Unit 2 Period 7 Video Time （课件）-【步步高】2023-2024学年高二英语选择性必修第三册（人教版2019）

null Unit 2 Healthy lifestyle Period 7 Video Time By the end of this period, you will be able to: learn about the benefits of laughter on health by watching the video; tell how laughter makes you feel and how to make others laugh. Lead-in How do you understand the following sayings? Explain what each quotation tries to tell us and voice your opinion. Laughter is the best medicine. ―A Chinese proverb A day without laughter is a day wasted. ― Charlie Chaplin Laughter is the best medicine. ―A Chinese proverb Why is laughter the best medicine? It adds joy to life and relaxes the whole body. It reduces pain, encourages the brain to produce natural feel-good chemicals and protects you from the negative effects of stress. A day without laughter is a day wasted. ― Charlie Chaplin Chaplin thought that without laughter his day was depressing and sad. It felt like he had lost a day if he didn’t laugh. Laughter is a natural medicine for preserving our health. It helps us to ease pain, feel good, keep the blood vessels healthy, and is good for our soul and heart. What other benefits of laughter can you think of? to add joy to life to relieve stress and anxiety … 1. What do you think these people are doing? A. Singing. B. Practising laughter yoga. C. Doing belly laughs. 开怀大笑 Before you watch 2. Why do you think they are doing this? A. To amuse themselves. B. To tell everyone how happy they are. C. To reduce the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke. 3. How do you think they feel? While you watch Check your answers 1. What do you think these people are doing? A. Singing. B. Practising laughter yoga. C. Doing belly laughs. 2. Why do you think they are doing this? A. To amuse themselves. B. To tell everyone how happy they are. C. To reduce the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke. 3. How do you think they feel? I think they feel happy. √ √ Answer these questions. 1. What do adults not necessarily remember? 2. Aside from making us feel good, what else does laughter do according to research? 3. What happens when you have 5—10 minutes of laughter, besides your blood vessels opening up like you have gone jogging or taken cholesterol medication? 4. What does it mean when we say that laughter is contagious? 5. What will a mother usually do if she tickles her baby and the baby fusses or cries? 6. Which do you think is more important for bringing out the benefits of laughter, the act of laughing or the social interaction connected to it? What are your reasons? 服用胆固醇药物 1. What do adults not necessarily remember? Adults don’t necessarily remember how to make fun. 2. Aside from making us feel good, what else does laughter do according to research? According to research, laughter also has a direct and positive effect on our blood vessels. 3. What happens when you have 5—10 minutes of laughter, besides your blood vessels opening up like you have gone jogging or taken cholesterol medication? When you have 5-10 minutes of laughter you can burn up to 40 calories. 4. What does it mean when we say that laughter is contagious? It means that when someone is laughing, we are more likely to laugh too. 5. What will a mother usually do if she tickles her baby and the baby fusses or cries? She will stop doing it. 6. Which do you think is more important for bringing out the benefits of laughter, the act of laughing or the social interaction connected to it? What are your reasons? I think that the social interaction connected to laughter is more important for bringing out its benefits, because laughter is a social thing and happens when people are communicating with each other. It is harder to laugh and be happy when we are alone. Read together Dr Alex Eingorn: We need to get back to the natural, built-in mechanisms that we have for self-preservation and health. Laughter is one of them. Debra Corwin: Laughter Yoga is a way for people to use laughter without telling jokes and being able to get the laughter to help them feel better. The interesting thing is that it helps ease pain, it can ease depression, it's a way to move and get into your inner child and it's a lot of fun. And adults don't remember necessarily how to have fun. Dr Michael Miller: The bottom line of our research is that laughter not only makes us feel good but it has a direct effect on our blood vessels. And our blood vessels control the likelihood of us developing a heart attack or a stroke. So if we keep the blood vessels healthy, then we’re going to be healthy. You can burn up to 40 calories for 5 -10 minutes of laughter. But equally important is that the blood vessel opening that we see is the same as going jogging or even taking one of our cholesterol medications. You get the same effect in terms of opening up your blood vessels as you do with a good, deep, belly laugh. Laughing on a regular basis is not only good for our soul, but also great for our heart. Dr Alex Eingorn: Laughter is a way of communication and that’s why it’s contagious. Because when I’m laughing you’re looking at me and you’re like “Wow, this is a positive energy” and you’re more likely to join me in the laughter. Dr Robert Provine: But laughter’s not present at birth. It appears about 3—4 months of age and it’s one of the most important early means of communication between babies and mothers. A mother will tickle the baby and the baby will smile and laugh. And the mother will do more of that. If the baby doesn’t like it, the baby will fuss or cry and the mother stops. It’s a kind of instinctive language that exist before we learn to talk. Laughter, like speech, evolved to change the behavior of other individuals. Does it have to have other purposes? It probably does, but we’re just now starting to tease out what those differences are. Did the benefits of laughter come from the act of laughting or is it the social context, spending time with friends, family, and lovers? All of these are very difficult scientific issues that haven’t been teased out. But laughter clearly feels good when you do it. Isn't that enough? After you watch 1. How does laughter make you feel? Laughter makes me feel happy. 2. What is your way to make other people laugh? Do you think the ability to create laughter is some kind of talent? I like to tell jokes or show people funny pictures or memes. I think some people certainly have a talent for creating laughter. A comedian may spend many years developing their skills to make a large crowd all laugh at the same time. Does laughter makes an important part in your life? How does laughter make you feel? Write down your understanding about laughter. Homework $$