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a.  Presentation

b.  Listen to the tape and answer: Did Jenny enjoy her father’s sense of humor?

c.  Questions about the main idea of the passage:

(1)Were the stories in her father’s speech very amusing?

(2)Was her father an amusing person?

(3)Why was Jenny not amused?

(4)What were they laughing at?

(5)Who were they laughing with?

d.  Questions for language points:

(1)Does Jeremy have many friends?(a large circle of friends)

(2)When you have a large circle of friends, does it mean you and your friends often stand in a circle talking together? Why?  (common interest/friendship/bring you together)

(3)Do you like to have a large circle of friends? Why?(Everything has two sides.)

(4)Why is Jeremy very popular at parties?

   his sense of humor

     an amusing person

     …

(5)What does well-done homework depend on? (a high sense of duty/responsibility)

(6)Who do you think needs a good sense of direction especially?(a driver)

(7)If I go to a new place, I get lost easily. Do you know why? (a poor sense of direction)

(8)Where did Jeremy go to show his sense of humor?(at a wedding reception)

(9)What is done first at a wedding reception in western countries?

(It’s a custom that someone(usually chosen by the bridegroom himself) will make a speech at the reception. And this person usually has a very close relation with the bridegroom(maybe his best friend or one of his relatives). The speech will be followed by a dance. The bride and bridegroom who newly wed, dance first and then everyone joins in.)

e.  Questions for further comprehension of the passage:

(1)How did Jeremy feel about the invitation?

  (This is the sort of thing he loves. eg. When I was asked to give this open lesson, I

  hesitated as this is the sort of thing that I fear.  sort = kind)

(2)Was his speech a good success? Why?

(3)What did people do after his speech?(laughed, clapped their hands…)

(4)Who laughed the best? Who didn’t enjoy his speech? Why?

(5)How was Jeremy feeling when he was asked to go home?(very much disappointed as his daughter’s remark was like a wet blanket---His daughter poured cold water upon him.)

(6)Is he a good father? Why? (He did as his daughter asked/just at the moment he was  the very center of the attention of the reception when Jenny wanted him to go home.)

(7)Is she a good daughter? Why?

f.   Questions for the implied meaning:

Let’s find out in what way she could have been amused:

(1)if she had been older and could understand her father’s humor of sense;

(2)if her father had told her a bit earlier that the more people laughed, the more successful his speech would be;

(3)if she had known there is a big difference between “laugh at” and “laugh with”;

if she had known that people were not laughing at her father, but laughing with her father at stories;

g.  Read aloud(if time permits)

h.  Questions for imagination:

1.Suppose you were Jenny, please give us some description about that day you had.

2.Suppose you were one of Jeremy’s friends at the reception, describe the scene from your own observation.

3.Discuss the title/Read it with different emphasis:

a.       ’She  Was  Not  Amused (while the others were amused)

b.       She  Was  ’Not  Amused (on the contrary, she was rather upset)

4.Are you amused after learning the story? Why?

5.Have you got any questions to ask Jeremy as a newsman?