A-taste-of-English-humour.教学设计.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Book4 Unit3 A Taste of English Humour Reading A Master of Nonverbal Humour 银川二中 陈冲 Teaching goals 1. Enable the students to understand the text. 2. Enable the students to improve their reading skills and spoken English. Teaching important point Help the students understand and enjoy English humour by Charlie Chaplin’s career. Teaching difficult point The understanding of the text. Teaching procedure Step1 Lead-in Show some funny pictures. Show some English jokes and lead in the word “humour”, “humorous” and “humorist”. Show pictures of a great Chinese humorist Zhao Benshan and a great English humorist Charlie Chaplin. Try telling the difference between Chinese humour and English humor. Show some information about Charlie and his master piece “The Gold Rush”. Step2 Reading. Para 4 1. Ask students to read the first six lines of Para 4 to get the background of the short piece of “The Gold Rush”. 2. Enjoy the part of the movie “The Gold Rush” which is mentioned in the text. 3. Finish reading the rest lines of Para 4 and fill in the blanks about how he eats the worn-out shoe with his fellow in the small hut. 1) Pick out the ______ and eat them. 2) _____ _____ the leather top of the shoe. 3)Try cutting and ________ the bottom of the shoe. Para 3 1. Show a picture of Charlie’s typical figure in his movie. Let students to describe his figure. 2. Read Para 3 and check their description. 3. Answer the question why this poor tramp could be loved by people. Because of his optimism and determination. Para 2 1. Read Para 2 and answer the questions. 1).When was he taught to sing and dance? He was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk. 2).How did he spend his childhood? He spent his childhood looking after his sick mother and his brother 3).Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off. A. richer B. earlier C. poorer D. later 4). You may find it astoni