北师大版（2019）选择性必修第二册 Unit 4 Humour Lesson 2 What’s So Funny精品课堂2(共29张PPT)

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Unit 4 Humour
Lesson 2 Period 1
Group Work: Share humorous things you have heard or experienced.
humorous things
Stories between your friends
Stories between your parents
Stories between your teachers
Stories of others
Stories of your own
Warming-up
Pre-listening
Group Work: Talk about your understanding of humour and what it can do for us.
psychological effects
physical effects
adj. bodily身体的
adj. of mind心理的
Pre-listening
to be hard-wired into us
to make the level of stress chemicals fall
to have an influence on one’s attitudes and feelings
to relieve tension
to make our life interesting
to relax the muscles in our body
Pre-listening
I think humour is anything that causes amusement.
I think humour is something that evokes (引起，唤起) laughter.
I think humour can help us win friends.
I think humour prolongs (延长) our life.
…
Examples: I think humour is hard-wired into us.
While-listening
1. What question does the speaker try to answer in his speech
□ What is humour
□ What kinds of humour are there
□ Why do we need humour
□ How to produce humour
2. From what aspects will he further discuss the question

□Psychological effects
□Physical effects


You will be listening to a speech about the effects of humour. Predict the answers to the questions, then listen to check.
While-listening
Listen to part 2 of the plete the list of physical effects that humour can have on our body. Then talk about them in pairs.
Firstly, laughter helps 1 relieve tension. It 2 relaxes the muscles in our body, and the effects can be felt for 3 as long as 45 minutes to the heart after a good laugh.
Also, a good laugh 4 increases the blood flow to the heart and 5 improves the function of blood vessels, which helps protect us from 6 heart disease.
Finally, when we laugh, the level of stress chemicals in our body 7 falls, and the number of immune cells in our body 8 increases. Both mean that our body is better able to 9 fight infection.
The two–way effect between smiling and mood:
While-listening
Listen to part 3. Complete the information about the two psychological effects of humour on our mind.
Far-reaching effects of humour:
It means that it will have a great influence on how we live. If we are in a bad mood, we are likely to express negative attitudes and feelings; and this makes those around us down, too. But if we always try to be positive and funny, people will enjoy our company and feel energised.
When we’re happy we naturally smile.
When we smile, even if we don’t feel like it, it can also make us feel happy.
While-listening
Using Questions to Draw Attention
Some speakers use questions from time to time to draw the audience’s attention. Then they provide answers to the questions. In this way, it helps the audience to understand the points they are making. Listen carefully to the questions and focus on the answers.
While-listening
Listen to the speech again. Write down the questions that the speaker used in his speech. Then summarise the questions that the speaker used in his speech.
What can humour do for us
According to recent research, humour has both physical and psychological effects.
Does it mean there is a relation between smiling and mood
The answer is YES.
What does “far-reaching effects” mean
It means that it will have a great influence on how we live.
While-listening
Listen to a dialogue and find out Mike’s embarrassing situation and his way to handle it.
Mike’s embarrassing situation:
He kept on getting the host’s name wrong.
His way to handle the situation:
He made humour to get people laugh at him.
He just started laughing and said, “Oh dear, one of these days I’m going to forget my own name!”
How can examples help a person to understand a situation
While-listening
Listen and plete the Talk Builder.
For example
For instance
One example of this
Talk Builder
Elaborating with Examples
1 One of the example of this is that you can use humour to get people to laugh at you.
2 For instance, if you accidentally pour coffee all over yourself, you can laugh at yourself or make a joke about it.
3 You can say, for example, “My T-shirt also wants to have a cup of coffee.”
Post-listening
Group Work: Talk about the benefits of humour based on your own experience and elaborate on them with examples.
Assignment
Organise your discussion into a short passage, and then share it in class.
Try to use as many newly-learned expressions as possible.
of
1. What is the topic of the radio interview
2. What have been discussed in the speech
3. What have you learnt from the interview
Recalling
Humour.
Why we need humour; physical effects; psychological effects.
Notes
to relieve tension 缓解焦虑
tension
n.
1.（情绪上的）紧张 a feeling of anxiety and stress
We laughed and that helped ease the tension.
我们笑了，因而使紧张的情绪缓和下来。
2. 紧张局势 a situation where people may attack each other
political tension 政治紧张
Notes
tense
adj.
1. 紧张的 nervous or worried
He is a very tense person. 他是个神经非常紧张的人。
2. 令人紧张的
The atmosphere in the meeting was getting more and more tense.
会议的气氛越来越紧张。
n. 时态
the past tense 过去时
Derivative
Notes
Complete the list of physical effects that humour can have on our body.
physical
adj.
1. 身体的
physical appearance 外貌
2. 物质的，客观存在的
the physical world 客观世界
physics 物理学
physician 物理学家；（内科）医生
Derivative
Notes
Also, a good laugh increases the blood flow to the heart and improves the function of blood vessels.
blood
n. 血
He lost a lot of blood in the accident.
他在那场事故中流了很多血。
bloody
adj.
1. 血腥的，残暴的
a bloody battle 一场血战
physics 物理学
physician 物理学家；(内科)医生
Derivative
Notes
2. 血淋淋的
to give sb a bloody nose
把某人打得鼻孔流血
bleed
vi. 流血
His head had struck the sink and was bleeding.
他的头撞到了洗脸池上，正在流血。
physics 物理学
physician 物理学家；(内科)医生
Notes
Complete the information about the two psychological effects of humour on our mind.
psychological
adj. 心理的
1. psychology 心理学
2. -ology ……学
biology 生物学 physiology 生理学
geology 地质学 sociology 社会学
physics 物理学
physician 物理学家；(内科)医生
Derivative
Notes
Far-reaching effects of humour
far-reaching
adj. 影响深远的
far-reaching consequences/changes
影响深远的后果/改变
physics 物理学
physician 物理学家；(内科)医生
adv.-doing adj.
hard-working 勤奋的 well-meaning 善意的
far-seeing 有远见的 naturally-occurring 自然发生的
Derivative
Notes
Both mean that our body is better able to fight infection.
infection
n. 感染，传染
increase the risk of infection 增加传染的危险
infect
vt. 使感染(疾病/感情) be infected with
If you are bitten by a dog, you may be infected with a terrible disease—rabies.
如果被狗咬了，你就可能会染上一种可怕的疾病——狂犬病。
She infected the children with her enthusiasm for music.
她对音乐的热爱感染了孩子们。
Derivative
Notes
Besides, when we incorporate humour as part of our life attitude, …
incorporate
vt. 把……并入，包含 to include
The new car design incorporates all the latest safety features.
新的汽车设计包括了所有最新的安全配备。
corporation n. （大）公司
cooperate vi. 合作
Derivative
Notes
After a while, somebody whispered in my ear …
whisper
vi/vt. 低语
She whispered to me that she was afraid. 她低声对我说她害怕。
n.
1. 低语
They spoke in whispers.
She spoke in a whisper.
2. 谣言 rumor
I’ve heard whispers that he’s leaving.
我听人传说他要走。
Notes
I make a joke about myself and that helped solve all the embarrassments.
embarrassment
n. 窘迫，尴尬 a feeling of being embarrassed
Much to her embarrassment, everybody had been listening to her singing.
大家一直在听她唱歌，她感到很不好意思。
embarrass v. 使尴尬
embarrassing adj. 令人尴尬的
embarrassed adj. 尴尬的
Derivative
Notes
… if you accidentally pour coffee all over yourself …
accidentally
adv. 偶然地，意外地 by accident
We met accidentally/by accident at the airport.
deliberately/on purpose 故意地
accidental adj. 偶然的，意外的
accident n. 事故，意外
Derivative
Notes
… without being rude about laughing at someone else’s expense.
expense
n. 费用，价钱
living expenses 生活费用
at great expense 花大价钱
The garden was transformed at great expense. 花园改建花了大价钱。
at sb’s expense 在某人受损的情况下，以某人为代价
He is having fun at our expense. 他在拿咱们寻开心。
Derivative
Finish Exercise 1 and 2 on P78 in your workbook.
Assignment