Laughing is better than medicine. - Jewish saying,Unit 3 A taste of English Humor,Little Johnny feels sorry for teacher A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology(哲學) courses. She started up her class by saying “Everyone who thinks youre stupid, stand up!“ After a few seconds, Little Johnny stood up. The teacher said, “Do you think youre stupid, Little Johnny?“ “No, maam, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!,funny story,You do know my love.,Describe the following pictures in one sentence.,Yesterday once more.,Im driving at a high speed.,I want to lose my weight.,humor,How many kinds of humour do you know?,tongue twisters (繞口令),Practice saying the following tongue twisters.,I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!,2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch(女巫) wishes, I wont wish the wish you wish to wish.,What kind of homour may these persons remind you of ?,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 愛德華.李爾,sketch,cross talk,Shuanghuang,Which one do you like better?,Read English jokes on Page 22,Whos he ?,Charlie Chaplin,What do you know about Charlie Chaplin?,Now lets enjoy some pictures of Charlie Chaplin.,His first film Making a Living(謀生之路) appears.,His own manner of acting,Dec. 25th, 1977 Switzerland,Some pictures in Modern Times & City Lights(摩登時代&城市之光),Some pictures in Gold Rush setting in California,Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush,Charlie Chaplin,Charlie ChaplinThe Gold Rush,Reading A Master of Nonverbal Humour,Whats the passage mainly about? A. The history of English humor. B. The films Chaplin made. C. The humour Chaplin made in his films. D. The Gold Rush in California.,Task 1 Listen to the tape and get the main idea of this text,para.1 para.2 para.3 para.4 para.5,Match the main idea of each paragraph.,c) His achievements,e) An example of a sad situation that he made funny,a) What Charlies most famous character was like,b) Why people needed cheering up,d) What Charlies childhood was like,Task 2 Skimming,Task3 Scanning Fill in the blanks.,Charlie Chaplin,1889,Little tramp,actor,Gold Rush,1977,mime,How did people feel between the years when the two world wars broke out? What did Chaplin do then ?,Para 1,felt depressed brightened their lives made people laugh could feel more content with ,Task 4 Careful reading,Para 2,He lived a poor and hard life. was taught to singand dance died,leaving worse off/spent,2. Find out the topic sentence of Para 2,Not that Charlies life is easy.,1.What was Chaplins childhood like?Why?,The Little Tramp was a _ and _ person.,The Little Tramp,He was known and loved by many people around the world.,Why?,poor,homeless,He had and to overcome difficulties.,very large trousers,a walking stick,a moustache,a small black hat,worn-out shoes,optimism,determination,Para. 3 Describe the Little Tramp,The Gold Rush,Para 4,Whats the correct order of the following events?,Chaplin tried cutting and eating the bottom of the shoe. Chaplin and his friend washed sand and expected to pick up gold, but they failed. They were so hungry that they boiled a pair of leather shoes. They were caught in a small wooden house. Chaplin cut off the leather top of the shoe. Chaplin picked out the laces and ate.,6,1,3,2,5,4,Para.4,Para.5,Chaplin wrote, _, and produced many movies he _.,The Tramp 流浪漢 1915,The Kid 尋子遇仙記 1921,The Gold Rush 淘金記 1925,directed,starred in,His achievements,He was given a _ for his lifetime outstanding work in 1972.,Modern Times 摩登時代 1936,The Great Dictator 大獨裁者 1940,special Oscar,A social _ as he was, he was loved by all the people for his _ in overcoming difficulties and being kind to people who is _ to him. When playing the famous film The Gold Rush, Chaplin managed to make the sad situationeating a _ shoe, entertaining by using _ humour. Such is Charlie Chaplin who produced, _ , and wrote the movies that he _ in. He was given a special Oscar for his_ work of bringing humour to us all.,Summary,directed,starred,failure,determination,unkind,boiled,nonverbal,outstanding,Discussion,1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?,Yes, because he understood the problems of people who were very poor.,2. Why do you think Charlie Chaplin is successful? What should we learn from him?,The reasons for his success,Life Life is challenging, meet it. Life is various, make