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1^st Period     Warming up and speaking

2^nd Period    

3^rd Period     learning about language

4^th Period     Listening

5^th Period     Writing

6^th Period     Summary

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Warming up and speaking

Teaching aims:

Enable students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor.

Key points: Help students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.

Difficult points: Help students know the differences between English and Chinese in humor.

Teaching aids: pictures

Teaching procedure:

Step 1: Lead-in

Show some pictures to students, let them talk about the pictures and then ask them what they think of the pictures, whether they are funny or not.

Questions: 1) Do you know who these comedians are? What makes them funny?

         2) Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?

         3) Have you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them?

Step 2: Warming up

Task 1. Brain-storming

  Ask students to name some types of humors they know. Write those they are not familiar with on the blackboard, then show some pictures and summarize.

Task 2. Talking

  Ask students to talk about some funny stories, any English or Chinese humors they know.

Task 3. Reading on P 17

  The purpose of the reading is to introduce the kind of verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. Then check the answer. After that, teacher can show some other jokes on the screen.

Step 3   Homework

 Ask each student to give a joke and present it in class next period.

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Reading

Teaching aims:

Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor.

Key points: Help students divide the text into several parts according to the meaning.[来源:学科网]

Difficult points: Divide the paragraphs and give the main ideas.

Teaching aids: A recorder and a projector

Teaching procedure:

 Step 1.  Revision

  Check homework: ask students to present their jokes in class.

 Step 2.  Pre-reading

  Questions: (1) What do you like to laugh at?

           (2 ) What does humor mean? Is humor always kind?

  Give students some time to discuss. The purpose is to help students know that different people have different taste about humor. It is difficult to say which one is better or which one is worse.

  Step 3. Reading

   The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humor. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humor means; what is Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.

  Task 1. Divide the text into several parts according to the meaning.

Part One: the first and the second paragraph

Part Two: the third and the fourth paragraph

Part Three: the last paragraph

  Task 2. Give the main idea of each part

    The main idea of part one: It tells us that there are two kinds of humor. One is bad, while the other can inspire people.

    The main idea of part two: It tells us something about Charlie Chaplin’s acting style and how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining.

     The main idea of part three: it gives us a short biography about CharlieChaplin.

   Task 3. Discussion

      Let students have a discussion about the text, then answer some questions.

      Questions: (1) What is behind fun?

               (2 ) Why did people like Little Tramp?

               (3 ) Do you think Charlie Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny?

Why?

 Step 4  Language points

1.content  (adj.): satisfied, happy, not wanting any more

phrases:  content with sth;  content to do sth

e.g. (1) She is quite content to stay at home looking after her children.

  (2 ) Are you content with your present salary?

 Content (n.): that which is contained in sth

 e.g. I like the style of her writing but I don’t like the content.

2.inspire sb. ( with sth.) \ inspire sth. (in sb.): To fill sb. with thoughts, feelings or aims.

e.g. His speech inspired us with hope.

3.badly off:  in a poor position, esp. financially

The opposite is “ well off”

e.g. (1) They are too badly off to have a holiday.  

  (2 ) In fact most people are better off than they were five years ago.

 Step 5  Practice[来源:Zxxk.Com]

     Finish the exercises on page 18, 19, it is a good time toconsolidate the whole content of the text and the useful words and expressions from the text. It is easy for most students to finish. So leave students several minutes to finish and check the answers by showing them on the screen.

  Step 6  Homework

Preview grammar by finishing Exercises 3, 4 on page 21.