Unit 1 Leisure Activities

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Unit 1 Leisure Activities

• leisure
• -- leisure activities
• -- leisure time

use of free time
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Part One Preparation

• 1. pictures of leisure activities
• 2. Categories of leisure activities
• 3. Chat How do you usually kill time (What are
  your favorite pastimes)?
• 4. Laughter and quick wits

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1. pictures of leisure activities
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Bowling
Golf
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shooting
Airsoft / WG
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tourism
river cruise
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crossword
library / reading
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2. Categories of leisure activities

• Outdoor activities
• Tourism (traveling)
• Sports activities playing tennis, playing table
  tennis, playing football, playing basketball,
  going swimming, going skating
• bowling, golf
• Thrill seeking kinds mountaineering, skiing,
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  white water rafting, bungee, parachute jump,
• shopping
• Indoor actitivities
• reading, listening to music, watching
  VCDs, watching a sports match, Playing Video
  games, playing musical instruments, playing
  cards
• Active activities
• sports activities, dancing, going to
  Karaoke bars,
• Passive activities
• going to a concert, going to movies, going
  to theaters, going to the bars (pubs),
• Recent ones are not much included

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3. Chat How do you usually kill time? (What
are your favorite pastimes?)

• Step 1 chat in small groups / talk to yourself
• Step 2 point out how your pastimes (leisure
  activities) affect your life

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4. Laughter and quick wits

• Learn the words and expressions in E2 (P2)
• some types of humors that you are familiar with
• Cross-talk
• A play on words
• Pun double entendre
• Clown Stand-up comedies
• --what makes people laugh in a certain type of
  humors? (cross-talk to many old people, a play on
  words, double entendre).

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(optional) watch the following comedies of
several comedians with their own styles.

• Spoof State of the Nation Address whatever you
  like
• stand-up comedies
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  Nazi healthcare
• 
  Cellphone
• 
  Gay vs. Black
• Joe Wong
• Try to answer the following two questions
• What makes those jokes funny?
• Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and some
  didnt?

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Part two Reading-centered Activities

• In-Class Reading
• Entertaining HumorWhats Funny
• After-Class Reading
• I Fatal Attraction
• II Wow, Would I Love to Do That

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In-class Reading

• Entertaining HumorWhats Funny?

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I. watch the following comedies of several
comedians with their own styles.

• Spoof State of the Nation Address whatever you
  like
• stand-up comedies
• 
  Nazi healthcare
• 
  Cellphone
• 
  Gay vs. Black
• Joe Wong
• Try to answer the following two questions
• What makes those jokes funny?
• Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and some
  didnt?

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II Find out the answers to the following
questions in the passage

• Q1 What makes a story funny? --para. 1, 2, 5
• Q2 Why do some people laugh at a joke while
  others dont?
• --para. 3
• Q3 List different types of humor, then define or
  illustrate them. --para. 612
• Q4 Tell the difference between A Play on Words
  and Puns,
• and the difference between Puns and
  Double Entendres
• Q5 What are the usual criticism of todays
  humor?
• And what is the authors response to those
  blames? Pra 13

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If you want to tell people a truth, youd better
make them laugh, or they would hate you.

• --more remarks on humor on P15-E5

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III. Language studies

• long / difficult sentences grammar writing
• A quick look at New Words phrases and
  expression
• Exercises Vocabulary

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After-Class Reading

• Passage I
• Students presentation
• Further exploration

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Further exploration

• the pattern / characteristics of whodunit
  novels para 2-7
• differences between the real world and whodunit
  world para 6,7 vs. para 8
• differences between whodunit and whydunit
  novels para 9
• new words
• assemble, aristocracy, loose end, (under)
  arrest, death penalty, convict, miscarriage of
  justice, unsettle, take on, exert
• E3-P26

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• Recommend
• Lie to me
• Castle

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After-Class Reading

• Passage II
• Students presentation
• Further exploration

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Further exploration

• Several phases from an amateur to a professional
  (in juggling performance)
• What he scared of at first
• All the turning points
• New words
• start over, auditorium, elation, try out, get
  through
• E2 P35

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• Part III Further Development
• 1. Enrich your word power
• Part IV Translation
• ????????(1)-- ??
• practice

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Preparation for quiz

• 1. dictation 10 new words
• 2. word formation part of speech
• 3. prepositions adverbs
• 4. translation EC, from ICR / ACR
• 5. Question answering What is it that makes a
  joke or a story funny? (50-80 words)