1、Lesson 1 Funny StoriesTeaching Aim: Grammar: past perfect continuous tense Reading: Read to match passage with its title Teaching important and difficult points: To master the Past Perfect Continuous Procedures:Stage1 Warm upDo you like telling funny stories? Do you think you a humrous person or a b

2、ored guy? In many cases, there will be more than one "right" answer to the question. In that case, you should choose the most correct answer. ¨ 1. A stranger falls down and breaks his leg. You should:¨ (a) Call for help. (b) Laugh. (c) Break the other leg. ¨ (d) Pretend you&

3、#39;re a doctor and try to set the leg. (a) is incorrect because it adds nothing to the humor of the situation.(b) is not the correct response either, because although this situation is admittedly funny, your goal here is to escalate the humor, not cash in on it. (c) is an appropriate humorous respo

4、nse because it causes pain. However, (d) is the correct answer, because pretending to be a doctor and monkeying around with the broken leg is both an untruth and a cause of pain, so it is more funny than response (c). ¨ Someone says you're "as ugly as a dog." You should:¨ (a)

5、 Bark like a dog. ¨ (b) Say, "Actually I find dogs quite attractive." ¨ (c) Say, "It's because I like to beat my face with large sticks." ¨ (d) Say, "So's your mother." All are good choices, because they are unexpected and cause pain. Remember, ho

6、wever, that pain is only funny when it happens to someone else, so (d), which deflects the insult rather than amplifying it, is the correct choice.¨ Your children are coming home from school. You should:¨ (a) Greet them at the door with a warm hug. ¨ (b) Lock the door and not let them

7、 in. ¨ (c) Pour ketchup on yourself and lay in the middle of the kitchen floor. ¨ (d) Park the car around the corner, hide in the bushes, leave a note on the door saying, "I hate you, and I'm never coming back," and then when they start to cry, jump out of the bushes and say,

8、 "Booga booga booga!" ¨ This one should be a no-brainer. (a) is obviously wrong. (b) is a good start, as is (c). (d) is a masterpiece, however. It causes pain, it's unexpected, it's an untruth, and it's wordplay because "booga" is not technically an English word.

9、Some things are only funny in certain situations, so you must be ready with your humor. Situation (1) Somebody is very tall.Jokes¨ "Do you play basketball?" ¨ "Oh sorry, I thought you were a lightpost." ¨ "How's the weather up there?" Situation (2) So

10、mebody hurts himself.Jokes¨ "That's gotta hurt!" ¨ "That's going to leave a mark." ¨ "You're going to feel that tomorrow." Situation (3) Somebody says something untrue.Jokes¨ "Bzzt, wrong answer. ¨ Thanks for playing." Situ

11、ation (4) Somebody says, "You can say that again."Jokes¨ (repeat what you just said) ¨ "That again." Stage 2 pre-reading Give students some word exercise to prepare for the reading Stage 3 reading for three timesa. Read to get the general idea and match the passage with

12、 the title b. Read to answer the 3 questions c. Read to accumulate some phrases.Stage 4 grammar focus: past perfect continuous tense Introduce past perfect tense by giving several sentences from the text. Explain the exact usages of past perfect continuous tense.Task1: Find out the sentences with th

13、e Past Perfect Continuous tense in the text.Task2: What is Past Perfect Continuous?a. long activities in the past that happened before other past events:eg: She was rescued by a man who had been working in a nearby garage.b. the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the pasteg: We had only been driving for about fifteen minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car.c . An action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past. eg: I had been waiting for the train for over