北师版（2019） 选择性必修二 Unit 4 Humour Topic Talk课件(共23张PPT)

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Unit 4 Humour
Topic Talk
北师大版（2019） 选择性必修二
Words and Phrases
1．______________ n. 喜剧；喜剧片
2．______________ 相声
3．______________ vi. & vt. 假装，装作
4．______________ adj. 幽默的，诙谐的
5．______________ n. （书、电影、戏剧的）情节
6．______________ n. 口音
7．______________ adj. 面部的；脸上的
8．______________ vi. 交流；交往；相互作用
comedy
cross talk
pretend
humorous
plot
accent
facial
interact
9．______________ n. 焦虑，不安，担心
10．______________ n. 舒适；健康；幸福
11．______________ adj. 重要的，重大的
12．______________ vt. 增强；改进；提高
13．______________ adj. 头晕目眩的
14．______________ adj. 不平衡的
15．______________ n. 挥动，挥舞；秋千 vi. & vt. （使）摆动；
（使）转动；朝······打去；荡秋千
anxiety
well-being
significant
enhance
dizzy
unbalanced
swing
Words and Phrases
Words and Phrases
16．______________ vi. 突然倒下
17．______________ adj. 难堪的，尴尬的
18．______________ vt. 消耗；吃；消费
19．______________ adj. 困惑的
20．______________ n. 潜力，潜能
adj. 潜在的，可能的
collapse
embarrassed
consume
confused
potential
Background Knowledge
humour
a situation that starts laughter and provides amusement
comedy
a literature genre that is humorous and usually has a happy ending
imitate
to copy the way someone behaves, speaks, moves, etc, especially in order to make people laugh
anxiety
the feeling of being very worried about something
Activity 1
1. Do you think it’s important that we laugh from time to time Why
2. What makes you laugh Why does it make you laugh
Example I think it is important that we laugh from time to time because ...
1. Do you think it’s important that we laugh from time to time Why
I think it is important that we laugh from time to time because ...
makes us relax
makes people feel good
boosts relationships
helps reduce embarrassment
helps us live longer
2. What makes you laugh Why does it make you laugh
I find puns and sarcasm funny. I enjoy the play on words and their meanings.
Read the Text Builder carefully to see if there is any word or expression you don’t understand.
Activity 2
trick
imitate
interact
give
enhance
teamwork
well with children
a sense of well-being
facial expressions
someone into doing funny acts
Match the expressions to make collocations.
Listen to the dialogue and complete the Text Builder by underlining the words or expressions you hear.
Activity 2
I love / like ______________.
My favourite kind of comedy is ______________.
Text Builder
Humour
Funny Things
funny stories, comedies, cross talks, clever jokes
when someone is tricked
when someone pretends to be someone else
Why do these things make us laugh
I think it is because __________.
Reasons
the humorous plots, the funny acts,
the clever conversations, the play on words
the accents they are able to imitate
the way they imitate facial expressions and the manner
the way they interact with one another
Listen to the dialogue and complete the Text Builder by underlining the words or expressions you hear.
Activity 2
Text Builder
Humour
Research shows that laughing has significant benefits; it __________, ____________ and ____________.
Laughing also __________.
So, it __________.
Benefits & Effects
adds joy to life
relieves stress and anxiety
relaxes the whole body
gives one a sense of well-being
encourages the brain to produce natural feel-good
chemicals
helps to make relationships stronger
enhances teamwork
Tapescripts
(C=Christina M=Ma Hua)
C: What makes you laugh, Ma Hua
M: There are so many things. I love funny stories and cross talks, and l also like comedies.
My favourite kind of comedy is when someone pretends to be someone else.
C: Yes, I like that, too. But why do these things make us laugh
M: Well, I think it is because of the humorous plots and funny acts. When people imitate
someone else, we laugh at the accents they are able to imitate, the way they imitate facial
expressions and the manner of the people.
C: Do you know why it is good for us to laugh
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M: You know, laughing also encourages the brain to produce natural feel-good chemicals. So,
it helps to make relationships stronger and enhance teamwork.
C: All this talk of laughter has made me want to watch something funny. Let’s go and find a
comedy to watch!
M: Yes. Research shows that laughing has significant benefits; it relieves stress and anxiety,
relaxes the whole body and gives one a sense of well-being.
C: That’s true.
Activity 3
Circle the statements which are true to you in the Text Builder.
Use the Text Builder to talk about humour and laughter in pairs.
e.g.:
funny things you would like to watch and why they make you laugh
Listen to the first part of the dialogue and complete the diagram.
Activity 4
I had my first boxing match.
I attacked back
with ___________.
a wild swing
The hit landed on Mr Zhao’s ____.
nose
As a result,
he ________.
collapsed
I ran up to him and tried to __________.
held him up
He pushed me away, __________________
and ______ to his feet.
gathered himself
got up
I was so ____________
that I wanted the floor
__________ and consume me.
embarrassed
to open up
He put his free hand on my shoulder and said _________
“Son, you’ve got real potential. That was an excellent hit!”
Tapescripts
(D=David J=Jia Lan)
D: You’ll never believe what happened to me, Jia Lan—I don’t think I’ll ever live it down.
J: Why, what happened, David
D: You know I’ve been learning to box. I had my first boxing match the other day and Mr.
Zhao was the referee—and you know what a strict teacher he is.
J: I know. We’re all terrified of him.
D: In the second round, I took such a hard hit from my opponent that I felt dizzy and
unbalanced. I wasn’t sure where I was. In defence, I attacked back with a wild swing. It
was so wild that instead of the hit landing on my opponent, it landed on Mr Zhao’s nose.
As a result, he collapsed!
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J: Oh no! What happened then
J: You must have felt so bad.
D: I was so embarrassed that I wanted the floor to open up and consume me.
D: I was shocked. I ran up to him and tried to help him up. I said sorry over and over again.
He pushed me away, gathered himself and got up to his feet.
J: And your opponent
D: He was confused and didn’t know if he should carry on hitting me, or stop and help Mr
Zhao—so he just stood there.
J: And Mr Zhao—what happened then
D: He put his free hand on my shoulder and said, “Son, you’ve got real potential. That was
an excellent hit!”
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Activity 5
Laughter strengthens our immune system, boosts mood, reduces pain, and protects us from the negative effects of stress.
Laughter is the best medicine.
— A Chinese proverb
大笑是一剂良药。
—— 谚语
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Activity 5
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), an English film actor, director, producer, playwright and composer who received an Honorary Academy Award in 1972.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
— Charlie Chaplin
没有笑声的一天是虚度了的一天。
—— 查理·卓别林
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Activity 5
Peter Ustinov (1921-2004), a Russian-English actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker and opera director.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
— Peter Ustinov
喜剧是用搞笑的方式诠释严肃。
—— 彼得·乌斯蒂诺夫
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Activity 5
Lorrie Moore (born in 1957), an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous short stories.
I don’t sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
— Lorrie Moore
我从没试图坐下来去创作一则搞笑的故事。我坐下来写的每一个故事本意是表达悲伤的。
—— 洛丽·摩尔
知识拓展
Moore’s literary career began at the precocious age of nineteen, when she won Seventeen’s fiction award; she was an English major at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York at the time. After graduating, she moved to New York City, where she was a paralegal (律师助理), and then enrolled in the M.F.A. program in writing at Cornell University. In 1985, her first collection of short stories, Self-Help, was published to considerable critical acclaim.
The following year brought her inclusion in the influential anthology (选集) 20 Under 30, as well as her first novel, Anagrams, which challenged some more timid reviewers with its experimental form. A children’s book, The Forgotten Helper, was published in 1987 (and rereleased in 2000). In 1989, “You’re Ugly, Too” became the first of Moore’s many stories to appear in The New Yorker (notwithstanding the fact that the quirks (古怪) of its prose broke a number of the magazine’s infamous rules of style and diction).
In 1990 that story was published with seven others in Like Life, a collection that demonstrated Moore’s remarkable ability to juggle everyday outrage and high tragedy with a hand so deft that her most poignant passages are often also the most hilarious or sardonic. With her second book of stories Moore’s reputation as a story writer was cemented, but it was her third, Birds of America, that firmly superglued her to the pantheon (名人) of contemporary American writers. For the first time, the praise of critics and her cult status among literary readers was matched by a several-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. But Moore does not define herself as primarily a short-story writer: halfway into writing the stories in Birds of America—an eight-year endeavor—there came a second novel,
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital and she is presently at work on her third.
Since the mid-eighties, she has taught English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she holds the Delmore Schwartz Professorship in the Humanities.
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