Unit 3 A taste of English humour
一、三维目标
I. 技能目标
▲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. 知识目标
词 汇
1. 四会词汇
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. 认知词汇
verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, Charlie Chaplin, Edward Lear, bump, poverty, charming, tramp, lace, enjoyment, Oscar, costume, Sherlock Holmes
3. 词组
be content with, badly off, pick out, star in, knock into
语 法 ▲构词法：名词与形容词之间的转化
▲动词的-ing形式作表语、定语和宾语补足语的用法（The -ing form as predicative, attribute and object complement）
重 点 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 点 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.情感目标
Enable the students to know some basic knowledge of English humour and enjoy them. Always remember that humour is particular to each culture.
IV.教学课时安排：共三课时
第一课时：归纳与《高考考试说明》的相关话题词汇，与高考完形填空和阅读理解题进行链接，进一步提升这一类文章的阅读技能。
第二、三课时：单元词汇及重点实用句型并完成本单元的语法讲解和练习。
Period 1 Topic vocabulary
Step1 Teaching content of the unit
Topic vocabulary → MET-linking → Unit vocabulary → Grammar
Step2 Vocabulary revision
mime笑剧、哑剧 farce轻喜剧、滑稽剧 cross talk相声 doggerel 打油诗 clown小丑
joke笑话 sketch小品 comedy 喜剧 humour幽默
Step3 高考链接---完形填空 （2007陕西）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项。
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（炸薯条）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 (轮流) 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 (纸巾).
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
高考链接---阅读理解(2005北京D)
Language as a System of Symbols
Of all systems of symbols(符号), 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(内在地) 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. 按要求写单词巩固练习：(活学活用名家)
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. 重点短语翻译：
1. 对…感到满意 be content with 2. 挑出；辨别出 pick out
3. 主演；担任主角 star in 4. 出身贫寒 be born in poverty
5. 切断；断绝 cut off 6. 撞上；撞见 knock into
7. 被卷入或遭遇某事 be caught in 8. 穷的；缺少的 badly off
9. 寻找 in search of 10. 在露天 in the open air
Ⅲ. 用上述所给动词（短语）的适当形式填空。
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.
知识点拓展参考《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
读写任务：阅读Unit3 Nonverbal humour（page17），然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
【写作内容】
（1）概括课文的内容要点，该部分的字数30词左右；
（2）喜剧大师卓别林，运用滑稽、夸张的动作表情，让观众在捧腹大笑之余，体会到幽默的本质。现实生活需要幽默，请根据课文以“Is a sense of humor important?”为话题，谈谈你对幽默的看法。至少包含以下的内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词。
a)幽默感有益身心； b)帮助我们和他人和睦相处； c)增加情趣，活得快快乐乐。
【写作要求】 你可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照课文材料的内容，，但不要抄袭课文材料中的句子。
参考范文：
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形式作表语、定语和宾语补足语
1. 作表语 My job is teaching. / Seeing is believing.
The story he told us is very exciting. / What he said is surprising.
2. 作定语 This is a waiting/ reading/ working room. （动名词）
The working people are really great. （现在分词）
动名词作定语表示用途。如：a sleeping car = a car (used) for sleeping
现在分词作定语表逻辑上的主谓关系。如：a sleeping child = a child who is sleeping
现在分词作定语时，表示动作正在进行或与谓语动词说表示的动作几乎同时发生。如果两个动作有先有后，应该用完成式，但现在分词的完成式一般不作定语。如：
（误）The teacher criticized the boy having broken the window.
（正）The teacher criticized the boy who had broken the window.
单个分词作定语时，放在被修饰的名词之前；分词短语作定语时，放在被修饰的名词之后，此时相当于一个定语从句。如：The man standing at the door is our English teacher. = The man who is standing at the door is our English teacher.
3. 作宾语补足语
You can see them performing every night this week at the new theatre.
You have kept me waiting a whole day.
能带现在分词作宾语补足语的动词主要有：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.