Show some funny pictures and see which picture can make you laugh.

StepⅡ Warming up

1) How many kinds of humour do know about?

(Tips: jokes, sketch, funny stories and poems,cross-talk, mine, comedy and etc.)

2) What kind of humour does these pictures show us?

(Tips: There are Charlin Chaplin's mine, Mark Tain's funny stories and some famous Chinese humourists' performance.)

3) A definition of humour.

(Tip: Humour is a word means making others laugh. If someone often makes others laugh. We say he is humourous. We call him a humourist.)

StepⅢ Reading

1. Pre-reading

Show some pictures and ask who he is, make a brief introduction of Charlin Chaplin: He is one of the most famous humourists that can make others laugh all the time. He was a great silent movie stars.Modern Times, The Little Tramp, The gold Rush, City Light are his masterpieces.)

2. Skimming

1) The main idea of the passage.

(Tip: The humour Chaplin made in his films.)

2) Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

para.1 a) What Charlie's most famous character was like

para.2 b)Why peaple needed cheering

para.3 c)His achievements

para.4 d)What Charlie's childhood was like

para.5 e)An example of a sad situation that he made funny

(Tips: b d a e c)

3. Scanning

Read the passage and do some true or false.

1. Charlie Chaplin was poor when he was a small boy.

2. People who don't know English cannot enjoy Chaplin's films.

3.The Gold Rush is set in California in the late of the nineteenth century.