Part 1 Analysis of this lesson

This lesson is the second period of Unit 3. and it’s a reading lesson. The purpose of this reading is to introduce the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and his excellent performance in his silent films. It plays a very important part in teaching of this unit. So if the students can learn this lesson well, it will be helpful to make the students learn the rest of this unit. They can learn more about the humor especially English humor. Such topic is related to our daily life, so it is helpful to raise learning interests of students and it will be easier to get knowledge in their laughter.

Teaching aims and demands

1. Knowledge objects

Make the students be aware of the cultural aspects of humor by learning this lesson.

2. Ability objects

Let the students realize that humor is to let people be optimistic about everything around.

3. Moral objects

① To enable the students to learn to be faced with difficulties and overcome them.

② To encourage them to keep up optimistic attitude towards life and improve their sense of humor.

Teaching key points

1. Help the students grasp the important words and phrases in the text.

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2. Help the students to learn to get information, analyze the information and understand the information from the text.

Teaching difficulties

1. How to fire the students’ enthusiasm to express their ideas.

2. To make the students know the acting style of Charlie Chaplin and understand the connotation of humor.

Part 2 Teaching theories, methods and aids

Before dealing with this lesson, I’ll do my best to carry out the following theories:

1. Make the students the real masters in class while the teacher acts as a director;

2. Let the students receive some moral education while they are learning the English language.

Teaching method:

Double activities teaching method; Question-and-answer activity teaching method; Watch-and-listen activity

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Teaching aids:

computer and the blackboard

Part 3 Teaching procedure

Step 1 Revision ( 2 minutes )

Get the students to match different types of humor that they learned in Warming-up and some names of famous comedy actors. For example, Mr. Bean and mime, Mark Twain and funny stories and so on.

This step is employed to review the words related to humor and draw the students’ attention to the topic about nonverbal humor.

Step 2 Lead-in ( 3 minutes )

Show the students a clip from the film The Gold Rush and ask them two questions:

① In this film, what was he eating? (a pair of shoes)

② Can you try to give a description on Chaplin?

(He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air as he walked.)

These questions are intended to warm up the students and think about the theme of reading. And it can also arouse the interests of the students to speak English in class on the topics they like and they are familiar with.

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Step 3 While-reading

I. Fast reading ( 5 minutes )