A taste of English
Humor READING
Laughing is better than medicine.
---- Jewish saying
You do know my love.
Yesterday once more
I’m driving at a high speed.
I want to lose my weight.
humor
How many kinds of humour do you know?
mime and farce
funny poem
Customer: What’s that fly(苍蝇) doing in my soup?
Waiter: Swimming, I think!
joke
Play on words
funny story
Mark Twain was the popular and humorous American author, He was the most famous humorous novelist in America.
crosstalk
Two or more speakers make many jokes and funny conversation.
Mr Bean
(mime and farce)
Mr Bean is funny because he makes funny faces, he acts silly,he seems quite stupid, and the things he does are funny.
笑剧，滑稽剧
Edward Lear
(funny poems)
an artist.
Reading
Nonverbal Humour
Who is he ?
How much do you know about him?
Let’s enjoy
He was a great silent movie star. Modern Times, The Little Tramp, The gold Rush, City Light are his masterpieces(代表作). He was very popular in his time.
Picture of charlie

a small black hat
a moustache
a stick
very wide trousers
He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air as he walked.
Give a description on Chaplin?
1889
1977
actor
mime
Large trousers, worn- out shoes, small round black hat and a walking stick
the little tramp
1 Chaplin performed how to eat a boiled shoe by vividly action and explaining.
2 In the middle of 19th century people went to California to look for gold.
3 Chaplin and his friend are so unlucky that they can’t find any gold.
4.Chaplin has a delicious meal by eating meat in the film.
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Ture or False
I am so hungry that I …
Why did they have to eat a boiled shoe?
Read the passage and write down the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1
Why people needed __________
Paragraph 2
What Charlie Chaplin’s ________was like.
Paragraph 3
What his__________________ was like.
Paragraph 4
An example_____________________
Paragraph 5
His achievements.
childhood
most famous character
of a sad situation that he made funny.
cheering up
Discussion
1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?
2. Why did people like The Little Tramp?
3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?
4. Why do you think he was so successful?
Discussion
1. Do you think his poor childhood helped him in his work? Why?
Yes, because he understood the problems of people who were very poor.
2. Why did people like The Little Tramp?
3. Do you think Chaplin’s eating boiled shoes funny? Why?
Because it gives people courage to overcome difficulties.
Yes. Because he made the terrible situation “real” for his audience.
And he was able to show the humanity and kindness in the most difficult circumstances.
4. Why do you think he was so successful?
Because he was a wonderful actor, understood and sympathized with people’s problems and tried to cheer them up.
Bye-bye
Can I take a break ?
Not all the _______ is kind. Some
are bad, others can inspire people. Some
actors can________ us with the character they
are playing. Chaplin was such an actor. He
became famous for using a ________
form of acting in silent films. The little tramp
gives people courage to overcome_________
with his firm ____________and he is always
kind even when people are________ to him.
astonish
particular
humor
difficulties
unkind
determination
Retelling