人教新课标必修四_UNIT3_A_Taste_of_English_Humour.ppt

* * * Mary’s reaction John’s reaction to her Mary will say that the problems with the chickens are John’s responsibility 1 John will deny this saying that she should not have left the jam on the kitchen table. 2 He will say that Mary did not tell him what she had been doing in the kitchen. 3 He did not know the chickens would get sick. Mary got angry with John. Mary saw the chickens behaving strangely. John was sorry. The chickens enjoyed the jam. John said he thought the jam was porridge. Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. John said the chicken were drunk. Mary came home. Part 2 Put these sentences in order 1 3 6 5 2 7 4 8 Fill in the blanks. “You _________ my jam,” she shouted. “Oh, ________ what it was,” he said. “I’m _______ but I thought it was _________ which had gone bad in the hot weather. The chickens have _________ the jam, but it’s made them ________.” threw away that’s sorry porridge enjoyed drunk Listening text The Story Of The Drunken Chickens Part 1 Mary Smith looked at the beautiful ripe plums. They would make lovely jam. When she had finished the cooking, she filled all her empty jam jars and left the rest of the jam in the pan. She would put it in the fridge when it was cooler. But just then the telephone rang, her mother was in hospital after a car accident. Mary picked up her bag and ran out of the house. Some days later, her husband, John, came home from a business trip. He had been travelling all day and felt like having a drink and a piece of cake. As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan with a dark red mess inside it, he lifted it up and smelled it. It smelled bad. Mary must have forgotten to clean this pan, he thought. So he poured all the jam into the chicken yard and cleaned the pan. Then feeling comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake. Part 2 ??? When Mary returned, she noticed the chickens behaving strangely. They were running round the yard as if they were sick. She saw th