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1、Unit 3,Unit 3 A taste of English humour,To learn how to understand and enjoy English humors,1. What day of the week is the best for having fried foods?,三月，行军,3. What is the smallest room in the world?,Friday,March,2. What month do soldiers hate?,1. Policeman: You cant park here. Driver: Why cant I?

2、Policeman: Read the sigh there. Driver: It says, “Fine for Parking,” so I parked.,Enjoy some verbal jokes:,罚款,2. Girl: If we marry, will you give me a ring? Boy: Of course. Whats your telephone number? 3. Daughter: Auntie kissed me this morning, Mum! Mum: How nice! Did you kiss her back, dear? Daugh

3、ter: Of course not. I kissed her face.,There are thousands of jokes which use “play on words” to amuse us. One person asks a question which expects a particular reply. Instead, what he gets is another kind of answer which makes the situation funny. Now read some of these customer and waiter jokes. C

4、an you match the joke with the explanation?,English jokes,1. C: Whats that fly doing in my soup? W: Swimming. I think!,(B),The first person is angry about something and wants to say “Why is this here?” The second person treats it as a request for information, and gives an answer to the question.,2.

5、C: Whats that? W: Its bean soup. C: I dont want to know what its been. I want to know what it is now.,(C),The answer to the question contains a word which, when spoken, can have two meanings.,The first person is asking for information about time. The second person treats it as a question about shape

6、.,3. C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long? W: No, sir. Round.,(A),More jokes,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 Washingtons windows with w

7、arm washing water.,A tongue twister competition,tongue twister 饶口令,jokes,pun双关语,riddle 谜语, ,limerick,1. How did Watson answer Holmes question?,I think of how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is. I think of how cold the universe is and

8、 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:,careful,careless,You are going to listen to a funny story about jam. Before you listen, look at

9、 the exercises below. Try and predict the story. Tell your partner what you think will happen.,Pre-listening,Listen to Part 1 and write down the main idea. Mary made some jam but left some on the kitchen table for a few days as she had to go to look after her sick mother. Some days later, John, know

10、ing nothing about the jam, came home and threw it into the chicken yard.,Listen to Part 1 again and answer these questions. 1. What was Mary going to do with the cooked plums in the pan? She was going to put them in the fridge later when they had cooled down. 2. What did John think Mary should have

11、done with the mess in the pan? He thought she should have thrown it out for the chickens to eat.,Mary Smith looked at the beautiful _ plums. They would make lovely jam. When she had _ the cooking, she filled all her _ jam jars and left the _ of the jam in the pan. She would put it in the _ when it w

12、as _. But just then the telephone rang,Listen again and fill in the blanks.,ripe,finished,empty,rest,fridge,cooler,her mother was in _ after a car accident. Mary picked up her _ and ran out of the house. Some days later, her _, John, came home from a business _. He had been travelling all day and _

13、like having a drink and a piece of _. As he came into the _ he saw a pan with a dark red _ inside it.,hospital,bag,husband,trip,felt,cake,kitchen,mess,He lifted it up and _ it. It smelled bad. Mary must have _ to clean this pan, he thought. So he _ all the jam into the chicken yard and _ the pan. Th

14、en _ comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake.,smelled,forgotten,poured,cleaned,feeling,Mary will laugh,1 John will apologize. 2 He will tell her she should not have left the jam on the kitchen table.,Try to guess Mary and Johns reaction.,Mary will get angry and tell John he should have put the

15、jam in the dustbin.,1 John will get angry too and say that she should have told him she was making jam. 2 He will laugh and say it is not important. 3 He will apologize.,Mary will say that the problems with the chickens are Johns responsibility,1 John will deny this saying that she should not have l

16、eft 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

17、 jam was porridge. Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. John said the chicken were drunk. Mary came home.,Listen to Part 2 and 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. “Im _ but I thought it was _ which had gon

18、e bad in the hot weather. The chickens have _ the jam, but its made them _.”,threw away,thats,sorry,porridge,enjoyed,drunk,When Mary _, she noticed the chickens behaving _. They were running round the _ as if they were _. She saw the dark red mess on the ground and went _. When she saw a plum stone

19、she went into the kitchen. Her husband was reading a _ at the table. _ Mary rushed up to him.,Listen again and fill in the blanks.,returned,strangely,yard,sick,closer,newspaper,Angrily,“You threw away my jam,” she _. “Oh, thats what it was,” he said. “Im sorry but I _ it was porridge which had gone

20、_ in the hot weather.” “Good heavens!” said Mary. “That must be the jam I _ in the pan, but why didnt you _ it in the _?” John laughed. “It was a _. However, the chickens have enjoyed the jam, _ that it has made them _. What are we going to do with these drunken _?”,shouted,bad,left,dustbin,throw,th

21、ought,mistake,expect,drunk,chickens,I.根据下面各句句意以及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示词，写出该单词的正确形式（每空一词）。 1. I bought a magazine to a_ myself while I was on the train. 2. Ill try and give you a quick _ (解释) of how the machine works.,amuse,explanation,3. The plan is designed to reduce some of the companys _ (山一般的) debt. 4. “You see,” she said, lowering her voice to a w_, “he hasnt been well recently.” 5. Our dog eats a v_ amount of food each day. No wonder hes so fat. 6. Id had a couple of glasses of wine but I