Unit-3-A-taste-of-English-humor

1、Unit 3 A taste of En glish humorAbout the本单元的中心话题是幽默”，内容涉及 幽默的种类”、什么是幽默”、喜topic and the剧演员”、喜剧”、笑话”和 文字游戏”等。语言技能和语言知识几乎都structures是围绕幽默”这一话题展开的。通过本单元的语言技能训练和阅读能力训单元话题和练，使学生领会英语国家的幽默表达。结构本单元语言功能项目是：情感。本单元语言结构项目是“-ing形式作表语、定语和宾语补语”。本单元还要求学生学习写作“幽默文：故事”。本单元共设计为十个课时，但在实际教学过程中，建议教师依据学生基础、教学条件、学校安排的因素，合理有

2、效安排课堂。Period 1 toNew words learning给学生拓展相关单词并让学生掌握重要新单词和短P eriod 3语的使用。New words,warming up的比较。这部分的目的有两个， 一是呈现本单元的话题幽默，二是为Warming Up让学生了解幽默的种类，讨论各种英语幽默及与汉语幽默and Read ing本单元Reading部分做好了铺垫。本书提供了如下两个热身设计：Warmingup by learning something about “ Humor” Warming up by watching and listening供教师选择使用。Pre-read

3、i ng课本通过两个问题，引发学生对幽默的思考，幽默不仅仅是轻松一笑，好的幽默在一笑过后发人深省，耐人寻味。本书的设计是P re-readi ng by telli ng the truth What do you like to laugh at?Reading是一篇说明文，说明了人们接受、喜欢幽默的微妙心理，同时介绍久盛不衰的喜剧之王查理卓别林以及他的代表作影片淘金记，帮助吸引学生的注意力，引起学生的极大兴趣。 教师可以参考使用本书提供的如下程序设计：Reading aloud to the recording , Reading and underlining ,Reading to i

4、dentify the topic sentence of each paragraph , Reading to decide on the type of writing and summary of the text , Reading the text to turn out a diagram, Retelling the text with the help of the table below, Reading and understanding difficult sentences , Closing down by watching a silent movieby Cha

5、rlie Chaplin。Period 4Lear ning aboutIan guage知识课Lear ning about Ian guage课本在此分为两部分，Discoveri ng useful wordsand ex pressio ns是本单元的词汇练习题，引导学生加深对新词汇的理解和记忆，同时也指导学生养成通过语境记忆词组、句型的方法；Discoveri nguseful structures是本单兀的语法练习题， 通过本单兀的学习， 要求学生熟 练掌握-ing形式作表语、定语、宾补的语法功能。教师还可以参考本书的女0下设计：Warming up by discovering

6、useful words and expressions,Learning something about the -ng form as the Attributive , Learning about the -ng form as the predicative, Learning about the -ng form as the Object CompIement, Doing exercises for consolidation, Closing down discovering 。Period 5Us ingIan guage运用课Using Ianguage教师可以按课本一步

7、曲设计上课，也可以米纳如下设计：Warming up by reading school jokes, Reading and underlining , Doing theexercise, Guided Speaking , Guided Writing Learn to write jokesClosing down by acting 。实际教学过程课时划分建议Period 1 top eriod 3New words, Warming Up,Pre-reading, Reading 禾R ComprehendingPeriod 4Lear ning about Ian guagePe

8、riod 5Using Ian guagePeriod 6Using IanguageListe ning and sp eak ingPeriod 7Using IanguageWriti ngPeriod 8RevisionSumming up and lear ning tipPeriod 9 toperiod 10Test单元测试Period 11 toperiod 12试卷讲解Teachi ngPlan教学设计Period 1(A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR)In troduct ionIn this p eriod, after the warm ing

9、up, stude nts will first be guided to read aloud to the record ing.Then they will read and un derl ine and read to ide ntify the topic sentence of each p aragra ph. Thediscourse study can also be done by students reading to decide on the type of writing andsummary of the text and readi ng the text t

10、o turn out a diagram. The text can be used for retell ingthe story.ObjectivesTo help stude nts un dersta nd the texts forms and contents and learn about English humorTo help stude nts com muni cate on the topic in focus with the words, exp ressi ons and structureslearned in this un itFocusWordsbrigh

11、te n, content, ast oni sh, en terta in, overcome, chew, convince, direct, star,gesture, slide, amuse, whis per, reactExp ressi onsup to now, badly off, p ick out, cut offPatter ns1. Do you find it funny to see some one slidi ng on a banana skin, bumpinginto some one else.2. This character was a soci

12、al failure but he was loved by all who watched thefilms for his determ in ati on in overco ming difficulties and being kind evenwhe n people were unkind to him.3. He makes it seem as if it were one of the best meals he has ever had!AidsMultimedia facilities, tap e-recorder, p hotos, diagramsProcedur

13、es“ Humor”1. Warming upWarming up by lear ning someth ing aboutWhat is “ Humor” ? Does any one of you know anythingput humor? Look at the screen and read the defi niti on of Humor from the Intern et.Humor （humour in British En glish） is the ability or quality of people, objects or situati ons to in

14、voke feeli ngs of amuseme nt in other people. The term encomp asses any form of en tertai nment or huma n com muni cati on which in vokes such feeli ngs, or which makes people laugh or feelhappy.En glish humor Exa mpleChin ese humor Examplenon verbal mime and farce （哑剧和轻喜剧）Charlie Cha plin, Mr. Bea

15、npantomime （哑剧）王景愚 funny plays （喜剧小品）陈佩撕funny stories Mark Twai nverbal jokes p lay on words, usually two lines cross talk （相声）jokes姜昆 马季funny poems Edward Lear doggerel （打油诗）Note:Humor is p articular to each culture. For exa mple, the British laugh at thi ngs that are ridiculous and enjoy parody ve

16、ry much. Chinese humor includes puns, extended cross talk between two comedia ns etc. The British also enjoys p lay on words（like puns） but they are more like short jokes.Warming up by watch ing and liste ningHi, every one! We are going to lear n about A taste of En glish humour today. Now watch the

17、 slides/pi ctures and liste n to the En glish humour po ems.Why worry?Whose job .?There are only two things to worry about:This is the story about four people namedEither you are well or you are sick.Everybody,If you are well, then there is nothing to worrySomebody, An ybody and Nobody.about.There w

18、as an imp orta nt job to be done,If you are sick, there are two things to worryand Everybody was sure that Somebody wouldabout:do it.Either you will get well or you will die.An ybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.If you get well, then there is nothing to worrySomebody got angry about that.ab

19、out.because it was Everybody s job. If you die, there are only two things to worryEverybody thought An ybody could do it,about:but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn tEither you will go to Heave n or Hell.do it.If you go to Heave n, there is nothing to worryIt en ded up that Everybody blamed Some

20、body,about.When Nobody did what Anybody could haveBut if you go to Hell, you will be so damn busydone.Shaking hands with friends, you wont havetime to worry.2. P re-readi ng by telli ng the truth What do you like to laugh at?I like to laugh at cartoons, for theyre lovely and fun.I like to laugh at f

21、airy tales. They are amus ing and in terest ing.Although we have differe nt sense of humor, it seems that the humor that all cultures enjoy isnon-verbal humor. We all laugh at the an tics of Charlie Cha pli n and Mr. Bean. It is good that wecan all laugh at someth ing together!Many years ago there l

22、ived an Emp eror who was so exceed in gly fond of fine new clothes that hespent vast sums of money on dress. To him clothes meant more tha n anything else in the world.He took no in terest in his army, nor did he care to go to the theatre, or to drive about in his statecoach, uni ess it was to dis p

23、lay his new clothes. He had differe nt robes for every sin gle hour of theday.3. Readi ng aloud to the record ingRead ing aloud to the record ing of the text imp roves our literacy skills - readi ng, writ ing, sp eak ing,and liste ning. Now pl ease liste n and read aloud to the record ing of the tex

24、t A MASTER OFNONVERBAL HUMOUR. Pay atte ntion to the pronun ciation of each word and the pausesbetwee n the thought groups.4. Reading and underliningA really useful way to help us with our listening is to become aware of thought groups When we speak, we need to divide speech up into small chunks to

25、help the listener understand messages. These chunks or thought groups are groups of words which go together to express an idea or thought. In English, we use pauses and low pitch to mark the end of thought groups.Next you are to read the text, dividing the text into thought groups and circling all t

26、he useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them into your notebook after school as homework.Collocati ons from A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOURslide on 在上滑行，bump into 不期而遇；偶然碰见；邂逅 ，round a corner在拐角处,在近处，fall down 摔倒，掉进，in the road在路面上，see other peopie s bad看别人倒霉（遭到不幸），at times时不时；经常地，fe

27、el content with 对感到满意，be worse off情况更坏；处境更糟；经济情况更不好，astonishwith以方式令人吃惊，inspire deepfeelings in sb. for 因为激发人内心深处的感情，play a character扮演一个角色，be bornin poverty 出生穷困，become famous for 因为而出名 ，use a particular form of acting 用独 特的表演方式，entertaining silent movie 令人愉快的无声影片 ，a charming character令人愉快的角色，有趣的角色

28、 ,be well known throughout the world 世界闻名,play a poor and homelessperson扮演一个贫困而无家可归的人，carry a walking stick 拄着拐杖，a social failure社会生活中的失败者，be loved by 被爱戴（热爱），overcome difficulties克服困难，be unkindto 对不友好，makeentertaining使令人愉快，a sad situation悲哀的境况，a boiledshoe 一只煮沸的鞋 ，make funny 使滑稽可笑，use non verbal hu

29、mour 不用语言表达的幽默 ，in the middle of the nineteenth century 在十 九世纪中叶，in search of 搜寻，寻找，pan for gold用淘金盘淘金，wash sand洗沙（以便得到金子），in a pan of water在淘金盘中，expect to do sth.期待做某事，pick up得到，淘到，be fortunate enough足够幸运，becaught in a snowstorm 遭遇至U暴风雪 ， on the edge of 在的边缘 ，in a small woodenhouse在一座小木屋，have nothi

30、ng to eat没有可吃的东西，so - that如此以至于boil a pair of leather shoes 煮一双皮鞋，sit down at the table 坐在桌边，pick out 挑选，选出，cut off 切下； 割下； 砍下，treat as 像一样对待 ，eat every mouthful with enjoyment,direct a movie执导一部影片，快乐地享受每一口 ，make it seem as if使它显得（好象）star in在中担任主角，give a special Osc授予奥斯卡特别奖，one s lifetin某人的一生 outsta

31、nding work 杰出的工作,live one s life i在度过一生，5. Readi ng to ide ntify the topic sentence of each p aragra phSkim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. You may find it either at the begi nning, the middle or the end of the p aragra ph.6. Clos ing dow n by readi ng and tran sferri ng

32、in formati onRead the text aga in to compi ete the table.A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOURWhat is non verbal humour?Who is Charlie Cha plin?How does he make a sad situati on en terta ining?What is the story of The Gold Rush?Facts about OscarA brief life history of Charlie Cha plinFor referenceA MASTER OF

33、 NONVERBAL HUMOURWhat is non verbal humour?Who is Charlie Cha pli n?the humor not carried out or marked by the use of words but byan ticsa popu lar comic actor in the 20th cen tury who used a p articularform of act ing, in clud ing mime and farce to in voke feeli ngs of amusement and inspire deep fe

34、elings in people for the characters he p layedHow does he make a sad by using non verbal humoursituati on en terta ining?What is the story of TheGold Rush?The Gold Rush (1925) is the qui ntesse ntial Cha plin/LittleTramp film, with a balanee of slapstick comedy andpan tomime, social satire, and emot

35、i onal and dramatic mome ntsof tenderness. It was Chaplins own personal favorite film,show ing the classic Tramp character as a roma ntic idealist andlone gold prosp ector at the turn of the cen tury, with his cane,derby, disti nctive walk, tight shabby suit, and mustache.During the Great Gold Rush

36、to Alaska, men in thousa nds camefrom all p arts of the world. Many of them were ignorant of thehardsh ips before them - The intense cold, the lack of food and ajourney through regions of ice and snow were the problemsthat awaited them.Classic scenes include the starvation scenecab in-maro oned pros

37、p ectors boili ng andstewed shoe, the teeteri ng cab in on theChaplins Ionely fantasized New Yearswaits for a girl who n ever comes.Facts about OscarA brief life history ofCharlie Cha plinof twofastidiouslyedge of aEve partyeati ng acliff, andwhen heThe Academy Awards, mostly known as Oscar, is the

38、mainnational film award in the United States of America. EachOscar statuette, manu factured in Chicago, is made from copperand ni ckel silver, and fin ally, is covered with 24-karat gold. Itdepicts a knight, ho lding a crusader s sword, standing onof film. The five sp okes of the film reel sig nify

39、the five origi nalbranches of the Academy: actors, directors, producers,tech ni cia ns and writers. Although finan cially an Oscar statuetteis not really valuable, its moral values are in estimable.The tradition of the Academy Awards dates back 71 years,whe n the first talk ing movies had just begu

40、n.Charlie Chap li n, born in Walworth, London, En gla nd on April26th, 1889, bega n his official act ing career at the age of eight.He is con sidered to be one of the most pi votal stars of the earlydays of Hollywood and is most recognized as an icon of thesile nt film era, ofte n associated with hi

41、s popu lar Little Tram pcharacter; the man with the toothbrush mustache, bowler hat,bamboo cane, and a funny walk.In 1972 he was honored with an Academy Award for hisin calculable effect in mak ing moti on p ictures the art form ofthe cen tury.Charlie Cha plin was con sidered one of the greatest fil

42、mmakersin the history of America n cin ema, whose movies were and stillare popular throughout the world, and have even gaineda reels topic (subject), purpose (whIt s possible to make a sad situation entertaining by using a particular form of acting, (para 3)By using non verbal humour, Chap li n gave

43、 a very funny p erforma nee, eati ng a boiled shoe, in The Gold Rush (para 4)no toriety as time p rogresses. His films show, through the LittleTramps po sitive outlook on life in a world full of chaos, that the huma n sp irit has and always will rema in the same.7. Going over the text to decide on t

44、he type of writ ing and summary of the textDeterm ining the type of writ ing will help you determ ine the author he is writi ng), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive.condemning, objective, etc.)Type of writ ingThis is a p iece of descri ptive writ ing.M

45、ain idea of the p assageCharlie Chap li n ast oni shes us with the dee p feeli ngs he can inspire in us for a character he is p lay ing.stMain idea of 1p aragra phIt may arouse in people a sense of satisfaction laughing at other s bad luck.Main idea of 2 nd paragraphCharlie Chap li n is such an acto

46、r as to imp ress us dee ply by using a p articular form of act in g.Main idea of 3 rd paragraphCharlie Chap li n could make a sad situati on en terta ining by using non verbal humour.Main idea of 4 th paragraphThe film of The Gold Rush, set in California where gold was discovered, is an good exa mpl

47、e of non verbal humour.Main idea of 5 th paragraphCharlie Chap li n p roduced, directed, and wrote the movies he starred in.8. Readi ng to make a diagram of the text and retelli ng the text with the help of the diagramwhy enjoying laughing at other s bad luck? (para 1)Charlie Cha plin s charm ing character The little Trampimp ressed people a great deal. (para 2)A special Oscar was given to Charlie Chaplin for his lifetime outstanding work. (para 5)8. Closing