(共32张PPT)
Understanding ideas
Unit 1 Laugh out loud!
Pre-reading: Think & Tick
Look at the pictures and tick the places where you would expect to see a clown.
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Before readingMake a predictiontitlewhat will the text be about illustration (插图)Where is the clown What is the clown doing How do the kidandwoman feel Before reading1As I approach the hospital wearing my white coat, I look just like any other doctor. That is until I put on my curly rainbow wig, big red nose, and add my name badge “Doctor Larry Laugh-Out-Loud”. …2In the middle of this particular scene I spota small girl whose ankle is twice its normal size.I speakwith the on-duty nurse, who tells me that Lara’s parents rushed her to the hospital after she fell off her bicycle. ….expositionnarrationargumentationSkim briefly the first two sentences in the first two paragraph to identify the genre(体裁) of the text.to explain, introduce…to tell a storyto argue/defendTips:根据体裁突破写作目的及主旨大意题While reading1Question 1Whatis the clown doing 2Question 2Whyis he doing this 3Question 3Howdoes he feel about it
Fast-reading: Read & Answer
This clown works in a hospital or other health care facilities. His job is to comfort, entertain and cheer up patients, their families as well as the hospital staff in order to remove their nervousness and make them feel better.
Now share what you know about clowns with the class.
Fast-reading
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
a. Which patient is in need of the clown doctor’s attention and why
b. What is a clown doctor and why did the author choose to be one
c. How does the author feel after a day’s work
d. What are the responsibilities of a clown doctor
e. How does the clown doctor help the patient
f. What does this clown doctor wear and what is his working environment like
Fast-reading
Fast-reading
a. Which patient is in need of the clown doctor’s attention and why
a-Para.2
A small girl called Lara is in need of the clown doctor’s attention, because she fell off her bicycle and spent her time crying in pain.
Fast-reading
b. What is a clown doctor and why did the author choose to be one
b-Para.3
A clown doctor is a specially trained clown who works as part of a programme known as “hospital clowning”; the clown doctor helps people (patients) by entertaining them. The author chose to be a clown doctor because of his frightening and boring experience of going to hospital when he was a kid.
Fast-reading
c. How does the author feel after a day’s work
c-Para.6
He is still wearing a big smile as he remembers all the fun and laughter of the day, because he believes that “laughter is the best medicine”.
Fast-reading
d. What are the responsibilities of a clown doctor
d-Para.4
A clown doctor visits hospitals and other health care facilities, working together with medical professionals to cheer up patients, their families and the hospital staff.
Fast-reading
e. How does the clown doctor help the patient
e-Para.5
He gets the patient’s attention by doing a magic trick — he produces the patient’s sock from out of his pocket.
Fast-reading
f. What does this clown doctor wear and what is his working environment like
f-Para.1
This clown doctor wears a white coat, a curly rainbow wig, and a big red nose. His working environment is boring and tense.
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Careful-reading
Careful-reading
CLOWN DOCTORS WANTED!
Employer
Job
The Healthy Humour Foundation
Clown Doctor (part-time)
Organise information from the passage and complete the job advertisement.
Careful-reading
visit hospitals and other 1 __________________ on a weekly basis
entertain young patients who are feeling
2 _____________________
cheer up the patients, their families and 3 _____________
sing songs, tell stories and jokes, and do 4 ____________
help make the hospital 5 _______________________
health care facilities
nervous, pain or bored
the hospital staff
magic tricks
a friendlier place to visit
Responsibilities
If you were the person responsible for recruiting clown doctors, what would you include in you advertisement
Careful-reading
Similarities
________
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Clown doctors
Medical doctors
train as actors
________________________
need medical training
________________________
Complete the diagram comparing clown doctors and medical doctors.
wear white coats
Careful-reading
Similarities
wear white coats
work in hospitals or other health care facilities
aim to make patients and their family members feel better
Differences
Clown doctors
Medical doctors
train as actors
put on curly rainbow wigs and big red noses
may have no or little medical knowledge
usually help children
cheer up patients, their families, and the hospital staff
need medical training
needn’t act as actors
usually help patients of all ages
relieve patients’ physical pain
Careful-reading
Language points
V
Important phrases
in pain
be designed for
cheer up
concentrate on
take off
穿上;戴上;增加
浏览
处于痛苦中
跌落;下降
为……所设计
使振奋;使高兴
专注于;集中精力于
脱下;起飞;突然成功
put on
look through
fall off
Important sentences
1. As I approach the hospital wearing my white coat, I
look just like any other doctor.
本句中的as引导时间状语从句,意为“当……时”;wearing my white coat作伴随状语,其逻辑主语为I,两者为主动关系。
People sit on plastic chairs uncomfortably, reading old magazines, which have been read a lot of times before.
2. People sit uncomfortably on plastic chairs, looking
through old magazines, all of which have been read
hundreds of times previously.
Paraphrase
looking through old magazines 作伴随状语,其逻辑主语为people ,两者为主动关系。
Important sentences
People sit uncomfortably on plastic chairs, looking through old magazines, all of which have been read hundreds of times previously.
all of which引导非限制性定语从句,修饰old magazines。
Important sentences
① 老师面带微笑地走进教室。
Our teacher came into the classroom, _________ (smile).
② 怀特先生有三个儿子,他们都很勇敢。(非限制性定语从句)
Mr White has three sons, ____________ are brave.
smiling
all of whom
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3. Although it’s the doctors and nurses who will treat
her injury, it’s my job to make her feel better.
Important sentences
it’s the doctors and nurses who will treat her injury是强调句式。本句的非强调句式是Although the doctors and nurses will treat her injury, it’s my job to make her feel better.
Although it’s the doctors and nurses who will treat her injury, it’s my job to make her feel better.
强调句式的结构:it + be + 强调的部分(主语 / 宾语 /状语)+ that(如果强调人,也可用who)+ 句子剩余部分
思考:强调句式的结构是什么?
是因为大雨我才迟到了。
Important sentences
It was because of the heavy rain that I was late.
用强调句式对 “I saw her yesterday in the teacher’s office” 这句话中的不同成分进行改写:
① 强调地点状语
② 强调时间状语
③ 强调宾语
It was in the teacher’s office that I saw her yesterday.
It was yesterday that I saw her in the teacher’s office.
It was her that / who I saw yesterday in the teacher’s office.
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Homework
Homework
1. Surf the Internet to get more information about the clown doctors;