课件32张PPT。北师大 高二 (6)
Unit 17Unit 17
LaughterLesson 3
My favourite Comedy1. Do you like to watch comedies? Why or why not?
2. What is your favorite funny movie or TV programme? Why?
3. Who is your favorite TV comedian? Why?Free talkBackgroundWhere is Mr. Bean?In a fancy restaurant. Pre-readingWhat’s on his table?(wine)
glassenvelopeSauce cupSugar bowlnapkinTiny vasebunPlate/
saucer Reading Strategies1. First, read the text to get the general idea. Then read the questions and use them to guide you.While-reading2. Sometimes things are not stated explicitly in the text. You need to make inferences or read between the lines to understand what is meant.
3. Read the text again using logic to make inferences.Read the text quickly and find out the main idea of the lesson and match the topic with different paragraphs.It’s about _________ and one of his ______________.Fast-readingMr Beancomedies/films Read Text 1 and answer the
questions.
1. Why has Mr. Bean gone to a fancy
restaurant on this particular day?
2. Does Mr. Bean have many friends?
How do you know?Second-reading3. Why does Mr. Bean choose the
“steak tartare”?
4. Why does Mr. Bean pretend to
like the food when the waiters talk to him?1. Mr Bean is in a fancy restaurant because it’s his birthday. We know that because he has brought a birthday card with him that he signs and gives to himself. Answers:2. He doesn’t have many friends because, if he did, they would be at his birthday dinner as well.
3. Mr Bean chooses the “steak tartare” because it is the only dish he can pay for. The rest are too expensive. 4. He is trying to be polite and he doesn’t want the waiters to know that he usually doesn’t go to fancy restaurants.Useful phrases
1. He becomes so desperate in the end that he even hides some inside the purse of a woman sitting near him and throws some down the trousers of the restaurant’s violinist!
hopeless
people who major in playing violin2. The humor is always made clear
through a series of simple and funny acts that rely purely on body
language, which is universal.
many /only 3. When he looks at the menu, an
astonished look swiftly appears on
his face.
a surprised facial expression
quickly4. He makes an attempt to eat it, but it is clear from the look on his face that he finds the taste truly disgusting.
try to do sth.
really bad Read the second passage, and try to work out the main idea of the second passage.
The passage talks about the actor who plays Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson.1. How do you know that Rowan Atkinson is not like his famous character Mr. Bean? In what ways is he different?
2. Did Rowan Atkinson’s parents encourage him to become an actor? Why or why not? Read Text 2 and answer the
questions.3. Does Rowan Atkinson like to
work with other talented people?
How do you know? Answers:1. We know that he’s not like Mr Bean because Rowan Atkinson is very educated and Me Bean is not. Mr Bean has an ugly little car but Rowan Atkinson has a collection of nice cars.2. No, they didn’t. His teachers encouraged him to be an actor. Rowan Atkinson’s father didn’t see the value of television. They also lived on a farm and his parents seemed to prefer that he get a good education. 3. Yes, he does. He didn’t want to become an actor until he met a talented group of people when he was at university. 1. …, then you are in for a surprise.
You will be surprised.
2. At Oxford, he obtained his Master’s degree in electrical engineering. This might explain his interest in fast cars, of which he has a vast collection.Words and phrases got his Master’s /Bachelor’/Doctor’s
degree. That is why he is so interested
in …
3. Rowan’s career change from an electrical engineer to a famous comedian was partly due to some speaking problems he had in his childhood.
be because of4. He compensated for this by talking very deliberately.
make up for (弥补) …
intentionally
5. This may have inspired the abnormal speech patterns of many of his characters.
activated / not normal 6. Although his teachers predicted a career in acting, Rowan was not convinced himself, until he met a group of talented people at university, who were involved in theatre, and he realized this could be a career for him. tell sth. in advance / sure
take part in sth./participate in sth. 7. It was one of those things which
happen very rarely in your life,
when you realise you are in the
presence of genius. I was convinced
he would be more famous than Chaplin.
seldom / be faced withRetell the second passage according
the following clues:
When he was young, he … ,
who …. He studied in the same ....
At 13, he earned … to study in a …. SpeakingLater he studied … in … university.
He was so interested in … that he had
a vast … of ….
There are two reasons for his change
of career: the first, he had some
problems in …, so he compensated
for this by talking intentionally. Thank you!