人教新课标英语必修教案-Unit 3 A taste of English humour Period 3 Extensive Reading

人教新课标英语必修教案

Period3ExtensiveReading

TheGeneralIdeaofThisPeriod

ThisperiodincludesthereadingofEnglishjokesonPage22andthereadingtaskANAPRILFOOL’SJOKE:THENOODLEHARVESTonPage59.ThereadinginUsingLanguageintroducesthekindofhumourwecanlaughat—verbaljokes.Theyusea“playonwords”tobefunny.Thereadingtasktellsusagoodjoketoldon

Thetworeadingpassagescanbegiventothestudentsasextensivereadingtasks.TheyareexpectedtoappreciateandenjoythefunbystudyingtheEnglishjokes.Andnextthestudentsareencouragedtoinvolveinagroupactivity—changethejokeintoashortplayandthenactitout.Asforthereadingtask,thestudentsareexpectedtogothroughthequestionsfollowingthepassagefirsttopredicatewhatthestoryisaboutandthenskim

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T:OK,bequick!Let’sfirstcheckyourhomework.LookatthescreenandfillinthemissingwordsandtrytoretellNotallthe_________iskind.Somearebad,otherscaninspirepeople.Someactorscan

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forusinga_________formofactinginsilentfilms.Thelittletrampgivespeoplecourageto

overcome_________withhisfirm_________andheisalwayskindevenwhenpeopleare

_________tohim.Chaplindevelopedhisownactingstyle,theoneinoneofhismostfamousfilms

_____________________________,heuses__________humourtoeata__________shoe.

Chaplinproduced,__________andwrotethemovieshe__________in.Hewasgivenaspecial

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T:Notallthehumouriskind.Somearebad,otherscaninspirepeople.Someactorscanastonishuswiththecharacterstheyareplaying.Chaplinwassuchanactor.Hebecamefamousforusingaparticularformofactingin

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silentfilms.Thelittletrampgivespeoplecouragetoovercomedifficultieswithhisfirmdeterminationandheis

S:Nowletmegoonwiththesecondparagraph.Chaplindevelopedhisownactingstyle,theoneinoneofhismostfamousfilmsTheGoldRush,heusesnonverbalhumourtoeataboiledshoe.Chaplinproduced,directedandwrotethemovieshestarredin.HewasgivenaspecialOscarforhisoutstandingwork.Heandhismoviesare

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T:Yousee,it’sagoodwaytomakesomenoteswhilereading.Itcanhelpyoutograspthegeneralideasofwhatyouarereading,andifyoulike,youcanalsosayorwritesomethingaboutwhatyouarereadingwiththehelpof

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T:OK,pleaseturntoPage22andlookatthereading.Thereadingwillsatisfyyoubyintroducingthekindofhumourwecanlaughat—verbaljokes.Theyusea“playonwords”tobefunny.I’dlikeyoutoreadthethreejokesandthenmatchthejokewiththeexplanation.Ifyoulike,youmayhaveadiscussion.Andthenwe’llcheckthe

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Ss:Yes,theyareveryfunny.We’veneverfoundthatEnglishjokessofun

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T:Good.Now,anotherjokeiswaitingforyou.PleasereadthenextjokeonPage22.Andthenfinishthequestions

T:Nowdecidewhichofthesetwokindsofjo

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S:Wemustunderstandthebackgroundofthefunnystoryatfirst,andthenwecanknowwhatahumourSherlockHolmeswas.Ithinktounderstandthiskindofjokesneedswisdomtounderstand.Wemustknowthathewasa

T:Whatyousaidisreasonable.Nowlet’slistentothetape,payattentiontotheintonation,andtrytobringoutthehumourousmeanin

T:NowI’dlikeyoutochangethejokeaboutSherlockHolmesintoashortplayandfirstactitoutingroupsofthree-Holmes,Watsonandanarrator.Trytoimitatetheintonationsothatyoucanbringoutthehumourousmeaning,andthenwewillasksomegroupstocometothefrontandacttheirplaysout,andseewhichgroupwill

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T:Excellentperformances!Thankyou.Nowwe’llgotothereadingtask,itisaveryfamousstory.Itoncemadefunofmanypeople.Nowlet’sturntoPage59.

T:Thereadingtaskgivesusanotherjoke.ThetitleisAnAprilFool’sJoke:TheNoodleHarvest.IbelievethatallofSs:

T:Now,wearegoingtoreadthetext.What

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S:IthinkthatBBCwasmakingajokewithpeople.Weknownoodleverymuch.It’simpossibletogrownoodleS:Fromthelast

T:OK,Ithinkallofyourguessesarereasonable.Nowlet’sreadthetextandmakesurewhetheryourguessesareright.Whileyouarereading,trytofindouttheanswerstothefourquestions,youmayhaveadiscussiontocheck

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S:ThereasonthatthereweresomanypeoplecaughtinisthattheyforgotthatdaywasAprilFool’sDay.Ifthey

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T:That’sright.IfIwasnotsurewhetherastorywastrueornot,Iwouldgothelibrarytocheckthefactsinan

T:OK,thisclassisfullofjoyandthinking.Ireallyshouldbeproudofyou,foryourgoodperformancesandlogicalthinking.

T:SofarwehavelearnedmuchabouthumourandappreciatedmanyEnglishjokes,andfunnystories.SoI’dlikeeachofyoutoprepareoneEnglishjokeorfunnystoryandtomorrowwewillsharetheminclasstomakeourclassmoreinterestingandlovely.Anothertaskasyourhomework,readthetextonceagainandtrytofindthesentencesinthereadingpassagewherethe-ingformisusedandtellthefunctionofeach-ingformwordorphrase.Inthenextperiod,wewilllearntheusageof-

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TheDesignoftheWritingontheBlackboard

Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumour

Period3Extensivereading

1)retellingofthetext

2.Englishverbaljokes—

3.Englishfunnystory—Sherlock&DoctorWa

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