book4 unit 3 Warming up and Reading.ppt

up to now 直到现在 feel/be content with 对…满足 astonishing adj. 令人惊讶的 unfortunately adv. 不幸地 badly off 穷的，缺少的 ordinary adj. 平常的，普通的 entertain vtvi. 使欢乐，款待 homeless adj. 无家可归的 overcome vtvi 战胜，克服 pick out 挑出，辨别出 How many kinds of humor do you know? Tell true or false. 1. Chaplin learnt acting after his mother. 2. People love the character “the little champ”, mainly for he was poor and homeless. 3. In the middle of 19th century people went to California to look for gold. 4. Chaplin performed how to eat a boiled shoe by action and explaining. F T F F Retell the passage according to the questions. Why did people need cheering up? 2. What was Charlie’s childhood like? 3. What was his most famous character like? Give a sad example of a sad situation that he made funny. 4. What were his achievements? * Unit 3 Warming up and reading A taste of English humour A.The world situation C.Charlie’s childhood E.His famous film character D.An example of his work B.His achievements Read the passage again and write down the main idea of each paragraph. Para2 Para5 Para4 Para3 Para1 A scene from The Gold Rush comedy Sketch Clowns Cross talk Mime is a performance using gestures and body movements without words. humor nonverbal humour cross talk funny story verbal joke sketch clown Forms of humour mime and farce comedy 滑剧稽 相声 Do you know who he is? Charlie Chaplin He is one of the most famous humorists that can make others laugh all the time. What do you know about his films? The Kid The Circus 马戏团 Modern Times special Oscar It is about the life and work of Charlie Chaplin and the kind of humour we can all laugh at – nonverbal humour. Fast reading What is the main idea of the passage? Born:__________________________________ Job: __________________________________ Famous character: ______________________ Costume: ___________