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1、Unit 3 A taste of English humour,Using Language,三月，行军,1. What day of the week is the best for having fried foods?,3. What is the smallest room in the world?,Friday,March,2. What month do soldiers hate?,1. Policeman: You cant park here.Driver: Why cant I?Policeman: Read the sigh there.Driver: It says
2、, “Fine for Parking,” so I parked.,Enjoy some verbal jokes:,罚款,Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke. Can you match the joke with the explanation?,1. C: Whats that fly doing in my soup?W: Swimming. I think!,(B),The first person is angry about something and wants to say “Why
3、 is this here?” The second person treats it as a request for information, and gives an answer to the question.,2. C: Whats that?W: Its bean soup.C: I dont want to know what its been. I want to know what it is now.,(C),The answer to the question contains a word which, when spoken, can have two meanin
4、gs.,The first person is asking for information about time. The second person treats it as a question about shape.,3. C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long?W: No, sir. Round.,(A),Reading,1. How did Watson answer Holmes question?,Reading,-I think of how short life is and how long the universe has laste
5、d. -I think of how small I am and how vast the sky is. -I think of how cold the universe is and how warm people can be in their beds.,2. What happened actually?,Someone has stolen their tent.,After reading the funny story, what kinds of persons do you think they are? Sherlock Holmes: Doctor Watson:,
6、careful,careless,You are going to listen to a funny story about jam. Before you listen, look at the exercises below. Try and predict the story. Tell your partner what you think will happen.,Listening,Listen to Part 1 and write down the main idea. Mary made some jam but left some on the kitchen table
7、 for a few days as she had to go to look after her sick mother. Some days later, John, knowing nothing about the jam, came home and threw it into the chicken yard.,Listen to Part 1 again and answer these questions. 1. What was Mary going to do with the cooked plums in the pan? She was going to put t
8、hem in the fridge later when they had cooled down. 2. What did John think Mary should have done with the mess in the pan?He thought she should have thrown it out for the chickens to eat.,Mary will laugh,1 John will apologize. 2 He will tell her she should not have left the jam on the kitchen table.,
9、Try to guess Mary and Johns reaction.,Mary will get angry and tell John he should have put the jam in the dustbin.,1 John will get angry too and say that she should have told him she was making jam. 2 He will laugh and say it is not important. 3 He will apologize.,Mary will say that the problems wit
10、h the chickens are Johns responsibility,1 John will deny this saying that she should not have left the jam on the kitchen table. 2 He will say that Mary did not tell him what she had been doing in the kitchen. 3 He did not know the chickens would get sick.,Mary got angry with John. Mary saw the chic
11、kens behaving strangely. John was sorry. The chickens enjoyed the jam. John said he thought the jam was porridge. Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. John said the chicken were drunk. Mary came home.,Listen to Part 2 and put these sentences in order.,1,3,6,5,2,7,4,8,Fill in the blanks.,“You _ my jam,” she shouted. “Oh, _ what it was,” he said. “Im _ but I thought it was _ which had gone bad in the hot weather. The chickens have _ the jam, but its made them _.”,threw away,thats,sorry,porridge,enjoyed,drunk,
