Unit 3 A taste of English humour优秀教案

New Senior English For China
Student’s Book 4
Unit 3 A taste of English humor
The Second Period
Teaching Aims:
Learn and master the useful words and phrases.
Let the student learn from nonverbal humor.
Train the students’ predicting, skimming and summarizing ability during reading the text.
Encourage the students to keep optimistic attitude to life, foster sense of humor and cultivate their taste.
Teaching Important Points:
Master the following phrases and words:
feel…content with, performers, astonishing, unfortunately, worse off, ordinary, bored, entertaining, throughout, homeless, moustache, failure, overcome, leather, pick out, cut off, chew, convincing, direct, star in, outstanding, Switzerland.
Enable the students to understand the text better.
Improve the students’ predicting, skimming and summarizing ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to make the students understand the text better.
How to make the students understand the following sentence.
Not that Charlie’s own life was easy！
Teaching Methods:
Playing the footage of The Gold Rush and asking the students some questions.
Scanning the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin.
Careful reading to summarize the main ideas of each paragraph.
Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids：
a multimedia classroom
the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Leading-in and Pre-reading
1. Review the content of last class (Comparing Chinese and western humor).
2. Play the footage of The Gold Rush.
Let the students think about and discuss the questions in the part of Pre-reading.
If the students can not answer the questions perfectly, the teacher should consummate the answer.
Step Ⅲ Reading
Let the students scan the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin and accomplish Comprehending One.
Suggested answers:
Born: 1889
Job: Actor
Famous character: Little tramp
Costume: moustache, large trousers, worn-out shoes, small round black hat, walking stick.
Type of acting: nonverbal humor
Died: Switzerland, 1977
Let the students carefully read the text and accomplish Comprehending Two.
Suggested answers:
Paragraph 1: A talent comedy actor
Paragraph 2: Life
Paragraph 3: Little tramp
Paragraph 4: Example
Paragraph 5: Achievement
Step Ⅳ Discussion
Accomplish Comprehending Three.
Suggested answers:
Yes, I think so. Because his poor childhood offered the experience of poor life and toughened him.
Because he brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between, and up to now no body has been able to do this better than him.
Step Ⅴ Summary and Homework
Summary: In this class, we have read a text about a famous prince of comedy—Charlie Chaplin. We have known that Chaplin is a talent performer. We should learn optimistic attitude to life from Charlie Chaplin. We also learned some words and phrases in the text.
Homework: Let the students watch one of Charlie Chaplin’s films and then work in pairs according to Comprehending Four.
Step Ⅵ The Design of Writing on the blackboard
Unit 3 A taste of English humorThe Second PeriodA Master of Nonverbal HumorMain BodyParagraph 1: A talent comedy actorParagraph 2: LifeParagraph 3: Little trampParagraph 4: ExampleParagraph 5: Achievement
Step Ⅶ Record after teaching