2018届高中英语人教必修四Unit 3 Section Ⅴ Writing — 幽默故事

[语法初识]原句感知自主探究[语法剖析]1．现在分词作表语，往往具有形容词的性质，说明主语的性质、特征等。

The result of the game was disappointing．比赛结果令人失望。

His life story sounds very moving．他的人生故事听起来很感人。

[点津]作表语的现在分词，许多是由能够表示人们某种感情或情绪的动词变化而来的。

常见的有：moving, interesting, encouraging, exciting, inspiring, boring, surprising, puzzling, amusing, astonishing ．．．这类分词有“令人……的”的含义，常修饰物。

2．动名词作表语多表示抽象性的或习惯性的动作，一般说明主语的内容。

What I am tired of is waiting here alone．我厌烦独自在这里等。

My hobby is collecting stamps．我的爱好就是集邮。

即时演练1试判断下列句中动词-ing形式的类型：A动名词B现在分词①My favorite sport is swimming．A②What you said is really inspiring．B③Your task is preparing some plastic bags for the experiment．A1．动名词作定语表示被修饰词的某种性能或用途，相当于for引导的介词短语。

There is a swimming pool in our school．我们学校有一个游泳池。

2．现在分词作定语时，它和被修饰词之间有逻辑上的主动关系，表示所修饰词进行的动作，相当于一个定语从句。

The boy playing football on the playground is my younger brother．＝The boy that/who is playing football on the playground is my younger brother．在操场上踢足球的那个男孩是我的弟弟。

Unit 3 A taste of English humourSection ⅢLearning about Language & Using Language Ⅰ.单项填空1．What she said____________me that I was wrong，so I changed my plan.A．advised B．impressedC．encouraged D．convinced解析：句意为：她说的话使我相信我错了，因此我改变了计划。

convince sb.that...使某人相信。

答案： D2．Having a good____________of humor is very important for a gentleman to attract others.A．understanding B．senseC．feeling D．attitude解析： a sense of humor幽默感，固定搭配。

答案： B3．With exports____________a big role in its economic growth，it is difficult for Japan to recover from the current economic depression.A．to play B．playedC．playing D．play解析：考查非谓语动词。

句意为：由于出口在日本经济发展中占据重要地位，因此日本想要从经济萧条中恢复是有一定困难的。

根据句意，play和exports是主谓关系，而且是目前的状态，因此用现在分词构成with的复合结构。

答案： C4．—What did Jane say to Sarah in the meeting?—She spoke in a____________，so I didn’t hear.A．mess B．whisperC．word D．surprise解析：根据so I didn’t hear可知应选whisper。

SectionⅢUsing Language,Assessing Your Progress&Video Time一、单词拼写(对手) in the early rounds of the fight.(海洋的)pollution particularly(加仑).(与此同时) mother was planting roses.(电话号码簿).a new idea for increasing sales.at eleven o’clock in the morning.my pills because they’re all different colours.patterns to choose from.to completelythe coming test.on the patient.Scientists Diego Kersting and Cristina Linares have found that some coral species are able to recover from harmful warming events through a unique survival strategy (策略)—known as “rejuvenescence(复壮)”—among corals in the Mediterranean Sea.The findings represent some rare good news for corals around the world,which are facing numerous severe threats—most notably,climate change.“The main threats are climate change,overfishing,pollution and coastal urbanisation,”Kersting said.“But currently,climate change is probably the one causing the most coral cover declines.Warming stresses corals up to a point that may cause death.Some corals bleach (白化) before dying.Other corals do not bleach but die directly.” He went on,“Our findings are significant because this survival strategy was only known from fossil corals that existed hundreds of millions of years ago.It is the first time that it has been found in a living coral.Thanks to our findings,we know now that some corals are able to recover,but unfortunately this is not enough in the current climate change context.”For their research,Kersting and Linares monitored 243 colonies of the endangered reef-building coral Cladocora caespitosa(丛生) in Spain’s Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve over 16 years,starting in 2002.The monitoring revealed that Cladocora caespitosa in the Mediterranean uses rejuvenescence to cope with warming events.This process involves the polyps(息肉) — orthe individual coral animals in a colony—shrinking inward and abandoning their skeletons(骨骼) during warm periods,before rejuvenating at a later point.“What happens is that some polyps in a coral colony—sometimes just one—reduces completely its dimensions and partially retreats from its skeleton,” Kersting said.“Once the stressful event is over,the shrunken or rejuvenated polyp recovers its size and builds up a new skeleton.Eventually,it begins to reproduce itself through budding and begins to cover the dead colony surfaces.”He continued,“The results were very surprising because I started to observe colonies that were dead years ago,that were showing living parts many years after their death.”1.What is the greatest threat to corals now?A.Overfishing.B.Light pollution.D.Climate change.“But currently,climate change is probably the one causing.”可知,珊瑚现在面临的最大威胁是气候变化。

Unit3 Writing参考教案The Fifth PeriodTeaching aims: Help the students learn how to write funny stories using the target language and according to the writing steps.Key points: Teach students to write according to the writing of the writing steps. Difficult points: Help students make up a dialogue, using the target language. Teaching aid: A projectorTeaching procedure:Step 1. RevisionCheck homework: Ask several students to read their funny stories in class.Step 2. Writing ( page 23 )Give students some instructions on writing a funny story.1) Writing down your story in a logical order.2) For each of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happing.3) Then write out your story using these interesting words.4) Read through your story.5) Then show it to your partner. Let him/ her suggest some new and exciting words.6) Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.Give students enough time to finish the task and give them enough help in the writing. Tell them to give the outline first, then finish the story.Step 3. TalkingTask 1. Show students some pictures. Ask them to describe the pictures and explain what is happening, whether it is funny or not.Task 2. Imagine you want to play a trick on someone, maybe an April Fool’s trick. Work with partners, think up a funny thing and share it with the class.Step 4. Speaking and writing taskThis is a chance for students to learn limericks. It has only five lines. Three of them are longer than the other two. The longer lines all rhyme with each other and theshorter ones rhyme with each other. When introducing the poems, teacher read them first, and let the students enjoy the beauty of the rhyme. And at the same time point out that there must be two sets of rhyming words in the same poem, so the students can grasp the main feature of the poem.After reading, ask students to tell the rhyme of the first and the second poem. Let students read the poems several times and feel it. Find more limericks for students to enjoy.Give students some instructions on how to write a poem, let them think of rhyming words before writing. They need two sets of rhyming words.Step 5. Homework1) Finish Exercise 5 on Page 20.2) Make a summary about what has been learnt in this unit.。

Unit3 Writing 名师教学设计Teaching DesignBook 4 Unit 3 English Humor (Reading for Writing)I. Teaching Material:The topic of this unit is about humor which students are interested in. The Using Lang uage is about English Jokes students are not familiar with. Maybe students have some difficulty in the related knowledge of background in Culture differences.II. The analysis of students:Students in Grade two have learnt English for no more than two years in Senior Middl e School, but they seldom get access to English humor and can‟t identify the speaker‟s intention. So they need to learn the three factors of joke to read the jokes.III. Teaching objectives:1. Students can guess what the speakers‟ intention.2. Students can predict the expected answer from the speaker.3. Students can try to identify the punchline.4. Students can read and appreciate some English humors.5. Students can finish the jokes with filling in the punchlines.6. Students can create some jokes with information given.7. Students can finish the continuation writing with funny ending or punchlines based on underlined information.IV. Teaching key points and teaching difficult points:My teaching focuses on understanding the punchlines.The students might find it difficult to make a joke with a good logic order.V. Teaching approaches:The task-based approach;Cooperative learning;Text based interpretationTeaching Procedure:Step I. Lead inStudents will express their anxious feelings due to the coming mid-exam next week,which brings about how to solve it or how to relieve the stress from studying for a mo ment. “Laughter is the best medicine!”My purpose is to arouse their interest in the subject and prepare for the prediction. Step II. AppreciationSS will read a joke and to appreciate which sentence makes it funny, which is called “thepunchline”.My purpose is to improve students ability to find out the puncline.Step III. The explanation of three factors of a jokeI will ask SS to read the joke and explain and introduce the three factors: the speaker‟s intention; the expected answer, the unexpected reply (the punchline).My purpose is to introduce the three factors of a joke to students.Step IV The explanation of jokesStudents try to find out the three factors, and especially, students will predict the expe cted answer of the speaker, compared with the unexpected reply My purpose is to dev elop students ability to identify three factors of a joke and practice them.StepV. Check your humorJoke 1: Money is not everything, and sometimes we also need _______.(no more than 3 words)Joke 2: Everyone should love animals.__________________________________________(one sentence)Situation 1: Noodle (spaghetti VS fool)Situation 2: “Wei Xin” (Power VS Wechat)Situation3: “You Fan Er” (to be beautiful/ handsome VS to have rice to eat) Situation 4: “Xia Zai” (to download sth. VS to give birth to )___________________________________________________________(create your own jokes)My purpose is to train the studentsability to try what is the punchline, thus developing students ability to think logically Step VI. A longer joke/ funny story1. Explain the situation2. Describe what happened3. Give the punchlineContinuation WritingTom worked in San Francisco. One day he received an invitation to visit his friend in Italy……The police officer came from Italy by chance and told him in Italian too.___________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ He looked for a policewoman and asked her, but he was amazed to find she didn't understand Italian!______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ My purpose is to cultivate the ability to finish the continuation writing with the funny ending or the punchline and consolidate what we have learned.Step VII. Further thinkingShow students the sentence “Humor is a light which brightens students studying life.”My purpose is to develop the ability to have a positive attitude towards studying life. Step VIII. Homework:Finish the continuation writing.My purpose is to train their ability to apply and consolidate what they have learned. Blackboard Design:The three factors of a joke1. The speaker‟s intention2. An expected answer3. An unexpected replyFunny Story1. Situation2. Description a logical order3. PunchlineFeedbackA piece of sheet to check yourself1) What expressions do you remember after class?2)Which part or parts of the lesson interested your most?3) Are the writer’s suggestions on how to .happily helpful to you?Next time, the leader of each group will give us a brief presentation of your group’s re sults.。

UNIT 3SEA EXPLORATIONSectionⅠReading and Thinking一、单词拼写(叙述) of life at sea.(商人) decided to use camels to carry his goods across the desert.(关系) between the two countries..The English C separates Great Britain from the Continent..The drug was w from sale after a number of people suffered serious side(扩展) its operations into Europe.(联赛).meet at the school gate.the closure of a number of non-essential governmentpeople on the Internet.its host,the loyal hunting dog is wandering in the forest.again and headed south and west in search of a new land..friendship.to the counter ahead of me.your kindness?Ways to Respectfully DisagreeIt’s easier to agree than disagree.1Unfortunately,many of us either shy away completely from disagreements or lose it when things don’t go our way.These tips can help keep disagreements constructive.Use “I” to communicate how you feel,what you think and what you want or need.2For example,telling your parents “You always remind me about my housework when you know I have much homework.” has a very different tone from “I’m feeling pressured because I have a lot of homework tonight.Can I do those chores tomorrow?”Listen to the other’s opinion.3That makes it more likely that he or she will do the same for you.When the other person is talking,try to stop yourself from thinking about why you disagree or what you’ll say next.4This is the important thing you can do to keep a conversation on track.Of course,it’s a huge challenge to stay calm when you feel angry about something,especially if the person you’re talking to gets heated.5If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of someone’s put-downs (贬损的话),you know how valuable using respectful language and behaviour can be.So instead of saying what you might be thinking (That’s a stupid idea!),try saying “I don’t agree,and here is why.”Respect goes beyond difficult conversations,of course.Being helpful and considerate towards family members,teachers or coaches in our everyday actions helps us establish a foundation for those times when we might disagree.A.Stay calm.B.Look into the other’s eyes.ing “you” statements can sound aggressive.D.Avoid putting down the other person’s ideas and beliefs.E.Then you can calmly present your case and why you disagree.F.Being a good listener shows that you respect the other person.’t agree.2.C3.F4.A5.DThe team I work in just had 2 new interns(实习生),and I happen to be their supervisor.After today’s lunch break,I saw that one of them was reading things on her smart phone,maybe on some social network,I 1.I went to her and said,“There’s another document here 2 translation.Do you have time to finish it for me?” That document was not in her 3 workloads.But I thought I could let her 4herself a little bit with it,seeing that she seemed to have5.She said,“Yes,I do have time,but I’m just an intern.” I didn’t quite know 6to say back then.After a while I mumbled,“Right.Yes.” And I turned around and left.I 7the time when I was an intern for the first time.I,too,managed to finish my workload so fast,just like her.So,I asked my supervisor “Is there 8else that I can help?” And she happened to have a plan to make.But she didn’t have time.So she let me do the research and make a draft for her.I was not very familiar with the job 9still tried to carry it out based on my understanding and make it as 10as possible.And my supervisor was really satisfied with the ter,she told me “You 12me a lot of time.I didn’t need to create it from scratch.”And she told me 13how I should have done the plan differently.I learned a lot about the operation in the process.After that,she came to trust me completely.I got my current job all because of her recommendation.Yes,I was just an intern with a low salary,but I 14 a better future with my extra labour.Time passing,I got it that there’s a kind of 15called short-sightedness.1.A.asked B.acquiredD.guaranteed:今天午休后,我看到其中一个实习生正在用她的智能手机看东西,我猜可能是在用由此可以看出,作者只是看到这名实习生在用手机看东西,但是作者不确定,所以只能是猜想。