Lesson 2 Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Teaching aims:

①. To practise using listening strategies for answering multiple-choice questions

②. To practise understanding and telling jokes

③. To practise recognizing and using emphatic stress in sentences

Teaching important and difficult points:

To improve the student's listening skills

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warm up

Have a free talk with the students

How to keep healthy?

Healthy diet

Enough sleep

A good mood

How to keep a good mood?

Step 2 Pre-listening

Task 1: learning the news words before listening

• psychology

• beneficial

• associate with

• significantly

• physical beings

• fool around

• achieve a balance

• humor campaign

• staff

Task 2: know the background of the listening material

In recent years many studies have been done on whether laughter really can speed up the healing process. It seems that it can. The movie Patch Adams which starred