Unit3 A taste of English humour
单元教学目标
Talk about different types of humor；a taste of English humor
Learn how to express one’s emotions
Learn the –ing form as the Predicative, Attributive and Object Complement
Learn to write humorous stories

目标语言
话题 Different types of humor; a taste of English humor
词汇 1. 四会词汇：
slide, skin, cruel, content, astonish, particular, entertain, entertaining, throughout,
homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, boil, fortunate, snowstorm, chew, bottom, mouthful, direct, star, outstanding, Switzerland, fortune, swing, pancake, mountainous, whisper, vast, sense
2. 词组：
be content with, badly off, pick out, cut off, star in, knock into
功能 情感 ( Emotion )
I enjoy this very much because… It surprises me that…
I laugh at that kind of thing because… I felt happy because…
This is fun because… I’m pleased we were both amused at…
How wonderful / surprising It’s amusing that…
语法 动词的-ing 形式作表语，定语和宾语补足语的用法
Their job is “panning for gold”.
That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin.
Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin?

Period 1 Warming up and pre-reading.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1: Lead-in
Show some pictures to students, let them talk about the pictures and then ask them what they think of the pictures, whether they are funny or not.
Questions: 1) Do you know who these comedians are? What makes them funny?
2) Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?
3) Have you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them?
Step 2: Warming up
Task 1. Brain-storming
Ask students to name some types of humors they know. Write those they are not familiar with on the blackboard, then show some pictures and summarize.
Types of humor Example of English humor Chinese humor
Nonverbal Charlie Chaplin Pantomimes（哑剧）刘全和，刘全利
Mime and farce Mr. Bean Funny plays 陈佩斯，赵本山
Verbal jokes Play on words, usually Cross talk 马季， 姜昆
Funny stories Two lines Jokes
Funny poems Edward Lear Doggerel（打油诗）
Task 2. Talking
Ask students to talk about some funny stories, any English or Chinese humors they know.
Task 3. Reading on P22
The purpose of the reading is to introduce the kind of verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. Then check the answer. After that, teacher can show some other jokes on the screen.
Joke 1:
Patient: Doctor, I’ve lost my memory.
Doctor: When did this happen?
Patient: When did what happen?
Joke 2:
Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone.
Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank God.
Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God.

Step 3 Homework
Ask each student to give a joke and present it in class next period.

Period 2 Reading.
Step1 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.Fast reading.and do the true or false questions.
1).Humor is always kind. F
2).Charlie Chaplin was born in a rich family. F
3). His silent movies are not popular any more. F
4). He solved a sad situation by using nonverbal humor. T
5).He ate the shoes because he thought that it was very funny.F
6).Charlie Chaplin devoted his whole life to making films. T
Task 2. Divide the text into several parts and give the main idea of each part
Part one(1-2 ) It tells us that there are two kinds of humor. One is bad, while the other can inspire people.
Part two (3-4): It tells us something about Charlie Chaplin’s acting style and how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining.
Part three (5): it gives us a short biography about Charlie Chaplin.
Task 3. Discussion
Let students have a discussion about the text, then answer some questions.
Questions: (1) What is behind fun?
(2 ) Why did people like Little Tramp?
(3 ) Do you think Charlie Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?
Step 2 Language points:
1.Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner, or failing down a hole in the road?
……find it funny to see……中的it 在此句中是形式宾语，to see…… 才是find的宾语。当动词不定式作句子的宾语，同时，有一个形容词同宾语在一起时，我们常用it作先行宾语。
Eg: I find it difficult to understand him.
We find it useful to learn a foreign language.
slide
The book slid off my knee.
He slid over the question without answering it.
She slid out of the room when no one was looking.
bump into
Unfortunately, the motorbike ~ed ~ a big tree.
Mary was walking alone in the street when she ~ed ~ her teacher.
cruel
Don’t be ~ to animals.
The death of their daughter was a ~ blow.
2.Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else worse off than ourselves.
1)content(adj):satisfied ,happy.
常见的搭配是：be content with sth: be satisfied with sth
be content to do sth: be willing to do sth
Eg: She is content to stay at home looking after her children.
Are you content with your living conditions?
3.badly off: in a poor position. 潦倒;穷困。其反义词是well off。文中worse off是badly off的比较级形式。
eg:They are too badly off to have a holiday.
Many people are better off than before.
4. astonish
The news he brought ~ed everyone in the class.
He looked at me in ~ment.
it is ~ing to me that she was late.
5. However, some actors can astonish us with the deep feelings they can inspire in us for a character they are playing.
Inspire(vt)
~ sth in sb ---- ~ sb with sth :to fill sb with thoughts,feelings or aims 激励或鼓舞某人。
The father ~d his son with confidence.
= The father ~d confidence in his son.
这个句子中有两个定语从句：they can inspire in us修饰the deep feelings, they are playing 修饰a character。
不管怎样，有些演员能用他们所演的角色在我们身上鼓动起深深的感情来震撼我们。
cut off: to separate from others; to stop suddenly;
切断；隔离；突然中止
Eg: They cut off our food supply.
cut in插嘴 cut out 剪除；删除
cut up切碎 cut through刺穿
(名题赏析）He was in hospital for six months. He felt as
if he was __C__from the outside world.
A. cut out B. cut off C. cut up D. cut through
6.overcome 克服
eg:We should have the courage to ~ any difficulty in the world.
It is not easy to ~ a bad habit in a short time.
7.be set in
eg: The story is ~ ~ the early days of World war II.
8.mouthful
He took a ~ of the bitter medicine and made a face.
I felt so full that I couldn’t eat another ~.
basketful , handful, cupful, dishful, spoonful
9.star
Tonight, we are showing a film, ~ring Charlie Chaplin.
The director wants to ~ Jim in his film.
she has ~red in a lot of good films.

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