1、Unit 3 A taste of English humour,Read some of these customer and waiter jokes and match the joke. Can you match the joke with the explanation.,C: Whats that fly doing in my soup? W: Swimming. I think!,(B),The first person is angry about something and wants to say “Why is this here?”,2. C: Whats that
2、? W: Its bean soup. C: I dont want to know what its been. I want to know what it is now.,(C),The answer to the question contains a word which, when spoken, can have two meanings.,The first person is asking for information about time. The second person treats it as a question about shape. The second
3、person treats it as a request for information, and gives an answer to the question.,3. C: Waiter. Will the pancakes be long? W: No, sir. Round.,(A),More jokes,Write down your story in a logical order:First Then Next Finally/At last ,Speaking on P23,Sample writing:,Stages in the story1. Mr. Hills buy
4、s a hedge cutter made in China.2. It breaks down and he tries to mend it himself.,3. The instruction booklet says it should not be touched “without permission”.4. He decides to get a new one so no one will ever know.,A true story of Mr Hills Mr Hills in London bought a hedge cutter made in China. It
5、 was very small and very cheap and it worked very well. At first he was very pleased with it. It made his hedges look smart and neat. Then one day it broke down. There was nothing he could do to make,it work. He took it apart and put it together again but still it would not work. Next he took out th
6、e booklet of instructions to see if they had any advice for him. Imagine his amazement when he saw these words written in the booklet. “No one is to touch or try to repair this hedge cutter without,permission.” What was he to do? Should he have written to the manufacturers in Beijing before he had took his hedge cutter mended? Mr. Hills thought long and hard. Finally he went back to the shop and bought another hedge cutter. He put his old one in the dustbin. He thought no one would ever know what he had done.,
