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Unit One Leisure Activities Laughter is a great medicine. Almost all of us like jokes, appreciate humor. What performances usu. make you laugh? Who are your favorite comic stars (笑星), Xiao Shenyang, Guo Degang, Ge You, Ben Stiller etc.? Why do you love them? The comic art forms may include cross-talk(相声), sketch（小品），new year’s film(贺岁片), talk show（谈话节目），comedy（喜剧）， Sitcom/situation comedy（情景喜剧）, slapstick（打闹剧）, Stand-up（单口滑稽说笑节目）, etc. A famous Chinese stand-up comedian Zhou Libo Standup Comedy (单口相声) Happy childhood by Fang Qingping Why did we burst into laughter when hearing Fang’s comic but find little interesting in the American comedian’s performance? Sensitivity 1. language barrier 2. Jokes usu. are alluded(暗示) not stated（明说）, while their rich meanings are culturally defined（由文化背景赋予其丰富的涵义）. You need a related background information to appreciate them. Assignment: 1. Preview the in-class reading and finish the exercises from p.15-17. 2. I’d like 5 of you to present a piece of English humor in class. (Tell it orally then present us the script and the punchline with your 1ppt.) You may choose following items: a play on words, comic strips, puns, double entendres etc. In-Class ReadingEntertaining Humor—What’s Funny? A labor of love: hard work but that you do because you want to. 心甘情愿/出于自己喜好做的苦差事 Fall out of chair laughing: 笑得前仰后合 Some people are more sensitive to (对…敏感) humor than others. 有些人对幽默比别人敏感。 Others struggle to (费好大去…) say sth funny. 费好大的劲说点有趣的事 Trigger an entire string of jokes from that person’s memory bank. 从他记忆中引出一连串的笑话。  What are the three typical parts of a joke in Para.5? 1. setup (setting铺垫) 2. body (story line主体) 3. punch line 　　　　 (a surprise ending包袱/妙语) Different forms of humor mentioned from Para.7 to Para.12. 1. slap-stick (stand-up comedian, clown, Chinese cross-talk) 2. a play on words (文字游戏)： puns (双关)，double entendres (一语双关) Read Para.7, how do you understand the humor “That was no lady, that was my wife”？ It appea