高一必修 4

Unit 3 A taste of English humour.

Task

三月，行军

1. What day of the week is the best for having fried foods?

3. What is the smallest room in the world?

2. What month do soldiers hate?

mushroom

1.Policeman: You can’t park here.

Driver: Why can’t I ?

Policeman: Read the sigh there.

Driver: It says, “Fine for Parking,” so

I parked.

Enjoy some verbal jokes:

罚款

Girl : If we marry, will you give me a ring ?

Boy: Of course, What’s your telephone number?

3.Daughter: Auntie kissed me this morning, Mum ! Mum : How nice ! Did you kiss her

back ,dear ? Daughter: Of course not. I kissed her face.

1. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!

2. Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh.

3. While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

A tongue twister competition

play on words

tongue twister

饶口令

jokes

Pun 双关

Riddle

谜语

… …limerick

I saw a face in a flame of fire , I saw a tree touch the moon and higher, I saw an ant swallow a hat I saw a chicken wear a hat I saw an apple twelve feet high I saw an elephant in the sky I saw a duck run in a race

A funny poem

a funny poem--limerick

There was an old man of Beijing.

Who would eat almost anything.

He ate and ate

From anyone’s plate.

But he stayed just as thin as a string.

1. How did Watson answer Holmes’ question?

2. What happened actually?

Reading

1.How did Watson answer Holmes’ question?

--I think of how short life is and how long the universe lasted.

--I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is.

--I think of how cold the universe is and how warm people can be in their beds.

2.What happened actually?

Someone has stolen their tent.

After reading the funny story, what kinds of persons do you think they are?

Sherlock Holmes: Doctor Watson:

Carelessness may cause many funny stories in our daily life.

Now let’s enjoy another story which was caused by carelessness.

careful

careless

What happened to the chickens because of Mary’scarelessness?

The general idea of the listening text

Mary made some plum jam and left some in the pan.Five days later, her husband came home and poured the jam into the chicken. Later Mary came home and found all her chickens were behaving strangely. She found that all the chickens were drunk.

Fill in the blanks

1. There were ____ ___ _____ to eat but they would make lovely____.

2. As he came into the _______ he saw a pan with _____ _____ _ dark red porridge in it. What was it?

3. Later when Mary came home she noticed the chickens were ________ very strangely. They were ______ _________ their yard.

far too manyjam

kitchen what looked like

behaving running around

4. When they went into the yard, they ______ that the ____ _______ had turned the jam into _____and the chickens were drunk.

realized hot weather wine

What is a logical order?

Logical

order

First …

Then…

Next…

Finally/At last…

Can you tell a funny story in a logical order?

Write a funny story in a logical order.

Homework

Write down your story in a logic order.

For each part of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happening.

Then write out your story using these interesting words. Read through your story.Then show it to your partner. Let him/her suggest some new and exciting words.

Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.

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