Unit 3 A taste of English humour Using language 课件（20张PPT）

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Unit 3 A taste of English humour
Using Language
Humour

What are the differences between the pictures and the video you’ve just watched?
Speaking
English jokes
There are thousands of jokes which
use “play on words” to amuse us.
Now read some of these customer
and waiter jokes and match the joke
with the explanation on P22.
1 C: What’s that fly doing in my soup?
W: Swimming. I think!
2 C: What’s that?
W: It’s bean soup.
C: I don’t want to know what it’s been.
I want to know what it is now.
3 C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long?
W: No, sir. Round.
B
A
C
Explanation
A. The first person is asking for information about time. The second person treats it as a question about shape.
B. The first person is angry about something and wants to say “Why is this here?” The second person treats it as a request for information and gives an answer to the question.
C. The answer to the question contains a word which, when spoken, can have two meanings.
Pre-listening---Prediction
While-listening---Main idea (Part I)
While-listening---Details (Part II)
Listening: A funny story

Background
Jam is a thick sweet substance made by boiling fruit with sugar, often sold in jars and spread on bread.
John

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Mary
Plums(李子) in the pan
Chickens
1. What is the relationship between Mary and John?
2. What did Mary and John do with the plums in the pan?
3. What happened to the chickens?
plum
Mary made some _____ but left some in the _______ for a few days as she had to go to look after her sick ______. Some days later, her ________ John, who knew nothing about the jam, came home and threw it into the _____________.

2. While-listening-----Main idea (Part I) Listen to the first part of the story and try to complete the following passage.
jam
pan

mother
husband
chicken yard

Before listening to the second part, try to put these sentences below in order. Then listen to the recording and check if you were right.
2. While-listening-----Details (Part II)
___ Mary got angry with John.
___ Mary saw the chickens behaving strangely.
___ John was sorry.
___ The chickens enjoyed the jam.
___ John said he thought the jam was porridge.
___ Mary looked at the red mess on the ground.
___ John said the chickens were drunk.
___ Mary came home.
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Read the Funny Story
2. What happened actually?
Someone has stolen their tent.
1. How did Watson answer Holmes’ question?
--I think of how short life is and how long the universe lasted.
--I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is.
--I think of how cold the universe is and how warm people can be in their beds.
Read the story on P22 and then change it into a short dialogue.

Act it in groups of three—Holmes, Watson and a narrator.
Show Time
Teacher: Why do birds fly south?
Student: Because it’s too far to walk !
Creative Thinking
Complete the dialogues in a funny way.
? ? ? ? ?
Teacher : Sam, you talk a lot !
Sam : It's a family tradition.
Teacher : What do you mean?
Sam : Sir, my grandpa was a lawyer and my father is a teacher.
Teacher : What about your mother?
Sam : Well, she's a woman !


Smile to life,
and you’ll get a smile back.
Humour exists in our daily lives.
Homework
Try to make a funny story of your own. While writing, be sure to write in a logical order.
(First, then, next, at last/finally)