UNIT3

Warming up and Reading

Look at the following pictures.

Which picture can make you

laugh?

New missiles

I want to lose weight.

I’m driving at a high speed.

She is good at Chinese Kongfu

When there is only one man in the

world.

“特困生”

Do you know what a punchline is? Read the following jokesand find their punchlines.

Warming up

The two funny jokes are humourous in the last line. This line is called “punchline”.

Betty: Black hens are much clever than white Betty: Black hens are much clever than white ones, aren't they?ones, aren't they?

Letty: How do you know?Letty: How do you know?

Betty: Well, the black hens can lay white eggsBetty: Well, the black hens can lay white eggs ,,

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but the white hens can’t lay black ones.

More jokes

How many kinds of

humour do you know?

How many kinds of

humour do you know?

funny poems

cross talk 相声

Types of humor

funny stories

comedy

mime 哑剧sketch 小品

jokes

What kind of humour do these

pictures show us?

沁园春 ．血 --- 作者：萨达姆 美国风光 , 千里兵疯 , 万里血漂。望纽

约内外 , 废墟莽莽；白宫上下，顿时逃逃。你舞战斧，我施冷枪，真主上帝试比高。须晴日，看曼哈顿岛，分外萧条。

石油如此稀少，引无数枭雄竞折腰。惜阿尔道夫，功亏一篑；东条英机， 两弹魂消。一代天骄，拉登老弟，只识驾机撞世贸。俱往矣，数风流人物，还看锦涛。

高高山上一条藤 藤条头上挂铜铃 风吹藤动铜铃动 风停藤停铜铃停

Tongue twisters:

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Clowns

What do you know about

Charlie Chaplin?

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin — The Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin—The Gold Rush

Reading Reading

SkimmingWhat’s the passage mainly a

bout?

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.

para.1

para.2

para.3

para.4

para.5

Scanning Find out the main idea of each paragraph.Scanning Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

c) His achievements

e) An example of a sad situation that he made funny

a) What Charlie’s most famous character was likeb) Why people needed cheering

d) What Charlie’s childhood was like

Read the passage again and do True or False.

1. Charlie Chaplin was poor when he was

a small boy.

2. People who don’t know English cannot

enjoy Chaplin’s films.

3. The Gold Rush is set in California in

the late of the nineteenth century.

T

F

F

4. In The Gold Rush Chaplin and his

friend are fortunate to find some

gold.

5. In the film the meal he eats is hard

to chew.

6. Chaplin not only acted in films but

wrote and directed films as well.

F

T

T

Notes about Charlie Chaplin’s career

Born

Died

Job

Type of acting

Character

1889

1977

Actor

Mime and farce ( 笑剧 )

“the tramp”, a poor and homeless person

Reason forsuccess

Costume Large trousers, worn-out shoes, small round black hat and a walking stick

Because he has optimism and determination to overcome difficulties and he is always kind

a small black hat

a moustache

a stick

very wide trousers

He wore a small

black hat, very

wide trousers, a

moustache and

carried a stick that

he swung in the air

as he walked.

Fill in the blanks.

Name Charlie Chaplin

Early life

①He was born in 1889 and his parents were poor music hall __________.②He learned to sing and dance at an early age.③He spent his ________ looking after his sick mother and his brother.④By his teens he became one of the most popular child _____ in England.

performers

childhood

actors

Model His charming character, _____________, became known throughout the world.①The character was a poor _______ man wearing a __________, large trousers, ________shoes and a small round black hat.②He walked about stiffly carrying a ___________ .③He was a social failure but was loved for his optimism and determination to overcome all difficulties.

the little tramp

homelessmoustache

worn-out

walking stick

Model ●In The Gold Rush, the little tramp and his friend haven’t discovered ____ and live with cold and hunger.●They try boiling a pair of ______ shoes.●The little tramp eats each mouthful with great _________ .●The acting is so _________that it seems as if it is one of the best meals he has eaten.

gold

leather

enjoymentconvincing

Late

life

①He wrote, _______ and produced th

e films he starred in.

②In 1972 he was given a special Oscar

for his __________ work in films.

③He lived in England and the USA bu

t spent the last years in __________.

Influ

ence

He brightened the lives of Americans

and British as a great actor.

Switzerland

directed

outstanding

Summary In Britain and America people were feeling miserable because of the bad economic situation. Charlie understood their problems. His character “the little tramp” was poor and homeless, but everybody loved him for his kind heart and the way he dealt with his difficult situation. Charlie Chaplin made people laugh at some of these terrible situations like being without food or money. He wrote and directed his own films and received an Oscar for his outstanding work.

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 did people like The Little

Tramp?

3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled

shoes funny? Why?

Because it gives people courage to

overcome difficulties.

Yes. Because he made the terrible

situation “real” for his audience.

And he was able to show the

humanity and kindness in the most

difficult circumstances.

4. Why do you think he was so successful?

Because he was a wonderful actor,

understood and sympathized with

people’s problems and tried to cheer

them up.

5. What should we learn from Charlie

Chaplin?

6. How many ways can you make

others laugh?

Humour is everywhere in our daily lif

e. I hope you can be optimistic ( 乐观 )

no matter what difficulties you meet, j

ust as Charlie Chaplin was.

Homework

1. Preview grammar by finishing

Exercises on Page 21.

2. Try to write a happy ending or the

film The Gold Rush..

Bye!