高一英语必修四Unit3_warming up.ppt

8 7 6 5 4 3 Unit 3 A Taste of English Humor My family is worse off. (I am poorer and unhappier.) I don’t feel content with my life. ( I am bored with my life.) I became homeless. (no home) I feel I am unfortunate/unlucky and I am a failure. I feel depressed/ down. How can you make me laugh and cheer me up? How many kinds of humour do you know? funny poems cross talk 相声 Types of humor funny stories comedy mime 哑剧 sketch小品 jokes Two Pieces of Cake Tom: Mom, can I have two pieces of cake, please? Mom: Certainly -- take this piece and cut it two! Birthday Professor: When is your birthday? Kid: May 30. Professor: Which year? Kid: Every year. Does the jokes funny and where the humour comes in the jokes? These funny jokes are humourous in the last line which called the “punchline” in English hummour. Policeman: Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? Thief: Well, I stole a dress from that shop but my wife didn’t like it. So I had to go back and change it twice? Joke 1: The joke is funny because the wife wanted to change the dress her husband had given her. If women pay for their dresses they can, of course, change them if they do not like them. However, the wife is treating the dress as if the husband has bought it for her when he has really stolen it. People do not usually change stolen goods if they do not like them. They may get caught as they have done. So that is why this joke is funny. Teacher: You say that John Jones has a cold and cannot come to school today. Who am I speaking to? Voice: Oh, this is my father. Look at the chart and thinking. Why the chart has been divided into two parts? Types of humour Typical actors / writers of English humour Nonverbal Mime Charlie Chaplin Mr Bean Verbal Jokes, funny stories, funny poems comedy Mark Twain Edward Lear Marx Brothers Nonverbal humour does not use words but relies on facial expressions and gesture; Charlie Chaplin Mr Bean is funny because he ma