必修四 Unit 3 A taste of English humor教案.docVIP

New Senior English For China Student’s Book 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humor The Second Period Teaching Aims: Learn and master the useful words and phrases. Let the student learn from nonverbal humor. Train the students’ predicting, skimming and summarizing ability during reading the text. Encourage the students to keep optimistic attitude to life, foster sense of humor and cultivate their taste. Teaching Important Points: Master the following phrases and words: feel…content with, performers, astonishing, unfortunately, worse off, ordinary, bored, entertaining, throughout, homeless, moustache, failure, overcome, leather, pick out, cut off, chew, convincing, direct, star in, outstanding, Switzerland. Enable the students to understand the text better. Improve the students’ predicting, skimming and summarizing ability. Teaching Difficult Points: How to make the students understand the text better. How to make the students understand the following sentence. Not that Charlie’s own life was easy！ Teaching Methods: Playing the footage of The Gold Rush and asking the students some questions. Scanning the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin. Careful reading to summarize the main ideas of each paragraph. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids： a multimedia classroom the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step Ⅰ Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step Ⅱ Leading-in and Pre-reading 1. Review the content of last class (Comparing Chinese and western humor). 2. Play the footage of The Gold Rush. Let the students think about and discuss the questions in the part of Pre-reading. If the students can not answer the questions perfectly, the teacher should consummate the answer. Step Ⅲ Reading Let the students scan the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin and accomplish Comprehending One. Suggested answers: Born: 1889 Job: Actor Famous character: Little tramp Costume: moustache, large trousers, worn-out s