Warming up and pre-reading.ppt

1、Unit,3,A taste of English humour,Enjoy the following pictures.,Warming,UP,ENJOY,IT,ENJOY,IT,Can you make a definition （下定义） of humour？,Humour is a word means making others laugh. If someone often makes others laugh, We say he is humourous; We call him a humourist.,How many humorourists do you know?

2、Can you list their names?,funny poems,cross talk 相声,Kinds of humour,funny stories,comedy 喜剧,mime 哑剧,sketch小品,jokes,Look at the chart and thinking. Why the chart has been divided into two parts?,Mime 哑剧,Charlie Chaplin,Mr Bean is funny because he makes funny faces and acts silly behaviour.,(funny sto

3、ries),Mark Twain was the popular and humourous American author.,Funny story,A man with two red ears went to see his doctor. Doctor: What happened to your ears? Man: I was ironing a shirt and the phone rang but instead of picking up the phone, I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear.

4、 Doctor: Oh, dear! But what happened to your other ear? Man: The scoundrel（恶棍）called back!,Edward Lear Poems by Edward Lear There Was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Man with a beard, 有个老头儿胡子长 Who said, “It is just as I feared! 他说：“这事儿真让人恐慌 Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and aWren, 一只蒙鸠，四只百

5、灵 have all built their nests in my beard. 全把窝坐在我的胡子上,Customer: Whats that fly(苍蝇) doing in my soup? Waiter: Swimming, I think!,joke,comedy,sketch小品,crosstalk,Two or more speakers make many jokes and funny conversation.,酷口相声,Pre-reading,What do you know about Charlie Chaplin?,Charlie Chaplin He was a great silent movie star. Modern Times, The Little Tramp, The Gold Rush, City Ligh