2014-2015高一英语 Unit3 A taste of English humour教案 新人教版必修4.docVIP

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Warming up 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. Types of humor Example of English humor Chinese humor Nonverbal 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 Jokes Funny poems Edward Lear Doggerel（打油诗） Task 2. Talking Ask students to talk about some funny stories, any English or Chinese humors they know. Task 3. Reading on P22 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. Joke 1: Patient: Doctor, I’ve lost my memory. Doctor: When did this happen? Patient: When did what happen? Joke 2: Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone. Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank God. Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God. Language points 1. content 【课文原句】Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else worse off than o