Using LanguageⅡ板书设计

Unit 3 A Taste of English Humor Lesson Plan of Using Language Chuxiong No. 1 Middle School Lv Xiaoxue I、Teaching Content Investigation The teaching aim of this lesson is to combine writing and speaking by learning and consolidating what we have learnt ,and embody language utilization .text analyzing teaching and phrases learning will lay a solid foundation for this lesson, at the same time, the important teaching aims should be about how to help students improve their writing ability by communicating . II、Teaching Aims By the end of this class, the students will be able to 1. Talk about some types of English and Chinese humor, and then find their differences. 2. Realize that humor is to let people to be optimistic about everything around. 3. Write funny stories using the target language and according to the writing steps.

III、Teaching Procedures；

Step 1 Lead-in and free-talk (3 minutes) What can we see in the picture? Have a guess what is happening in the picture? Can you make up a funny story according to the content of the picture?

Step2 Speaking (10 minutes) Show students the story related to the picture, asking them to discuss with their partners whether they think the story shown below is funny. Give the reasons. Use these words and expressions below to help you. How wonderful! I’m pleased we both like… I felt happy because… What fun! It surprises me that… I (don’t) laugh at that kind of thing because… It is (not) very amusing/funny that… I (don’t) enjoy this very much because… Cat and Mice Mrs Brown went to visit one of her friend and carried a small box with holes punched in the top. " What's in your box?" asked the friend. "A cat," answered Mrs Brown. "You see I've been dreaming about mice at night and I'm so scared! This cat is to catch them." "But the mice are only imaginary," said the friend. "So is the cat," whispered Mrs Brown.

The reasons of this procedure design: with the aid of many different learning styles, listening, speaking and discussing, utilize comment of humorous stories to communicate, then improve spoken English. Step 3 instructions on writing a funny story. (4minutes) a. Give students some instructions on writing a funny story. 1) Writing down your story in a logical order. 2) For each of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happing. 3) Then write out your story using these interesting words. 4) Read through your story. 5) Then show it to your partner. Let him/ her suggest some new and exciting words. 6) Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories. Give students enough time to finish the task and give them enough help in the writing. Tell them to give the outline first, then finish the story. The reasons of this procedure design: lead students to write an interesting story by introducing some useful writing skills , autonomous learning ability will be applied. Step4 .Practice (15 minutes) Give students enough time to finish the task and give them enough help in the writing. Tell them to give the outline first, then finish the story.

暑假:summer vacation 作文:composition 鸡窝:roost 母鸡:hen The reasons of this procedure design: improve students ’writing

ability for examinations. Step5 Correction between partners (15 minutes) Ask the students to exchange their composition required by the teacher, correcting the mistakes they found. After that, choose several sample compositions to be shown in the class. setting other students an example. The reasons of this procedure design: By observing and correcting mistakes for their neighbors, students should summarize wrong language utilization and learn from the excellent ones with the guidance of the teachers, which will contribute to exploring and autonomous language learning, form a right writing habit. Step 6 summary (2 minutes) Ask the students to review what we have learnt in this lesson, including the useful expressions used in talking about funny stories as well as instructions on writing a funny story. The reasons of this procedure design:

Help the students to train the thinking ability with the guidance and review of teacher, which highlight the content of this unit. Step 7 Homework (15minute) Finish Exercise 5 on Page 20. The reasons of this procedure design: further practice.