教材文本 Unit 3 Reading and Speaking.docVIP

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Reading and Speaking ENGLISH JOKES 1 There are thousands of jokes which use “play on words” to amuse us. One person asks a question which expects a particular reply. Instead, what he gets is another kind of answer which makes the situation funny. Now read some of these customer and waiter jokes. Can you match the joke with the explanation? l C：What’s that fly doing in my soup? W：Swimming. I think! 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. 3 C：Waiter, will the pancakes be long? W：No, sir. Round.