高一英语《A taste of English humour》课件4.ppt

Write down the examples that you make in exercise 3 on page 20. * 1. Fill in the chart below and note the connection between the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Pay attention to the words which do not have all the forms. performer/ performance humour astonish bore bore astonishment humour perform contentment fortune Verb Noun content entertainment charm Verb Noun charm entertain bored, boring astonishing humorous performing contented, content fortunate Adverb Adjective fortunately contentedly humorously astonishingly boringly entertaining charming Adverb Adjective charmingly entertainingly enjoyment overcome laughter cut off outstanding uncertain pick out throughout failure charge chew 2. Complete the passage with the words and phrases below in their proper forms. In the 1990s, Mr. Bean became a star using mime to highlight difficult social situations much as Charlie Chaplin had done. His method of acting was to appear _________, look around and then do exactly the wrong thing. Children particularly would burst into ________ at his behavior. He always managed to _______ those things that people are uncertain laughter pick out afraid of doing because they do not want to appear a social ______. On one occasion in a restaurant he ordered a steak tartare. When the uncooked meat arrived he was ________ by shame because he could not eat it. He _______ a piece of meat and pretended to _____ a mouthful but instead put it into the plant pot beside him. He put other pieces into his pocket. failure overcome cut off chew __________ the meal he seemed to show great __________ in his food. He was such an ___________ performer that when he finished eating his dinner, the waiter offered him the same dish again at no extra ______! Throughout enjoyment outstanding charge 3. Play a game How did you help your mother last weekend? One of you may ask the question and the other make as many sentences as you can using the ph