Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!名师教学设计2

耒阳一中高二英语导学案

授课教师：李胜蓝

授课班级：H1601 M6U1

Stand up for your health Teaching topic:stand up for your health

Teaching aims:

1. To learn about the main types of stand-up and some typical comedians. 2. To develop reading ability and train reading strategy. 3. To form the optimistic attitude towards life. Teaching important and difficult points: How to develop Ss’ reading ability and how to train Ss’ reading strategy Teaching methods:Task-based teaching method;communicative teaching method;practice Teaching aids:Computer;chalk;blackboard. Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming-up Watching a video performed by Charlie Chaplin; What else can make you laugh? Step 2 New presentation 1)Fast reading a.Understand the title of this passage Stand-up:____________________ Stand up for your health:___________________________________________________ b.Listen to the passage and try to find answers to the three questions in part A on Page 2. 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? _____________________________________________________________________ 2) Careful reading a.How many types of stand-up are mentioned?

Type 1. telling jokes about the way people behave or about daily life.

Type 2. visual humor--inspired by objects

Type 3. absurd humor--funny performance Type 4. doing impressions--act or speak like a well-known person Guessing time and show time A.

A comedian puts on glasses, changes his or her voice and pretends to be someone else. __________________________________________________________________________ B. A comedian walks on stage. As she introduces herself, she falls down. __________________________________________________________________________ C. A comedian stands on stage and holds a banana to his ear. He says, ‘Hello?

Hello? I’m sorry I can’t hear you. Something must be wrong with my phone.’

___________________________________________________________________________ D. A comedian says, ‘My Grandmother started walking 1 km a day when she turned 60. She’s 89 now, and we don’t know where she is!

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耒阳一中高二英语导学案

授课教师：李胜蓝

授课班级：H1601 b.Grammar cloze: general introduction of Billy Crystal Billy Crystal, a famous stand-up __________ (comedy), has become famous as a TV and film actor. He has hosted the Academy Awards broadcast live on TV 9 times. He enjoys ______________ ( popular) with all age groups and intends to keep working until the end of his life like Bob Hope and George Burns, ___________ (follow) in the footsteps of them. One reason ______ Crystal becomes so successful is that he is quick-minded, so he can make ______ new jokes about the people and things around him.

c.Questions: Laughter is good for your health 1. What does your brain do when you laugh? ________________________________________________________ 2. What is the English idiom about laughter mentioned in the text? ________________________________________________________ Step 3 Consolidation Read the sentences below and decide whether they are true or false.(group activities) (

)1. Visual humour can be boring when you can't 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.

Discussion: How can we bring more laughter to our life（how to be happy）?

Step 4 Homework 

Get more familiar with the passage by reading it over and over again until you can retell it.

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Polish up the talk show in pairs and write down your lines if necessary.

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Get fully prepared for the 2nd period of the passage by paying more attention to the language

points and collect your difficulties.

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