1 Workbook
Unit 3 A taste of English humour
Pre-reading
Part1. Brainstorming
1. Do you agree with the point that happiness is the important thing in the world?
2. Do you know anyone who can always make others happy?
Part2. Check your vocabulary. Guess the Chinese meaning of the word in each
sentence and check them in the word list.
1. ( ) He has a sense of humor and always makes everybody happy.
2. ( ) While watching this comedy, they all laughed.
3. ( ) I haven’t been to the moon up to now.
4. ( ) she is so beautiful and she is content with her looking.
5. ( ) My friends were astonished at the beauty of Lingzhi.
6. ( ) He is fortunate enough to be chosen as the monitor.
7. ( ) Because her family is badly off, she can’t afford that beautiful cloth.
8. ( ) Ordinary people can sometimes create miracles (奇迹).
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高中英语必修四第三单元
一、课文原文
A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR
As Victor Hugo once said, "Laughter is the sun that drives
winter from the human face", and up to now nobody has been able to
do this better than Charlie Chaplin. He brightened the lives of
Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in
between. He made people laugh at a time when they felt depressed,
so they could feel more content with their lives.
Not that Charlie's own life was easy! He was born in a poor
family in 1889. His parents were both poor music hall performers.
You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon
as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk. Such training
was common in acting families at this time, especially when the
family income was often uncertain. Unfortunately his father died,
人教版高中英语必修四
1 高效课堂教学设计：
（授课日期： 年 月 日 星期 班级 ）
授课题目 Unit3 Book4 Learning about Language 拟 课时
第 课时
明确目标 1、知识与技能：
1). To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures.
2). Enable students to learn how to use the –ing form as the attribute,
the object complement and the predicative.
2、过程与方法: Self-learning, cooperative-learning and task-based
approaches.
3、情感态度与价值观：To get Ss to have knowledge of the grammar point:
the –ing form.
重点难点 重点：Let students know the structures of the sentences with the –ing
form
难点：Help students to tell the –ing form as the predicative and the
use of the present continuous tense.
课型 □讲授 □习题 □复习 □讨论 □其它
教 学 内 容 设 计 教师自备内容
Step 1 Revision
Check homework: the exercises on page 20.
Step 2 Word formation
高中英语必修四第三单元重点、难点 Unit Three A taste of English humor
1、Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? 你为什么闯入同一个商店三次？
break into 用法归纳：
（1）强行进入；破门而入 The thieves planned to break into a bank. 几个小偷计划抢银行。
If you lose your key, you have to break into the house. 如果你丢了钥匙，你就不得不破门而入。
（2）突然…；一下子
The man broke into laughter. 那个人突然大笑起来。The horse broke into a gallop. 马突然狂奔起来。
（3）打断 I don’t like my talk broken into. 我不喜欢别人打断我的话。
It is impolite to break into other’s conversation. 打断别人的谈话是不礼貌的。
（4）动用；占用 Buying that car broke into my deposit in the bank. 买那辆车动用了我在银行的存款。
Playing pc games breaks into much of my spare time. 玩电脑游戏占用了我大部分的空余时间。
联想扩展：break down 坏了；垮了；分解 break forth突然 break in 非法进入；打岔 break off
中断；断绝 break out 爆发 break through 打通；突破 break up 分散；驱散break with 和…断绝关系
break away from 脱离；和…断绝关系；改掉
