2017-2018学年高中英语 Unit 1 Laughter is good for you Section Ⅰ Welcome to the unit amp; Reading-Pre-reading教学案 牛津译林版选修6.docVIP

Unit 1 Laughter is good for you Section Ⅰ Welcome to the unit amp; Reading-Pre-reading Laughter can boost immunity(免疫力), lower pain, relax your muscles and add more joy or interest to your life, which helps you to lead a healthy life. But some jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone elses expense. What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher (哲学家) Aristotle looked on jokes as the pleasure from a feeling of winning by showing were better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle, showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are not usually acceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes are so popular with certain people. Besides, all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something strange or out of place because its different from things happening around it. A good joke-teller must be outgoing and humorous, and always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens, and so we laugh. Section_ⅠWelcome to the unit Reading — Pre-reading Stand up for① your health! People have always enjoyed laughing, and there has always been humour.One favourite type of comedy is called stand-up②.Stand-up is a kind of comedy that is done on a stage③ by a comedian④ talking straight to audience members⑤. A stand-up comedian may tease⑥ an audience member, or might decide to tell different jokes depending upon how the audience reacted to⑦ his or her previous⑧ jokes. ①stand up for支持，维护 ②stand-up/st?nd?p/n.单口喜剧 adj.(喜剧)单人表演的 ③stage/steId?/n.舞台；阶段，时期 that引导的定语从句，修饰a kind of comedy。 ④comedian/k?mi?dI?n/n.喜剧演员，滑稽演员 ⑤现在分词短语talking straight to audience members作后置定语，修饰a comedian。 ⑥tease/ti?z/vt.取笑；揶揄；戏弄 ⑦react to对……作出反应