Teaching Plan
Topic: A Master of Nonverbal Humor
Teacher: Wang Xicheng
Learners: students from Class 3, Grade 1
Time and Date: 2019.04.26
Teaching objectives:
Knowledge objectives:
Recognize and use the new words.
Enable the Ss to learn what humor means and what nonverbal humor is.
Ability objectives:
Improve the reading skills while reading,ie, skimming and scanning as well as translating, interpreting and word guessing abilities.
Improve the critical thinking ability.
Emotional objectives:
By learning the passage, the Ss should know that humor is particular to each culture, so English humor is different from Chinese humor.
However, nonverbal humor can be appreciated by all cultures.
Learn from Chaplin and be optimistic and determined.
Main and difficult teaching points:
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humor.
Help the Ss know the difference between Chinese humor and English humor.
Teaching methods:
1.Task-based language teaching;
2.Communicative teaching method.
Teaching aid:
The multi-media computer, blackboard
Teaching procedures
Step one Lead-in
1.In order for the students to get into the topic quickly and smoothly, a piece of sketch video ‘Not short of money’ will be played for the students.
Ask Ss: Do you feel funny?
What makes you funny? Words, actions, clothes or other things?
What kind of humor do you know?(Get the Ss to talk about types of humor)
2.Look at some Chinese famous comedians and westerm ones. And then watch two videos about Chaplin.
Step two Prediction
Get the Ss to look at title A master of nonverbal humor and the pictures and then predict what the text is about.
Ask the Ss: What do you think the text is about?
Step three Skimming
Have the Ss skim through the passage, and then answer the following questions and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Who is the main character of the text? What was he famous for?
How many famous films or characters are mentioned in the text? What are the names?
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Step four Scanning
Get the SS to scan the passage quickly and then fill in the blanks about Chaplin’s information.
Step five Careful reading
Get the Ss to read the text carefully and then answer the following questions.
1. Why do people enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck?
2. Why is The Little Tramp well known ?
3. How was the little tramp dressed?
4.Why did people go to California at that time?
5. What was Chaplin given a special Oscar for?
Step six Post reading
Questions
What’s the passage mainly about?
What’s the author’s attitude to Charlie
Charplin? Why?
Acording to the main idea of each paragraph and the main idea of the passage, write a summary and then retell the text to the whole class.
Fill in the blanks.
Do you find it funny to see someone ____ on a
banana___,______into someone else round a____,
or ____down a hole in the road? If you do,you are
not____.Some humour can be____. Perhaps it
makes us feel more_____with our life because we
feel there is someone else_____ ____than
ourselves.Charlie Chaplin was born in_____in1889
and at that time films were_____. He became
famous for using a _______form of acting, including_____and____.
Discussion
What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?
What should we do to get success?
Have the Ss discuss the questions with their partners, and then give their opinions to the whole class.
Step seven Homework
Read the passage fluently.
Finish the today’s project.
课件32张PPT。Reading 人教版英语必修4A Taste of English Humour3Do you feel funny?
What makes you so funny?
Their actions? Their words? Their facial expressions?
How many kinds of humor do you know?verbalnonverbal cross talk; tongue twisters;
sketch(小品); funny stories;
jokes; limerick(五行打油诗）; mime ; farce(滑稽戏) ;
clown ；Pantomime(哑剧)Do you know some Chinese
comedians(喜剧演员）or
humorists?Chinese humoristsForeign Humorists Mr. Bean
Charlie Chaplin
picture
from
The
Gold
Rush
A master of nonverbal humour
Charlie ChaplinReadingPredictionNow look at the title A master of nonverbal humor and the pictures in the passage, and then predict what the passage is about.
SkimmingSkim through the whole passage and then find out the main idea of each paragrah.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Find out the main idea of each part.His achievements
His famous film character
The world situation
Charlie’s childhood An example of his workCareful readingRead the passage aloud and fill in the blanks and answer the following questions. (Read aloud.)
Charlie ChaplinWas born inHis job is
In 1972, he was given
Type of acting is
His charming character is
His costume:
Reasons of success:
He died in
in1889an actormime and farce.The Little Tramplarge trousers,
worn-out shoes
and small round
black hat.a special Oscar for
his outstanding
work.He could
astonish and
inspire us
skillfully.
1977Switzerland.The main character is Charlie Chaplin. He was famous for his nonverbal humour.There are two, The Little Tramp and The Gold Rush.Who is the main character of the text? What was he famous for?
2. How many famous films or characters are mentioned in the text? What are the names?Answer the questions1. Why do people enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck?
2. Why is The Little Tramp well known ?
3. How was the little tramp dressed?
4.Why did people go to California at that time?
5. What was Chaplin given a special Oscar for?
People enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck because _________.
they enjoy doing so.
it makes people more worried about their life.
it makes people more content with their life.
there’s much fun in doing so.c2. The Little Tramp is well known because ____.
Chaplin played a poor and homeless person.
The character was social failure.
Chaplin wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat and carried a walking stick.
Chaplin played a role as a man who determined to overcome difficulties and was kind even when people were unkind to him.D a small black hat a moustache a stick very wide trousersHe wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air as he walked.3.Give a description on Chaplin 4.At that time people went to California to look for __.
A. films B. gold
C. entertainment D. waterB5. Chaplin was given a special Oscar for ________.
the characters he played in his films.
the films he directed.
the joy he gave us in his films.
the contributions he made in films.DPost reading
What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The history of English humour?
B. The films Chaplin made.
C. The humour Chaplin made in his films.
D. The Gold Rush in California.
C
What’s the author’s attitude to Charlie
Chaplin? Why?
A. positive B. negative
C. serious D appreciative(欣赏的)DSince we have read the whole passage,
A master of nonverbal humor, according to
the main idea of each paragraph, summarize
the text and then retell it to the whole class.SummaryThe main idea of each paragraphPara 1-The world situation
Para 2-Charlie’s childhood
Para 3-His famous film character
Para 4-An example of his work
Para 5-His achievements
What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?
What should we do to get success?
(Discuss the questions with your deskmate.Working with your deskmates, make up a dialogue.(Using the following tips.)
Discussion? Set up an aim
Do our best
Pay more time than others
Never give up/ lose heart
Insist on what we pursue(追求）
We should be optimistic(乐观) no matter what
difficulties you meet with, just as Charlie
Chaplin was.
ConclusionToday we have learned something about humor. Humor is everywhere in our daily life. I hope you can be optimistic(乐观) no matter what difficulties you meet with, just as
Charlie Chaplin was.homework1. Remember the new words in the
text.
2. Surf the Internet to find more
information about Chaplin and you
are expected to present it to your
peer in the next class.
Thank you!2019.04.26
