unit 1 leisure activities leisure: -- leisure activities -- leisure time use of free time

Unit 1 Leisure Activitiesleisure:-- leisure activities-- leisure time

use of free time

Part One: Preparation

1. pictures of leisure activities2. Categories of leisure activities3. Chat: How do you usually kill time (What are your favorite pastimes)?4. Laughter and quick wits

1. pictures of leisure activities

Bowling

Golf

shooting

Airsoft / WG

tourism

river cruise

crossword

library / reading

2. Categories of leisure activities Outdoor activities:

Tourism (traveling) Sports activities: playing tennis, playing table tennis, playing football, playing basketball, going swimming, going skating…

bowling, golf…“Thrill seeking” kinds: mountaineering, skiing,

white water rafting, bungee, parachute jump, shopping

Indoor actitivities: reading, listening to music, watching VCDs, watching a sports matc

h, Playing Video games, playing musical instruments, playing cards…

Active activities: sports activities, dancing, going to Karaoke bars, … Passive activities: going to a concert, going to movies, going to theaters, going to the

bars (pubs), …

Recent ones are not much included…

3. Chat: How do you usually kill time? (What are your favorite pastimes?)

Step 1: chat in small groups / talk to yourself

Step 2: point out how your pastimes (leisure activities) affect your life

4. Laughter and quick wits

Learn the words and expressions in E2 (P2) some types of humors that you are familiar

with Cross-talk A play on words Pun; double entendre Clown Stand-up comedies

--what makes people laugh in a certain type of humors? (cross-talk to many old people, a play on words, double entendre).

(optional) watch the following comedies of several

comedians with their own styles. Spoof: State of the Nation Address; whatever you like stand-up comedies: Nazi healthcare Cellphone Gay vs. Black

Joe Wong

Try to answer the following two questions:1. What makes those jokes funny?2. Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and some didn’t?

Part two: Reading-centered

ActivitiesIn-Class Reading: Entertaining Humor—

What’s FunnyAfter-Class Reading: I: Fatal Attraction II: Wow, Would I Love to Do

That

In-class Reading

Entertaining Humor—What’s Funny?

I. watch the following comedies of several comedians with their own styles.

Spoof: State of the Nation Address; whatever you like stand-up comedies: Nazi healthcare Cellphone Gay vs. Black Joe Wong

Try to answer the following two questions:1. What makes those jokes funny?2. Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and

some didn’t?

II: Find out the answers to the following questions in the passage

Q1: What makes a story funny? --para. 1, 2, 5

Q2: Why do some people laugh at a joke while others don’t? --para. 3

Q3: List different types of humor, then define or illustrate them. --para. 6—12

Q4: Tell the difference between “A Play on Words” and “Puns”,

and the difference between “Puns” and “Double Entendres”

Q5: What are the usual criticism of today’s humor? And what is the author’s response to those blames? – Pra 13

If you want to tell people a truth, you’d

better make them laugh, or they would

hate you.

--more remarks on humor on P15-E5

III. Language studies

long / difficult sentences: grammar & writing

A quick look at “New Words” & “phrases and expression”

Exercises: Vocabulary

After-Class Reading

Passage I: A. Students’ presentation B. Further exploration

Further exploration

the pattern / characteristics of “whodunit” novels –para 2-7

differences between the real world and “whodunit” world –para 6,7 vs. para 8

differences between “whodunit” and “whydunit” novels –para 9

new words: assemble, aristocracy, loose end, (under) arrest, death penalty, convict, miscarria

ge of justice, unsettle, take on, exert E3-P26

Recommend: Lie to me Castle

After-Class Reading

Passage II: A. Students’ presentation B. Further exploration

Further exploration

Several phases: from an amateur to a professional (in juggling performance)

What he scared of at firstAll the turning points

New words start over, auditorium, elation, try out, get through E2: P35

Part III Further Development 1. Enrich your word power

Part IV Translation 英译汉的长句翻译（ 1 ） -- 概述 practice

Preparation for quiz

1. dictation: 10 new words 2. word formation: part of speech 3. prepositions & adverbs 4. translation: E—C, from ICR / ACR 5. Question answering: What is it that makes a

joke or a story funny? (50-80 words)