求高一英语Cartoons and Comic Strips课文

Unit 6 Cartoons and Comic Strips

Teaching aims:

1. To enable students to know more about and talk freely about cartoons and comic

strips;

2. To develop students’ imagination and ability to describe pictures;

3. To find the food for thought in cartoons and comic strips .

Teaching procedure:

I. Lead in

1. Lead in the topic through several pictures.

2. Look at the cartoon and answer the following questions.

Where is the man sitting? What does the man have in his hands? Is he reading it or not? What’s he doing?

What’s the boy holding? What’s the paper? Where is it? Do you think “2” is good grade? Why is it held that way?

What do you think the man will do after he reads the report?

II. 1. Skim the text and choose a headline to every paragraph.

Para. A The birth of cartoons and comic strips.

Para. B The definition of the cartoon and the comic strip.

Para. C The significance of the cartoon.

Para. D A description of the cartoon

Para. E The present condition of traditional hand-drawn comics.

Para. F Both adults and children enjoy reading cartoons and comic strips.

Para. G Some well-known characters and topics of today’s cartoons and

comic strips.

2. Read Para A and answering the following questions.

How were cartoons and comic strips born?

When did comic strips come into being?

3. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

An Cartoon is that deals with something of interest in the news.

Comic strips are that tells a funny story.

4. Read Para C together.

5. According to Para D, What’s the significance of the cartoon?

6. Fill in the blanks with the words in the circle.

justice, Batman, sympathy, imagine, household words, fancy animals, adults, ordinary people, Garfield the Cat

Today the characters in cartoons and comic strips range from children to , pets to , and to superheroes. Mickey Mouse and make children think and actively. Superman and bring villains of all sorts to . Father and Son expresses human love and in lively comic strips. Their names have become .

7. Discussion: Do you think computer-made comics will in the end replace hand-drawn ones? Why or why not?

8. Read the text and arrange the sentences in a proper order.

1. For a period of time only adults took an interest in cartoons and comic strips.

2. People used cartoons to draw readers’ attention to some interesting points in the news.

3. Children become faithful readers of cartoons and comic strips.

4. Computer-made comics went side by side with hand-drawn ones.

5. Cartoons and comic strips became known to the world as a means of expressing people’ s feelings.

III. Homework:

Read the new words and the text fluently.

Write a story according to the comic strips on Page 84.