必修4 Unit3 A taste of English humor 全套教案

 
Step 4. After- reading
Task 3: Ss in groups and discuss:
1.      What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?
2.      Do you want to be a humorous person? And how can you be humorous?
3.      What should we do to get success?

Period 2.  Language learning

Step 1. Revision
Ss retell the text with their own words.

Step 2. Language points
1.      find /think/ feel it + adj./n + to do sth.
We find it important to learn English well.
I feel it a great honour to be invited to the party.
 2. see sb. doing
   See sb do
   See sb done
  We saw him stealing the book from the bookstore just now.
  He saw Tom go out of the classroom yesterday afternoon.
  His neighbour saw him often beaten by his father.
 3. skin
   The purse is made of crocodile skin.
   be all skins and bones 瘦的皮包骨头
4. be cruel to
Don’t be cruel to animals.
It is cruel of sb. to do sth.
It’s cruel of America to bomb Iraq.
 5. feel /be content with sth,
   be content to do sth.
   People of the city feel content with their life.
   Mary is content to sit in front of the television all night.
6. be worse off  
be bet ter off
 7. astonish sb. with sth.
   to the astonishment of sb.
   be astonished at sth./ to do sth
   He said he could astonish us with a good result in the final exam.
   To the astonishment of the teachers, he got the first in the competition.
   The teachers were astonished at his getting the first in the competition.
   The teachers were astonished to find that he got the first in the competition.
 8. worn-out : adj. 穿破的
   Worn out vt. vi  使…耗尽; 穿破/旧，
   Cheap socks wear out quickly.
   I am worn out by the hard work.
 9. failure un.失败   cn. 失败的人或事
   His plans ended in failure.
   As a writer, he was a failure.
 10. be loved by sb. for sth
Deng Xiaoping is loved by the Chinese for his great contribution to China’s construction and social reform.
 11. star in : 担任主角
   This is an old film starred in by Charlie Chaplin.
 12. knock into
   He walked in such a hurry that he knocked into an old lady in the street.
 
Step 3 Learning about language
1.      Ss do part 1 of the discovering useful words and expressions.
2.      Ss finish part 2, 3 and 4.

Step 4. Practice
1. Ask the Ss to do Ex. 1and 2 on page 63.
2.Do Ex 3 on page 64

Period 3.  Reading

Step 1. Pre-reading
 The purpose of this reading is to introduce students to English jokes. Two kinds of jokes are shown here. The first shows now different meanings can make something amusing. This is called a “play on words”. The second kind of joke is s short funny story. Both jokes are very popular in English-speaking countries.

Step 2. Reading
Task 1: Ss read and give their own answer to the question.
Answer key for Exercise 1:
1. B   2.C  3. A

Task 2: Ss read part 2 and give their own answers to the two questions.

Step 3. Reading task (page 59)
      This reading gives Ss an opportunity to appreciate that not all special days are serious and some can be fun. April Fool’s day is a day when people play jokes on each other. The story told here is an example of a really good joke which many people in England believed.

 Task 3: Ss read the passage and answer the following questions.
1.      What do children usually do on April Fool’s Day?
2.      Why did people believe the programme Panorama?
3.      Do you think the advice that the BBC gave people who asked how to grow noodle trees was serious? Give a reason.
4.      What would you do to find out whether a story like this was true.

Task 4: Ss read and analyse the way that the BBC played this trick.
  Suggested answer:
1.      The panorama TV programme is serious and people believe it.
2.      The progrmme itself was presented in a very serious way.
3.      There were many details given in the story to make it believable.

Task 5: Ss read and think if these things are true:
1.      that pigeons follow roads and road signs when they find their way home.
2.      that the earliest football has been found in a grave dated to 1000 years ago.
3.      that earliest human paintings on cave walls are all modern fakes.
4.      that advanced computers can “talk” to each other without the aid of humans.

Period 4.  Listening and speaking

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