高中英语必修四：Unit 3 A taste of English humour教案3.docVIP

Unit 3 A taste of English humour The third period Using Language (Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson) Aims To help students read the paragraph of Jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Procedures I. Warming up Warming up by reading school jokes There are lots of jokes in English about school life. Read these two to see whether you will laugh or not. Why must we learn this? 为什么要学这个呀？ One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask, Why do we have to learn this pointless informationTo save lives. the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later, the same student spoke up again. So how does physics save lives? he persisted.It keeps the ignoramuses like you out of medical school, replied the professor. II. Guided reading Reading and translating Read the paragraph on page 22 and translate it into Chinese sentence by sentence. 2. Reading and underlining Next you are to read the paragph and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in it. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from the paragraph on page 22 Go camp, in a mountainous area, lie in the open air, under the stars, look up at the stars, think of…, try a third time, in one’s beds 3. Doing the exercise Now you are going to do the exercise No. 1 on page 22. III.Guided Speaking Think of funny stories in English and telll them to your group mates. IV.Guided Writing—Learn to write jokes There are two main parts to the structure of a joke. The first prepares you for the laugh by telling a story which creates a sense of expectation. The second part of the joke, the punch line, provokes laughter by telling an unexpected and different story, yet one which is still compatible with the first, as in this example: My wife just ran off with my best friend. Boy, do I miss him. and