1. Lesson 3
My Favorite Comedy

2. Free talk Do you like to watch comedies?
What is your favorite funny movie or
TV program?
Who is your favorite TV comedian?

3. For me, I like watching comedies
very much. Of all the comedies I have
watched, I like the Crazy Stone best
because all the lines there are in
Chongqing dialect. And I can easily
follow the plot. The best comedian, in
my mind, is Mr. Bean.

4. Background
Mr. Bean

5. phrasal verbs The most famous comedy actor
Chaplin is fond of imitating other
people.
Zeng Zhiwei can put on different
voices.

6. Xie Tingfeng always
gets into trouble and then gets out of
it.
Mr. Bean makes out that he/she is
not very bright.
He usually dresses up as different
people.

7. He tells good anecdotes and makes
up good jokes.
Mr. Bean can make you burst out
laughing.
I really turn you off because you
never return back my things.

8. Reading Strategies 1. First, read the text to get the general idea
Reading Strategies 1. First, read the text to get the general idea. Then read the questions and use them to guide you.

9. 2.Sometimes things are not stated
explicitly in the text. You need to
make inferences or read between
the lines to understand what is
meant.
3.Read the text again using logic to
make inferences.

10. Read Text 1 and answer the questions.
1.Why has Mr. Bean gone to a
fancy restaurant on this particular day?
2.Does Mr. Bean have many
friends? How do you know?

11. 3.Why does Mr. Bean choose the
“steak tartare”?
4.Why does Mr. Bean pretend to
like the food when the waiters talk to him?

12. Answers 1.Because that day was Mr. Bean’s
birthday and he wanted to show to a lot of people that someone really sent him a card. Actually , the birthday card was sent to him by himself.

13. 2.No. because nobody sent him a
birthday card. He could only
write it by himself.
3.Because he didn’t have enough
money to order other dishes.
4. Because if he showed his
disliking to the face of the
waiter, the waiter would ask
him to order something else.

14. As all of us know, he could not
afford to order other dishes.

15. Adverbs and its usages 1.Mr. Bean is an internationally
recognized comedy character on TV
and in films. People all over the world know Mr. Bean. He constantly gets into awkward and absurd situations,

16. which greatly amuses audiences
regardless of their nationality and
culture.
2.Frequently getting into strange
and embarrassing situations
makes somebody laugh.

17. Its usages 1.Adverbs that describes the way something is done
2.Adverbs that describe when or
how often something is done
3.Adverbs that can describe
other adjectives

18. Useful phrases 1.He became so desperate in the end
that he even hides some inside the
purse of a woman sitting near him
and throws some down the trousers of the restaurant’s violinist!
hopeless
people who major in playing violin(小
提琴)

19. 2.The humor is always made clearly
through a series of simple and funny acts that purely rely on body
language, which is universal.
many /only

20. 3.When he looks at the menu, an
astonished look swiftly appears on
his face.
a surprised facial expression
quickly

21. 4. He makes an attempt to eat it, but
it is clear from the look on his
face that he finds the taste truly
disgusting.
try to do sth.
really bad

22. Read the second passage, and try to
work out the main idea of the second
passage.
The passage talks about the actor
who plays Mr. Bean, Rowan
Atkinson.

23. Second-reading 1.How do you know that Rowan
Atkinson is not like his famous
character Mr. Bean? In what ways is he different?
2.Did Rowan Atkinson’s parents
encourage him to become an actor?
Why or why not?

24. Answers 3.Does Rowan Atkinson like to work with other talented people?
How do you know?
Answers
1.In the first paragraph, there is a
sentence: if you think that
Rowan Atkinson is anything like
his famous creation, then you’re
in for a surprise. So we can infer
from it that Atkinson is not like

25. his famous character Mr. Bean at all.
2.No. Because he spent his early
years with his family on the farm
with his mother, three older
brothers and his strict father, who
did not believe in the value of
television.

26. 3.Yes. Because when he met a group of talented people at university, he realized this could be a career for him. We can infer from this passage that he likes to work with other talented people.

27. Words and phrases 1. …, then you are in for a surprise.
You will be surprised.
2.At Oxford, he obtained his Master’s degree in electrical engineering. This might explain his interest in fast cars, of which he has a vast collection.

28. got his Master’s /Bachelor'/Doctor's
degree .That is why he is so
interested in …
3.Rowan’s career change from an
electrical engineer to a famous
comedian was partly due to some
speaking problems he had in his
childhood.

29. 4.He compensated for this by talking very deliberately.
be because of
4.He compensated for this by talking
very deliberately.
make up for …(弥补)
intentionally
5.This may have inspired the abnormal speech patterns of many of his characters.
activated / not normal

30. 6.Although his teachers predicted a
career in acting, Rowan was not
convinced himself, until he met a
group of talented people at university, who were involved in
theater, and he realized this could
be a career for him.

31. tell sth. in advance/sure
take part in sth./participate in sth.
7.It was one of those things which
happen very rarely in your life,
when you realize you are in the
presence of genius. I was convinced
he would be more famous than Chaplin.
seldom/be faced with

32. Speaking Retell the second passage according the following clues:
When he was young, he …. ,
who ….He studied in the same ....
At 13, he earned …to study in a….

33. Later he studied …in … university.
he was so interested in …that he had
a vast …of ….
There are two reasons for his change
of career: the first, he had some
problems in …, so he compensated
for this by talking intentionally.