1. Unit 3 A taste of English humour

2. Style of humour
cross-dressing
Sketch/
Funny plays

3. Style of humour
crosstalk

4. Mark Twain
(funny stories)
popular
humorous
novelist

5. Funny story
A man with two red ears went to see his
doctor.
Doctor: What happened to your ears?
Man: I was ironing a shirt and the phone rang but instead of picking up the phone, I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear.
Doctor: Oh, dear! But what happened to your other ear?
Man: The scoundrel（恶棍）called back!

6. Tongue twisters: A big black bear sat on a big black bug.
The big black bug bit the big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
Then the big black bear beat the big black bug and a baby black bug.
Big black bugs bleed blue black blood
but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.

7. Edward Lear
(funny poems)
famous
poet

8. Wished to travel to Peru. But Whether buses or trains
limerick(打油诗)
A large lady from Corfu,
Wished to travel to Peru.
But Whether buses or trains
Or boarding aeroplanes,
There wasn’t a door she’d get through.
Enjoy the limerick. And try to find out the pattern of the poems.

10. mime and farce Mr. Bean comic character famous funny facial expression
silly stupid strange
Mr. Bean
mime and farce

11. Charlie Chaplin
(funny films)

13. a small
black hat
a moustache
a walking stick
very large trousers
worn-out shoes

14. ways to make people laugh
Group work
ways to make people laugh
Words
actions
Cross-dressing
Humor
make-up　　　
body language
facial expression

15. How many kinds of humor do you know?
cross talk; tongue twisters;
funny poems; funny stories;
jokes; limerick;
verbal
mime ; farce ; clown
Pantomime(哑剧)
nonverbal

16. Discussion: Is humour helpful? Why?
Make people happy
Let people think about life
Give people determination to
get through difficulties
A kind of wisdom in life

17. Homework What will you do to if you were peter?
2.Preview the reading on Page 18,and find out more information about Charlie
Chaplin on the internet.

18. May you be happy !
Thanks!