浙江省诸暨市草塔中学高中英语必修4课件：Unit3Reading人教版.ppt

人教课标 高一 必修 4 Unit 3;Warming Up;Two Pieces of Cake Tom: Mom, can I have two pieces of cake, please? Mom: Certainly -- take this piece and cut it two!;Birthday Professor: When is your birthday? Kid: May 30. Professor: Which year? Kid: Every year.;Policeman: Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? Thief: Well, I stole a dress from that shop but my wife didn’t like it. So I had to go back and change it twice?;Joke 1: The joke is funny because the wife wanted to change the dress her husband had given her. If women pay for their dresses they can, of course, change them if they do not like them. ;However, the wife is treating the dress as if the husband has bought it for her when he has really stolen it. People do not usually change stolen goods if they do not like them. They may get caught as they have done. So that is why this joke is funny.;Teacher: You say that John Jones has a cold and cannot come to school today. Who am I speaking to? Voice: Oh, this is my father.;Joke 2: parents often ring up school to explain why their child cannot come to school. The humour lies in the fact that the voice on the phone gives it away that it is the child speaking and not the parent. A child (however much they want to) cannot give themselves permission not to come to school. That is why it is funny. Zxx,k ;How many kinds of humour do you know?;;Look at the chart and thinking. Why the chart has been divided into two parts?;Nonverbal humour does not use words but relies on facial expressions and gesture; ;;;Verbal humour uses words as well.;Edward Lear Poems by Edward Lear There Was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, “It is just as I feared! — Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,;have all built their nests in my beard. There was an old man on the BorderThere was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, which vexe