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Unit 3
A taste of English humour
mime
Warming up – brainstorming
How many kinds of humor do you
know about?
Mime
humor
Funny plays/ sketch(小品)
Cross talk
Mark Twain
(funny stories)
a popular
humorous
novelist
Clown
Warming up – brainstorming
How many kinds of humor do you
know about?
Cross talk
Mime
Clown
sketch
humor
Jokes
Funny stories
A Master of Nonverbal Humor
Who is the master?
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
para.1
a) What Charlie’s most famous character was like
para.2
b) Why people needed cheering
para.3
c) A short biography about Chaplin.
para.4
d) What Charlie’s childhood was like
para.5
e) An example of a sad situation that he made
funny
What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The history of English humor.
B. The films Chaplin made.
C. The humour Chaplin made.
D. The Gold Rush in California.
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
para.1
a) What Charlie’s most famous character was like
para.2
b) Why people needed cheering
para.3
c) A short biography about Chaplin.
para.4
d) What Charlie’s childhood was like
para.5
e) An example of a sad situation that he made
funny
What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The history of English humor.
B. The films Chaplin made.
C. The humour Chaplin made.
D. The Gold Rush in California.
Careful reading
Para 1
1.What did Victor Hugo once say about
humor in Para.1?
2. What is the meaning of the word “winter”?
A. A season.
B. A sad feeling.
3. Who did the best in humor ? Give an
example to show it.
A. Chaplin did. B. Others.
4. What did he do to make people happy in
the hard years?
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5. What is the function of humor ?
Careful
Reading
reading
Para 1
1.What did Victor Hugo once say about
humor in Para.1?
Laughter is the sun that drives
winter from the human face.
2. What is the meaning of the word “winter”?
A. A season.
B. A sad feeling.
He brightened the lives of Americans and
British through two world wars and the hard
years in between. He made people laugh at a
time when they felt depressed, so they could
feel more content with their lives.
He made people laugh at a time when
they felt depressed , so they could feel
more content with their lives.
content
depressed
Careful reading
Para 1
3. Who did the best in humor ? Which
sentence can prove it?
A. Chaplin did.
B. Others.
Up to now nobody has been able to do
this better than Charlie Chaplin.
Careful reading
Para 1
4. What did he do to make people happy in
the hard years?
He made people laugh.
5. What is the function of humor ?
People could feel more content
with their lives.
Careful reading
Para 2
Q: What was Charlie Chaplin’s childhood like?
Not that Charlie’s own life was easy!
Although
1)
was bornCharlie’s
in a poor life
family
_________
was not easy,
2)
to he
sing
as soon
as heone
could
bywas
histaught
teens,
had
become
of
speak and dance as soon as he could walk.
the most popular child actors in
3) his father died, leaving.. even worse off
4)English.
spent his childhood looking after his…
5) By his teens, had become one of the most
popular child actors in English.
Careful reading
Para 3
Read Paragraph 3, answer the questions and
write down the key words.
Q1. What made Chaplin more and more
popular all over the world?
His charming characterthe little tramp.
Q2. What kind of character was the tramp?
A social failure with optimism
and determination.
Q3. What did he look like in this character?
The underdog.
Paragraph 3
Q4.What is his appearance ?
Could you describe it?
wear (wore)
a small
round black hat
wore
a moustache
a walking carried
stick
wore
large trousers
wore
worn-out shoes
Give a description on “the little tramp”
a small black
hat
a moustache
a stick
very large
trousers
worn-out shoes
He with a
moustache, wore
large trousers,
worn-out shoes
and a small black
hat. He walked
around stiffly
carrying a
walking stick .
Paragraph 3
Q4. How do you understand “ social
failure”?
He was poor and homeless.
Q5.Why do people like him even though
he was a social failure?
He was loved for his optimism &
determination.
Paragraph 4
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Read the paragraph for general information.
Q1. What is the example to show that
a sad situation was entertaining?
The Gold Rush.
Q2.What is the film about?
People rushed California for gold.
Q3. Who was the main character of the
film? The little tramp.
Q4. How many characters in the film?
Two.
Paragraph 4
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Read the paragraph for detailed information.
Q5. What happened to them?
They hid in a hut with nothing to eat.
Q6. What did the little tramp do to keep
themselves from starvation?
He tried boiling a pair of leather shoes.
Charlie Chaplin — The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin—The Gold Rush
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Read the paragraph for detailed information.
Q1. What are Charlie’s achievements?
Wrote, directed, produced and starred many films.
Was given a special Oscar in 1972.
Q2. When did he die ?
In 1977.
Q3. What do people think of him?
He is loved and remembered as a
great actor.
Why we say Charlie is the master of Nonverbal
humor?
What should we learn from Charlie Chaplin?
Up to now nobody has been able to do this
better than Charlie Chaplin.
brightened the lives
He ________________
of Americans and
British in the hard
years.
made people laugh
He _______________,
so they could feel more
content.
comments
Master
He is loved and remembered as a great
inspire people with great
actor who could _______
confidence.
The end
Paragraph 3
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Q6. Do you think his character is charming?
Please give reasons to explain it.
The aspects to describe his charming
character.
1)
Appearance
2)
His attitude toward people
a small
black hat
a moustache
a stick
He wore a small
black hat, very
wide trousers, a
moustache and
carried a stick that
very wide
trousers
he swung in the air
as he walked.
Warming up – brainstorming
How many kinds of humor do you
know about?
Cross talk
Mime
Clown
humor
Tongue twisters
Jokes
Funny stories
Please look at the
following pictures
and tell us what kind
of humor the
humorists are about.
Clowns
Tongue twisters:
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
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.
Mark Twain was the popular
and humorous American
author. He was the most
famous humorous novelist
in America.
Edward Lear
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.
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。
Paragraph 3
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Q7 . Do you think his character is charming?
Please give reasons to explain it.
The structures :
1)Appearance: I think Chalie is a charming
character.
He acted as a tramp in his films.
He wore …
His appearance is …
2)his attitude toward people :
I think little tramp is a charming character
because he … .
He treated others kindly although … .