高中英语人教版必修四Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumourReading教案系列二.docVIP

Unit 2 Working the land Reading 教案 Teaching aims Knowledge aims: words and expressions: humour, comedy, content, performer. Astonish, fortunate, ordinary, bored, entertain, throughout, homeless, worn, failure, overcome, up to now, feel/be content with, badly off , pick out, cut off, star in. important sentences; He made people laugh at a time when they felt depressed, so they could feel more content with their lives.P1 His parents were both poor music hall performers.P2 Ability aims: 1)To do some reading to further develop Ss’ reading abilities like skimming, scanning and summarizing etc. 2) To help develop Ss’ good reading habits. Emotional aims: Enable students to learn what humor means and what nonverbal humor is. To get them to learn some noble character fro Teaching key points: 1) To help students divide the text into several parts according to the meaning. 2) To improve ss’ reading skills. Teaching difficult points: How to help develop their ability of analyzing some difficult sentences. How to help them to form a good habit of reading. How to improve their ability of outlining the main idea of the whole text or each paragraph. Teaching method: Fast reading, task-based method discussion Teaching aids: Students” learning paper, blackboard Teaching procedures： Step 1 Revision Check homework: ask students to present their jokes in class. Step 2 Pre-reading Questions: (1) What do you like to laugh at? (2 ) What does humor mean? Is humor always kind? Give students some time to discuss. The purpose is to help students know that different people have different taste about humor. It is difficult to say which one is better or which one is worse. Step 3 Reading The purpose of this reading is to introduce nonverbal humor. This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humor means; what is Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on. Task 1. Divide the text into sev