Unit 3 A taste of English humour
　Teaching goals
1. Target language
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisper
b. I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. P22
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.
3. Learning ability goals
a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences.
b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.
Teaching important points
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.
Teaching difficult points
Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.
Teaching methods
Using pictures, discussion, reading and imitation.
Teaching aids
A recorder and a projector.

The First Period:Rreading
(NONVERBAL HUMOUR)
Aims
To help students develop their reading ability.
To help students learn about English humour.
Procedures
I. Warming up
Warming up by defining “Humour”
What is “Humour”? Does any one of you know anything about humour? Look at the sreen and read the definition of Humour from the Internet.
Whose job ...?
This is the story about four people named Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done,
and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that
because it was Everybody´s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it,
but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn´t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody
When Nobody did what Anybody could have done
II. Pre-reading
Telling the truth —Why do you like to laugh at?
I like to laugh at cartoons,for they’re lovely and fun.
I like to laugh at fairy tales. They are amusing and interesting.
Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so exceedingly fond of fine new clothes that he spent vast sums of money on dress. To him clothes meant more than anything else in the world. He took no interest in his army, nor did he care to go to the theatre, or to drive about in his state coach, unless it was to display his new clothes. He had different robes for every single hour of the day.
III. Reading
1.Reading aloud to the recording
Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text NONVERBAL HUMOUR. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses between the thought groups. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
2.Reading and underlining
Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
3.Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragrap
Skim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. You may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph.
4.Reading and transferring information
Read the text again to complete the table.
NONVERBAL HUMOUR
What is nonverbal humour?

Who is Charlie Chaplin?

How does he make a sad situation entertaining?

What is the story of The Gold Rush?

Facts about Oscar

A brief life history of Charlie Chaplin

5.Reading and understanding difficult sentences
As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me the teacher.
IV. Closing down
Closing down by doing exercises
To end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exer
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