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Sayings about Laugh
What is humour?
Humour is a word means making others laugh. If someone often makes others laugh, we say he is humorous and we call him a humorist. The question of whether or not something is humorous is a matter of personal taste.
humor
Forms of humour
mime and farce
comedy
Farce is a comedy which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication.
Mime is a performance using gestures and body movements without words.
Sketch is a short humorous scene on stage, television, etc.
Cross talk, Chinese comic dialogue, is an art form, exchanging clever remarks between two people, or performed by one or several persons.
Clowns are comical performers, usually characterized by their fantastic appearance: colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, red-nose, etc., who entertain spectators by acting in a hilarious fashion.
Can you name out some of the comedic actors you like?
Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series of 14 half-hour episodes. The first episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1990, with the final episode, Hair by Mr. Bean of London, on 15 November 1995.
The title character Mr. Bean is described as “a child in a grown man’s body”.
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer, most famous for his work in the sitcoms Mr. Bean and his voiceover work in Walt Disney’s The Lion King. He has been listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
What do you like laughing at?
Are you good at making people laugh? In what way? Give an example.
Do you know who he is?
Charlie Chaplin
He is one of the most famous humorists that can make others laugh all the time. What do you know about his films?
The Kid
special Oscar
It is about the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and the kind of humour we can all laugh at – nonverbal humour.
Fast reading
What is the main idea of the passage?
He died in _____ in __________.
Charlie Chaplin
He was born in
_____.
His job is
________.
He was given__________
__________________________in 1972.
His type of acting is _____________.
His charming character is
_____________.
1889
an actor
mime and farce
the little tramp
1977
Switzerland
Oscar for his outstanding work
a special
Careful reading
Para. 1 The world situation
Para. 2 Charlie’s childhood
Para. 3 His famous film character
Para. 4 An example of his work
Para. 5 His achievements
Read the passage again and write down the
main idea of each paragraph.
1. How did Charlie Chaplin become famous?
He became famous for using a particular form of acting, including mime and farce.
2. Give a description of the little tramp,
Chaplin’s famous character.
Answer the questions.
He wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat, carrying a walking stick.
Because he had the determination to
overcome difficulties.
3. Why was the little tramp loved by many people around the world?
4. Which film of Chaplin is mentioned in Para.3-4?
The Gold Rush.
Choose the best answers.
1. Charlie Chaplin made people laugh when they felt depressed, so they felt ______.
less satisfied with their lives
more content with their lives
more worried about their lives
they had a miserable life
B
2. Explain “Laughter is the sun that drives
winter from the human face”.
A. Laughter is the power to drive winter away
and welcome warm spring.
B. Laughter can keep one’s face warm,
especially during freezing winter.
C. Laughter can make people forget their
problems and make them feel happy.
C
3. In The Gold Rush, Chaplin and his
friend eat a pair of shoes because ___.
A. they are interested in it
B. the shoes are delicious
C. they want to make the people laugh
D. they are very hungry
D
4. Chaplin was given a special Oscar for _______.
A. the characters he played in his films
B. the films he directed
C. the joy he gave us in his films
D. the contributions he made in films
D
5. What’s the author’s attitude to Charlie
Chaplin?
A. positive
B. negative
C. serious
D. appreciative
D
Time :
Place :
Job in the film :
in the middle of the 19th century
California, USA
panning for gold
What troubles did they meet in California?
They ____________ on the edge of a mountain in a ___________ in a small wooden house.
were caught
snowstorm
The Gold Rush
1. Cut off the leather top of the shoe.
2. Pick out the laces and eat them
3.Try cutting and eating the bottom of the
shoe.
4.Treat it as if it were the finest meat.
5. Sit down at the table with plate and
drinking up.
Put the sentences in the correct order.
Tell true or false.
1. Chaplin learnt acting after his mother.
2. People love the character “the little champ”, mainly for he was poor and homeless.
3. In the middle of 19th century people went to California to look for gold.
4. Chaplin performed how to eat a boiled shoe by action and explaining.
F
T
F
F
Retell the passage according to the questions.
Why did people need cheering up?
2. What was Charlie’s childhood like?
3. What was his most famous character like? Give a sad example of a sad situation that he made funny.
4. What were his achievements?
In Britain and America people were feeling miserable because of the bad economic situation. Charlie understood their problems. His character “the little tramp” was poor and homeless, but everybody loved him for his kind heart and the way he dealt with his difficult situation. Charlie Chaplin made people laugh at some of these terrible situations like being without food or money. He wrote and directed his own films and received an Oscar for his outstanding work.
Explain the sentence in your own words.
Charlie brightened the lives of American and British through two world wars.
2. Find a sentence in the passage similar in meaning to the following one.
Charlie’s real life was not so comfortable as it was showed in his films.
3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.
You may find it astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.
Finish the following tasks.
A scene from The Gold Rush
Humour is everywhere in our daily life.
We can be optimistic no matter what
difficulties you meet, just as Charlie
Chaplin was.
Take turns to be Charlie and a reporter
to interview him, using the information
from the reading.
1. Do you think Chaplin’s poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?
2. Do you like his acting style? Why?
3. Why do you think he was so successful?
4. What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?
Act out a situation by using nonverbal humour.
in a hurry
slide on a banana skin
bump into someone else round a corner
carry a heavy box
2.Which is faster, hot or cold?
Hot---You can catch a cold.
3. Why is the library the tallest building?
Because it has the most stories.
4.Which is the terrible month for soldiers?
March.
5.What two words have the most letters?
Post office.
1.Which of your parents is your nearest relative?
Mother.
6. What kind of ships do students study in school?
Scholarships.
7. What part of a clock is always old?
8. Why is the river very rich?
Because it has two banks.
9. What can you see with your eyes shut?
A dream.
10. I have cities but no houses; forests but no
trees; rivers without water. What am I?
A map.
The second hand.
Homework
Surf the Internet to find more information about Chaplin and you are expected to present it to your classmates in the next class.
