1、Warming upTeaching 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: picturesTeaching pr
2、ocedure:Step 1: Lead-inShow 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 w
3、ay?3) Have you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them? Step 2: Warming upTask 1. Brain-stormingAsk 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. Types of humor Example o
4、f English humor Chinese humorNonverbal Charlie Chaplin Pantomimes（哑剧）刘全和，刘全利Mime and farce Mr. Bean Funny plays 陈佩斯，赵本山Verbal jokes Play on words, usually Cross talk 马季， 姜昆Funny stories Two lines JokesFunny poems Edward Lear Doggerel（打油诗）Task 2. TalkingAsk students to talk about some funny stories,
5、any English or Chinese humors they know.Task 3. Reading on P22The 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 sh
6、ow some other jokes on the screen.Joke 1:Patient: Doctor, Ive lost my memory.Doctor: When did this happen?Patient: When did what happen?Joke 2:Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone.Doctor: Dont thank me. Thank God.Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God.Language points1. content【课文原句】Perhaps it
7、 makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else worse off than ourselves. (P17)【名师点拨】content adj.意为“满足的；满意的” ，be content to do 意为“乐意去做某事”；be content with sb / sth 意为“对某人或某事感到满意”，相当于be pleased with 或 be satisfied with。如：Im content to help you to set up a website on the
8、 Internet.Those who are not content with the progress they have made will have greater success.注：worse off 是 badly off 的比较级，意思是“境况比更差” ；better off 意为“境况比好” 。如：To my surprise, I found his living conditions were much worse off than mine.With the development of economy, more and more people are better
9、off.【知识拓展】content 还可作动词，意为“使满足” ；作名词时，表示 “满足；心满意足”，也可表示“（书、报纸等的）内容；目录；含量” 。如：My explanation seemed to content him.Now she began to live in peace and content.Weve discussed the unusual form of the book now, what about the content?2. astonish【课文原句】However, some actors can astonish us with the deep fee
10、lings they can inspire in us for a character they are playing. (P17)【名师点拨】astonish vt意为“使大为吃惊；使惊异 ”，比 surprise 程度强，比shock 程度弱。如：I was astonished to hear that the professor had broken down because of his hard work.I was astonished by how much shed grown.【知识拓展】(1) astonishing adj 意为“ 令人惊异的”。如：The asto
11、nishing news made the world astonished, and a great many people expressed their opinions on the Internet.(2) astonished adj指 (某人) 处于惊异、吃惊状况，常用 be astonished at sth。如：He was astonished at what Tom had said and done.(3) astonishment n.意为 “惊讶 ”，可用 to ones astonishment 表示“使某人吃惊的是”。如：To my astonishment,
12、she still remembered my birthday.3. particular【课文原句】He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce. (P17)【名师点拨】particular adj.意为“ 专指的；特别的；格外的；不寻常的 ”。be particular about / over sth 意为“对某事很讲究 / 很挑剔”。in particular意为“特别地” 。如：There was nothing in the newspaper of particu
13、lar importance.Im not particular about my clothes; I dont mind what I wear.He talked about the ball games in general and talked about football in particular.What in particular did you like about the last apartment that we saw?4. worn-out【课文原句】He played a poor and homeless person, who wore large trou
14、sers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat and carried a walking stick. (P18) 【名师点拨】worn-out adj. (1) 意为 “磨损的；损坏的；穿破的 (用坏的以至完全无用的)”。如：Since your shoes are worn-out, why not buy another pair? (2) 意为 “筋疲力尽的；耗尽的”，相当于 be tired out。如： He was worn-out after the long journey.5. failure for others, it
15、 is moral and evaluative; and for others, scientifically established. The principal uses of the term include:Descriptions of material need, including deprivation of essential goods and services, multiple deprivation, and patterns of deprivation over time. Economic circumstances, describing a lack of
16、 wealth (usually understood as capital, money, material goods, or resources especially natural resources). The meaning of “sufficient“ varies widely across the different political and economic areas of the world. In the European Union, poverty is also described in terms of “economic distance“, or in
17、equality. Social relationships, including social exclusion, dependency, and the ability to live what is understood in a society as a “normal“ life: for instance, to be capable of raising a healthy family, and especially educating children and participating in society. A person living in the conditio
18、n of poverty is said to be poor.13tramp n. A tramp is an itinerant who travels from place to place, traditionally tramping, that is, walking. While they may do odd jobs from time to time, tramps arent looking for regular work and support themselves by other means i.e. begging or theft. This is in co
19、ntrast to hobos who travel from place to place (often by stealing rides on freight trains) looking for work, or schnorrers, who travel from city to city begging. Both the terms tramp and hobo (and the distinction between them) were in common use between the 1880s and the 1940s, and were not limited
20、to the Great Depression. Schnorrer is a Yiddish term. Like hobo and bum, tramp is somewhat archaic in American English usage, having been subsumed by the more euphemistic homeless person.14failure n. Failure in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective
21、. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.15Oscar n. The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the world. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting me
22、mbership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. The most recent awards were the 77th Academy Awards.16fortune n. Fortune or fortune can refer to: Luck; Fortune magazine; The fortune Unix/Linux command; The name of a character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of L
23、iberty, a member of Dead Cell. The goddess of fortune is Fortuna (or Tyche).17sense n. whether they will be afraid of the thief and so on.There are three steps for this listening. At first let students read the questions to make sure that they know what they should do in this listening. Next, play t
24、he tape for the first time to let students finish Exercise 1. Then play the tape again and let the students finish the questions in Exercise 2. After that, let the students check their answers with each other. At last, listen to the tape again, teacher can make a pause where there is an question to
25、the question, in this way students can check all the answers.Step 3. Listening ( page 58 )There are four exercises in this listening. The first one requests students to get the general idea of the material. The second one is to ask the students to know some details of the material. The third one is
26、a question that asks the students to speculate the teachers feeling. And the last one is a good exercise, it gives the students another chance to practice their oral English.Step 4. HomeworkCollect as many funny stories as possible, do some preparations for the writing in the next period.ReadingTeac
27、hing 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.Difficult points: Divide the paragraphs and give the main ideas.Teaching aids: A recorder and a projectorTeaching procedure:Step 1. R
28、evisionCheck homework: ask students to present their jokes in class.Step 2. Pre-readingQuestions: (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
29、 humor. It is difficult to say which one is better or which one is worse.Step 3. ReadingThe 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 Chaplins style of acting; how he made
30、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 paragraphPart Two: the third and the fourth paragraphPart Three: the last paragraphTask 2. Give the main idea of each partThe main idea of part one: It tells
31、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 Chaplins acting style and how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining.The main idea of part three: it gives us a short biography about Charli
32、e Chaplin.Task 3. DiscussionLet 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 Chaplins eating boiled shoes funny? Why?Step 4 Language points 1. content (adj.): satisfied, happy,
33、not wanting any morephrases: content with sth; content to do sthe.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 sthe.g. I like the style of her writing but I dont like the content.2. inspi
34、re 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. financiallyThe 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 th
35、ey were five years ago.Step 5 PracticeFinish the exercises on page 18, 19, it is a good time to consolidate 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 HomeworkPreview grammar by finishing Exercises 3, 4 on page 20, all the exercises on page 21.