Unit17 lesson3
李娟
Teaching aims:
1.To understand the story
2.To know some information about Rowan Atkinson
3.To paractise prepositional phrases and phrasal verbs
Teaching important and difficult points:
To improve the students’ reading ability
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm up
1.Do you like to watch comedies? Why or why not?
2. What is your favorite funny movie or TV programme ? Why?
3. Who is your favorite comedian? Why?
Ⅱ. Pre-reading
Let’s enjoy a short comedy and then tell me whether you like it or not?
Ⅲ. Reading
Task1: reading strategies
Task2: Read text1 and answer the questions. You must make some inferences.
1. Why has Mr. Bean gone to a fancy restaurant on this particular day?
2. Does Mr. Bean have many friends? How do you know?
3. Why does Mr. Bean choose the “steak tartare”?
4. Why does Mr. Bean pretend to like the food when the waiters talk to him?
Taks3: Read text2 and answer the following questions
1. How do you know that Rowan Atkinson is not like his famous character Mr. Bean? In what ways is he different?
2. Did Rowan Atkinson’s parents encourage him to become an actor? Why or why not?
3. Does Rowan Atkinson like to work with other talented people? How do you know?
Ⅳ. Words and phrases
1. …, then you are in for a surprise.
You will be surprised.
2. At Oxford, he obtained his Master’s degree in electrical engineering. This might explain his interest in fast cars, of which he has a vast collection.got his Master’s /Bachelor'/Doctor's
degree .That is why he is so interested in …
3. Rowan’s career change from an electrical engineer to a famous comedian was partly due to some speaking problems he had in his childhood.
4. He compensated for this by talking
very deliberately.
make up for …(弥补)
intentionally
5. This may have inspired the abnormal speech patterns of many of his characters.
activated / not normal
Ⅴ. Speaking:
Retell the second passage according the following clues:
When he was young, he …. ,
who ….He studied in the same ....
At 13, he earned …to study in a….
Later he studied …in … university.
he was so interested in …that he had a vast …of ….
There are two reasons for his change of career: the first, he had some problems in …, so he compensated for this by talking intentionally.
Ⅵ. Sum up
Ⅶ. Homework

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