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　　Module4   Unit3    A taste of English humour
　　Teaching aims:
　　Ⅰ. Topic
　　Different types of humour; a taste of English humour
　　Ⅱ. Useful words and expressions:
　　Nouns: slide, skin, content, particular, failure, difficulty, boil, snowstorm, bottom, mouthful, Switzerland, swing, pancake, whisper, sense
　　Verbs: slide, content, astonish, entertain, overcome, boil, chew, direct, star, swing,
　　Adjectives: cruel, content, particular, homeless, worn-out, fortunate, bottom, direct, outstanding, mountainous, vast
　　Adverb: throughout, fortunately, direct
　　Expressions: be content with, be badly off, be worn out, pict, cut off, star in, knock into
　　Ⅲ. Functional items:
　　1. Expressing anxiety
　　What’s wrong?  What’s the matter with you?    Is there anything wrong?
　　2. Expressing surprise
　　Really?    Oh dear!    Is that so?    Good heaven!
　　3. Expressing pleasure
　　I’m glad /pleased/ happy to…   That’s nice /wonderful /great.
　　Ⅳ. Grammar
　　The –ing form as the predicative, attribute and 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 drinp.
　　Do you find it funny to see someone sliding on a banana smping into someone else round a corner, or falling down a hole in the road?
　　Teaching procedures
　　Period 1-2  Reading
　　Step 1. Warming up  and  Discussing:
　　1. How many kinds of humor can you think of in your daily life?
　　Types of humor:
　　English humor    Chinese humor     Nonverbal          pantomime (哑剧)
　　Mime and farce    funny plays       Verbal jokes        cross talk (相声)
　　Funny stories     funny stories       Funny poems      doggerel (打油诗)
　　2.   What’s the difference between jokes and humors?
　　3.   Can you name out some of the humorous actors you like?
　　Bacnd knowledge:
　　mime 笑剧     farce 滑稽剧   comedy 喜剧    tragedy 悲剧  opera 歌剧
　　TV play 电视剧  humor 幽默   joke 笑话    circus 马戏团  clown 小丑sketch 小品       cross talk 相声
　　Step 2. Reading
　　Task 2: Ss read and answer the following questions:
　　1. What’s the passage mainly about?
　　A. The history of English humor.
　　B. The films Chaplin made.
　　C. The humor Chaplin made in his film.
　　D. The Gold Rush in California.
　　2. How many parts can the passage be divided into?
　　A. 2         B. 3         C. 4           D.  5
　　3. People enjoy seeing other people’s bad lucse _______.
　　A. they enjoy doing so
　　B. it makes people more worried about their life
　　C. it makes people more content with their life
　　D. there’s much fun in doing so
　　4. Chaplin was given a special Oscar for __________.
　　A. the characters he played in his films     B. the films he directed