Words, Warming-up & Listening

humour(humor) n. the ability to understand and enjoy what is funny and makes people laugh 幽默，诙谐

humourous(humorous) adj. funny 富于幽默感的，滑稽的

a humourous character in a play

他是一个很幽默的人。

He is very________. That is to say, he has a sense of ________.

He is a man full of ________.

humourous humour

humour

Couple n. two things related in some way 一双

two people who live or spend time together 夫妇

a few;several 一些

A husband and wife are spoken as a couple. 丈夫妻子合称为夫妇

I’ll have a couple of drinks and then I’ll go back home. 我去喝几杯就回家

辨析： couple 与 pair 的用法区别

像鞋一样两件组成一套的物品称为 a pair

同种物的两个如两辆汽车，两只猫 a coupleI found a couple of socks in the bedroom,but they don’t make a pair. 我在卧室了里找到两只袜子，但却不是一对的。

intend v. to have in one’s mind as a plan or purpose 想要，打算 , intend to do sth/intend doing sth

intend sb to do sth/ intend + that (should) 我打算出国留学。

I intend to study abroad./I intend studying abroad.

他打算让儿子经营公司

He intends his son to managae the company.注意： intended to do sth 表示“本打算做某事，而实际上没做”，也可用 had intended to do sth 或 intended to have done sth 。如：

I intended to do it,but I’m afraid I can’t. 我本想做，但恐怕做不成了。

n. intension without intension 无意

amuse v. cause to laugh or smile 使发笑；使愉快

A clown’s job is to amuse the audience. 小丑的工作就是娱乐观众。

常用结构： amuse sb/oneself with…

be amused by/with…It was rainy outside. So she amused herself with a book.外面雨大，所以她看书消遣。I was amused by the monkey’s performance.

我被猴子的表演逗乐了。amusing adj. （故事等）有趣的，好玩的；引人发笑的

amused adj. 被逗乐的，愉快的，顽皮的

amusement n. 娱乐；消遣；娱乐活动

applaud v. To show approval by striking one’s hands together

拍手喝彩；称赞；赞同观众向演员鼓掌喝彩达三分钟。The audience applauded the actors for three minutes.我赞同你的决定。 I applaud your decision.

n. applause loud praise for a performance or performer

e.g. a sudden burst of applause. 突然爆发出来的一阵掌声

He won standing applause when he ended his speech. 演讲结束时他博得听众起立鼓掌。

adj. applaudable

appreciate vt. (1) To be thankful or grateful for 感激

e.g. 我们非常感激你们的及时帮助。We greatly appreciate your timely help.

(2) To understand fully;recognise 意识到；赏识

e.g. 我觉得你没意识到这项工作的危险性。I don’t think you appreciate the danger of this job.appreciate doing sth

e.g. We shall appreciate hearing from you again. 我们恭候佳音。

n. appreciationShe showed an apprecuation of my help.

adj. appreciativeHe was very appreciative of his teacher’s help during his illness.

fluent adj. expressed readily and without pause

流利的，流畅的她会说一口流利的英语。

She can speak fluent English.

exist vi. to live or be real; having being

存在，生存

The Roman Empire existed for several centuries.

Man cannot exist without oxygen.

n. existence

adj. existent

suffer v. to experience pain,difficulty,or loss 经历，遭受

suffer pain 受苦suffer punishment 受罚

搭配： suffer from 受…之苦 ; 患有… e.g. The farmers suffered losses from the bad crops. 农民们因收成不好而遭受损失 .她常 ( 患 ) 头疼 . She suffers from headaches.

suffer for 为…而痛苦e.g. She was very generous to him but she suffered for it when he ran away with all her money.

n. suffering C. 苦难的经历 the sufferings of a poor family

U. 苦难 give sb. much suffering to bear

operate v. （ 1 ） to( cause to ) work or be in action 运转，操作 The washing machine isn’t operating prope

rly.

洗衣机运转不正常。（ 2 ） to cut the body in order to set right or remove a diseased part 动手术

The surgeon operated on her eyes. 外科医生给她眼睛动手术。

n. operation

e.g. instructions for the operation of machinery

机械操作说明The doctor will do an operation on him for cancer of the lung. 医生将为他做肺癌手术。

Confuse vt. to cause to be mixed up in the mind 使迷惑

to put into disorder,make less clear 混淆，打乱

甚至家里人也分不清那对双胞胎。

Even the family confused the twins.

Don’t confuse the papers on the desk.

You are confusing two quite different things.

Confused adj. 困惑的，烦恼的

a confused student 迷惑不解的学生

The little girl was very confused by all the noise.

Confusion n. The room was in a state of confusion.

1. He often tells us jokes. He is a h________ man.

2. If I’ve hurt your feelings, it was quite without i______.

3. She lives in France, but has British n__________.

4. His silly jokes a_______ the children.

5. I greatly a________ your help.

6. Which d________ does this house face?

7. I was late in getting to the station, but f________ for me ,the train was late too.

8. The s_______ was broken by a loud cry.

9. They c_______ the techrs by having the same names.

10.He is good at English. He can speak f______ English.

Vocabulary testumorous

ntensionationality

mused

ppreciateirection

ortunately

ilence

luentonfused

A circus clown

an interesting crosstalk an amusing crosstalk

a famous comedian

Answer the following questions.

1. What do you know humor

means?

Humor means amusement.

It will make people laugh

and feel happy.

2. In what performances do we

often enjoy humor?

Joke

Funny story

Comedy

Clowns’ performance

Comedians’

performance

Crosstalk

3. What must we be able to do

if we want to be a crosstalk

artist?

Say tongue twisters…

Tongue twisterCan you say

tongue twister fluently?Can you?

吃葡萄

吐葡萄皮

不吃葡萄

不吐葡萄皮

Betty bought some butter, but the

butter was bitter, so she bought some

better butter to make the bitter butter

better. I wish to wish the wish you wish to

wish, but if you wish the wish the witch

wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish

to wish.

If white chalk chalks white on a black

blackboard, will black chalk chalk black

on a white whiteboard then?

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.

Humorous Story An animal sports meeting was going on. A duck and a crab ( 螃蟹） arrived at the finishing line at the same time. The judge asked them to play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who is the winner. But the duck says “no”.

Please tell us the reason why the duck refused to do that.

Good humor is one of the

best articles of dress one can

wear in society.

— William Thackeray

Learn some words before listening!

A bride

A minister a church

groom

bride

a minister Who can marry many wives but can stay single all of the life?

The minister is marrying a couple now

为…主婚

Will you marry me?

grandmother

granddaughter

3 2

He realized that he hadalready loved her.

Will you marry me? Oh, I

see

1

456

1. Listen and number the pictures.

3.They had dinner at home one

evening.

True or False

1.This is a dialogue between

grandmother and granddaughter. T

2.They only lived about 5 km from

each other. F

F

5. When the woman asked the

minister if he would marry

her, he knew what she

meant.

F

T

4.They had a very enjoyable

conversation and laughed a lot.

Listening

1 What was the man’s job?

2 In England, who can marry couples in church?

3 How close to each other did the man and the woman

live?

4 Where did the woman ask the minister to marry her?

5 When did he ask her to marry him?

He was a minister in the church.

a minister

In a restaurant

about eight kilometers from each other

A few days later

There once was a _______who lived three villages away from a young lady . One evening they had dinner together in a _________.They talked about people getting ________,and the lady asked the minister whether he would _______her in church.The minister was very _________and said that her question was very sudden and ___________. The lady realized that he had not _________her correctly. What she meant was whether he would ________her and her husband. However, their conversation put an interesting idea into the minister’s head. He realized he wanted to _______her. So a few days later he _______her at home and asked her to marry him. The lady felt ________and immediately________.

minister

restaurantmarried

marrysurprised

unexpectedunderstood

marry

marry visited

honored accepted

InformationThe first meeting The second meeting

Time

Place

Relationship

Event

on the way to the interview

a street

strangers

a traffic accident

later during the dayan interview room interviewer/ interviewee (job seeker)an interview

How many meetings are there in the story?

We’ve already met, haven’t we?

Describe the traffic accident

I was _______ ______ a street on my way to the __________. A yellow car________ me and suddenly______ ____ right in front of me, ______ there was another car coming ______ the other direction.I had to ________ hard and I ______ another _______.We both ________, but fortunately _______ of us was_________.

alongcycling

ascut inpassedinterview

cyclisthitbrakein

hurtneitherfell

extremely angry!

When the writer and the driver of the yellow car met ,

in great surprise silencethey looked at each other for a moment ______ _______ ________ and total __________.

How did the writer treat the whole matter?She decided to look on the whole matter as a great joke.The writer laughed and said, “ Yes, we've already met, haven’twe ? I remember that the last time we met I did most of the talking .So perhaps I should let you do the talking this time.”

The writer was offered the job.

“…the last time we met I did most of the talking”

Because of your careless driving, I became too angry and shouted unpleasant words at you, which made you very embarrassed. Maybe you had something important and were in a hurry. I now feel sorry about it.

Reading between the lines

“…so perhaps I should let you do the talking this time.”

I’m not going to say anything about your bad driving. I will keep it secret. You needn’t worry about it.

Reading between the lines

What does she mean by the sentence: ‘I say to everyone that I dare tell my manager exactly what I think of him’?

She means that she once told her manager exactly what she thought of him,but she does not admit that it was before he became her boss.

Useful expressions

1. 与某人关系好

2. 在我去面试的途中

3. 对面

4. 紧急刹车

5. 享受长寿

6. 大吃一惊

7. 沉默不语

8. 把…看作 ( 当作 )

9. 讲许多的话

10. 对某人生气

be on good terms with sb.on my way to the interview

in the other direction

enjoy a long life

do a lot of talking

brake hard

in great surprise

in total silence

look on … as… / regard …as… / consider …as (to be)…

be angry with