1、新课程标准高中英语必修四Unit 3 A taste of English humour第二课时 语言课 学案 Language points in Warming up, pre-reading and reading一学习目的1初步理解短文English jokes。2请思考问题What is English humor?3熟练掌握本课时出现的重点单词，短语和句型。二 知识重难点1 知识重点content, astonish, entertain, convince, failure, particular, amuse, whisper2知识难点Idiomatic expressions
2、pick up, to ones astonishment, treatas,3句型Not that Charlies own life was easy!Then he cuts off the leather top of the shoe as if it were the finest steak.三知识梳理 （重点单词和短语） 重点单词1. content 1) adj. 满足的;满意的 Now that Lucy has apologized, Henry is content. 既然露西已经道歉，亨利很满意。2) vt. 使-满足; Simple praise is enough
3、 to content him. 一点点表扬就足以使他满足。3) n. 目录 The content of the book is on Page 1. 这本书的目录在第一页。4) n. 所含之物;内容;所容纳的东西; I will show you the content of my bag. 我会给你看我包里的东西。be content /satisfied with sth /sb; 对某人或某物感兴趣be content to do sth 做某事感到满意 Are you content with your job? 你对你的工作满意吗？She is quite content to
4、remain where she is now. 她安于现状。2. astonish vt. 使惊异；使大为吃惊。The news astonished everybody in the room. 这消息是房间里的每一个人感到惊讶。be astonished at/by sth. 对感到惊讶We are astonished at the news.be astonished to do sth. 对做感到惊讶He was astonished to hear he had got the job. 他听到获得了那份工作很惊讶。3. entertain vt. & vi. 使欢乐；招待；款待
5、We were all entertained by his humorous stories. 他的幽默故事使我们大家都很开心。entertain sb. to sth. 用招待/款待某人Bob and Mary entertained us to dinner last night. 昨晚鲍勃和玛丽设宴招待了我们。entertain sb. with sth. 用使某人快乐He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes. 他给我们讲故事、说笑话，让我们高兴了好几个小时。【知识拓展】entertaining adj. 使人愉快的；
6、有趣的 entertainment n. 款待；请客；娱乐；消遣4. convince1)vt. 使信服；What he said convinced me that I was wrong. 他的一番话使我相信我错了。2)vt. (of) 使某人确信How can I convince you of my honesty? 我怎么才能使你相信（我很诚实）呢？convince sb. to do sth. 说服某人做某事We convinced Nancy to go by train rather than plane. 我们说服南希乘火车而不是乘飞机去。【知识拓展】convincing a
7、dj. 有说服力的；令人信服的 convinced adj. 感到信服的；相信的 convincible adj.可被说服的，可喻之以理的be convinced of sth./that 相信I am convinced of his honesty. 我对他的诚实深信不疑。【即学即练】根据句子的要求在括号里填入适当的词。1) What she said _ (convince) me that I was mistaken.2) I soon convinced him _ (介词) my innocence.3) What convinced you _ (vote) for them?
8、 4) Im _ (convince) that he is guilty.5) That was the most _ (convince) I had ever heard.5. failure n.U失败；C失败的经历；失败的人或事I became a successful man after many failures. 在多次失败后，我终于成为一名成功人士了。The new shop was a failure and soon closed. 那家新店经营不善,不久便关门了。fail to do sth. （表示否定）未能做某事；没有I failed to pass the mat
9、hematic exam. 我没能通过数学考试。 6. particular adj. 特别的，特殊的，挑剔的He is a particular friend of my fathers. 他是我父亲的一位特殊的朋友。be particular about/over sth 对挑剔She is very particular about her clothes. 她对衣服很挑剔。in particular = particularly 特别地，特殊地He loves playing football in particular. 他特别喜欢踢足球。7. amuse vt. 使快乐，使（某人）
10、笑His foolish mistakes amused all of us. 他的愚笨的错误使我们都发笑。The children were amused at /by the jokes. 小孩子们听了笑话，觉得很好笑。8. whisper 1) vi. & vt.低声说，耳语；把(秘密等)悄悄传开The two girls were whispering in the library. 这两个女孩在图书馆里低声说话。whisper to sb. 对某人窃窃私语He is whispering to his neighbor.他向邻座的人耳语。2) n.耳语，低声in a whisperi
11、n whispersin a low voice耳语地，低声地They sat at the back of the room, talking in whispers. 他们坐在房间的后面低声谈话。It is whispered that有人私下说It is whispered that he has cancer. 传闻说他身患癌症。重点短语1. badly off 穷的；处境差的；缺少的I am quite badly off recently. 最近我经济上很拮据。【知识拓展】be badly off for sth. 需要（某物）；（某物）供应不足worse off 境况更差；更穷困
12、be well off 富裕；处境 （比较级：be better off境况更佳）His health is worse off than before. 他的身体状况比以前更糟糕了。The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food. 难民需要毯子, 更需要食物。Capitalism can make you well off. 资本主义可以让你变得富裕。 2. cut off 切断（水电的供应）；中断，打断（谈话）；隔离The water supply has been cut off for sever
13、al days in the city. 这个城市的水供应已经被切断好几天了。We were cut off in the middle of our conversation on the phone. 我们在通电话时被中断了。When this city was cut off, we all knew that the total defeat was certain. 当城市被包围时，大家都知道失败已成定局。3. pick out 挑出；选出；辨认出某人或某物She was picked out from hundreds of applicants for the job. 她是从数
14、百位申请人里挑选出来做这份工作的。 He picked out his brother from the crowd. 他从人群中认出了他的哥哥。4. pick up拾起，捡起；收拾，整理；(偶然)学会；用车接某人；收听到；身体好转The bus picks up passengers outside the airport. 公共汽车在机场外接乘客。She picked up Japanese when she was in Japan. Now she can speak it freely. 她在日本时学会了日语。现在她说的很流利。Youll soon pick up health wh
15、en you get to the seaside. 当你到达海边时，你会很快恢复健康。5. To ones astonishmentTo our astonishment，he actually arrived punctually.What astonished us was that he actually arrived punctually. 使我们大为惊讶的是他竟然准时到达了。6.treatas: consider 视为，以为We had better treat it as a joke. 我们最好把它当做笑话(不必认真)。四知识点拨1 易混内容1) particular-adj
16、. / especial-adj. / special-adj.2) pick up / pick out3) direct-adv. / directly-adv.2 指点迷津1) particular 特别的，特殊的，挑剔的,强调与众不同的，特定的，个别的。 especial 特别的，主要的，突出的。 强调的是重要性，有“优越，好感”之意。 special 专门的，特殊的，特别的。强调的是事物特有的性质，性格或专门的目的，用途。On that particular day, the door was opened. (强调平常没有这种现象) 这扇门在特别的一天被打开了。You need n
17、ot be on diet but be on regulation especially for overfull. 你不必节食，但要饮食有度，不能吃得过饱。This is a question of special important. 这是个特别重要的问题。You need a special tool to finish the task. 要完成这一任务，你需要专门的工具。【即学即练】用specially，especially，particularly填空。1) I like my hometown, _ in spring. 2) These shoes were _ made f
18、or you. 3) A committee has been _ appointed to look into the matter.4) We did very well in this exam, _ our monitor. 2) pick out 选出；选拔；分辨出；领会pick up 拾起，捡起；收拾，整理；得到；学会；用车接某人；收听到；身体好转Let me pick out some good ones for you. 让我来替你挑几个好的。Its easy to pick him out in a crowd because he is very tall.很容易从人群中辨
19、认出他，因为他个子很高。The bus picks up passengers outside the airport. 公共汽车在机场外接乘客。How are you getting on with your business, Tom? 汤姆，生意怎么样？I m glad to say it is picking up. 我很高兴地告诉你正在好转。3) direct 是指不停步，不绕道，直奔目的地。 directly是指一种直接的方式，着重对事物的直接影响，不着重实际、距离；表示时间，指立刻，不拖延。They flew direct from London to New York. 他们直接从伦敦飞到纽约。We will let you know everything directly you come. 你一来我们就会让你知道所有的情况了。五 自主探究你知道电影淘金记的主要内容吗？
