新课标英语高一上Module 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humor Reading教案

Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, slide, skin, cruel, particular, entertaining, throughout, homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, fortunate, snowstorm, chew, outstanding, Switzerland
b.重点词组
content with, badly off, pick out, cut off, star in,
c. 重点句型
Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner, or falling down a hole in the road? P17
Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life… P17
He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce. P17
But he was lived by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him. P 18
Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe. P18
That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin in one of his most famous films. P18
He solved it by using nonverbal humor. P 18
Their job is “panning for gold” P18
Finally he tries cutting and eating the bottom of the shoe. P18
First he picks out the laces and eats them as if they were spaghetti.
The he cuts off the leather top of the shoe, treating if as if it were the finest meat. P18
He makes it seems as if it were one of the best meals he has ever had! P18


2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor, then learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor

3. learningability goals 学能目标
a. Help the students to learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humor, and then find their differences.
b. Let the students listen and read the jokes, so that they can realize that humor is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.
c. help the students learn how to describe what nonverbal humor is by Charlie Chaplin’s career.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humor. While as to the reading, learn how to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning of the passage
Teaching difficulty points 教学难点
a. Help the students know the differences between the English and Chinese humors
b. Decide the divide of the paragraphs of the text
Teaching methods 教学方法
Using pictures, discussion, reading, scanning and careful reading
Teaching aids 教具准备
A recorder and a projector
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Revision
Ask the students to read the words and expressions that appear in warming up, pre-reading and reading
T: Class begin..
Ss: Good morning, miss.
T: Good morning, everyone. Before our class, please turn to P97 and read the new words together. Read twice for each one, ok?
Ss: Ok. (The students read the new words together )

Step II Warming up
T: Good. Try your best to recite the words as soon as possible. Today, we are going to the new text. At first, I would like to show you a picture. Please look at the picture carefully. (Start the new unit by showing the students a picture)

T: Look! What do you think of the picture?
Ss: It’s very interesting. A wolf or maybe it is a dog is jumping across the back of a sheep.
T: Yes. Actually, it is a wolf. As we know, wolf is the natural enemy of sheep. Will a wolf jump across a sheep without eating it? No. After seeing the picture, it is so funny that we can’t help laughing about their acting. It makes us laugh and feel nice. So today, we are going to learn something about humor. The title is A taste of English humor. Do you know some English humor?
Ss: (Some students may know some English humor and they will put up their hands.)
T: Ok, I’ll ask someone to tell some English hum
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