Unit 20 Humour

Answer the following questions

•What do you know humor means?

AmusementIt will make people laugh

and feel happy

•In what performances do we often enjoy humour?ComedyClowns’ performanceComedians’ performanceCrosstalk Joke

Funny story……

•What must we be able to do if we want to be a crosstalk artist?

Say tongue twisters

Question

Say the tongue twisters

•A tutor who tooted a flute•Tried to tutor two tutors to

toot•Said the two to the tutor •“Is it harder to toot or•To tutor two tutors to toot?”

Listing Look at the pictures on page 50-51 then listen to the tape and number them

6 5 4 3 1 2

Answer the questions

• 1. What was the man’s job?• 2. In England, who can marry

couples in church?• 3. How close to each other did

the man and the woman live?• 4. Where did the woman ask the

minister to marry her?• 5. When did he ask her to marry

him?

He was a minister in the churchA minister

About eight kilometres from each other.In a restaurant.

A few days later.

Retell the story

•There once was a minister who lived….

There once was a minister who lived three villages away from a young lady. One evening they had dinner together in a restaurant. They talked about people getting married, and the lady asked the minister whether he would marry her in church. The minister was very much surprised and said that her question came very unexpected.

The lady realized that he had not understood her correctly. What she meant was whether he would marry her and her husband. However their conversation put an interesting idea into the minister’s head. He realized that he wanted to marry her. So a few days later he visited her at home and asked her to marry him. The lady felt honored and immediately accepted.

speaking

•Look at the dialogue on page 51 then finish the questions with the useful expressions on page 52.

Example• J: For which age do you write

your show?• C: I write my show for children

but often the parents like my shows too. Some jokes are funny for the children but their deeper meaning is even funnier to the parents.

• J: What do you do as a clown?• C: Well, I act funny. I make strange

faces and run after animals in the circus. Sometimes I just smile and greet people to our show. I also tell jokes.

• J: What are you doing at this moment?• C: Why, I’m talking to you! You meant in

show? I have an act with a donkey. It’s very funny really. Many children told me afterwards they think I’m even more stupid than my donkey, And that is of course just what I want them to feel!

J: What are your plans for your next show?C: I plan to jump out of a big box that looks like a birthday present and throw candy to the children in the audience. I have decided my next show to be all about happiness. I intend to give my audience a show of about an hour which are fun. I hope people will go home feeling happier than when they came to the circus.J: How do you make children laugh?C: I do funny things and wear cloths of bright colors. The make-up on my face look funny even though I don’t do anything.

I have a big red ping-pang ball as a nose and when I act as if I’m crying, water shoot out of my eyes like rain. Of course the children can’t see the little tubes hidden under my hair.J: When will you stop working as a clown?C: I will stop working as a clown when my audience no longer thinks I’m funny. But I hope that will never happen.