高二英语选修六：Unit 1 Laughter is good for you Project 课件.ppt

Project Putting on a play1. Have you ever seen dramas either on TV or in a theatre? 2. Have you ever acted in a drama? 3. In your opinion, in order to put on a drama, what preparations should be made? cast, script, stage and othersdramastagecastscriptotherslightsscenerysetcurtainsmicrophone wingsthemelinesstage directionacts/ scenesactorsdirectoractressesbudgetpropscostumesThe invisible benchRead the comic plays on your book and answer the following questions.1. Is there a bench in the courtyard?It is in the physical style of comedy. Actors use body language to perform the play.No, there isn’t. 2. What kind of comedy does this play use?The important papers1. What kind of comedy does this play use? The play uses the style of prop. Actors use the prop — toilet paper and some other papers to perform the play.The King.2. Who do you think is the maincharacter in the play?3. Why are the others unable to understand him?Toilet paper.Because he was a king and he says that he wants important papers. The others would mistake them for some official documents.4. What does the King actually want?The playwright uses a play upon words — important paper and toilet paper — to make people laugh.5. How does the playwright make the play funny?What do you think the playwright of each play wants to tell us?The two plays have a similarity. Both the plays tell us a phenomenon in our society. A group of people around us are hypocritical and proud of themselves. They save their faces at all costs, but actually they will suffer from their own actions.The playwrights write the plays in an ironic way. This kind of play always leads us to thinking, because they always reflect some social problems around us.Act out one of the plays. Allocate the different tasks among your group members. After your performance, we’ll decide which group’s performance is the best, and who is the best actor / actress / director.invisible adj. 1) impossible to see: e.g. The aircraft is designed to be invisible to radar.飞机设计的是隐形雷达。

1. I am sitting on an invisible bench, of course. These bacteria are invisible unless viewed with a microscope. 这些细菌是看不见的除非用显微镜 2) [before noun] describes money that is added to a country’s economy by activities such as the service and financial industries rather than the production of goods in factories.e.g. An increase in invisible exportsTourism brings in 40% of the island’s invisible earnings.隐匿的出国旅游业的增长给这个岛、屿的隐性收入带来40%的增长You can see the stars on a clear night, but in the daytime they are ________. A. unavoidable B. invisible C. inaccessible D. unavailable2. You should join us. It’s nice and cosy.cosy adj. comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building) because small and warm e.g. This room is nice and cosy in the winter.这间屋子在冬天很舒适。

He showed me into a cosy little room. 他把我带到一个舒适的小房间 3. It got too crowded, so I moved the bench.crowd adj. full of people e.g. By ten o’clock the bar was crowded. 十点钟酒吧就挤满了人group noun [C] a large group of people who have gathered together e.g. A crowd of about 15,000 attended the concert.大约15000人出席音乐会You look like you are sitting on an invisible bench. 【分析】 1) 句子结构分析：you为主语，look为谓语动词，like you are sitting on an invisible bench为状语 2) 语言知识分析：like为连词，相当于as if / as though，意为“好像，就像”难句解析词语辨析 look, glance, stare和glare 这四个词都有“看”的含义，一般都作不及 物动词，常跟介词at构成动词词组。

• look表示将视线集中于某物，仅表示视觉对某个对象的注意当要表示注意某物时，要用look如：look at me；look at the blackboard等• glance的原义为“闪现”，如活动着的反 光物体在阳光下闪烁，后来演变为“迅速 地看”，即“扫视”glance at 瞥一眼 • stare指出于惊讶、愤怒、厌烦、无礼或 无知而“长时间地看”、“凝视”如： staring into the distance 凝视着远方 • glare表示由于羡慕、恐惧、惊讶或 无知而“用恐吓、凶狠或愤怒的眼光看”，即“怒目而视”或“瞪着”e.g. They glared at me with hate. 他们用仇恨的目光瞪着我用look，stare，glare或glance的适当形式填空 1. They were ________ at the animal because it was the first time they had seen this kind of animal.looking2. The boy just ________ at the girl because he was shy. 3. He ______ at his roommate because the guy had broken his walkman. 4. He ______ at the visitors in disbelief, because they claimed to have come from another planet.glancedglaredstaredRead the article in Part A on age 101 in the Workbook, and then write a summary of the play they performed。