Teaching Objectives:
(1)Knowledge objective
Students can get the knowledge about Charlie Chaplin's life experience through reading this passage.
(2)Ability objective
①Students can improve their reading ability by skimming or scanning this passage.
②Students can talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour and then find their differences.
(3)Emotion objective
Students can realize that humour is to let people be optimistic about everything around.
Teaching Contents: This passage is an introduction about Charlie Chaplin who is a master of nonverbal humour.
Teaching Key Points:
Students can understand this passage and know about Charlie Chaplin's nonverbal humour.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to understand the differences between English and Chinese humours.
Teaching Methods:
Using pictures, group discussion, reading and imitation
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up (5 minutes)
Warm up by defining "Humour".
The teacher can ask students a question like, "What is 'Humour'? Does anyone of you know anything about Humour?" Then, the teacher will ask students to look at the screen and read the definition of Humour from the Internet. (Definition omitted.) After that, the teacher can lead students to enjoy a humourous story.
Whose job?
This is the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
(Justification: Stimulate students' curiosity about English humour and get students involved in talking about this topic.)
Step 2 Pre-reading(10 minutes)
Before reading the passage, the teacher can ask students to think and present their opinions about the topic, "Telling the truth—what do you like to laugh at?" After students' presentation, the teacher can tell students the story of
The Emperor's New Clothes.
(Justification: Through discussing the topic of "Telling the truth—what do you like to laugh at?", students' curiosity about English humour can be activated further and they will be prepared for the reading part.)
Step 3 While-reading(15 minutes)
(1)Reading aloud to the recording
The teacher can play the recording of the text and ask students to listen and read aloud to it. The students need to pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses twice and then shall read aloud together twice, too.
(2)Reading and underlining
Next the students will be asked to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. And students should copy them to their notebook after class as homework.
(3)Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph
Let students skim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. They may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph.
(4)Reading and transferring information
Read the text again to complete the table.
Nonverbal Humour
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What is nonverbal humour?
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Who is Charlie Chaplin?
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How does he make a sad situation entertaining?
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What is the story of The Gold Rush?
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Facts about Oscar
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A brief life history of Charlie Chaplin
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(5)Reading and understanding difficult sentences As students have read the text several times, they can surely tell with sentences are difficult to understand. So the students can put forward their questions concerning the difficult points at this stage.
(Justification: Students' reading ability of getting the general ideas and locating the specific inf can be trained and improved by skimming and scanning practice.)
Step 4 Post-reading(10 minutes)
The teacher asks students to discuss the most humourous story which happened in their daily life in group. After discussion the teacher asks them to recommend the most humourous story in each group, and let one student share the story with the whole class.
(Justification: Help the students have a better understanding of the topic of humour.)
Step 5 Summary and Homework (5 minutes)
Summary: To end the lesson by watching a silent humourous movie called
Making a Living by Charlie Chaplin.
Homework: Do the comprehending exercises in the workbook.
(Justification: Summary and homework are of importance for students to master the knowledge they have learned in class.)
Blackboard Design:
A Master of Nonverbal Humour
What is nonverbal humour?
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
How does he make a sad situation entertaining?
What is the story of
The Gold Rush?
Facts about Oscar
A brief life history of Charlie Chaplin