容，具体从语言知识，语言技能，情感态度和文化意识三个方面制定教学目标。既要让他们掌握常用单词和语法知识，也要让他们掌握猜词技巧和培养语言组织能

力，口头表达能力及良好的团队合作精神。同时要让他们了解到幽默能帮助人们乐观的面对挫折和困苦。

三，教学重难点

根据新课标关于读的技能的具体描述，结合学生实际确定本课教学重难点。重点在于学生对主人翁的生活工作的了解及他对无声电影的贡献。侧重培养学生对文章整体结构的把握。而难点在于如何去提升他们的阅读能力

四，教学方法

1， 任务型语言教学法，人们使用语言的过程就是一个完成各种任务的过程，此方法强调做中学，学中做，使学生在完成任务的过程中学会语言，

2， 直观法，通过动画，录音，图片及插图的直观手段来调动学生的学习兴趣，并且降低学习难度，突破重难点。

3， 合作学习教学法，通过小组活动改善课堂心理气氛。

4， 情感激励教学法，重视师生之间的思想交流，让学生在愉悦的课堂氛围中发展创新，体验成功。