Unit 4 Humour Lesson 2 Why Do We Need Humour ? 课件 -2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Humour Lesson 2 教材分析本课是一节听力课，两份听力材料中，第一份是一个演讲，主题是人为什么需要幽默，讲述幽默的生理和心理作用；第二份是Mike讲述一次尴尬经历并巧妙运用幽默化解的故事。教学目标 在本课学习结束时，学生能够：1. 学会使用三个discourse markers用例子阐释想法；2. 理解幽默对人的生理和心理作用，并在生活中运用幽默。教学重难点【教学重点】1. 学生能够理解幽默带来的生理作用和心理作用的区别；2. 理解幽默的好处，并在将来的学习和生活中运用到幽默。【教学难点】正确使用for example, for instance和one example of this这三个表达，加强对句子的阐释。 Watch a video clip Enjoy a video. Do you like the humour paintings? Pre-listening physical effects psychological effects adj. bodily身体的 adj. of mind心理的 Talk about your understanding of humour to be hard-wired into us. to make the level of stress chemicals fall. to have an influence on one’s attitudes and feelings. to relieve tension. to make our life interesting. to relax the muscles in our body. Firstly, laughter helps 1 relieve tension. It 2 relaxes the muscles in our body, and the effects can be felt for 3 as long as 45 minutes to the heart after a good laugh. Also, a good laugh 4 increases the blood flow to the heart and 5 improves the function of blood vessels, which helps protect us from 6 heart disease. Finally, when we laugh, the level of stress chemicals in our body 7 falls, and the number of immune cells in our body 8 increases. Both mean that our body is better able to 9 fight infection. While-listening The two–way effect between smiling and mood: When we’re happy we naturally smile. When we smile, even if we don’t feel like it, it can also make us feel happy. Far-reaching effects of humour: It means that it will have a great influence on how we live. If we are in a bad mood, we are likely to express negative attitudes and feelings; and this makes those around us down, too. But if we always try to be positive and funny, people will enjoy our company and feel energised. Listen to part 3. Complete the information Expressions to give examples: For example/For instance, ... Take my experience as an example. Let me give you a few examples of ... ... is/provides a good example. Once, I read a news story