广东省中山市高中英语Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumor(第课时)warmingupspeaking课件新人教必修4.pptVIP

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Warming up Thats not exactly what I meant when I said, Bring your bat! Ive heard of a little black rain cloud, but this is ridiculous 1 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. 2 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. Joke 2: parents often ring up school to explain why their child cannot come to school. The humour lies in the fact that the voice on the phone gives it away that it is the child speaking and not the parent. A child (however much they want to) cannot give themselves permission not to come to school. That is why it is funny. Speaking task 1 How many kinds of humour do you know? humor How many kinds of humor do you know about? Mime Cross talk 　Clown Tongue twisters Funny stories Jokes Comedy Funny poems Enjoy a comedy Do you know the character in the film? Charlie Chaplin’s Movie Posters Other examples of English homour mime and farce Mr. Bean funny stories Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Tom Sawyer funny poems Edward Lear Poems by Edward Lear There Was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, It is just as I feared! — Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard. There was an old man on the Border