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Unit 3 A taste of English humour

Speaking

Reading

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

重点词汇

mess, react, porridge, drunk 2. Ability goals

能力目标

Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around. Teaching important points 教学重点

Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours. Teaching methods

教学方法

Using pictures, discussion, and imitation. Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways

教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in Enjoy some verbal jokes Policeman: You can’t park here.

Driver: Why can’t I?

Policeman: Read the sigh there. Driver: It says, “Fine for Parking,” so I parked. …

Step II Listening

You are going to listen to a funny story about jam. Before you listen, look at the

exercises below. Try and predict the story. Tell your partner what you think will happen. 1. Listen to Part 1 and write down the main idea. 2. Listen to Part 1 again and answer these questions. 1. What was Mary going to do with the cooked plums in the pan?

2. What did John think Mary should have done with the mess in the pan? 3. Try to guess Mary and John’s reaction.

3. Listen to Part 2 and put these sentences in order.

Mary got angry with John. Mary saw the chickens behaving strangely. John was sorry. The chickens enjoyed the jam. John said he thought the jam was porridge. Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. John said the chicken were drunk. Mary came home.

Step IV Speaking T: Now, we’ve learned some jokes and listened to some too. How about speaking out what you feel funny in class? I’ll give you five minutes to prepare this task, and then ask some of you to tell us your story. There are some steps for you to finish the task. If you think they are useful, follow them. Five minutes later. S15: My story is one day Lian Hong was standing by the window, talking with other students. Ren Xinglian came up. She wanted to make a joke with Lian and gave her a surprise. So she rushed towards Lian and kicked her at the same. But to all of us surprise, Ren slipped on the floor! Everybody laughed to bend their backs, me too. T: Me too! OK, this class is full of joy. We know that in our life, there are full of happiness, sorrows, boredoms, and joys. When we meet with sorrows or boredoms, don’t forget to read these jokes. Maybe they can bring you sunshine.

Am I right? Ss: Yes. Thank you. Step Ⅲ

Reading

The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humour. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humour means; what’s Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.What do you know about Charlie Chaplin? This step can have three tasks. Task 1, find the main idea of each paragraph. Work in groups to decide how many passages the material can be divided. Task 2, discuss the following questions：

1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?

2. Why did people like The Little Tramp?

3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?

Step III Homework Finish the exercises on workbook.