Using LanguageⅡ优质教案设计

Module 4 Unit 3

A taste of English humor教学设计

Using language Teaching aims and demands

1. Knowledge objects Make the students be aware of the cultural aspects of humor by learning this lesson. 2. Ability objects 1. Develop students’

ability and let them learn different reading 2. Enable students to talk about types of humors

3. Moral objects ①

To enable the students to learn to be faced with difficulties and overcome them. ②

To encourage them to keep up optimistic attitude towards life and improve their sense of humor. Teaching key points

1. Help the students grasp the reading skills.

2. Help the students to learn to get information, analyze the information and understand the information from the text. Teaching difficulties

1. How to fire the students’

enthusiasm to express their ideas. 2. To make the students know the acting style of Charlie Chaplin and understand the connotation of humor. Teaching methods: Task-based teaching method, Skimming, Scanning and Group discussion. Teaching aids: A multi-media classroom. Teaching procedures & ways:

Step 1 Lead-in

1.

Review what we have learned in our last class 2.

Let the students guess some word puzzles. Step 2 Pre-reading

Read the 3 jokes which use “

play on words”

to amuse us and match the joke with the explanation on P22.

Step 3 Careful reading

Ask the students some questions : 1. When and where did the story happen? 2. How did they find that their tent was stolen? 3. Which sentence do you think is the funniest? Step 4 Three elements of a funny story 1.

Situation

2.

Development

3.

Punchline

Step 5 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 in group of three-Holmes, Waston and a narrator. Step 6 Do some exercises Step 7 Conclusion

What have we done in this class? 1. Appreciate several jokes in English and

understand the English humor further. 2. Do some exercises and a role play. 3. Learn how to judge funny stories and write down a funny story by ourselves.