Unit17 lesson2
李娟
Teaching aims:
1.To practise using listening strategies for answering multiple-choice questions
2.To practise understanding and telling jokes
3.To practise recognizing and using emphaticstress in sentences
Teaching important and difficult points:
To improve the student’s listening skills
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm up
Have a free talk with the students
How to keep healthy?
Healthy diet
Enough sleep
A good mood
How to keep a good mood?
Ⅱ. Pre-listening
Task1: learning the news words before listening
•psychology
• beneficial
• associate with
• significantly
•physical beings
• fool around
• achieve a balance
• humor campaign
• staff
Task2 : know the background of the listening material
In recent years many studies have been done on whether laughter really can speed up the healing process. It seems that it can. The movie Patch Adams which starred Robin Williams is based on a true story about a doctor(Adam) who dressed up as a clown to cheer up his patients.
Ⅲ. Listening
Task1: Listen to an interview with Dr William Fry and decide which is the correct answer
Task2: Listen again and decide if the statements are T or F.
Task3: Listen to the joke and complete the Function File with these words. Exe7
Ⅳ. A short reading
Read the following passage. In pairs, work out the meaning of the following words and complete the text.
Ⅴ. Speaking
Work in pairs. Turn to page 100 and practise telling the joke to yourself. Add articles and pronouns and words and expressions from the Function File.
Ⅵ. Sum up
Ⅶ. Homework

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