1、New Senior English For ChinaStudents Book 4Unit 3 A taste of English humorThe Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1. Learn and master the useful words and phrases.2. Let the student learn from nonverbal humor.3. Train the students predicting, skimming and summarizing ability during reading the text.4. Encour
2、age the students to keep optimistic attitude to life, foster sense of humor and cultivate their taste.Teaching Important Points:1. Master the following phrases and words:feelcontent with, performers, astonishing, unfortunately, worse off, ordinary, bored, entertaining, throughout, homeless, moustach
3、e, failure, overcome, leather, pick out, cut off, chew, convincing, direct, star in, outstanding, Switzerland.2. Enable the students to understand the text better.3. Improve the students predicting, skimming and summarizing ability.Teaching Difficult Points:1. How to make the students understand the
4、 text better.2. How to make the students understand the following sentence.Not that Charlies own life was easy!Teaching Methods:1. Playing the footage of The Gold Rush and asking the students some questions.2. Scanning the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin.3. Careful reading to summ
5、arize the main ideas of each paragraph.4. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1. a multimedia classroom2. the blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Leading-in and Pre-reading1. Review the content of last class (Co
6、mparing Chinese and western humor).2. Play the footage of The Gold Rush.3. 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 Reading1. Let the students scan the text
7、to get some information about Charlie Chaplin and accomplish Comprehending One.Suggested answers: Born: 1889 Job: Actor Famous character: Little trampCostume: moustache, large trousers, worn-out shoes, small round black hat, walking stick.Type of acting: nonverbal humorDied: Switzerland, 19772. Let
8、the students carefully read the text and accomplish Comprehending Two.Suggested answers: Paragraph 1: A talent comedy actorParagraph 2: LifeParagraph 3: Little trampParagraph 4: ExampleParagraph 5: AchievementStep Discussion Accomplish Comprehending Three.Suggested answers: 1. Yes, I think so. Becau
9、se his poor childhood offered the experience of poor life and toughened him.2. 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 Summary and HomeworkSummary: In this class
10、, we have read a text about a famous prince of comedyCharlie 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 Chaplins films
11、 and then work in pairs according to Comprehending Four.Step The Design of Writing on the blackboardUnit 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: AchievementStep Record after teaching4