Period 3.  Reading

Step 1. Pre-reading
 The purpose of this reading is to introduce students to English jokes. Two kinds of jokes are shown here. The first shows now different meanings can make something amusing. This is called a “play on words”. The second kind of joke is s short funny story. Both jokes are very popular in English-speaking countries.

Step 2. Reading
Task 1: Ss read and give their own answer to the question.
Answer key for Exercise 1:
1. B   2.C  3. A

Task 2: Ss read part 2 and give their own answers to the two questions.

Step 3. Reading task (page 59)
      This reading gives Ss an opportunity to appreciate that not all special days are serious and some can be fun. April Fool’s day is a day when people play jokes on each other. The story told here is an example of a really good joke which many people in England believed.

 Task 3: Ss read the passage and answer the following questions.
1.      What do children usually do on April Fool’s Day?
2.      Why did people believe the programme Panorama?
3.      Do you think the advice that the BBC gave people who asked how to grow noodle trees was serious? Give a reason.
4.      What would you do to find out whether a story like this was true.

Task 4: Ss read and analyse the way that the BBC played this trick.
  Suggested answer:
1.      The panorama TV programme is serious and people believe it.
2.      The progrmme itself was presented in a very serious way.
3.      There were many details given in the story to make it believable.

Task 5: Ss read and think if these things are true:
1.      that pigeons follow roads and road signs when they find their way home.
2.      that the earliest football has been found in a grave dated to 1000 years ago.
3.      that earliest human paintings on cave walls are all modern fakes.
4.      that advanced computers can “talk” to each other without the aid of humans.

Period 4.  Listening and speaking

Step 1. Warm up
Ask one of the Ss to tell the class a joke.

Step 2. Pre-listening
 This is a story that English speaking people find funny. It is the kind of story that might happen to anybody who has a farm and chickens. At first let Ss read the questions to make sure that they know what they should do in this listening.

Step 3 Listening
Task 1: Ss listen to the tape twice and finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 23.

Step 4. Speaking
Task 2: Ss in pairs think of a funny story. It can be an English story or a Chinese story. Follow the following procedure:
◆        Prepare a joke and tell your partner in English.
◆        While telling your story, use the expression on your face and some acting to help make the story as funny as you can.
◆        After telling your story to your partner, let him/her give you some advice.
◆        Then let your partner tell his/her story.
◆        Finally tell your story to the class.
 
Step 5. Listening (on page 55)
 This is a funny story for the students to enjoy. Ss should listen carefully and first try to understand the meaning.
Task 3: Ss listen to the tape twice and finish Wb Ex 1 and 2 on page 55.
Task 4: Talking
Humour make people laugh, feel happy and relaxed. Sometimes one person may find something funny while another person doesn’t find it amusing at all. So in pairs discuss with your partner what makes you laugh. Try to use the following expressions:
◆        I enjoy this very much because….
◆        It surprises me that …
◆        I laugh at that kind of thing because…
◆        This is fun because…
◆        I’m pleased we were both amused at…
◆        It is very amusing that…
◆        How wonderful /surprising!

Period 5.  Grammar:

Step 1. Warm up
  Review what the Ss have learned about –ing as the subject and Object

Step 2. The –ing form as predicative, attribute and object complement
  Predicative
1.      Seeing is believing.
2.      The music is exciting.
Attribute
1.      There is a swimming pool in our school.
2.      China is a developing country..
3.      The person translating the songs can speak seven languages.
4.      The boy standing there is a classmate of mine.
Object complement
1.      We heard her singing in her room.
2.      You can see them performing every night this week at the new theatre.
3.      We watch the children diving into the water from the diving board.

Step 3. Practice
1.      Ss finish Ex 2 ,3and 4 on page 21.
2.      Ss do Wb Ex 1 and 2 on page 56.
3.    

Choose the suitable words from the box below and fill in the blanks in the correct form: 

 1). I can’t imagine Bill________ a motorbike.
 2). Did you hear the dog downstairs _______ for most of the night?
 3). Frank is very good at telling funny jokes. He can be very ________.
 4). You can’t stop me _________ what I want.
 5). He gave me a ________ hug when he met me at theairport.
 6). Jim has really learnt very fast. She has made ________ progress.
 7). It’s been raining all day. This weather is __________.
 8). When I came out of the theatre, I noticed a group of children _________ musical instruments across the street.
 
 Keys:
 1). riding       2). barking       3). amusing     4). doing  
 5). welcoming   6). astonishing    7). depressing    8). playing

Period 6. Writing

Step 1. Pre-writing
  This exercise lets students to write a funny story.

Task 1: Ss gather information that they need and plan what they want to write.

Step 2. While-writing
Task 2: Ss write an English funny story or a Chinese one.

Writing tips:
◆        Ss make a plan
◆        Ss write down their story in a logical order:
   First … Then …. Next…. Finally / At last…
◆        For each part of the 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.
◆        Help your partner with his/ her story.
◆        Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.

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