人教新课标必修4 Unit 3 A taste of English humour[教案(3)

Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences.

b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.

Teaching important points 教学重点

Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Using pictures, discussion, reading and imitation.

Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step ⅠRevision

Have a dictation about the words and expressions that appeared in Unit 2.

Step Ⅱ Warming up

Start the new unit by showing the students a picture:

T: Look! What do you think of the picture?

Ss: It’s very funny! A wolf or a dog is jumping across the back of a sheep!

T: Yeah! It s so funny that we cannot help laughing about their acting. It makes us feel nice. Today, we are going to learn something about humour. The title is A taste of English humour. Do you know something about English humour?

S1: I’m sorry.

S2: I know an English humour.

T: Really? Please read it to us.

S2: I’ll try. One day a patient went to see his doctor. He said to the doctor: “Doctor, I see double.” The doctor said: “Sit on the chair please.” And then the patient asked the doctor: “Which one?”

T: That s really interesting! Thank you! In fact this is a kind of English humour, which we call verbal joke. Ok, here are some pictures. Look, who are they?

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