Unit 20　Humour

      unit 20　humour
i..teaching goals:
1.talk about humour and comedians.
2.practise saying tongue twisters.
3.express intentions and plans.
4.use the-ing form (1) as the attribute and object complement.
5.write a funny story or joke in english.
ⅱ.teaching time:
four periods
the first period
teaching aims:
1.practise saying tongue twisters.
2.do some listening.
3.talk about intentions and plans.
4.learn and master the new words and expressions of this part.
teaching important points:
1.improve the students' listening ability by listening.
2.improve the students' speaking ability by making up dialogues.
3.let the students master how to impress their intentions and plans.
teaching difficult points:
1.make dialogues to express their ideas.
2.say tongue twisters fluently.
teaching methods:
1.listening and speaking methods to improve the students' listening and speaking ability.
2.pair work or group work to make every student active in class activities.
teaching aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a projector and some slides
3.a computer for multimedia use
teaching procedures:
step ⅰ.greetings and revision
t:good morning, everyone.
ss:good morning, teacher.
t:sit down,please.in the last period,i told you to make sentences with the expressions of unit 19 and say them in groups.in this period,i'll ask some students to say their sentences again before class.please listen to them carefully.wang fei,read your sentences,please.
step ⅱ.preparation for listening and speaking
t:today,we're going to learn a new unit unit 20,humour.(teacher writes the following on the blackboard:unit 20,humour,the first period.)from the title,we can guess that this unit will be much more interesting,for every one of us likes fun,and every fun makes us happy and gay.i hope you'll be interested in this unit.first,let's learn the new words and expressions of this period.look at the screen.
t：look at the first word:twister.read after me:“twister”.(read it twice),tongue twister….do you know tongue twister?it means“a word or phrase difficult to speak quickly or correctly”.such as in chinese“吃葡萄，吐葡萄皮，不吃葡萄，不吐葡萄皮”.in english,there are many twisters,too.in a while,let's read them.…
(teacher gives brief explanations to other words if necessary.)
step ⅲ.warming up
t:please open your books and turn to page 39.look at warming up.let's practise saying the following tongue twisters.first,read it slowly.then read them faster and faster.you can read them to your partner.and let your partner see if there is any mistake in your reading.at last,i'll ask five students to read them before class to see who can speak faster without making mistakes,ok?let's begin.