Lesson 1 What's So Funny?

Teaching aims:

① To help students to understand the funny stories.

② To review the Past Perfect Continuous

Teaching important and difficult points:

① To master the Past Perfect Continuous

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warm up

Ask the students to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess what happened according to the pictures.

Step 2 Pre-reading

Task1: Match the words with the definitions. Learn some difficult words before reading.

Step 3 Reading

ⅰ. First reading

Read the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the pictures with the headlines.

ⅱ. Second reading

Read the three stories and then answer the following questions.

1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50?

2. Why does the girl decide to change her response when her father asks her the second question?

3. What does the man mean when he says "Do you know who I am?"

Step 4 Speaking

Voice your opinion: Which of the stories do you like most? Why? Retell your favorite story. Do you have your funny stories? If yes, share your own funny story with the whole class.

Step 5 Grammar

Task 1: Find out the sentences with the Past Perfect Continuous tense in the text.