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Unit 3 Book 4 A taste of English Humor Part one : Understanding of the lesson 本课选自人民教育出版社出版的普通高中课程标准实验教材，高一年级必修四的第三单元Ataste of English humour。 A. The analysis of the teaching material The purpose of this reading is to introduce the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and the kind of humour we can all laugh at --- nonverbal humour. This lesson is designed as a reading lesson. According to the new curriculum standards of senior high school English, students are expected to achieve the skills of a. understanding the main idea; b. scanning for the needed information; c. grasping the details; d. guessing the meaning of new words; e. understanding the intension and attitude of the author and f. understanding the background and culture information. B. Teaching Aims: 1. Knowledge and skill aims: a. Enable students to learn what humor means and what is nonverbal humor. b. Students are expected to improve the reading skills, ie, skimming and scanning skills as well as translating , interpreting and word guessing abilities, which are examined in recent years in NMET. 2. Moral culture aims: By learning the passage, students will know that humour is particular to each culture. So the Enlish humour is certainly different from Chinese humour. However , there is a kind of humour that may be enjoyed by all cultures --- that is nonverbal humour. It is good that we can all laugh at something together. | 
