人教版高中英语必修四课件Unit 3 Workbook listening%26reading(共51张PPT).ppt

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Workbook □thief □professor □potatoes □carrots □mushrooms □midnight □shirt □trousers □spread □quiet 2 Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions. 1. Where did Peter get the potatoes? Peter was given the potatoes by a friend. 2. Why didn’t Peter want to get up when the thief was in his house? He thought the thief might have a knife and he did not want to make him angry. 3. Why couldn’t the thief take away the potatoes? 4. How did Peter stop the man stealing the potatoes？ 5. Why was the thief angry? 6. What do you think Peter did next? Listening text Long ago, there lived a poor couple, Peter and his wife. They had no money to buy food and lived a very hard life. One day they were given some potatoes by a friend and put them on the floor. When evening came, they went to bed. At midnight, a thief stole into their house. It was very dark. The wife heard a noise and shouted: “Peter, Peter. Wake up. There is a thief in our house.” Peter was a clever man. Thinking that the thief might have a knife, he did not want to make the thief angry. He just wanted the thief to go away with whatever he wanted. So he said, “Be quiet. There is no thief. Go back to sleep.” So his wife went back to sleep. The thief found the potatoes on the floor, but he could not carry them because there was no bag to hold them. He took off his shirt and spread it on the floor. He wanted to pour the potatoes onto his shirt, but just when he turned back to get them, Peter quietly took away his shirt and hid it under the bed. The thief did not know his shirt was gone. He put the potatoes on what he thought was his “shirt”. But when he tried to pick it up he could not do so. Just then Peter’s wife woke up and shouted again, “Peter, Peter! Wake up. There is a thief in our house.” Peter became very angry. He shouted, “Be quiet, please. There is no thief in our house. Listen