Unit 3 A taste of English humour speakeng and reading教案

Unit 3 A taste of English humour
The First Period Speaking and reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇
verbal, nonverbal, mime, performer , comedy , humorous, punch line ,tramp ,throughout , homeless, moustache , worn-out , brighten , failure , optimism , overcome
b. 重点句型
Charlie Chaplin is a famous performer who is good at performing mime .
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to talk about some types of humor and humorist in China and abroad.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of humor and humorist in China and abroad.
b. Let the students listen and speak to describe the famous master.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy Charlie Chaplin
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Help the students know the story of Charlie Chaplin
Teaching methods 教学方法
Using pictures, discussion, reading
Teaching aids 教学准备
A recorder and a projector.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式
Step Ⅰwarming up
Start the new unit by showing the students some pictures
Question: who is he
Answer: he is Zhao Ben Shan
Question: what is he good at
Answer: sketch
Description : Zhao Ben Shan is a famous performer who is good at sketch.
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Question: who is he
Answer: he is Charlie Chaplin
Question: what is he good at
Answer: mime
Description: Charlie Chaplin is a famous performer who is good at mime.
Step II reading
para.3 What Charlie’s most famous character was like
describe the little tramp (1)appearance
(2) Personality
Optimism, determination helped him overcome all difficulties and he was kind.
Para.4 An example of a sad situation that he made funny
Name of the film: The Gold Rush
Time: the middle nineteenth century
Place: California
Result: failure ,underdog ,ate a pair of leather shoes
Para.5 His achievements
Oscar for his outstanding work
Question:
Why can he be so successful
Para.2 What Charlie’s childhood was like
Poor, badly off
Para.1 Why people needed cheering
Step III true or false
Read the passage again and do True or False.
1. Charlie Chaplin was poor when he was a small boy.
2. People who don’t know English cannot enjoy Chaplin’s films.
3. The Gold Rush is set in California in the late of the nineteenth century.
4. In The Gold Rush Chaplin and his friend are fortunate to find some gold.
5. In the film the meal he eats is hard to chew.
6. Chaplin not only acted in films but wrote and directed films as well.
Steps IVfill in the blanks
Notes about Charlie Chaplin’s career
Born 1889
Died 1977
Job Actor
Type of acting Mime
Character “the tramp”, a poor and homeless person
Reason forsuccess Because he has optimism and determination to overcome difficulties and he is always kind
Step V discussion
Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work Why
Yes, because he understood the problems of people who were very poor.
Step VI summary and homework
Humour is everywhere in our daily life. I hope you can be optimistic (乐观) no matter what difficulties you meet, just as Charlie Chaplin was.
1. Preview grammar by finishing Exercises on Page 21.
2. Try to write a happy ending or the film The Gold Rush.