play on words tongue twisters jokes pun riddles … …… …

Policeman: You can’t park here. Driver: Why not? Policeman: Read the sign. Driver: I did. It says, “Fine for parking!” So I parked. Pun:

Tongue Twisters

How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans. 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.

a funny poem--limerick There was an old man of Beijing. Who would eat almost anything. He ate and ate From anyone’s plate. But he stayed just as thin as a string.

I saw a face in a flame of fire, I saw a tree touch the moon and higher, I saw an ant swallow a hat I saw a chicken wear a hat I saw an apple twelve feet high I saw an elephant in the sky I saw a duck run in a race A funny poem

1.How did Watson answer Holmes’ question? 2. What happened actually?

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. What happened actually? Someone has stolen their tent.

1. Predicting: Chicken yard + ?

The general idea of the listening text Mary made some plum jam and left some in the pan. Five days later, her husband came home and poured the jam into the chicken. Later Mary came home and found all her chickens were behaving strangely. She found that all the chickens were drunk. Listening

3. Finish the exercise on P23 1. C 2. B 3. B The answers to the exercise on P23

4. Fill in the blanks 1. There were ____ _____ ____ to eat but they would make lovely______. 2. As he came into the _______ he saw a pan with ____ ____ _____ dark red porridge in it. What was it? 3. Later when Mary came home she noticed the chickens were ________ very strangely. They were ______ _______ their yard. far too many jam kitchen what looked like behaving running around 4. When they went into the yard, they ______ that the ____ ______ had turned the jam into _________and the chickens were drunk. realized hot weather wine

English humor Nonverbal Mime and farce Verbal jokes Funny stories Funny poems Chinese humors Pantomime Funny plays Cross talk Jokes Doggerel

How many kinds of humor do we have ? Speaking task: Nonverbal Cross talk Jokes Funny stories Mime and farce ……

Task 1 Discuss with you partner and try to collect some kind of humor. Discussion: Task 2 Prepare a joke according to your discussion, tell each other the joke in English and finally you can present your story to the class.

Writing

What is a logical order? Logical order First … Then… Next… Finally/At last…

Now write down your story, and you have the idea so now make a plan. Write down your story in a logic order. For each part of your story try to find the most interesting words you can to describe how you felt or what was happening. Then write out your story using these interesting words. Read through your story. Then show it to your partner. Let him/her suggest some new and exciting words. Write out the story and put it into a class collection of stories.

Homework Write out a funny story and put it into a class collection of stories.