新人教必修四 Unit3 A taste of English humour-Listening.pptVIP

Listening Listening on P23 Listen to Part 1 and write down the main idea? Mary made some jam but left some on the kitchen table for a few days as she had to go to look after her sick mother. Some days later, John, knowing nothing about the jam, came home and threw it into the chicken yard. Listen to Part 1 again and answer these questions. What was Mary going to do with the cooked plums in the pan? She was going to put them in the fridge later when they had cooled down. 2. What did John think Mary should have done with the mess in the pan? He thought she should have thrown it out for the chickens to eat. Fill in the blanks. THE STORY OF THE DRUNKEN CHICKENS Mary Smith looked at the beautiful ripe plums. They would make lovely jam. When she had finished the cooking, she filed all her empty jam jars and left the rest of the jam in the pan. She would put it in the fridge when it was cooler. But just then the telephone rang, her mother was in hospital after a car accident. Mary picked up her bag and ran out of the house. Some days later, her husband, John, came home from a business trip. He had been travelling all day and felt like having a drink and a piece of cake. As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan with a dark red mess inside it. He lifted it up and smelled it. It smelled bad. Mary must have forgotten to clean this pan, he thought. So he poured all the jam into the chicken yard and cleaned the pan. Then feeling comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake. When Mary returned, she noticed the chickens behaving strangely. They were running round the yard as if they were sick. She saw the dark red mess on the ground and went closer. When she saw a plum stone she went into the kitchen. Her husband was reading a newspaper at the table. Angrily Mary rushed up to him. “You threw away my jam,” she shouted. “Oh, that’s what it was,” he said. “I’m sorry but I thought it was porridge which had gone bad in the hot weather. “Go