1. Humour
Unit 20
Unit 20

2. Word puzzle
1. There once was a very large lady in our town. She wore a dress size 16. I knew her when she was young, but she had a much smaller size. Why do you think she is now wearing a size 16? I guess she just (ate and ate).
2. I was arrested at the airport. Just because I was greeting my cousin Jack! All that I said was "Hi Jack", but very loud.
(Look up the word “hijack” in your dictionary.)

3. a tongue twister competition
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?

4. Tongue twisters
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells. So I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
if she sells shells on the seashore
3. A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing-net.

5. Two Old Friends
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6. house mouse honey money dinner thinner muffin stuffin town down found
rhyme
house
mouse
honey
money
dinner
thinner
muffin
stuffin
town
down
found
around

7.   questions Q1: What happened to the old friends?
Q2: what did they worry about ?
Q3: In order to cook the mouse, what did
they need ?
Q4: Why did they want to chop the old
wise man ?
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8.   questions Q5: Can they really get the things they needed
from the old wise man ?
Q6: So what do you think of their action?
Q7: Don’t you think they are funny?
Q8: Why can it make you feel funny?
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9. 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

10. How can you make your story or poem funny in English way?
1:Does the poem do the added lines following the rhyme scheme?
2: Do the words rhyme?
3:Does the writers show a creative imagination?
4: Is it funny?

11. listening

12. 5 4 6 1 2 3

13. Questions: Where are the child and her grandmother talking?
2. How did the grandmother feel while telling the child her love story with the grandpa?

14. Listening What was the man’s job?
In England, who can marry couples in church?
How close to each other did the man and the woman live?
Where did the woman ask the minister to marry her?
When did he ask her to marry him?
He was a minister in the church.
A minister can marry couples in church.
About 8km from each other.
In a restaurant.
A few days later.

15. Retell the story with your own words
Retell the story with your own words with the help of the pictures in your book.
The story maybe can begin like this:
There once was a minister who lived……

16. Discussion
Do you think it is proper for a child to ask his/ her grandparents about their marriages in western countries?
2. What about in our China?
Do you know about your parents’ love stories?
3. Do you want to have a try?

17. Thank you!