1. A taste of English humour
Unit 3
A taste of English humour

2. Look at the following pictures.
Which picture can make you laugh?

3. Do you feel my love?

4. I’m driving at a high speed.

5. I want to lose my weight.

6. any mouse I like

7. It’s my meal.

8. Do you feel funny?
What is humour?
How many kinds of humour do you know about?

9. What is humour?
Humour is a word means making people laugh. If someone often makes people laugh, we say he is humorous. We call him a humorist. Whether something is humorous or not is a matter of personal taste.

10. nonverbal humour（无声幽默） mime（哑剧） Clown（小丑）
Forms of humour
nonverbal humour（无声幽默）
mime（哑剧）
Clown（小丑）
Sketch（小品）
humor
cross talk（相声）
verbal joke（口头的笑话）
funny story（幽默故事）
comedy(喜剧）

11. Do they have anything in common?
humorous

12. Sketch is a short humorous scene on stage, television, etc.

13. Mime is a performance using gestures without words.

14. Cross talk, Chinese comic dialogue between two people.

15. Clowns are comical performers, usually with fantastic appearance: colored wigs（假发）, stylistic makeup（化妆）, outlandish（奇异的） costumes, unusually large footwear（鞋袜）, red-nose.

16. Mr. Bean is funny because he makes funny faces, the things he does are strange. F:\Youku Files\download\Mr Bean - Department Store_标清.flv
Nonverbal mime

17. What is a punchline? Find the jokes’ punchlines.
POLICEMAN: Why did you have to
break into the same shop three times?
THIEF: Well, I stole a dress from that
shop but my wife didn’t like it. So I
had to go back and change it twice!
Punchline
The words that form the climax of a joke.

18. TEACHER: You say that john Jones has a cold and cannot come to school
today. Who am I speaking to?
VOICE: Oh, this is my father.
Punchline

19. Enjoy a verbal joke: Girl : If we marry, will you give me a ring ?
Boy: Of course, What’s your telephone
number?

20. Riddle 谜语 Friday March What day of the week is the best for
having fried foods?
Friday
2. What month do soldiers hate?
March
三月行军

21. mime Types of humour Typical actors/ writers of English humour
Example of Chinese
humour
nonverbal
mime
Charlie chaplin
Mr Bean
verbal jokes,funy stories,funny poems
comedy
Edward Lear
Marx Brothers
mime
（游本昌；严顺开）
cross talk
(马季, 姜昆)
sketch
(陈佩斯，宋丹丹）

22. Do you know who he is?
Charlie Chaplin

23. Give a description of Chaplin?
a small black hat
a moustache
He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick.
a stick
very wide trousers

24. He is one of the most famous humorists that can make others laugh all the time. What do you know about his films?
The Tramp
流浪汉 1915
The Gold Rush
淘金记 1925
The Kid
寻子遇仙记 1921

25. The Circus
大马戏团 1928
Modern Times
摩登时代 1936
The Great Dictator
大独裁者 1940

26. Homework 1. Write down your favourite humorist on your exercise books.
2. Preview the new passage on P18.

27. Thank you!

28. A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR
Reading
A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR

29. Do you know who he is?
Charlie Chaplin

30. Give a description of Chaplin?
a small black hat
a moustache
He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick.
a stick
very wide trousers

31. Fast reading What is the main idea of the passage?
It is about the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and the kind of humour nonverbal humour.

32. Careful reading Charlie Chaplin Born Job Famous character Costume
Type of acting
Died
In a poor family in 1889
Actor
“The little tramp”, a poor and homeless man
Large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat
Mime and farce
In Switzerland in 1977

33. Exercise 2. Match the main idea of each para.
Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5
Charlie’s childhood
His achievements
Why people needed cheering up
An example of his work: the
Gold Rush
His famous film character: the little tramp

34. Answer the questions. 1. How did Charlie Chaplin become famous?
He became famous for using a particular form of acting ---- mime.
2. Give a description of the little tramp,
Chaplin’s famous character.
He wore large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat, carrying a walking stick.

35. 3. Why was the little tramp loved by many
people around the world?
Because he had the optimism and determination to overcome difficulties.
4. Which film of Chaplin is mentioned in
Para.3-4?
The Gold Rush.

36. F F T F True or false. 1. Chaplin learnt acting after his mother.
2. People love the character “the little
trtramp”, mainly for he was poor and
homeless.
3. In the middle of 19th century people
went to California to look for gold.
4. Chaplin performed how to eat a boiled
shoe by action and explaining. F F T F

37. Summary
As he was a social _______, he was loved by all the people for his ____________ in overcoming difficulties and being kind to people who were _______ to him. When playing the famous film The Gold Rush, Chaplin managed to make the sad situation—eating a _______ shoe, entertaining by using __________ humour.
Such is Charlie Chaplin who produced, _______ , and wrote the movies that he _______ in. He was given a special Oscar for his lifetime ____________ work of bringing humour to us all.
failure
determination
unkind
boiled
nonverbal
directed
starred
outstanding

38. A scene from The Gold Rush

39. Homework
1. Write a summary of the passage in your own words on the exercise book.
2. Surf the Internet to find more information about Chaplin and you can present it to your classmates in the next class.

40. New words 1. be content with… 对…感到满意 2. badly off 穷的
3. astonish vt　使惊讶 　　　　
4. particular adj 特别的
5. entertaining 　愉快的 　　　　　　
6. tramp n 　流浪汉

41. 7. homeless adj 　无家可归的 　　　　　
8. overcome vt　　克服
9. fortunate adj 　幸运的　 　　　　　　　　
10. worn out 　穿破的　穿旧的
11. star in　　担任主角 　　　　　　　　　　　
12. outstanding　adj　杰出的 　　

42. Thank you.