Unit 17 Laughter
Communication Workshop---教案
Teaching Aims:
①. Learn to use the linking words to make a anecdote more compact.
②. Learn to paraphrase words and phrases in the passage.
③. Get some knowledge about the novel and the writer
Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
To understand the story and master the linking words
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm up
Enjoy some pictures and introduce the plot and the writer of the novel
Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag. Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan. Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Summary of Gulliver's Travels
Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput where the inhabitants are six inches tall, except their emperor who is taller by almost the "breadth of my nail" than…
Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the natives are as tall in proportion to Gulliver as the Lilliputians were short. He engages in lengthy discussions with…
Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all common sense and concern themselves with speculative…
Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, where intelligent horses are the masters and the…
Ⅱ. Reading
Task1: Read the story and match the headings (1-8) with the Paragraphs (A-G). There is one extra heading.
A 2 B 4 C 8 D 5
E 6 F7 G 3
Task2: Complete the story with these linking words:
Suddenly, at first, then, when, In a little time, before, In the meantime, after, as soon as, immediately, at last
Task3: Find words and expressions in the text which mean the same as the words or phrases below.
journey—voyage
able to stand in water—rise
way—manner
move forward—advance
type—kind
amazed—surprised
pick up—grab
climb onto—mount
dead from lack of food—starve
admit—confess
not a surprise—no wonder
medicine--drug
Ⅲ. Listening
Listen to this TV programme and complete the sentences. Choose the correct answers: a, b, c, d
Ⅳ. Sum up
Ⅴ. Homework
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