Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

课时分配 课时 板块结合范例 Period 1&2 Warming up and Reading I Period 3 Learning about language Period 4 Reading II Period 5 Listening Period 6 Speaking and Writing

Period 1&2 Warming up and Reading I Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

humor How many kinds of humor do you know about? sketch nonverbal Warming up I – brainstorming (2m) How many kinds of humor do you know about? sketch nonverbal Mime and farce humor Verbal jokes Comedy/ tragedy Funny stories / jokes pantomime Cross talk

Chinese humorists

cross-talk Ma Ji is a well-known artist of crosstalk shows in China. His crosstalk shows always make his audience shout with laughter.

  Clowns  techniques or characteristics: My name is Bozo. I’m a clown. My job is to make people laugh without talking. I’m dressed in a funny way, always wearing bright and big clothing, a special hat and shoes. We usually wear make-up and most have a red nose, walking in a funny way and doing something silly. I love my job because we make people laugh and forget their problems.  

Mark Twain was the popular and humorous American author, He was the most famous humorous novelist in America. Mark Twain (funny stories)

Edward Lear Edward Lear (1812-1888) was an artist. (funny poems)

Although Mr. Rowan Atkinson acts different comic characters he is most famous around the world as Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean is funny because he makes funny faces, he acts silly, he seems to be quite stupid, and the things he does are strange. mime and farce

seems to be quite stupid Mr. Bean makes funny faces acts silly seems to be quite stupid Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin nonverbal

varieties of humors English humor Nonverbal Mime and farce Verbal jokes Funny stories Funny poems Chinese humors Pantomime Funny plays Cross talk Jokes Doggerel

What do you think of these performance? Pre-reading – enjoying and discussing(3m) Tell your ideas: What do you think of these performance? Do you know anybody who is good at making humour? Do you something about English humour?

Discussion: Who is he ? How much do you know about him? Can you name any famous films which he made?

Reading Reading

Reading task1: Fill in the chart. Reading-I----skimming (2m) Reading task1: Fill in the chart. Notes about Charlie Chaplin’s career. Born Died Job Type of acting Character Costume Reason for success 1889 1977 actor Mime and farce “the tramp” a poor and homeless person Large trousers, worn-out shoes and small round black hat Charming, social failure with a determination to overcome difficulties and always kind.

Reading task 2:True or false? Reading-II---- scanning(2m) Reading task 2:True or false? 1. If you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, you feel not lonely. 2.People love the character “the little champ” ,mainly for he was poor and homeless. 3.Chaplin performed how to eat a boiled shoe by vividly action and explaining. 4.In the middle of 19th century people went to California to look for gold. T F F T

Reading task 3: Find out the main idea of each part. Reading-III----intensive reading (2m) Reading task 3: Find out the main idea of each part. Part 1.( para 1) Not all humor is kind. Part 2 (para 2) Some actors can astonish us with the deep feeling they can inspire with us for a character they are playing. Part3 (para3-4) Something about Chaplin’s acting style. Part4 (para5) A short biography about Chaplin.

1. Why do people enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck? Reading-III----detailed reading (2m) Reading task 4: answer the questions 1. Why do people enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck? 2. What was Chaplin given a special Oscar for? 3. Why did people like The little Tramp?

1.Why do people enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck? Because it makes people more content with/ satisfied with their life. 2.What was Chaplin given a special Oscar for? For the contributions he made in films.

3.Why did people like The little Tramp? Because it gives people courage to overcome difficulties; Because he was always being kind even when people were unkind to him. Because he was optimism.

Not all the _______ is kind. Some Retelling (2m) Not all the _______ is kind. Some are bad, others can inspire people. Some actors can________ us with the character they are playing. Chaplin was such an actor. He became famous for using a ________ form of acting in silent films. The little tramp gives people courage to overcome_________ with his firm ____________and he is always kind even when people are________ to him. humor astonish particular difficulties determination unkind

? Discussion What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin? Discussion (4m) ? Discussion What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin? Do you want to be a humorous person? And how can you be humorous? What should we do to get success?

Homework Surf the Internet to find more information about Chaplin and you are expected to present it to your peer in the next class.

Language points for reading I

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Period 3 Learning about language Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

skin Alternative words and expressions break down food using teeth Word-consolidation-I Fill in the blanks(2m) Alternative words and expressions break down food using teeth outer covering of a body or plant the lower part or point of something be happy and satisfied with; not wanting more surprise greatly astonish in every part of throughout special, more than usual particular someone or something that is not successful failure extremely good when water is hot enough to turn into gas boil chew skin bottom content outstanding

Answer key for Exercise 2: Word-consolidation-II (2m) Answer key for Exercise 2: chew; astonished; bottom; contented; particular; throughout; failure; skin

Noun Adjective enjoyment enjoyable difficulty difficult entertainment Word-consolidation-III words formation (2m) Noun Adjective enjoyment enjoyable difficulty difficult entertainment entertaining cruelty cruel mouth mouthful honesty honest help helpful fortune fortunate

Grammar (5m) Grammar 动词-ing形式作表语、定语和宾补

动词-ing形式作表语、定语和宾补 一、动词-ing形式作表语 动名词作表语表示抽象的、一般的行为，现在分词作表语表示主语的特征、性质和状态。 我们最大的幸福是为人民服务。 Our greatest happiness is serving the people.（动名词） 我们的任务是建设社会主义。 Our task is building socialism. （动名词）

我们昨晚看的电影十分动人。 The film we saw last night is quite moving. （现在分词） 他的话很鼓舞人。 His words are encouraging. （现在分词）

常用来作表语的现在分词有astonishing, amusing, confusing, disappointing, boring, encouraging, inspiring, moving, tiring, interesting, surprising等。 全析提示：（1）动名词作表语和主语是等值关系，两者有时可以互换，句子意思不变；动名词后面可以接宾语、状语。 （2）现在分词作表语和主语不是对等关系，现在分词后面不能接宾语，但它前面可以有修饰性的副词，如very, rather等。

二、动词-ing形式作定语 动名词作定语用来说明该名词的用途，不表示名词本身的动作；现在分词作定语与所修饰的名词具有逻辑上的主谓关系，即现在分词相当于所修饰名词的谓语。 我们必须改进工作方法。 We must improve our working method. （动名词） 他们将手术台架设在一座小庙里。 They set up an operating table in a small temple.（动名词）

中国是发展中国家。 China is a developing country. （现在分词） 正在做实验的那个学生是我们的班长。 The student making the experiment is our monitor.（现在分词）

全析提示： 动名词短语不能作定语，单个的动名词可以用作定语，但仅作前置定语。 如 working method=method for working 工作方法 2. 单个分词和分词短语都可作定语，单个分词一般作前置定语，分词短语则作后置定语，相当于一个定语从句。 如：the man visiting Japan=the man who is visiting Japan 访日的那个人。

三、动词-ing形式作宾补 动名词不能作宾语补足语。现在分词作宾补表示的是正在发生的动作。例如： 我看见他正在上楼。 I saw him going upstairs. 我们看着她在过大街。 We watched her crossing the street. 我们听见她在房间里唱歌。 We heard her singing in her room。

全析提示：接现在分析作宾语补足语的动词有feel, hear, listen to, see, look at, watch, observe, notice, find, smell, set, have, keep, start, leave, get catch等。

高考链接 1. The ______ boy was last seen ______ near the bank of the lake. missing; playing B. missing; play C. missed; played D. missed; to play 解析：missing是形容词，作boy的定语，意思是“失踪的”。 was last seen playing表示被看见时正在玩。

2. Mr Smith, ______ of the ______ speech, started to read a novel. tired; boring B. tiring; bored C. tired; bored D. tiring; boring 解析：此题考查现在分词与过去分词的区别。tired, moved, interested excited等过去分词叙述的是人的本身感受；tiring, moving, interesting, exciting等现在分词叙述的是某一物或事情给予人的感受。句意为“史密斯先生对这个令人厌烦的讲话感受厌倦了，所以开始读起一本小说来”。

3. When we watched the national flag ______ in the Olympic Games on TV, we raised a cheer. rise B. being risen C. raised D. being raised 解析：本题考查分词作补语，rise是不及物动词，先排除A、B两项，国旗是被人们升起的，应该用分词的被动形式，句意为：当看到电视中奥林匹克运动会上国旗正在被升起时，我们欢呼起来。

4. He was in hospital for six months 4. He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was ______ from the outside world. cut out B. cut off C. cut up D. cut through 解析：cut out的意思是“切下；删除”。cut off意思是“切断；使(人、城镇)孤立”。cut up的意思是“切碎”。cut through的意思是“穿越”。本句的意思是：他住院六个月感到似乎与外界隔绝了。

5. We sat there, ______with what we listened to. satisfying B. to satisfy C. contented D. content 解析：本题考查动词用法。satisfied表示“感到满意的”，把A、B两项排除；content既是形容词，又是动词，be content with对……满足。

6. The boy burst into tears ______ he saw his mother. direct B. direction C. directly D. directly when 解析：本题考查direct的用法，作动词时表示“导演；指示”；作副词时表示“径直地；直接地”，作形容词时是“直接的”；而directly表示“一……就”，相当于as soon as.

Homework Make use of different learning resources to summarize the rules of v- ing forms.

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Period 4 Reading II Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

play on words … … pun tongue twisters riddles jokes Warming up----Brainstorming (2m) pun tongue twisters play on words riddles jokes … …

Pun: Policeman: You can’t park here. Driver: Why not? Policeman: Read the sign. Driver: I did. It says, “Fine for parking!” So I parked.

Tongue Twisters

How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

a funny poem--limerick There was an old man of Beijing. Who would eat almost anything. He ate and ate From anyone’s plate. But he stayed just as thin as a string.

A funny poem I saw a face in a flame of fire , I saw a tree touch the moon and higher, I saw an ant swallow a hat I saw a chicken wear a hat I saw an apple twelve feet high I saw an elephant in the sky I saw a duck run in a race

Reading How did Watson answer Holmes’ question? What happened actually?

1.How did Watson answer Holmes’ question? --I think of how short life is and how long the universe lasted. --I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is. --I think of how cold the universe is and how warm people can be in their beds. What happened actually? Someone has stolen their tent.

Homework Surf the Internet to find the information of some kinds of humor and you are expected to present it to your peer in the next class.

Language points for reading II

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Period 5 Listening Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

Listening Predicting Summary the main idea of the listening material Finish the exercise on P23 Fill in the blanks

Pre-listening----prediction (1m) 1. Predicting: + Chicken yard ?

2. the general idea of the listening text Listening----(5m) 2. the general idea of the listening text Mary made some plum jam and left some in the pan. Five days later, her husband came home and poured the jam into the chicken. Later Mary came home and found all her chickens were behaving strangely. She found that all the chickens were drunk.

3. Finish the exercise on P23 The answers to the exercise on P23 1. C 2. B 3. B

1. There were ____ _____ ____ to eat but they would make lovely______. 4. Fill in the blanks far too many 1. There were ____ _____ ____ to eat but they would make lovely______. 2. As he came into the _______ he saw a pan with ____ ____ _____ dark red porridge in it. What was it? 3. Later when Mary came home she noticed the chickens were ________ very strangely. They were ______ _______ their yard. jam kitchen what looked like behaving running around realized 4. When they went into the yard, they ______ that the ____ ______ had turned the jam into _________and the chickens were drunk. hot weather wine

Homework Finish the listening task on workbook, page 58.

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Period 6 Speaking and writing Unit 3 A taste of English Humor

Speaking

varieties of humors English humor Nonverbal Mime and farce Verbal jokes Funny stories Funny poems Chinese humors Pantomime Funny plays Cross talk Jokes Doggerel

Speaking task: Cross talk Nonverbal Jokes …… Funny stories Speaking (4m) Speaking task: Cross talk Nonverbal How many kinds of humor do we have ? Jokes …… Funny stories Mime and farce

Discussion (3m) Discussion: Task 1 Discuss with you partner and try to collect some kind of humor. Task 2 Prepare a joke according to your discussion, tell each other the joke in English and finally you can present your story to the class.

Writing

What is a logical order? First … Then… Logical order Next… Brainstorming for writing (3m) What is a logical order? First … Then… Logical order Next… Finally/At last…

Now write down your story, and you have the idea so now make a plan. Write down your story in a logic order. For each part of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happening. Then write out your story using these interesting words. Read through your story. Then show it to your partner. Let him/her suggest some new and exciting words. Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.

Homework Write out a funny story and put it into a class collection of stories.

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Language Data Bank Language points for Reading I Language points for Reading II

Language points for Reading I 1. find it… to do 发现做(某事)很…… 他发现向父母解释自己的困境是很难的。 He found _____ ____ ____ ____his difficulties to his parents. 她发现学好英语是很重要的。 She found it very important to learn English well. it hard to explain

Are you content with your work? 2. content adj. 满足的，满意的； vt. 使满足。 be content with sth /sb be content to do sth 你对你的工作满意吗？ Are you content with your work? 她带在家里照顾孩子,感到非常满足. She is quite content to stay at home looking after her children. content n. 所含之物;内容

worse off than mine 3. worse off 穷的，缺少的；境况更差。 I went to her home and found her living condition was______ _____＿＿＿＿＿. 我们不应该因为穷而叫苦连天---许多人的家境更糟。 We shouldn’t complain about being poor ---many families are much worse off. 我去她家一看，发现她的生活状况比我的更差。 worse off than mine

原形: badly off : in a poor position, esp. financially 潦倒；穷困 反义词：well off 他们贫困得根本谈不上度假。 They are too badly off to have a holiday. 实际上现在大多数人都比五年前要富裕。 In fact most people are______ _____ ____ they were five yeas ago. better off than

4. astonish vt. 使惊异；使大为吃惊。 astonish sb. 使某人惊奇 这个消息令大家惊讶。 The news astonished everybody. be astonished+ at (by) /to do/that… 被(因)……惊吓 我被那些巨大的声响吓了一条。 I was astonished at/to hear the loud sound. 他出现在宴会上，使我们感到惊讶。 We were astonished that he appeared at the party.

5.inspire sth. in sb. (=inspire sb. with sth.) 使某人产生某种感情，激发某人的某种感情。 那位父亲激发了儿子的信心。 The father inspired confidence in his son. 他经常引起我们的厌恶。 He inspires dislike in us. [问题探究]We were inspired by his inspiring speech?这句话如何翻译？ 他那令人鼓舞的演讲令我们受到鼓舞。

inspire sb. to sth./to do sth. 激励某人做某事。 老师激励我们更加努力。 The teacher inspired us to work harder. The teacher inspired us to great efforts.

6. worn-out adj. 不能再穿(用)的，穿旧的；筋疲力尽。 他常穿一件破烂不堪的大衣。 He often wears a worn-out coat.

The play is set in London. 那本小说以18世纪的巴黎为背景。 7.be set in　以……为背景。 这个戏剧的背景是伦敦。 The play is set in London. 那本小说以18世纪的巴黎为背景。 The novel is set in 18th century Paris.

8. fortunate adj. 幸运的，吉利的。 be fortunate in doing 在……方面幸运 她很幸运嫁了一个好丈夫。 She is fortunate in having a good husband. be fortunate to do sth. 幸运的能做某事 我很幸运有健康的身体。 I’m fortunate to have good health. It is fortunate that… ……是幸运的 说来幸运，他被恰好驶过的船救起。 It was fortunate that he was saved by the passing boat.

9. be caught in 遇上，被绊住，受阻。 我们遇到了交通堵塞，开会来晚了。 We were caught in a heavy traffic jam and arrived late for the meeting.

尽力做某事 尝试着做某事 10. try vt. & vi. 尝试，试行；设法；审理(案件)； try to do sth. try doing sth. 他试着用酒精擦拭那污渣。 He tried cleaning the spot with alcohol. 我要设法学会西班牙语。 I’ll try to learn Spanish. 尽力做某事 尝试着做某事

一把 一抱 一篮 一桶 11. mouthful n. 一口 -ful是一个后缀，加在名词之后，表示“充满的”。例如： 他喝了一口苦药，扮了个鬼脸。 He took a mouthful of the bitter medicine and made a face. a handful of an armful of a basketful of a bucketful of 一把 一抱 一篮 一桶

12. outstanding adj. 突出的；杰出的。例如： 显著的例子 an outstanding example 杰出人物 an outstanding person

13. wave goodbye to somebody 向某人挥手告别 我挥手向他告别。 I waved goodbye to him. 我们向老师问好。 We waved a greeting to the teacher.

Language points for Reading II whisper v. 耳语；私语；密谈。例如： whisper sth. whisper to sb. whisper sth. to sb. whisper to sb. that… whisper that… It is whispered that…

他对她耳语，以避免让别人听到。 He whispered to her so that no one else would hear. 她小声对我说她觉得很害怕。 She whispered to me that she felt very afraid. 传闻说他身患癌症。 It is whispered that he has cancer.

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