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Unit 4 Humour
Lesson 2 Why Do We Need Humour 教学设计
科目：英语 课题：Lesson 2 Why Do We Need Humour 课时：1课时
教学目标与核心素养：
知识目标：Students can learn some new words.
能力目标：Students can listen for general understanding and specific information.
情感目标：Students can think individually and learn cooperatively.
教学重难点
教学重点：How to learn the new words.
教学难点：How to improve students' listening skills.
课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔
教学过程：
一、Pre-listening
1. Greeting
2. Leading-in
ACTIVATE AND SHARE
（1）教师活动：Group Work
Talk about your understanding of humour and what it can do for us.
to be hard-wired into us
to relieve tension
to make the level of stress chemicals fall
to make our life interesting
to have an influence on one's attitudes and feelings
to relax the muscles in our body
Example I think humour is hard-wired into us.
Ask for volunteers to share their ideas about apps to the class.
(Suggested answers:
I think humour can help us to relieve tension.
I think humour can make our life interesting.
In my opinion, humour can relax the muscles in our body.
As far as I know, humour can have an influence on our attitudes and feelings.
As far as I am concerned, humour can make the level of stress chemicals fall.)
（2）教师活动：Ask students to put the phrases into the right columns of the table.
Physical effects Psychological effects
to relieve tension to make the level of stress chemicals fall to relax the muscles in our body to be hard-wired into us to make our life interesting to have an influence on one's attitudes and feelings
While- listening
LISTEN FOR UNDERSTANDING
1. 学生活动：听材料回答问题。
Listen to Part 1 of a speech about humour. Answer the questions.
1. What question does the speaker try to answer in his speech
(Why do we need humour )
2. From what aspects will he further discuss the question
(He will further discuss the question from two aspects, one is physical aspect, the other is psychological aspect.)
2. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。
Listen to Part 2 of the plete the lists of physical effects that humour can have on our body. Then talk about them in pairs.
Firstly, laughter helps 1 ______________. It 2 ______________in our body, and the effects can be felt for 3 ______________ after a good laugh.
Also, a good laugh 4 ______________ to the heart and 5 ______________ of blood vessels, which helps protect us from 6 ______________.
Finally, when we laugh, the level of stress chemicals in our body 7 ______________ and the number of immune cells in our body 8 ______________. Both mean that our body is better able to 9 ______________.
(Answers:
1 relief tension 2 relaxes the muscles 3 as long as forty five minutes
4 increases blood flow 5 improves the function 6 heart disease
7 falls 8 increases 9 fight infection).
3. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。
Listen to Part 3. Complete the information about the two psychological effects of humour on our mind.
The two-way effect between smiling and mood:
When we're happy, ________________________.
When we smile, even if we don't feel like it, it can also ________________________.
Far-reaching effects of humour:
It means that it will have a _______________ on how we live. If we are in a bad mood, we are
likely to express _______________; and this makes those around us down, too. But if we always try to be positive and funny, people will _______________ and feel energised.
(Answers:
we naturally smile make us feel happy great influence
negative attitudes and feelings enjoy our company)
4. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。
Listen to the speech again. Write down the questions that the speaker used in his speech. Then summarise the speaker's answers to the questions.
Using Questions to Draw Attention
Some speakers use questions from time to time to draw the audience's attention. Then they provide answers to the questions. In this way, it helps the audience to understand the points they are making. Listen carefully to the questions and focus on the answers.
FOCUS ON FUNCTION: ELABORATING WITH EXAMPLES
5. 学生活动：听对话回答问题。
Listen to a dialogue and find out Mike's embarrassing situation and his way to handle it.
Mike's embarrassing situation:
He kept on ____________________________.
His way to handle the situation:
He made ____________________________.
He just started laughing and said, "Oh dear, one of these days I'm going to ____________________________!"
(Answers:
getting the host's name wrong a joke about himself forget my own name)
6. 学生活动：听材料完成练习。
Listen and plete the Talk Builder.
Elaborating with Examples
1 ______________________ is that you can use humour to get people to laugh at you.
2 ______________________, if you accidentally pour coffee all over yourself, you can laugh at yourself or make a joke about it.
3 You can say, ______________________, "My T-shirt also wants to have a cup of coffee."
(Answers:
1 One example of this 2 For instance 3 for example)
三、After-listening
SPEAK
学生活动：Group Work:
Talk about the benefits of humour based on your own experience and elaborate on them with examples.
四、Summary
重点词汇：effect, at sb.'s expense
重点句型：“make+宾语+宾语补足语”结构；as if引导的从句
五、Homework
Write a short passage to share your ways to deal with embarrassing situations.
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