1. James Anyue Experimental School
Unit 20 Humor
James
Anyue Experimental School

2. Do you know what humour is?
It is something funny, interesting, such as jokes, comedy (喜剧) films, comedy cartoons, cross talks and so on which
make people laugh, feel happy and
sometimes think.

3. Watch the following videos and guess what they are.
A. Comedy films
B. Cross talk
C. Comedy cartoon

4. C. Comedy cartoon

5. A. Comedy film : 虎口脱险

6. B. Cross talk, by Niu Qun and Feng Gong

7. Competition: who speaks the fastest?
1. Betty bought some butter, but the butter was bitter, so she bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.
2. 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.
3. If white chalk chalks white on a black blackboard, will black chalk chalks black on a white whiteboard then?

8. Listening: 1. Pre-listening
1) Look at the six pictures in the textbook and try to guess what the man and the woman are doing.
2) words: minister enjoyable unexpected
2. Listening: listen to the tape and decide the right order of the six pictures.
Key:

9. 3. Listen again and choose the right answers:B
1). The man and the woman once lived in_______
A. Austria B. England C. America
2). How far away did they live from each other?
A. 18km B. 80km C. 8 km
3) The man’s job is to________
A. pray(祈祷) B. do church work C. marry people
4) Why did the man go red?
A. Because he never married people before.
B. Because the girl asked the question too suddenly.
C. Because he thought the girl wanted to marry him.
5). From the conversation we know that______
A. The man and the woman had never met before.
B. The man had in fact always loved the woman before they got married.
C. The woman felt surprised when the man asked her to marry him. C B C B

10. 4. Listen for a third time and answer the following questions:
1) What was the man’s job?
2) In England, who can marry couples in church?
3) How close to each other did the man and the woman live?
4) Where did the woman ask the man to marry him?
5) When did he ask her to marry him?
He was a minister in the church.
A minister
About eight kilometers from each other.
In a restaurant
A few days later

11. 5. Storytelling: tell the story in your own words.
There once was a minister three villages away from a young lady. One evening they had dinner together in a restaurant. They talked about people getting married, the lady asked the minister whether he would marry her in church. The minister was very and said that her question came very The lady that he had not understood her correctly she meant was whether he would marry her and her husband , their conversation put an interesting idea into the minister’s head. He realized that he wanted to marry her. So a few days later he visited her at home and asked her to marry him. The lady felt honored and immediately
1. A. lived B. who lives C. live D. who lived
2. A. but B. and c. while D. though
3. A. happy B. sad C. surprised D. interested
4. A. Unexpected B. Unexpectedly C. natural D. unnatural
5. A. Doubted B. knew C. realized D. recognized
6. A. Which B. What C. That D. How
7. A. Besides B. although C. However D. While
8. A. received B. accepted C. Answered D. got D B C A C B C B

12. Thank you and good bye