瑞安十中 潘曉輝

一. Warming up

T: let’s begin our class. At the beginning, you will listen to a short sentence. After listening, try to follow it.

(play it for the first time)

T: Do you understand?

( play it for the second time )

T: Can you follow it? Why can’t you follow it?

Yes, it’s so fast. (Show the sentence)

How about the pronunciation? (They are similar )

So, this kind of exercises is called tongue twisters.

Now. We’ll practice more tongue twisters.

Show No.1: who’d like to try? (After the student tries)

You should speak clearly, pay attention to the pronunciation

The name Betty, 黃油 butter 苦的 bitter 更好 better

Show No.2; who’d like to try?

Pay attention where to stop.

Show No.3 who’d like to try?

Now, you have one minute to practice these tongue twisters, then we’ll have

a competition.

Time is up. Group one, any volunteer. Are you ready? Go.

(write the time on the blackboard)

二. Pre-listening

Q. How do you think of the tongue twisters?

(Interesting, fast, a little hard, make us laugh)

T: Yes, it also can make us laugh. In fact there are many ways to make people

Laugh. Laugh is one kind of happiness. If you want your life full of happiness, you should often laugh and learn to be humorous.

Now, let’s watch a short video.

( 昨天 今天 明天， 趙本山 宋丹丹)

T: humorous? In which way it makes humor? (Play on words)

The same words may have different meanings in different a situation, which makes it possible for people to play jokes or ask questions on these words for a humorous effect.

For example, look at this question, do you know the answer?

Yes, a minister. Because a minister’s job is to marry wives and husbands.

T: look at this picture. The man and the woman met in a restaurant for the first. They were having dinner and were talking happily. Suddenly the woman said “will you marry me?” Can you guess why?

T: You think out so many possibilities. You are so imaginative.

三. Listening

T; what happened on earth? Listen to the dialogue. After listening, finish these questions? Go through them first.

Q1. When the woman said, “will you marry me”, what does she mean?

A. She wants to be the man’s wife

B. She is playing a joke.

C. She wants the man to be her minister when she marries.

Q2. what idea came into the man’s mind after the talk with the woman?

A. He realized that he had already loved her.

B. He thought that the woman was crazy.

C. He thought nothing of it.

Q3. When the man says, “will you marry me”, what does he mean?

A. He wants her to attend his wedding.

B. He wants the woman to be his wife.

C. He wants to show that he is a humorous man.

T: listen again and number the pictures

(After listening) discuss with your partners to check the answer.

T: OK. Let’s check the answer. Picture 1 should be D, then C, A, E, B.

T: Now listen to the dialogue for the last time. After listening, you will have to retell the story.

( after listening) work in groups to retell the story according to the pictures and what you heard.

You can begin like this: there once was a minister who lived three villages away from a woman. One evening……

T: use the past time.

T: A humorous story? A happy love story? So in this story, we can say humor causes happiness. Humor is very important in our life. We should try to be a humorous person.

四．Speaking

T: Look at the picture. Do you think it is humourous?

Can you guess what they are doing?

( ask several students for their opinion )

T: Now work in pairs to make up a humorous dialogue.

T: Your dialogues are humorous. And who is your favorite humorous actor?

T: Zhao benshan, Stephen, …… we call this kind of actors comedians.

In the unit we are learning this week, there is a dialogue between a comedian and a journalist. Turn to page 51, read it with your partners and find the answer to this question.

What is the most important thing in a comedian’s job?

T: …… what‘s your answer?

(make people laugh, and make people think about life)

T: just now, I knew from you that many like Stephen. Do you think what Stephen’s most famous sentence in his movies is?

OK. Let’s enjoy it together.

The actor makes the film humorous by the way he speaks, his expression and his body language. Besides this, how do you think about the life after watching the video.

(we should make good use of what we have now. we should grasp the chances.

We should get well along with our classmates or we will be regrettable)

There’s another kind of actor who can make prople laugh. They make up their faces. What are they called? ( clown )

( show the pictures of clowns )

T: Every two years, the clowns from different places get together to show the topic that we are learning in this unit? What is it?

Yes, humor. What can homor do?

( They can make people laugh and make people think about our life)

These clowns get together to show homor, and they want to make people think about the life. So every there is a theme.

Look at the pictures and guess what is the topic this time?

( No war )

Q: How do you think of the theme?

五．Homework

Today’s homework is to make up a dialogue with your partners. One plays the part of a journalist and the other a circus clown. The journalist asks the clown about his work and his new show. You can refer to the questions on page 51 and the useful expressions on page 52.