Unit3---AMaster of Nonverbal Humour.docVIP

Unit3---A Master of Nonverbal Humour The Second Period Reading Teaching aims: 1.Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor. 2.To introduce the life and work of Charlie Chaplin. 3.To introduce the kind of humour we can all laugh at ---nonverbal humour 4.To train the students’ reading and understanding ability Difficult points: Find out the main ideas of every paragraph. Teaching aids: A recorder and a projector, multimedia Teaching procedure: Step 1. Greetings and Revision Check homework: ask students to review what we learned in last period. Step 2. Pre-reading (通过展示几幅幽默图片，使课堂气氛活跃了起来，一下子调动了学生的积极性，然后顺势导入本课的主人公---Charlie Chaplin) Questions: 1.What do you know about Charlie Chaplin? 2.What do you know about his films? Step 3 Reading Task 1 :find out the main information about Charlie Chaplin 1)Born:___________________________________ 2)job:______________________________________________ 3)Famous character:_________________________________ 4)Costume:__________________________________________ 5)Type of acting:_____________________________________ 6) Died:_____________________________________________ Task 2: Listen to the tape of the passage and match the main idea with each part. Para1 1. Charlie’s childhood Para2 2. His famous character (角色） Para3 3. The Charlie Chaplin’s laughter (笑声） Para4 4. His achievements Para5 5. An example of his work Task 3: Answer the following questions: 1. What’s the passage mainly about? A. The history of English humour? B. The films Chaplin made. C. The humour Chaplin made in his films. D. The Gold Rush in Alaska. 2. When and where is the film The Gold Rush set in? A. it is set in California at the end of the nineteenth century. B. it is set in Canada at the end of the n