1、New Senior English For China Student’s Book 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humor The Second Period Teaching 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
2、 the text. 4. Encourage 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: feel…content with, performers, astonishing, unfortunately, worse off, ordinary, bored, entertaining,
3、throughout, homeless, moustache, 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
4、 How to make the students understand the text better. 2. How to make the students understand the following sentence. Not that Charlie’s 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 inform
5、ation about Charlie Chaplin. 3. Careful reading to summarize the main ideas of each paragraph. 4. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids: 1. a multimedia classroom 2. the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step Ⅰ Greetings Greet the whole class as
6、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. 3. Let the students think about and discuss the questions in the part of Pre-reading. If the students can not answer the questions perf
7、ectly, the teacher should consummate the answer. Step Ⅲ Reading 1. 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 trouse
8、rs, worn-out shoes, small round black hat, walking stick. Type of acting: nonverbal humor Died: Switzerland, 1977 2. 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 tra
9、mp Paragraph 4: Example Paragraph 5: Achievement Step Ⅳ Discussion Accomplish Comprehending Three. Suggested answers: 1. Yes, I think so. Because his poor childhood offered the experience of poor life and toughened him. 2. Because he brightened the lives of Americans and British throu
10、gh 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 le
11、arn 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 humor The Second Period A Master of Nonverbal Humor Main Body Paragraph 1: A talent comedy actor Paragraph 2: Life Paragraph 3: Little tramp Paragraph 4: Example Paragraph 5: Achievement Step Ⅶ Record after teaching 4






