Unit 1 Laughter is good for you
Part One  Teaching Design
第一部分  教学设计
●  Task  Writing to a foreign friend
This section consists of a series of activities which provide you with opportunities to learn and practice the listening, speaking, reading and writing skill. This section is divided into three steps and each step is preceded with a skills building part. Through listening and reading, you will get information about Chinese crosstalk. You are asked to use the information you have got to write an e-mail to a foreign friend answering his questions about Chinese crosstalk.
Skills building 1: identifying priorities
In this part, you will learn how to identify the most important part and the least important part of a task.
Now look at the sentences on the blackboard.
I need to know how many of you will go to watch the play this Saturday. I’ll have to book the tickets.
I want to know why you are so interested in the play.
I would like to know how you will go to the theatre.
Discuss in your groups and decide which one means the most important request and which one is the least important request. And give me your reasons. ( Do not judge whether their answers are right or not directly. Take notes of the reasons beside the sentences on the blackboard.)
If you want to know whether your judgment is right or wrong, you can refer to the guideline and the three points in skills building 1 on page 10.
Now have you known how to identify the most urgent request? Let’s come back to the sentences on the blackboard and check if you have judged correctly.
Step 1: answering questions
This part is designed to help you develop your listening skills. You are first asked to take some notes while listening to a telephone message and decide which requests are the most important, somewhat important or the least important, according to what you have learnt in Skills building 1. Then you will listen to an English radio talk show and read a magazine article to get more information needed to find the answers to the questions asked by a foreign friend.
1 read Part A on page 10 to make sure what you are asked to do when listening to the recording. While listening, you should take some notes and pay attention to the words used in Bill’s requests, so you decide what is the most important , somewhat important or the least important.
Tapescript
Bill: Hi, this is Bill! I’m sorry you are not at home. I need to ask you some questions. My teacher
has asked us to write a report about a form of comedy. I want to writhe about Chinese
crosstalk. Can you answer my questions about crosstalk and then e-mail me back the
answers? I’d appreciate it so much!
First, I need to know some basic information about crosstalk: What is crosstalk? When did it
start? What are the different parts of a crosstalk performance? I also would like to know
where one can hear it or see it. Do you watch it in a theatre or on television, or do you list3n
to it in the radio?
I want some information about famous crosstalk performers too, both living and dead. Please
tell me their names, and if they performed recently or a long time ago. If there are any
famous foreign crosstalk performers, then I would like to know about them.
The other thing I would like to know about is if it is possible to learn Chinese crosstalk. Do
people study it at school? Can I learn it outside of China? Do I need to speak Chinese to
enjoy crosstalk?
I know I have a lot of questions. I hope it is not a problem for you to answer them. Thank
you for your time. I’ll talk to you again soon. Bye!
Play the tape again for the students to check.
Answers:
A 1 most important        2 most important      3 most important      4 least important
  5 somewhat important    6 somewhat important  7 somewhat important  8 least important 9 least important      10 least important      11 least important      12 least important
2 Now read the guidelines of Part B on page 11 to know what you should do to finish this part. Then listen to the radio talk show and make corrections. If you are not sure about your answers, I’ll let you listen to it again.
Tapescript:
Laura: Welcome to “Talking Comedy”, a show where we learn about different forms of comedy around the world. I’m your host, Laura Laughs. resolve a doi nameToday we’re talking about crosstalk, a traditional form of Chinese comedy. Our guest on the show is Cao Jun, a student who loves Chinese crosstalk. Welcome to the show!
Cao Jun: Thanks, it is great to be here!
Laura: Can you tell us a little bit about crosstalk?
Cao Jun: Of course! Crosstalk began during the Qing Dynasty, over 150 years ago. Performers then traveled between villages and did small comic performances. People liked these small comic performances very much. Eventually, some of the performers became quite famous. For may years, you could turn on the radio at anytime and hear people doing crosstalk in China. Now, the best time to see or heart crosstalk is in television during the Spring Festival.
Laura: What happens during a crosstalk performance?
Cao Jun: Crosstalk involves talking, imitating, telling jokes and singing. The talking is normally between two performers, who use language in clever ways that make people laugh. There is also a one-person form of crosstalk, and it is also sometimes done by three or more people. Unlike Western stand-up comedy, where comedians tell jokes that are only loosely related, a crosstalk performer tells a whole story. It has a clear beginning, middle and end.
Laura: Most of our English audience has never heard about crosstalk, so this is all new to them.
Cao Jun: Yes, that is because crosstalk is always done in Chinese. Crosstalk is not performed in English, and you must understand both the Chinese language and Chinese culture to understand the humor in it.
Laura: Well, Cao Jun, that is just another reason for people to study Chinese!
Cao Jun: Yes, it is.
Laura: Thanks for joining us in the show.
Cao Jun: My pleasure.
I will play the tape again for you to check.
Answers:
B 2 None of the crosstalk performers became famous.          some
  3 For many years, you could turn on the TV at any time and find a crosstalk performance. 
    radio
  4 A crosstalk performance involves talking, imitating, singing and dancing.    telling jokes
  5 Crosstalk can be done by two people only.  one person, two people, three people or more
  6 If you listen to a crosstalk performance, you will hear part of a story.  a whole story
  7 Crosstalk is sometimes performed in English.    never
8 You don not need to understand the Chinese language and Chinese culture to enjoy crosstalk. 
  must
3 Please check the answers that you have got to the questions in Part A to see if there are some questions to which you have not found the answers. Let’s read the article in Part C and underline the answers you need.

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