A taste of English humour
單 元 學(xué) 習(xí) 目 標(biāo) 導(dǎo) 航
類別 新課標(biāo)要求掌握的項目
話題 1.different types of humour
2.a taste of English humour
語言知識目標(biāo) 重點詞匯 slide skin cruel content astonish particular entertain entertaining throughout homeless worn-out failure overcome difficulty boil fortunate snowstorm bottom chew mouthful direct star(v.) outstanding Switzerland fortune swing pancake mountains whisper vast sense
詞組 be content with badly off pick out cut off star in knock into
句型 1 ….find it funny to see some one sliding on a banana skin.
2. While telling the story, use the expression on your face.
3.It happened that the flower was a new species.
4.First he picked out the laces and eats them as if they were spaghetti.
5. They are so hungry that they have to boil a pair of leather shoes in a pan and eat it.
語法 動詞的 –ing 形式作表語、定語和賓語補(bǔ)足語的用法(The –ing form as the predicative, attribute & object complement)
Their job is “panning for gold”.
That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin.
He sat down at the table with his plate and drinking cup.
Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner, or falling down a hole in the road?
功能 情感(Emotions)
I enjoy this very much because ﹍﹍
I laugh at that kind of thing because ﹍﹍
This is fun because ﹍﹍
How wonderful/surprising!
It surprises me that ﹍﹍
I’m pleased we were both amused at ﹍﹍
I felt happy because ﹍﹍
It’s amusing that ﹍﹍
情感文化目標(biāo) 1.由于中外文化的差異，不同地域和不同國家對幽默的理解、表現(xiàn)幽默的形式不同，但其實質(zhì)一樣：把缺陷和完美、荒唐和合理、愚笨和機(jī)敏等兩極對立的屬性不動聲色地積為一體，在這種對立統(tǒng)一中，見其深刻的意義或自嘲的風(fēng)貌。
2.發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默，感受幽默，讓我們的生活輕快、美好。
Period I Break through vocabulary and expressions
Teaching aims: Teach and study the language points to grasp and use them freely
I. Let’s students make a thorough inquiry before class
★重點單詞
1. prep. 遍及；貫穿 ,adv.到處、始終、全部
2．vt.&vi. 滑動，滑行 ，n.幻燈片
3．n.失敗；破產(chǎn)；不及格 _____
4.磨破的；穿舊的adj.
5．a(chǎn)dj. 突出的；杰出的；顯著的
6．Vt.&vi 克服；戰(zhàn)勝
7．a(chǎn)dj.多山的；山一般的 _______
8．特別的；特殊的，adj. adv.
9．使歡樂；款待，vt.&vi.. adj._______;n.______
10．a(chǎn)dj..困難；難點_____________;n.困難事------
11．a(chǎn)dj.滿足的；滿意的 n.________;vt._____
12. direct vt.&vi__________;n.______;n.__________
13.fortune n._________; adj._______;adv._____
14.adj.迷人的；有魅力的 ___________
15.vt. 使驚訝__________n.________;adj._____
★重點短語
1.玩文字游戲 _________ 2. knock into
3.跌倒；跌下________ 4. be cruel to
5. 情況比﹍﹍更差 _____ 6. become famous for
7.遍及全世界____________ 8 a homeless person
9.克服困難 _________ 10 be kind to
11. 以﹍﹍為背景 ___________ 12. in search of
13. 拿起 ____________ 14. cut off
15. 主演____________ 16. outstanding work
II. Make a thorough inquiry during class
Teaching aims: Master the new words and expressions.
STEP 1. Pronunciation correcting
Read after the teacher or the tape twice. Then the teacher asks the students to read words by themselves.
STEP 2.Skills in memorizing the new words
The teacher analyses the structure and usage of the new words briefly.
STEP 3.Summary
Teacher pay attention to the important ones.
STEP4.當(dāng)堂達(dá)標(biāo)
★單詞競猜
Discovering useful words and expressions(PART 1)
★單詞拼寫
1. Don’t be _________（滿足于）with your little success.
2. It’s so _________ (殘忍)of him to kill his own son.
3. It took her quite a while to buy a new dress, for she was __________(挑剔的) about clothes.
4. The traveller gave us an ____________(逗人的)talk on the journey.
5. He’s a complete ___________(失敗者)in his marriage.
6. ___________(整個)the summer and autumn he continued to go to the office work.
7. I was ____________(幸運的)to catch the train at the last minute.
8. He succeeded in his efforts to ____________(克服)his fatal weakness.
9. He’s quite amusing, and has a good _____________(感覺)of humour.
10. It’s _____________(私下地說)that he is heavily in debt.
STEP5. Homework
.Learn all the words and expressions by heart.
Suggested answer:
I.重點短語
1.play on words 2. 撞到某人身上 3.fall down 4. 對某人殘忍
5.worse off 6. 因﹍﹍而出名7.throughout the world 8. 一個無家可歸的人
9.overcome difficulties 10. 對某人仁慈 11.be set in 12. 尋找
13.pich out 14. 切斷 15.star in 16. 杰出的工作
II.單詞拼寫
1.contentsatisfied 2.cruel 3.particular 4.entertaining 5.failure
6.Throughout 7.fortunate 8.overcome 9.sense 10.whispered
Period II. Break through vocabulary and expressions
Teaching aims: Teach and study the language points to grasp and use them freely
I. Let’s students make a thorough inquiry before class.
Try to finish exercises in the studying plan by themselves.(Following)
II.Make a thorough inquiry during class
Teaching aims: Master the new words and expressions.
STEP1.Students work together;
STEP2.Teacher and students work together.
Teacher and students make o thorough inquiry for useful words and expressions through the whole unit together.
1. What does humour mean? Is humour always kind?
幽默是什么意思？ 幽默總是很友好的么？
⑴.mean v.意味著
①.Being a student means studying hard.
作為一個學(xué)生，（意味著）你要努力學(xué)習(xí)。
Success means to work hard.. Success means working hard.
成功意味著努力工作。
⑵. v.打算做……
②. What do you mean __________?
你打算把它怎樣處理？
③. We mean to call on you tomorrow.
我們打算明天看望你 。
⑶. What do did you mean by…?
該句型的意思是“你……是什么意思？”
④. What do you mean by acting like this?
你這樣做是什么意思？
⑷. be mean t for 打算給予；打算做……用
⑸. I mean就是說；我是說
⑤. What is this _________?
這準(zhǔn)備作什么用？
⑥. These rooms__________ the children’s center.
這些房間是打算用作兒童活動中心的。
【實戰(zhàn)演練】
In some parts of London ,missing a bus means_______-for another hour.
A. waiting B. to wait C. wait D. to be waiting
2. Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana skin, bumping into someone else round a corner?
你看到有人被香蕉皮滑倒或者看到有人在拐角處撞到另外一個人身上時，你會覺得滑稽可笑嗎？
(1). Do you find it easy____________ in this way?
你覺得用這種方法解決問題容易嗎?
(2). He made______ a rule___________ his exercise book carefully before handing it in.
他每次總是把練習(xí)仔細(xì)檢查一遍才交上來。
it在句中作形式主語
(3). It ‘s no use_________________.
這么早去是沒有用的。
(4). It’s important to learn English well.
學(xué)好英語很重要。
【名題賞析】
I like _____ in the autumn when the weather is clear and bright.
A. this B. that C. it D. one
3. Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else worse off than ourselves.
可能這會使我們更加滿足于生活，因為我們覺得有的人比我們更不濟(jì)。
▲make此處為動詞，“使成為，使變?yōu)椤薄３＝訌?fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)，即make+賓語+賓語補(bǔ)足語。作賓語補(bǔ)足語的可以是名詞、形容詞、省略to的不定式、過去分詞等形式。
(1). 名詞作賓語補(bǔ)足語
All work and no play makes Jack_____________.
① 只學(xué)習(xí)不玩耍聰明孩子也變傻。
(2).形容詞作賓語補(bǔ)足語
②Sit down and make yourself ______________.
請坐下讓自己舒服一下。
(3).省略to的不定式作賓語補(bǔ)足語
③He makes me___________ it.
他讓我重復(fù)一遍
④He made us work from morning to night.
他讓我們從早忙到晚。
(4).過去分詞作賓語補(bǔ)足語
⑤When I first come to America, I had a lot of difficulties making myself_____________.
我剛到紐約時，想讓人聽懂我的話很難。
⑥I am afraid I can’t make myself ____________.
恐怕別人聽不懂我的話。
【開放思維】
make up 編造，彌補(bǔ)，化妝 make up for 彌補(bǔ)，補(bǔ)償
make out 寫出，開出，辨認(rèn)出，假裝聲稱 make fun of 取笑
make a fool of 愚弄 make the beds 鋪床
make greatlittle progress取的巨大/一點兒進(jìn)步
▲ worse off是bad off的比較級，意思是“境況比……更差”。
I went to his house and found his living conditions were worse off than mine.
我到他家一看，發(fā)現(xiàn)他的生活狀況比我還差。
better off 境況比……較好
4. His entertaining silent movies are still popular today.他那逗樂的無聲電影至今也仍然愛歡迎.
▲entertain
⑴Vt.使有興趣.
⑵Vt.熱情款待
①He entertained friends at dinner.他招待朋友們吃飯.
②They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
他們比創(chuàng)作的半數(shù)小說更能使人得到快樂
entertainment n. 娛樂;文娛節(jié)目;表演會.
entertaining adj. 愉快的,有趣的; n.招待,款待.
entertainer n.. 款待者,表演娛樂節(jié)目的人,演藝人員.
5.He played a poor and homeless person, who wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat and carried a walking stick.他扮演的是個穿著長褲子,破鞋和頭頂著黑圓帽子,手里拿著拐杖的貧窮且無家可歸的人.
▲worn-out
⑴adj.磨損的,損壞的,穿破的.
①He wore a pair of worn-out shoes.他穿著一雙破鞋.
⑵筋疲力盡的,耗盡的,穿破的,用舊的.
②I was worn-out after the long journey.我在長途跋涉后感受到筋疲力盡.
▲walking stick 此處為“拐杖”，walking為動名詞作定語。
(1) a sleeping car = a car for sleeping
(2) a waiting man =a man who is waiting
(3) a sleeping child =a child who is sleeping
6..The film is set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century when gold was discovered and thousands of people rushed there in search of it.這部電影的背景是19世紀(jì)中葉的加利福尼亞州，那時（在那里）發(fā)現(xiàn)金子，成千上萬的人涌向那里去淘金子。
▲in search of; look for 尋找
①They are ________________ the lost boy in the forest.他們在森林里尋找丟失的小男孩。
②I am in search of the lost necklace in the room.我在屋子里尋找丟失的項鏈。
search of 搜尋…… search someplace for sth. 搜尋某地尋找某物
in case of 一旦；萬一 in charge of 負(fù)責(zé)；主管
in course of 在……過程中 in favour of 支持
in front of 在前邊 in need of 需要
in place of 代替 in possession of 擁有
in time of 在……時候
7.They are so hungry that they have to boil a pair of leather shoes in a pan and eat it.
他們?nèi)绱说酿囸I以至于把他們的皮鞋放在平底鍋里煮了吃。
▲ so﹍that 意為“如此……以至”，在句中引導(dǎo)結(jié)果狀語從句。 so 為副詞，后跟形容詞或副詞。
(1) I was_______________ that I can’t say a word.我如此生氣以至于我說不出一句話來。
(2) It is _________________that I dare not go out alone.外面黑的我不敢獨自外出。
(3) It is ________________that it can’t run fast.它是一只小綿羊，它不能夠跑的快。
(4) She is ______________that we all love her. ＝ She is such a good teacher that we all love her.她是一位好老師，我們都愛她。
(5) It was __________that they went shopping.那是個好天氣，他們都去購物了。
(6) They are ____________that we would like to eat them.它們是如此好的香蕉，以致我們想吃他們。
Roses need special care ______ they can live through winter.
A. because B. so that C. even if D. as
8.Then he cuts off the leather top of the shoe, treating it as if it were the finest meat.
然后他把鞋上端的皮子割下來，就像割下一塊香噴噴的肉。
▲cut off
(1) 分離，隔離
①When the city was cut off, every one knew that the total defeat was certain.當(dāng)城市被包圍時，大家都知道失敗已成定局。
(2)中斷
② they cut off our food supply.他們中斷了我們的食物供應(yīng)。
③The telephone operator cut us off.電話接線員把我們的線路切斷了。
【思維拓展】
cut across 取捷徑；走近路 cut in 插嘴
cut back 剪枝；修剪；減少；縮小；削減 cut out 剪除；切掉；割掉
cut down 砍倒；砍傷；砍死 cut up 切碎
He was in hospital for six months, He felt as if he was _________from the outside world.
A. cut out B. cut off C. cut up D. cut through
▲treat vt. 對待
①he treated me all right. 她對我還不錯。
②He treated the matter as a joke. 他把這件事當(dāng)作一個玩笑。
③Don’t treat this serious matter as a joke. 不要把這件嚴(yán)肅的事情當(dāng)作笑料。
9.Chaplin produced, directed and wrote the movies he starred in.卓別林的電影是自導(dǎo)自編自演的。
direct
(1) vt. 導(dǎo)演
① Who directed the new Indian film? 誰導(dǎo)演了這部印度大片？
(2) vt. 給予權(quán)威性指導(dǎo)
②He directed the students to answer. 他指導(dǎo)學(xué)生回答。
(3) vt. 指引
③The driver directed us to the airport. 司機(jī)給我們指引機(jī)場方向。
director n. 指導(dǎo)者；導(dǎo)演；理事 in the direction of 向……方向
direction n. 方向，方位 in all directions 向四面八方
directly adv. 直接的 under the direction of 在……指導(dǎo)下
10.I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted.我想到生命是多么得短暫而宇宙是多么得漫長。
▲think of :think about 考慮；思考
①We are thinking of going to France. 我們在考慮到法國去。
②I think of it as impossible. 我認(rèn)為這是不可能的。
【思維拓展】
not think much of 看清 think better of sb. 看中
think better of sth. 改變……念頭
think highly of 器重 think well of 重視
think little of 看不起 think poorly of 不放在眼里
think nothing of 輕視
▲last
(1) vi. 繼續(xù)；持續(xù)
①The war__________________. 戰(zhàn)爭持續(xù)了四年。
(2) 維持生命
②The patient is not expected to last much longer. 這位病人活不了多久了。
(3)耐用
③I wanted a car that ______________. 我需要一輛經(jīng)久耐用的汽車。
(4)維持
④We have enough food to___________________. 我們的食物足夠維持三天的。
(5) adj. 最后的；最遲的
⑤This is the last game of the season. 這是本賽季的最后一場比賽。
(6) 剛過去的；最近的
⑥They’ve lived in the building for the last three years. 最近三年他們一直住在這幢樓里。
(7) adv. 最終的
⑦I’m to speak last at the meeting. 我將在會中最后一個發(fā)言。
The evening news comes on at seven o’clock and ______ only thirty minutes.
A. keeps B. continues C. finishes D. lasts
11. Pay special attention to intonation and try to bring out the humorous meaning.
尤其注意語調(diào)并努力產(chǎn)生幽默的意思。
▲pay attention to
You should pay much attention to your pronunciation. 你應(yīng)該十分注意你的發(fā)音。
【歸納拓展】
belong to 屬于 according to 按照
contribute to 為……做貢獻(xiàn) devote to 獻(xiàn)身，致力于
help oneself to 自取，自用 look forward to 盼望，期待
lead to 導(dǎo)致 prefer--- to 兩者間更喜歡
refer to 提到，涉及到 relate to 與……有關(guān)
see to 照看或處理某事物 stick to 堅持，不改變或不放棄
turn to 求助于
▲bring about v. 產(chǎn)生，改變方向
①Science has brought about many changes in our life.
科學(xué)給我們的生活帶來了許多變化。
②If the wind changes, you have to bring the boat about.
風(fēng)向若改變，你也應(yīng)該改變航向。
【思維拓展】
bring about 帶來，造成 bring back 帶回來；使恢復(fù)
bring in 收莊稼，提出，引進(jìn) bring out 使顯現(xiàn)，闡明，出版
bring to 使恢復(fù)知覺 bring up 教育；培養(yǎng)；使成長；嘔吐
Can you make a sentence to ________ the meaning of the phrase?
A. show off B. burn out C. bring out D. take in
III.Summary mastering skills and important words,expressions
STEP3. 當(dāng)堂達(dá)標(biāo)
★單項選擇
1.Our supply of water has been ________ for 3 days.
A. cut off B. shut down C. cut through D. turned down
2.She is perfectly ______ to live in a hut and paint pictures all dy.
A. likely B. fit C. content D. Satisfactory
3.See what you have done! Don’t you have a ________ of right or wrong?
A. feeling B. thought C. sense D. knowledge
4. _____ that I was not in London at the time.
A. I so happened B. It so happened
C.I was happened D. It was happened
5. He was in such a hurry that he almost ________ the old man.
A. knocked at B. knocked into C. knocked off D. knocked on
6.- What’s the matter with the car?
- It looks ______ the engine couldn’t work.
A. as if B. like C. as D. that
7.Before doing shopping, you should ______ a shopping plan at home in advance.
A. pick out B. work out C. give out D. carry out
8.Though there were too many people in the waiting-room, I had little difficulty ______ my friend, Jane, a pretty model.
A. making up B. setting out C. picking out D. picking up
9.The _______ report is well worth ______.
A. encouraged; being listening to B. encouraging; listening to
C. encouraging ; listening to D. encouraging; being listening to
10.The explosion sent things _______)in all direction.
A. to fly B. flying C. fiy D. flied
11.Mr. hill is very kind and friendly ___ his students, but he is also very strict ___ them.
A. with; to B. to; with C. to; to D. with; with
STEP 4. Homework
Preview useful words and expressions.
Suggested answer
A.單元知識精講精練
1. to do with it//meant for//are meant for // A.
2. to solve the problem//it …to check//getting there early//C
3. a dull boy // comfortable //repeat // understood //understood
6. in search of
7. so angry；so dark ；such a little sheep ；so good a teacher ；such fine weather ; such nice bananas B
8. B.
10. lasted four years // would last //last three days// D
11. C.
B.單項選擇
A CD B B A B C C B B
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