Unit 3 A taste of English humour

The fourth period Listening
Step 1 Listening on P23
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions
1. Which is best title for this story?
2. Why was Mary Smith frustrated?
3. What turned the jam into wine?
4. Did you find this story funny? Why?
5. What do you think of John’s behavior?
Step 2 Listening text
Hand out the listening material and listen to the tape ,then complete the passage
Step 3 Listening on P55
1. Listen to the tape and tick the words you hear.
2. Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions.
1). Where did Peter get the potatoes?
2). Why didn’t Peter want to get up when the thief was in his house?
3. Why couldn’t the thief take away the potatoes?
4. How did Peter stop the man stealing the potatoes？
Step 4 Listening text
Listen to the tape and complete the listening text
Then ask some students to read the passage with the right answers , and tell the main idea
Step 5 Listening task on P58
1.Listen to the tape and Choose the best picture that best describes what happened.
2. Choose the best answer to each question
3. Listen to the tape again and answer the question.
How do you think the teacher felt when he was offered the dog?
Step 6 Discussion
Discuss how you would solve these problems and help the teacher.
Step 7 Homework
Please collect as many funny stories as you can. They will be useful in the next period. And try to find some interesting words in these stories.

The fifth period Speaking and Writing
Step 1 Warming up
Look at the following pictures about humour
Then ask : How many kinds of humour do you know?
Step 2 Enjoy a comedy
Listen to the tape and finish the following form
Born
 
Died
 
Job
 
Acting type
 
Masterpieces

Step 3
Other examples of English homour
1. mime and farce Mr. Bean
2. funny stories
Mark Twain : Life on the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Examples of Chinese humour
funny plays
Step 4
1. Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke with the explanation on P22.
2.Show more jokes
Step 5 Homework
Preview the Reading material and finish the Comprehending ahead.






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