A taste of English humour(Period 1 Reading)
s:i like teachers who are open-minded,cheerful and humourous.
t:good ideas!a humourous teacher can make the classes lively and interesting,and make you nice in class and learn well.today we are going to learn something about humour.
2.discussion:
t:then what do you think humour is?now please discuss it in groups and express your own ideas about what humour is.
s:humour,like jokes,can make people laugh.
s:humour is a sense.it’s natural.
s:humour is quality of being amusing;it’s an ability to appreciate something comic or amusing.
3.brainstorming:
t:quite good!you have spoken out your own ideas about humour.maybe everybody has his/her own taste of humour.then how many kinds of humour do you know?
ss:verbal jokes,funny stories,etc.
t:wonderful!you know so much about humour.some of them are examples of english humour and some are examples of humour in china.now let’s appreciate the following,and tell what types of humour they are.
policeman:you can’t park here.
driver:why not?
policeman:read the sign.
driver:i did.it says,“fine for parking!”
customer:i say waiter!there are some coins in my soup!
waiter:well you said you wanted some change in your meals.
mrs brown:is your new home a warm one?
mrs black:it should be.the painter gave it two coats last month.
ss:verbal jokes.
patient:doctor,i’ve lost my memory.
doctor:when did it happen?
patient:when did what happen?
doctor:what happened to your ears?
man:i was ironing my shirt when the telephone 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 the other ear?
man:the scoundrel called back.
ss:funny stories.
ss:they are playing cross talks.
ss:they are playing sketches.
t:next let’s appreciate the video clips from the mr.bean.
ss:mime and farce.mr.bean is quite a good example of mime and farce.
t:now let’s appreciate the video clips from the film called the gold rush.
ss:nonverbal.from the film we can see that charlie chaplin was quite good at nonverbal humour.
t:do you think charlie chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny?why?
s:i think it is funny.it makes my mouth watering,especially when it is almost time for lunch and i am very hungry.
t:really,and me too!but we have to come to the reading.
step 2 reading
t:the title of the reading is nonverbal humour,the purpose of it is to introduce nonverbal humour.this reading material takes charlie chaplin as an example.it tells us what nonverbal humour means;what’s charlie chaplin’s style of acting;how he made a sad situation entertaining and so on.