【名校课件】人教版必修4：unit3AtasteofEnglishHumor（usinglanguage）.pptVIP

;Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke. Can you match the joke with the explanation.;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. ;The first person is asking for information about time. The second person treats it as a question about shape. The second person treats it as a request for information, and gives an answer to the question. ;More jokes ;Little Johnny feels sorry for teacher A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology(哲学) courses. She started up her class by saying Everyone who thinks youre stupid, stand up! After a few seconds, Little Johnny stood up. The teacher said, Do you think youre stupid, Little Johnny?” No, maam, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!!;Write down your story in a logical order: First … Then… Next … Finally/At last …;;3. The instruction booklet says it should not be touched “without permission”. 4. He decides to get a new one so no one will ever know. ;A true story of Mr Hills Mr Hills in London bought a hedge cutter made in China. It was very small and very cheap and it worked very well. At first he was very pleased with it. It made his hedges look smart and neat. Then one day it broke down. There was nothing he could do to make;it work. He took it apart and put it together again but still it would not work. Next he took out the booklet of instructions to see if they had any z x xkadvice for him. Imagine his amazement when he saw these words written in the booklet. “No one is to touch or try to repair this hedge cutter without;permission.” What was he to do? Should he have written to the manufacturers in Beijing before he had took his hedge cutter mended? Mr. Hills thought long and hard. Finally he went back to the shop and bought another hedge cutter. He put his old one in the dustbin. He thought no one would ever know what he had done.