高中英语 A taste of English humour公开课教案 新人教版必修4

Module 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humor教学设计Teaching Class: Class Two Senior ONETextbook version：People's Education PressTeaching content: Module 4 Unit 2 A taste of English humor --- A Pioneer for All PeopleTeaching type: ReadingTeaching arrangement: The 2n d period.Teaching Time: 45 minutes一. 设计理念以任务为中心的任务型语言教学是目前交际教学思想中的一种新的发展形态。

它倡导“在做中学，在做中用”的教育理念，将语言应用的基本理念转化为具有实践意义的课堂教学方式。

运用学习任务组织教学，强化了语言实践的过程，充分体现了语言的交际本质。

新人教版英语是一套好教材，然而，“橘生淮南则为橘，生于淮北则为枳”。

在农场中学的英语课堂上，实施任务和开展活动具有很大的挑战性，需要在实际操作中对教材进行重新整合，并要根据学生的环境和接受能力来开展行之有效的任务和活动。

同时利用多媒体和网络技术，帮助解决教学难题。

这样，既能为学生创设真实可视的英语学习环境，也能激发学生积极参与的欲望，引起学生的共鸣和兴趣。

二．教材分析This lesson is the second period of Unit 3, a nd 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三．学生特征分析1, make use of multimedia courseware for English class, which has a significant effect on students audio-visual experience, showing great interest in the appreciation and enjoyment of learning, learning efficiency is obvious.2. Although High school students t have the basic abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, they still need many opportunities to explore and convey meanings; to classify and reflect on their thoughts, feelings and experiences through practice.3, rural secondary school students, the poor mastery of English, even though I teach the best class in rural school, the uneven level of student learning, so during the design of activities I must take into account the specific circumstances of students at different levels and different needs. In order to make all levels of students to participate in the activitiesThe students in my class are of different levels so I should adapt the lesson to each of them and try to solve different kinds of problems which may appear in the lesson. Teaching aims and demands1. Knowledge objectsMake the students be aware of the cultural aspects of humor by learning this lesson.2. Ability objects1. Develop students’ ability and let them learn different reading2. Enable students to talk about types of humors and Charlie Chaplin3. Moral objects①To enable the students to learn to be faced with difficulties and overcome them.②To encourage them to keep up optimistic attitude towards life and improve their sense of humor.Teaching key points1. Help the students grasp the reading skills.2. Help the students to learn to get information, analyze the information and understand the information from the text.Teaching difficulties1. 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.Teaching methods: Task-based teaching method, Skimming, Scanning and Group discussion.Teaching aids: A multi-media classroom.Teaching procedures & ways:Step 1 Lead-in (4 minutes)1.show a famous poem to students【设计说明】图片能吸引学生注意力，从而调动他们学习的积极性。

高中英语新课标 Unit 3 A taste of English humor优秀教案新人教版必修4Unit 3 A taste of English humorThe Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Learn and master the useful words and phrases.2.Let the student learn from nonverbal humor.3.Train the students’ predicting, skimming and summarizingability during reading the text.4.Encourage the students to keep optimistic attitude to life,foster sense of humor and cultivate their taste.Teaching Important Points:1.Master the following phrases and words:feel…content with, performers, asto nishing, unfortunately, worse off, ordinary, bored, entertaining, throughout, homeless, moustache, failure, overcome, leather, pick out, cut off, chew, convincing, direct, star in, outstanding, Switzerland.2.Enable the students to understand the text better.3.Improve the students’predicting, skimming and summarizingability.Teaching Difficult Points:1.How to make the students understand the text better.2.How to make the students understand the following sentence.Not that Charlie’s own life was easy！Teaching Methods:1.Playing the footage of The Gold Rush and asking the studentssome questions.2.Scanning the text to get some information about CharlieChaplin.3.Careful reading to summarize the main ideas of eachparagraph.4.Individual, pair or group work to make every student workin class.Teaching Aids：1.a multimedia classroom2.the blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step Ⅰ GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Ⅱ Leading-in and Pre-reading1. Review the content of last class (Comparing Chinese and western humor).2. Play the footage of The Gold Rush.3.Let the students think about and discuss the questions inthe part of Pre-reading.If the students can not answer the questions perfectly, the teacher should consummate the answer.Step Ⅲ Reading1.Let the students scan the text to get some information about Charlie Chaplin and accomplish Comprehending One.Suggested answers:Born: 1889Job: ActorFamous character: Little trampCostume: moustache, large trousers, worn-out shoes, small round black hat, walking stick.Type of acting: nonverbal humorDied: Switzerland, 19772.Let the students carefully read the text and accomplish Comprehending Two.Suggested answers:Paragraph 1: A talent comedy actorParagraph 2: LifeParagraph 3: Little trampParagraph 4: ExampleParagraph 5: AchievementStep Ⅳ DiscussionAccomplish Comprehending Three.Suggested answers:1.Yes, I think so. Because his poor childhood offered theexperience of poor life and toughened him.2.Because he brightened the lives of Americans and Britishthrough two world wars and the hard years in between, and up to now no body has been able to do this better than him.Step Ⅴ Summary and HomeworkSummary: In this class, we have read a text about a famous prince of comedy—Charlie Chaplin. We have known that Chaplin is a talent performer. We should learn optimistic attitude to life from Charlie Chaplin. We also learned some words and phrases in the text.Homework: Let the students watch one of Charlie Chaplin’s films and then work in pairs according to Comprehending Four.Step Ⅵ The Design of Writing on the blackboardUnit 3 A taste of English humorThe Second PeriodA Master of Nonverbal HumorMain BodyParagraph 1: A talent comedy actorParagraph 2: LifeStep Ⅶ Record after teaching。

新课标英语高一上Module 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humorReading教案Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, slide, skin, cruel, particular, entertaining, throughout, homeless, worn-out, failure, overcome, difficulty, fortunate, snowstorm, chew, outstanding, Switzerlandb.重点词组content with, badly off, pick out, cut off, star in,c. 重点句型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? P17Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life… P17He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce. P17But he was lived by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him. P 18Imagine you are hungry and all there is to eat is a boiled shoe. P18That was the problem facing Charlie Chaplin in one of his most famous films. P18 He solved it by using nonverbal humor. P 18Their job is “panning for gold” P18Finally he tries cutting and eating the bottom of the shoe. P18First he picks out the laces and eats them as if they were spaghetti.The he cuts off the leather top of the shoe, treating if as if it were the finest meat. P18He makes it seems as if it were one of the best meals he has ever had! P182. Ability goals 能力目标Enable the students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor, then learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor3. learning ability goals 学能目标a. Help the students to learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humor, and then find their differences.b. Let the students listen and read the jokes, so that they can realize that humor is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.c. help the students learn how to describe what nonverbal humor is by Charlie Chaplin’s career.Teaching important points 教学重点Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humor. While as to the reading, learn how to divide the text into several parts according to the meaning of the passageTeaching difficulty points 教学难点a. Help the students know the differences between the English and Chinese humorsb. Decide the divide of the paragraphs of the textTeaching methods 教学方法Using pictures, discussion, reading, scanning and careful readingTeaching aids 教具准备A recorder and a projectorTeaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step I RevisionAsk the students to read the words and expressions that appear in warming up, pre-reading and readingT: Class begin..Ss: Good morning, miss.T: Good morning, everyone. Before our class, please turn to P97 and read the new words together. Read twice for each one, ok?Ss: Ok. (The students read the new words together )Step II Warming upT: Good. Try your best to recite the words as soon as possible. Today, we are going to the new text. At first, I would like to show you a picture. Please look at the picture carefully. (Start the new unit by showing the students a picture)T: Look! What do you think of the picture?Ss: It’s very interesting. A wolf or maybe it is a dog is jumping across the back of a sheep.T: Yes. Actually, it is a wolf. As we know, wolf is the natural enemy of sheep. Will a wolf jump across a sheep without eating it? No. After seeing the picture, it is so funny that we can’t help laughing about their acting. It makes us laugh and feel nice. So today, we are going to learn something about humor. The title is A taste of English humor. Do you know some English humor?Ss: (Some students may know some English humor and they will put up their hands.) T: Ok, I’ll ask someone to tell some English humors to us.(Ask some students to tell.)T: That’s really funny. Thank you! In fact, we name the English humor you told just now verbal joke. Then, look at some pictures again. Guess who they are.Ss: The first one is Charlie Chaplin.T: Yes, I dare say that everybody know him. How about the second picture?Ss: He is Mr. Bean, one of the most famous and successful British actor.T: Good. You are right. He is now recognized as the most popular British comedy expert. How about the last one? We have just learnt one of his play—A million pound bank-note. Now, do you know who he is?Ss: Mark Twain.T: Yes. He is an American writer and his writing is famous for humor, right? Ss: Yes.T: Now, let’s look at the chart on P17. What does it tell us from the table? We can see that Charlie Chaplin is good at nonverbal humor; Mr. bean is famous for his mime and farce; while Mark Twain was good at tell some funny tales. Then how about Edward Lear? Do you know him?Ss: No, we don’t know.T: Ok, he is a famous British poet. His poems are funny and they were all from daily life. Until now people also read them and enjoy them. If you want to know more about him, you can go and read about him in:or you can read the book 《爱德华·李尔:一个漫游者的一生》which was written by Vivian Noakes.However, we will meet the problem that it seems some English humors sound no funnyat all to us because the sense of humor of English and Chinese is different. So, do you know some persons in Chinese who are good at humor? I’ll show you some pictures again. See, who are they and what are they good at? Nonverbal, mime and farce, funny tales or funny poems?Ss: The first picture is Chen Peisi. The second one is Zhao Benshan, but I don’t know the third and the fourth one.T: Do you know what are Chen Peisi and Zhao Benshan good at?Ss: Chen Peisi is famous for his mime and farce. Zhao Benshan is famous for hisXiaopin.T: Good. I think Zhao Benshan is famous for his mime, too. The third one is Hou Baolin, who is a famous cross talk actor. But what a pity, he has died. The last one is Liu Quanhe & Liu Quanli, both of them are good at Ya ju (哑剧). So, can you finish the column of the chart now?The suggested answers:Step II Pre-readingT: According to the column, what do you like to laugh at?Ss: (Ask the students to talk about their opinion)T: Ok, as you all have your own choice and you do love making jokes, right? However, do you know what humor means exactly? Does it mean all the things that make people laugh?Ss: We think so.T: Have you ever thought that there may be some jokes which will hurt the other person? For example: “You, stupid pig! If you keep on making mistakes, I will pick your head and beat it like a basketball.” Do you think I am right to say these words? Ss: No, it is rude.T: That means humor is not always kind. Pay attention to your words when you want to make jokes. Then, what we are going to learn is a kind of humor that makes people laugh without using any words. How can we? Please look at the P17------ reading: Nonverbal humorStep III ReadingT: This reading material takes Charlie Chaplin for example. It tells us what nonverbal humor means; what’s Charlie Chaplin’s style of acting; how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.At first, as I have told you to preview the text, tell me how many passages thematerial can be divided and the main idea of each paragraph.Ss: We think the text is made up of four parts. The first part is the first paragraph. The second part is the second paragraph. The third and the fourth part is the third paragraph. And the last paragraph is the fourth part. The first part tells us that not all humor is kind. The second part tells us that some actors can astonish us with the deep feeling they can inspire with us for a character they are playing. The third one tells us something about Charlie Chaplin’s acting style. The last one is a short biography about Charlie Chaplin.T: Ok, it sounds reasonable. Are there any different opinions?Ss: We think there are three parts in this text. The first paragraph is the first part. From the second to the fourth paragraph is the second part. And the last one is the last part.T: Can you tell us your main ideas of the text?Ss: The first and the last ones are the same with my classmate before, but I think the second part of the text is about Charlie Chaplin’s humor.T: Good. Both of you sound reasonable. A reading material can have many different understanding! Here is my idea, you can think over whether it is reasonable or not. The text can also be divided into three parts. The first and the second paragraph are the first part. It tells us that there are two kinds of humor. One is bad and the other can inspire people. The second part is the third and the fourth paragraphs. It tells us how Charlie Chaplin made a sad situation entertaining. And the last part is the same with yours. Ok, think over my idea after class.Then, let us have a discussion about the text. Please look at the screen. These are three questions. Read the text again and find the answer to the questions.1.What is behind fun?2.Why did people like The Little Tramp?3.Do you think Charlie Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?Three minutes later:T: Who would like to answer the first question?Ss: From the first paragraph, we can see that not all humor is kind. Although we also laugh when we see someone slide on a banana, it’s really dangerous to those one, especially to those old people. So when we think about it we will find it is not funny.T: Yes. That means when we are trying to play a joke, we have to think whether itwill bring hurt to the others, right? Fun is to bring happiness but not sadness. How about the second question?Ss: Because it gives people courage to overcome difficulties. / I think that people liked him best is because he was always being kind even when people were unkind to him.T: Good. Any other opinions?Ss: I think that people like him is because he will never tease him.T: Ok, and how about the last question?Ss: I think it is funny, but not very much, because I’m not hungry. / I don’t think it is funny because it reminds me of the people who are in true hunger.T: Maybe. Anyway, I think the happiest feeling needn’t other people to find and to wake. Everyone can do this. We all have our own life, no matter we are poor or rich, and we should live happily.Well, so much on today. Do you have any questions about what we have learned? (Wait for the students’ response.) If there is no questions, then remember your homework:1.Read the text again and find the language points2.Finish the Comprehending and Learning about Language on P19(If there are few minutes left, ask the students to read the text by themselves.)。

Unit 3 A taste of English humour The Second Period：ReadingPart I Analysis of teaching material1. Teaching contentThe lesson I’m going to talk about is from New Senior English For China Student’s book 4, unit 3 A taste of English humour. The topic of this unit is to taste and appreciate the English humour. It involves the types and the representative figures of English humor. And we can have a comparison between the local and foreign humour. Then the students can learn something about humour and face their lives with a positive attitude. And it is the second period of the whole unit---reading part.2. Teaching aims(1). Language knowledgea. Vocabularyverbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisperb. Key sentencesI think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted…(2). Knowledge aimsa. To know something about the life and the work of Charlie Chaplin and his achivement.b. To learn something about the kind of English humour---nonverbal humour.(3). Ability aimsTo improve the students’the abilities of listening, reading, speaking and writing. And it is to train their cooperation and communication.(4). Emotional aimsLearning something about humour, then they can realize that humour can make people to be optimistic about everything around，especially when they feel despaired.3. Teaching key points(1). Help the students learn how to understand the English humour and learn the importance of humour in their lives.(2). Help the students learn from Charlie Chaplin’s good qualities.4. Teaching difficult points(1). Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.(2). Enable the students how to use humour to conquer difficulties and to face their lives witha positive attitude.Part II Analysis of the studentsThe Senior One students have learned English for several years. They are active, energetic, and they enjoy learning English by working in groups a lot. They like fresh things. So I design some interesting activities for them to learn.Part III Teaching strategies1. Teaching methodsa . Task-bask teaching methodb. Communicative teaching methodc. Student-centered teaching methodd. Constructive teaching method2 .Studying ways Assign a task, pair-work, group work, discussion, report3. Teaching aidsThe multimedia and other normal teaching toolsPart IV Teaching proceduresStep One Revision1. Ask one of the students to tell an English joke.Aims：This step is to train the students to learn to tell some English jokes. And it can lead to the revision of humour.2. Review the types of humour.Aim：This step is to help the students recall the memories of the types of humour.3. Show them the picture of Mr. Bean.Aim：This step is to tell the students Mr. Bean is the master of nonverbal humour---mime.Nonverbal humour mimeVerbalhumourjokesfunnystories comedyfunnypoemscrosstalkpunsStep Two Pre-reading1. Enjoy a video of The Gold Rush of Charlie Chaplin.Aims：Enjoying a video can arouse the students’ interests in the lesson and the most important is to introduce Charlie Chaplin--- another master of mime.2. Assign a task. Supposing every one of them is a reporter. And they’re going to write a report to commemorate Charlie Chaplin. And then guide them to do some research of Chaplin, for example his background, cloth, image, work and lifetime, ect.Aim: Students like activities. A task can help the students have the interests to learn the text. Step Three Reading1. Do the research of Charlie Chaplin by finishing some forms. I will ask them to read after the record of the text.Aims：This is a part of the task. So the students will find out the information of Chaplin actively. And reading after the text can train the students’reading English and the tone of speaking English.2. Pair-work. Continue to do the research of Charlie Chaplin by writing down the main idea of each paragraph. Before working, I will ask them to listen to the text.Aims：This is still the part of the task. Writing down the main idea of each paragraph can train the students’ skills of reading and generalization. And it can enhance the understanding of this passage. While listening to the text can train their listening.3. Group work. Answer some questions.Aims：Answering some questions can help the students understand the text better. Besides, group work can train the students’ cooperation and communication.(1) Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?(2) Why did people like The Little Tramp?(3) Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?(4) Why do you think he was so successful?According to the fourth question, they can know Chaplin was determined, persistent, and confident and had his own character. Tell the students to learn from him.Step Four Post-readingGroup work again. Finish the task. Work in groups to discuss how to make a report of commemorating Chaplin. And then ask some students to give us a report in the class. Let’s see who does the report better.Aims：Reporting can train the students’abilities of repeating and generalizing the text. And it can also train their oral English and confidence.Step Five SummarySummarize some information of Chaplin about his living background, clothing, image, and lifetime, ect. And emphasize Chaplin’s good qualities of being successful. We should learn how to face our lives with a positive attitude.Aims：Summary can tell the students the main content of this lesson. Emphasize the teaching key points.Step Six Homework1.Review the text.2.Write a report of commemorating Charlie Chaplin. Aims：Writing a report is to help the students review the text and train their writing ability. Part V Blackboard designUnit 3 A taste of English humourAssign a task. (Write a report of Charlie Chaplin)a. living background1. Do some research of Chaplin. b. clothing and imagec. his work and lifetimeChaplin was great, determined, confident, persistent…2. Finish the task.Part VI Teaching evaluationI hope my teaching of this lesson can achieve the aims and demands. After learning this lesson, the students can achieve the learning aims of this lesson. For example, they can learn something about humour. And they can know how to use humour to face their lives in a positive and an active way. By finishing a series of tasks in this lesson, the students can set up self-confidence in language study, their English skills will be improved, and their learning interest of English will be stimulated, too.。

A taste of English humour教学案人教版新课标必修四Unit 3Period One Explanations of new words and phrasesI.Words. I1. content adj.表示或感到满意或满足的; 心满意足的:_______________vt. 1) We should never content ourselves with book knowledge oniy.Adj. 1) He is content to stay in his present job.2) Don’t be content with such a small success.n. 1) The drawer had been emptied of its contents.2) The content of your essay is excellent, but it's not very well expressed.3) We can swim in the river to our heart’s content.2. inspire adj. 有创作力的,受灵感启示的:__________ 有创作力的诗人______________ vt. 1) Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us with much confidence.2) This inspired in us a love for learning.3) The teacher inspired us to work harder.4) The teacher inspired us to great efforts.3. entertain adj使人愉快的; 有趣的.________n. 宴客; 招待; 款待; 娱乐____________n.（娱乐节目的）表演者; （尤指）艺人_____________________vt.1) He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes.2) I usually entertain friends to dinner on Sundays.拓展：entertaining adj. 使人愉快的，有趣：his entertaining silent movies他那逗乐的无声电影，an entertaining story/guess一个有趣的故事/客人。

A taste of English humour教学案人教版新课标必修四Unit 3Period One Explanations of new words and phrasesI.Words. I1. content adj.表示或感到满意或满足的; 心满意足的:_______________vt. 1) We should never content ourselves with book knowledge oniy.Adj. 1) He is content to stay in his present job.2) Don’t be content with such a small success.n. 1) The drawer had been emptied of its contents.2) The content of your essay is excellent, but it's not very well expressed.3) We can swim in the river to our heart’s content.2. inspire adj. 有创作力的,受灵感启示的:__________ 有创作力的诗人______________ vt. 1) Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us with much confidence.2) This inspired in us a love for learning.3) The teacher inspired us to work harder.4) The teacher inspired us to great efforts.3. entertain adj使人愉快的; 有趣的.________n. 宴客; 招待; 款待; 娱乐____________n.（娱乐节目的）表演者; （尤指）艺人_____________________vt.1) He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes.2) I usually entertain friends to dinner on Sundays.拓展：entertaining adj. 使人愉快的，有趣：his entertaining silent movies他那逗乐的无声电影，an entertaining story/guess一个有趣的故事/客人。

人教版高中英语必修4《Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumour》教案人教版高中英语必修4《Unit 3 A taste of English humour》教案【一】教学准备教学目标Teaching Objectives1. Students are able to learn more about nonverbal humour as well as Charlie Chaplin through network-based.2. Students are able to get the gen eral idea and detailed information of the passage by skimming, scanning as well as interpreta tion and appreciation.3. Students will learn to face difficulties in life with optimism and humour as well as learn to cooperate with others in groups.教学重难点Teaching difficult points1. How to guide students to search for and sort out related information according to the assigned task through the Internet.2. How to cu ltivate stud ents’ learning ability through teamwork based on network.Teaching important points1. Help students to get the general idea and detailed information of the text effectively by skimming and scanning.2. Help students to analyze the reasons for Charlie Chap lin’s success by interpreting the key sentences and get them inspired.教学过程Step 1Lead-in(3 mins)1.Students’ Activities：2.The Purpose of ActivitiesStudents are to appreciate a video clip performed by Mr. Bean.Students will be guided to acquire the form of nonverbal humour in a vivid way,thus eage r to learn about the main character of the text with interest.Step 2Network-based Interactive Learning(25 mins)1.Students’ Activities(1).Students are divided into five groups to search for and sorted out the related information according to the assigned task online(2)A representative of each group is to share the information with the others.2.the Purpose of ActivitiesStudents will develop their ability to effectively sort out information on the Internet throug h group cooperation as well as feel a sense of achievement by their oral presentation.Step3 Text-based Reading(17 mins)Students’ Activities 1. Students are to read the text quickly, and then answer the questions according to the text. 2. Read Paragraph 3 carefully, and then answer the question ---Why did “the little tramp”become Charlie Chaplin’ famous character ?3. Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks。

高中英语 Unit 3 A taste of English humour教案新人教版必修4Warming upTeaching aims: Enable students to talk about some types of English humor and Chinese humor.Key points: Help students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors.Difficult points: Help students know the differences between English and Chinese in humor. Teaching aids: picturesTeaching procedure:Step 1: Lead-inShow some pictures to students, let them talk about the pictures and then ask them what they think of the pictures, whether they are funny or not.Questions: 1) Do you know who these comedians are? What makes them funny?2) Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?3) Have you seen any of these comedians or programmers? What do you think of them? Step 2: Warming upTask 1. Brain-stormingAsk students to name some types of humors they know. Write those they are not familiar with on theTask 2. TalkingAsk students to talk about some funny stories, any English or Chinese humors they know.Task 3. Reading on P22The purpose of the reading is to introduce the kind of verbal jokes. They use a “play on words” to be funny. Let students read the three jokes and then match the joke with the explanation. Then check theLanguage points1. content【课文原句】Perhaps it makes us feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone elseworse off than ourselves. (P17)【名师点拨】content adj.意为“满足的；满意的”，be content to do意为“乐意去做某事”；be content with sb / sth意为“对某人或某事感到满意”，相当于be pleased with或be satisfied with。