Unit 17 Laughter Lesson 1 What’s So Funny
Teaching aims:
① To help students to understand the funny stories. ② To review the Past Perfect Continuous Teaching important and difficult points: ① To master the Past Perfect Continuous Teaching procedures: Ⅰ. Warm up
Ask the students to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess what happened according to the pictures. Ⅱ. Pre-reading
Task1: Match the words with the definitions. Learn some difficult words before reading Ⅲ. Reading ⅰ. First reading
Read the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the pictures with the headlines. ⅱ. Second reading
Read the three stories and then answer the following questions: 1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50?
2. why does the girl decide to change her response when her father
asks her the second question?
3. What does the man mean when he says “Do you know who I am?” Ⅲ. Speaking
Voice your opinion: Which of the stories do you like most? Why? retell your favorite story. Do you have your funny stories? If yes, share your own funny story with the whole class. Ⅳ. Grammar
Task1: Find out the sentences with the Past Perfect Continuous tense in the text.
Task2: What is Past Perfect Continuous?
a. long activities in the past that happened before other past events: eg: She was rescued by a man who had been working in a nearby garage.
b. the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the past
eg: We had only been driving for about fifteen minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car.
c . An action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past.
eg: I had been waiting for the train for over an hour when they announced that it had been cancelled.
Task3: Exercise Finish exercise6,8 & 9 Ⅴ. Sum up Ⅵ. Homework
Unit 17 Lesson 2 Laughter Is the Best Medicine
Teaching aims:
①. To practise using listening strategies for answering multiple-choice questions
②. To practise understanding and telling jokes
③. To practise recognizing and using emphatic stress in sentences Teaching important and difficult points: To improve the student’s listening skills Teaching procedures: Ⅰ. Warm up
Have a free talk with the students How to keep healthy? Healthy diet
Enough sleep A good mood
How to keep a good mood? Ⅱ. Pre-listening
Task1: learning the news words before listening ? psychology ? beneficial ? associate with ? significantly ? physical beings ? fool around ? achieve a balance ? humor campaign ? staff
Task2 : know the background of the listening material
In recent years many studies have been done on whether laughter really can speed up the healing process. It seems that it can. The movie Patch Adams which starred Robin Williams is based on a true story about a doctor(Adam) who dressed up as a clown to cheer up his patients. Ⅲ. Listening
Task1: Listen to an interview with Dr William Fry and decide which
is the correct answer
Task2: Listen again and decide if the statements are T or F.
Task3: Listen to the joke and complete the Function File with these words. Exe7 Ⅳ. A short reading
Read the following passage. In pairs, work out the meaning of the following words and complete the text. Ⅴ. Speaking
Work in pairs. Turn to page 100 and practise telling the joke to yourself. Add articles and pronouns and words and expressions from the Function File. Ⅵ. Sum up Ⅶ. Homework
Unit 17 Lesson 3 My Favorite Comedy
Teaching aims:
①. To understand the story
②. To know some information about Rowan Atkinson ③. To paractise prepositional phrases and phrasal verbs Teaching important and difficult points:
高中英语北师大版选修六 Unit 17 Laughter 教案
