【正文】 nout, fortunate, bottom, direct, outstanding, mountainous, vastAdverb: throughout, fortunately, directExpressions: be content with, be badly off, be worn out, pick out, 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. GrammarThe –ing form as the predicative, attribute and object plement Their job is “panning for gold”. That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin. He sat down at the table with his plate and drinking cup. 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?Teaching proceduresPeriod 12 ReadingStep 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 (啞劇)Mime and farce funny plays Verbal jokes cross talk (相聲)Funny stories funny stories Funny poems doggerel (打油詩)2. What’s the difference between jokes and humors?3. Can you name out some of the humorous actors you like?Background knowledge:mime 笑劇 farce 滑稽劇 edy 喜劇 tragedy 悲劇 opera 歌劇TV play 電視劇 humor 幽默 joke 笑話 circus 馬戲團 clown 小丑sketch 小品 cross talk 相聲Step 2. ReadingTask 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 luck because _______. 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 C. the joy he gave us in his films D. the contributions he made in filmsTask 2: Ss read and fill the following chart: Notes on Charlie Chaplin’s careerBorn1889Died1977JobActorType of actingMime and farceCharacter“ the tramp”, a poor and homeless personCostumeLarge trousers, wornout shoes and small round black hatReason for successCharming, social failure with a determination to overe difficulties and always kind Step 4. After readingTask 3: Ss in groups and discuss:1. What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?2. Do you want to be a humorous person? And how can you be humorous?3. What should we do to get success? Period 34. Language learningStep 1. Revision Ss retell the text with their own words.Step 2. Language points1. find /think/ feel it + adj./n + to do sth.We find it important to learn English well.I feel it a great honour to be invited to the party. 2. see sb. Doing See sb do See sb done We saw him stealing the book from the bookstore just now. He saw Tom go out of the classroom yesterday afternoon. His neighbour saw him often beaten by his father. 3. Skin: The purse is made of crocodile skin. be all skins and bones 瘦的皮包骨頭4. be cruel to Don’t be cruel to animals.It is cruel of sb. to do sth. It’s cruel of America to bomb Iraq. 5. feel /be content with sth, be content to do sth. People of the city feel content with their life. Mary is content to sit in front of the television all night.6. be worse off be bet ter off 7. astonish sb. with sth. to the astonishment of sb. be astonished at sth./ to do sth He said he could astonish us with a good result in the final exam. To the astonishment of the teachers, he got the first in the petition. The teachers were astonished at his getting the first in the petition. The teachers were astonished to find that he got the first in the petition. 8. wornout : adj. 穿破的 Worn out vt. vi 使…耗盡。 穿破/舊， Cheap socks wear out quickly. I am worn out by the hard work. 9. failure . 失敗的人或事 His plans ended in failure. As a writer, he was a failure. 10. be loved by sb. for sthDeng Xiaoping is loved by the Chinese for his great contribution to China’s construction and social reform. 11. star in : 擔(dān)任主角 This is an old film starred in by Charlie Chaplin. 12. knock into He walked in such a hurry that he knocked into an old lady in the street. Step 3 Learning about language1. Ss do part 1 of the discovering useful words and expressions.2. Ss finish part 2, 3 and 4Step 4. Practice1. Ask the Ss to do Ex. 1and 2 on page 63.Period 56. ReadingStep 1. Prereading The purpose of this reading is to introduce students to English jokes. Two kinds of jokes are shown here. The first shows now different meanings can make something amusing. This is called a “play on words”. The second kind of joke is s short funny story. Both jokes are very popular in Englishspeaking countries.Step 2. ReadingTask 1: Ss read and give their own answer to the question.Answer key for Exercise 1:1. B 3. ATask 2: Ss read part 2 and give their own answers to the two questions.Step 3. Reading task (page 59) Task 3: Ss read the passage and answer the following questions.1. What do children usually do on April Fool’s Day?2. Why did people believe the programme Panorama?3. Do you think the advice that the BBC gave people who asked how to grow noodle trees was serious? Give a reason.4. What would you do to find out whether a story like this was true.Task 4: Ss read and analyse the way that the BBC played this trick. Suggested answer:1. The panorama TV programme is serio