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