Unit 3 A taste of English humour
一、三維目標
I. 技能目標
▲Talk about different types of humour; a taste of English humour
▲Learn how to express one’s emotions
▲Learn the -ing form as the Predicative, Attribute & Object Complement
▲Learn to write humorous stories
II. 知識目標
詞 匯
1. 四會詞匯
slide, skin, cruel, content, astonish, particular, entertain, failure, entertaining, throughout, homeless, worn-out, overcome, difficulty, boil, fortunate, snowstorm, bottom, chew, mouthful, direct, star, outstanding, Switzerland, fortune, swing, pancake, mountainous, whisper, vast, sense
2. 認知詞匯
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, Charlie Chaplin, Edward Lear, bump, poverty, charming, tramp, lace, enjoyment, Oscar, costume, Sherlock Holmes
3. 詞組
be content with, badly off, pick out, star in, knock into
語 法 ▲構詞法：名詞與形容詞之間的轉化
▲動詞的-ing形式作表語、定語和賓語補足語的用法（The -ing form as predicative, attribute and object complement）
重 點 句 子 1. 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? P17
2. Some humour can be cruel but some people seem to enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck at times. P17
3. Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is
someone else worse than ourselves. P17
重 點 句 子 4. However, some actors can astonish us with the deep feelings they can inspire in us for a character they are playing. P17
5. This character was a social failure but he was loved by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him. P18
6. Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe. P18
7. 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. P18
8. Instead they are caught on the edge of a mountain in a storm in a small wooden house, where they have nothing to eat. P18
9. You can imagine how difficult it is to chew, but he seems to eat every mouthful with great enjoyment. P18
10. Chaplin produced, directed, and wrote the movies he starred in. P18
11. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his lifetime outstanding work. P18
Ⅲ.情感目標
Enable the students to know some basic knowledge of English humour and enjoy them. Always remember that humour is particular to each culture.
IV.教學課時安排：共三課時
第一課時：歸納與《高考考試說明》的相關話題詞匯，與高考完形填空和閱讀理解題進行鏈接，進一步提升這一類文章的閱讀技能。
第二、三課時：單元詞匯及重點實用句型并完成本單元的語法講解和練習。
Period 1 Topic vocabulary
Step1 Teaching content of the unit
Topic vocabulary → MET-linking → Unit vocabulary → Grammar
Step2 Vocabulary revision
mime笑劇、啞劇 farce輕喜劇、滑稽劇 cross talk相聲 doggerel 打油詩 clown小丑
joke笑話 sketch小品 comedy 喜劇 humour幽默
Step3 高考鏈接---完形填空 （2007陜西）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出適合填入對應空白處的最佳選項。
I was having my dinner at McDonald’s one evening when so old couple slowly walked in. They 1 their meal. Took a table near the window and started 2 food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fries（炸薯條）and one drink. The man 3 the food into two halves and carefully placed one before his wife.
He took a sip（一小口）of the drink. His wife also took one and then 4 the cup down between them. “That 5 old couple! All they can 6 is one meal for the two of them,” thought I. As the man began to eat his French fries. I 7 to my feet, went over and said that I was 8 to buy another meal for them. Bet he 9 refused me and said that they made it a 10 to share everything.
11 , the lady didn’t take a bite. She sat there 12 her husband eat, and taking turns (輪流) sipping the drink, Again I 13 to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was 14 his face with a napkin (紙巾).
I could no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time. After being politely refused, I asked the lady 15 ,“Madam, why aren’t you eating? You said that you share everything. What is it that you are waiting for?” “The teeth,” she answered.
1. A. served B. requested C. collected D. ordered
2. A. carrying B. taking C. fetching D. bringing
3. A. divided B. cut C. changed D. formed
4. A. got B. settled C. set D. turned
5. A. funny B. crazy C. strange D. poor
6. A. afford B. pay C. demand D. choose
7. A. came B. struggled C. rushed D. rose
8. A. anxious B. willing C. satisfied D. quick
9. A. warmly B. proudly C. kindly D. seriously
10. A. way B. habit C. case D. model
11. A. Surprisingly B. Sadly C. Shockingly D .Bitterly
12. A. seeing B. noticing C. watching D. finding
13. A. wanted B. asked C. planned D. attempted
14. A. wiping B. touching C. bathing D. washing
15. A. curiously B. carefully C. naturally D. plainly
1~5) DBACD 6~10) ADBCB 11~15) ACBAA
高考鏈接---閱讀理解(2005北京D)
Language as a System of Symbols
Of all systems of symbols(符號), language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual(相互的) dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous systems. We call that system of agreements language.
There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.
However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections. For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature: foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said: “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,” they feel the symbol is inherently(內在地) connected in some way with the things symbolized.
1．Language is a highly developed system of symbols because human beings _________.
A．have made use of language for centuries
B．use our nervous systems to support language
C．have made various noises stand for any events
D．can make anything stand for anything by agreement
2．What can we conclude from Paragraph 2?
A．Different noise may mean different things.
B．Our culture determines what a symbol stands for.
C．The language we use symbolizes our social positions.
D．Our social positions determine the way we are dressed.
3．In Paragraph 3, “take special pains” probably means “________”.
A．try very hard B．take our time
C．are very unhappy D．feel especially painful
4 ．The example of the little boy is used to show that ___________.
A．adults often learn from their young
B．“pig” is a dirty word because pigs are dirty
C．words are not connected with the things they stand for
D．people sometimes have wrong ideas about how language works
1-4) DBAD
Period 2 Language points
Step1 Words & phrases
I. 按要求寫單詞鞏固練習：(活學活用名家)
v. enjoy n. enjoyment adj. enjoyable adj. cruel n. cruelty
n. fortune adj. fortunate adv. fortunately (反) unfortunately
v. fail n. failure n. mountain adj. mountainous
v. entertain n. entertainment adj. entertaining
adj. difficult n. difficulty v. astonish n. astonishment
II. 重點短語翻譯：
1. 對…感到滿意 be content with 2. 挑出；辨別出 pick out
3. 主演；擔任主角 star in 4. 出身貧寒 be born in poverty
5. 切斷；斷絕 cut off 6. 撞上；撞見 knock into
7. 被卷入或遭遇某事 be caught in 8. 窮的；缺少的 badly off
9. 尋找 in search of 10. 在露天 in the open air
Ⅲ. 用上述所給動詞（短語）的適當形式填空。
1. We were caught in a heavy traffic jam and arrived late for the meeting.
2. In fact, most people in that area are worse off than they were 5 years ago because of years of war.
3. He looked around as if in search of something.
4. Many presidents in American history were born in poverty.
5. Be careful! You have almost knocked into the old man.
6. Our headmaster was content with what we did in the sports meet.
7. The actress won a Special Oscar because of the character she had starred in the film.
8. Just before the beginning of the Iraq War, Baghdad’s communications with the outside had been cut off by the American troops.
9. Ten students should be picked out to take part in the competition to be held.
10. Many films are still shown in China in the open air especially in the countryside.
Step2 Important sentences (translate into Chinese)
1. 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?
2. Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is
someone else worse than ourselves.
3. Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe.
4. 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.
5. Instead they are caught on the edge of a mountain in a storm in a small wooden house, where they have nothing to eat.
知識點拓展參考《名家指路》 P125 ~ P127
1. be/feel content with sth. be content to do sth.
2. badly off ( worse off) ; worse off
3. All of my efforts ended in failure.
4. make a fortune try one’s fortune
5. catch sb. doing/ sb. be caught doing be caught in a heavy traffic/ in the shower
Step3 Homework
讀寫任務：閱讀Unit3 Nonverbal humour（page17），然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。
【寫作內容】
（1）概括課文的內容要點，該部分的字數30詞左右；
（2）喜劇大師卓別林，運用滑稽、夸張的動作表情，讓觀眾在捧腹大笑之余，體會到幽默的本質。現實生活需要幽默，請根據課文以“Is a sense of humor important?”為話題，談談你對幽默的看法。至少包含以下的內容要點，該部分的字數大約120詞。
a)幽默感有益身心； b)幫助我們和他人和睦相處； c)增加情趣，活得快快樂樂。
【寫作要求】 你可以使用實例或其它論述方法支持你的論點，也可以參照課文材料的內容，，但不要抄襲課文材料中的句子。
參考范文：
The text mainly introduces what nonverbal humor means. It tells something about Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting and how he made a sad situation. It also gives us a short biography about him.
Is a sense of humor important? Different people have different opinions. I think a sense of humor is of great importance in our life. Firstly, humor can make us laugh, which is good for our health. With a crack of jokes, all our worries and sadness will disappear. Secondly, humor helps us live in harmony with others. It is unavoidable to have misunderstanding and tension with others during work and study. But humor can amuse and relax ourselves so that we can deal with the problems. A person with a sense of humor can always get along well with others. What’s more, it is really one of the keys to happiness. So it gives joy to life to make it worth living.
Period 3 Grammar
v-ing形式作表語、定語和賓語補足語
1. 作表語 My job is teaching. / Seeing is believing.
The story he told us is very exciting. / What he said is surprising.
2. 作定語 This is a waiting/ reading/ working room. （動名詞）
The working people are really great. （現在分詞）
動名詞作定語表示用途。如：a sleeping car = a car (used) for sleeping
現在分詞作定語表邏輯上的主謂關系。如：a sleeping child = a child who is sleeping
現在分詞作定語時，表示動作正在進行或與謂語動詞說表示的動作幾乎同時發生。如果兩個動作有先有后，應該用完成式，但現在分詞的完成式一般不作定語。如：
（誤）The teacher criticized the boy having broken the window.
（正）The teacher criticized the boy who had broken the window.
單個分詞作定語時，放在被修飾的名詞之前；分詞短語作定語時，放在被修飾的名詞之后，此時相當于一個定語從句。如：The man standing at the door is our English teacher. = The man who is standing at the door is our English teacher.
3. 作賓語補足語
You can see them performing every night this week at the new theatre.
You have kept me waiting a whole day.
能帶現在分詞作賓語補足語的動詞主要有：feel, find, hear, listen to, notice, observe, see, smell, watch, get, have, keep, leave, set, etc.
Exercises:
1. There was a terrible noise following the sudden burst of light.
2. He pretend to be sleeping when his father came in.
3. Not having received a reply, he decided to write a sixth letter.
4. This is the bridge built last year.
The bridge being built now over there will be strong.
They’ve designed the bridge to be built next year.
5. I smell something burning in the kitchen. Can I call you back in a minute?
6. I couldn’t do my homework with all that noise going on.
7. Sarah, hurry up. I’m afraid you won’t have time to get changed before the party.
8. The news reporters hurried to the airport, only to be told the film stars had left.
9. I’m sorry I can’t make myself understood.
10. Faced with so much trouble, we failed to complete the task on time.