Book4 Unit3 A taste of English humour Using language English jokes 陈建仙 仙游县榜头中学

三月，行军 1. What day of the week is the best for having fried foods? 2. What month do soldiers hate?

1. Policeman: You can’t park here. Driver: Why can’t I? Policeman: Read the sign 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, What’s your telephone number?

Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke. Can you match the joke with the explanation. 1.C: What’s 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. C: What’s that? W: It’s bean soup. C: I don’t want to know what it’s 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. 3. C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long? W: No, sir. Round. (A)

More jokes Patient: Doctor. I’ve lost my memory. Doctor: When did this happen? Patient: When did what happen? Anisha: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone. Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank god. Anisha: Then I’ll pay the fees to god.

1.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. A tongue twister competition

play on words tongue twister 饶口令 jokes Pun 双关 Riddle 谜语 … limerick

1. How did Watson answer Holmes’ question? --I think of how short life is and how long the universe lasted. --I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is. --I think of how cold the universe is and 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 Carelessness may cause many funny stories in our daily life.

Reading task on Page 59 Pre-reading

April Fool’s day is a day when people play jokes on each other. On this day you will often see strange and interesting finds, scientific results or astronomical findings that are put there to mislead the public. The newspaper feels happy if a large

number of people believe what is written. Sometimes particularly good stories get into the evening news on BBC.

Name of the programme Its usual content The particular content on April 1st, 1957 People’s reaction Panorama exploring problems and progress all over the world Story about the excellent noodle harvest in Switzerland They believed it and even ring the BBC to find out how to grow a noodle tree! Read the passage and fill in the chart below.

1. What do children usually do on April Fool’s Day? Answer the following questions. Children enjoy playing jokes on each other.

2. Why did people believe the programme Panorama on April 1 st, 1957? Because it was always serious and known for its factual correctness.

I. 根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母 或汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。 1. These ________ ( 煎饼 ) made by my mother are really tasty. 2. What did he say in __________ ( 解释 ) of his stupid behaviour? 3. She was feeding the baby with _______ ( 粥 ). pancakes explanation porridge

4. The company hired a d_______ to look into the accident. 5. I will have to clean up all the m__ in this room. mess detective

II. 用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。 1. I had an _______ (amuse) experience last year when I lived in a small village in the south of France. 2. Few people live in the ___________ (mountain) area. 3. When I went up to the students, they were __________ (whisper) in the classroom. amusing mountainous whispering

4. A ____ (vast) number of people helped the little girl. 5. Running away is our natural ________ (react) when we meet danger. 6. He walks as if he were _____ (drink), but in fact he isn’t. vast reaction drunk

III. 根据括号内的汉语提示完成下列句子 （每空一词）。 1. The boys have decided to _________ _________ ( 下个星期去露营 ). 2. __________________________( 你认为 这部电影怎么样 ) you saw last night with your parents? go camping next week What do you think of the film

3. When customers get to the store, they _________________________( 被当作贵 宾对待 ). 4. Though he had failed twice, he wanted to ______________ ( 再试一次 ). are treated as honored guests try a third time