Warming up, listening, and speaking

Teaching Goals

1. Let students have fun while practicing saying tongue twisters, listening, and speaking.

2. Talk about comedians, who bring people fun with their sense of humour.

Teaching Methods

1. task-basing teaching

2. question and answer

3. group discussion

4. dialogue practicing

Teaching Tools

1. powerpoint presentation

2. tape-recorder

3. reading material hand-outs

Teaching Procedure

Step 1 Lead in

If someone is entertaining and funny, and always makes others laugh, we can say he is humorous, or he has a strong sense of humour.

In this unit, we are going to talk about humour.

Being humorous is one of the qualities that make people popular. Humour is what people, especially English speakers admire a lot.

Humour and fun can be found in languages, so when we study English, we can have fun as well. One of the two tasks of this class is to have fun while learning English. The other task is to talk about comedians, who bring people fun with their sense of humour.

Step 2 Have fun I tongue twisters

Say something funny

Try to speak fast without making mistakes!

I will give you several minutes to practise by yourselves. After that, we’ll have a competition.

1. Betty bought some butter, but the butter was bitter, so she bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.

2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

3. If white chalk chalks white on a black blackboard,

will black chalk chalk black on a white whiteboard then?

Now we will see who can speak fastest and best .For each sentence, there are 2 chances. One for the boys, and the other for the girls.

Step 3 Have FunII Listening

Listen to something funny

Before listening, let’s go through the following questions.

What was the man’s job?

He was a minister in the church

In England, who can marry couples in church?

A minister

Where did the woman ask the minister to marry her?

In a restaurant.When did he ask her to marry him?

A few days later

Now, please listen carefully, and try to find the answers to the questions.

Check the answers.

Listen to the tape once again, try to number the pictures on page 50&51.The story begins from picture 5.

What is the fun of the story?

“Marry” has two meanings: one is to become someone’s wife or husband, and the other is to perform the wedding service.

Step 4 Have fun III.Reading

read something funny.

Work in groups of four. Each group will have one copy. There are four pieces of paper in each copy. Make sure every in your group will have one piece. After you read your part, exchange yours with others. Think about and discuss on the two questions while reading.

1. Do you enjoy them? What is the fun? Try to explain simply.

2. Can the stories be translated into Chinese?

A

---- If we become engaged(訂婚), will you give me a ring?

---- Sure, what’s your phone number?

---- John says I’m pretty, Andy says I’m ugly. What do you think, Peter?

---- A bit of both. I think you’re pretty ugly.

B. Just A Minute

A woman telephoned an airplane office in New York City and asked, “How long does it take to fly to San Francisco? ” “Just a minute,” said the man who answered. “Thank you.” The woman said and hung up.

C.

Dear Dad,

$chool i$ really $well. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. I have $o much $tuff. I $imply can’t think of anything I need, $o if you like, $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.

Love, Your $on

Dear Son,

I kNOw astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep an hoNOrs student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can’t study eNOugh.

Love, Dad

D. He’s Moving

After dying in a car crash, three friends go to heaven. They are all asked the same question. “When you are lying in your casket(棺材) and friends and family are mourning(哀悼) over you, what would you like to hear them say about you?” the first guy immediately responds, “I would like to hear them say that I was one of the greatest doctors of my time, and a great family man.”The second guy says, “I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a great difference in the children of tomorrow.” the last guy thinks for a moment, and then replies, “I guess I’d like to hear them say, ‘Look, he’s moving!’ ”

Only the last one can be translated. If the others are translated into English, there’ll be no fun. The kind f humor will disappear.

So learning English can bring us fun, right?

Step 5 Speaking

Talk about comedians

In our daily life, there are people whose job is to bring people fun and make people laugh. Now let’s look at a photo. Who is he?

He is Stephen Chou. He is a comedian. The word comedian comes from comedy, which means a film or play that entertains people and makes people laugh.

Let’s have a look at some other photos of some comedians.

Charlie Chaplin.

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, who learnt a lot from Charlie Chapin.

Mr. Bean, whose expressions and gestures are always funny.

Dustin Hoffman, who is dressed like a beautiful woman in the picture.

Chen Peisi.

Ma Ji, a crosstalk comedian.

Cai Ming.

Song Dandan.

Do you like comedians? Why? Complete the sentence.

I like comedians because they _____________ (they are funny/ they bring me fun/ they make people laugh, etc.)

I don’t like comedians because they _____________

Practise the dialogue.

Now let’s listen to a dialogue between a journalist and a comedian. Think about a question:

Besides making people laugh, what do comedians do?

They make people think about life.

Now, we’ll enjoy a show by Cai Ming and Guo Da.

Did it make you laugh?

Did it make you think about life?

Please read the dialogue.

We have talked about comedians. Do you want to be comedians? Do you want to be journalists who can interview comedians?

Make up a similar dialogue.

Work in pairs. One is a journalist, and the other can choose to be Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Chou, Ma Ji or any comedian you like. You can ask and answer questions on career, experiences, purpose, success, family and so on.

Step6 revieing and conclusion

Learning a foreign language is not easy, but it can be fun as well. Enjoy it. Remember, it bring