1. Reading Stand up for your health

2. Mr. Bean
What is he known for?
For his funny performance

3. Skimming 1. What is the article about? A famous comedian.
2. Who is Billy Crystal?
3. What is laughter good for?
Stand-up comedies.
A famous comedian.
Our health.

4. Reading strategy
How to guess the meanings of new words?
Get the meanings from the sentences around them.
Get the meanings through the ways the words are used.

5. What does the phrase “does impressions” mean in Line 19?
A. 留下印象 B. 误会 C. 模仿 D. 留下压痕
2. What does the word “routine” in Line 29
mean?
A. usual order B. normal process
C. performance D. habit

6. Scanning 1. What are the main characteristics of stand-up?
Read the first part and answer the following questions.
1. What are the main characteristics of
stand-up?
2. What are the four main types of stand-up?

7. 1.What are the main characteristics of
stand-up?
One person
Stand directly in front of the audience
and communicate with the audience
Improvise (即兴创作）

8. 2. What are the four main types of stand-up?
Some comedians tell jokes about the way people behave or about daily life.
Other comedians rely on visual humour.
Other comedians may trip over chairs, walk into doors, and fall down on stage.
The last kind of comedian does impressions.

9. Billy Crystal

10. Read the second part and answer the following questions.
How many times has Billy Crystal hosted the
Academy Awards?
2. When did he begin practising stand-up?
3. Why has Billy Crystal become so famous?
4. What does he keep in his pocket? And why?
5. Who that were mentioned in the passage lived to be 100 years old and kept working until the end of their lives?

11. A famous comedian Nine times. As a child.
How many times has Billy Crystal hosted the Academy Awards?
When did he begin practising stand-up?
Why has Billy Crystal become so famous?
Nine times.
As a child.
His outstanding ability to improvise.

12. △ What does he keep in his pocket? And why?
A toothbrush.
For good luck.
△ Who that were mentioned in the passage lived to be 100 years old and kept working until the end of their lives?
Bob Hope and George Burns.

13. Blank Fill-in Billy Crystal has become famous as a
TV and film a_____. He has h______
the Academy Awards broadcast l_____
on TV 9 times. People are deeply
impressed by his o____________
ability to improvise.
ctor
osted
ive
utstanding

14. His p__________ with all age groups and his ability to a_______ people all over the world proved that stand-up can be enjoyed by everyone. He has no plans to stop making films or telling jokes.
He hopes to f_____ in the footsteps of other famous comedians to keep working until the end of his life.
opularity
muse
ollow

15. Laughter is good for your health!
1. What does your brain do when you laugh?
2. What is the English idiom about laughter mentioned in the text?
It sends chemicals that are good for you.
“Laughter is the best medicine.”

16. Stand up for your health
A type of comedy done on a stage by a comedian talking to audience members in a(n) 2.________ manner.
1.________ of stand-up
Definition
straight
Telling jokes about people’s
way of 3._______ or daily life
2. Telling jokes inspired by
objects.
3. Making people laugh by means
of absurd 4.________ actions
4. Making fun of famous persons
by copying their actions or
5. _______.
behaving
Types of stand-up
physical
accent

17. old He’s hosted the Academy Awards nine times.
2. He thinks very quickly,
often coming up with new
jokes about the 6._________
people and things.
3. He gains 7________ among
all age groups and is able
to amuse people worldwide.
4. He promise that he will
never be too 8._____ to
give up working.
A famous stand-up comedian: Billy Crystal
surrounding
popularity
old

18. Stand-up makes people burst out laughing
Stand-up makes people burst out laughing. According to doctors’ 10________, people who laugh a lot enjoy longer lives.
9.______ of stand-up
Effect
research

19. Thank You !