1. Unit 20 Humour

2. Answer the following questions
What do you know humor means?
Amusement
It will make people laugh
and feel happy

3. …… In what performances do we often enjoy humour? Comedy
Clowns’ performance
Comedians’ performance
Crosstalk
Joke
Funny story ……

4. Question Say tongue twisters
What must we be able to do if we want to be a crosstalk artist?
Say tongue twisters

5. Say the tongue twisters
A tutor who tooted a flute
Tried to tutor two tutors to toot
Said the two to the tutor
“Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tutors to toot?”

6. Listing
Look at the pictures on page then listen to the tape and number them

7. Answer the questions He was a minister in the church A minister
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?
A minister
About eight kilometres from each other.
In a restaurant.
A few days later.

8. Retell the story
There once was a minister who lived….

9. There once was a minister who lived three villages away from a young lady. One evening they had dinner together in a restaurant. They talked about people getting married, and the lady asked the minister whether he would marry her in church. The minister was very much surprised and said that her question came very unexpected.

10. The lady realized that he had not understood her correctly
The lady realized that he had not understood her correctly. What she meant was whether he would marry her and her husband. However their conversation put an interesting idea into the minister’s head. He realized that he wanted to marry her. So a few days later he visited her at home and asked her to marry him. The lady felt honored and immediately accepted.

11. speaking Look at the dialogue on
page 51 then finish the questions with the useful expressions on page 52.

12. Example J: For which age do you write your show?
C: I write my show for children but often the parents like my shows too. Some jokes are funny for the children but their deeper meaning is even funnier to the parents.

13. J: What do you do as a clown?
C: Well, I act funny. I make strange faces and run after animals in the circus. Sometimes I just smile and greet people to our show. I also tell jokes.
J: What are you doing at this moment?
C: Why, I’m talking to you! You meant in show? I have an act with a donkey. It’s very funny really. Many children told me afterwards they think I’m even more stupid than my donkey, And that is of course just what I want them to feel!

14. J: What are your plans for your next show?
C: I plan to jump out of a big box that looks
like a birthday present and throw candy to
the children in the audience. I have decided
my next show to be all about happiness. I
intend to give my audience a show of about
an hour which are fun. I hope people will go
home feeling happier than when they came
to the circus.
J: How do you make children laugh?
C: I do funny things and wear cloths of
bright colors. The make-up on my face
look funny even though I don’t do anything.

15. I have a big red ping-pang ball as a
nose and when I act as if I’m crying,
water shoot out of my eyes like rain.
Of course the children can’t see the
little tubes hidden under my hair.
J: When will you stop working as a clown?
C: I will stop working as a clown when
my audience no longer thinks I’m funny.
But I hope that will never happen.