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选择性必修一
Unit 1 Laugh out loud Understanding Ideas
Task 1 Starting out
What forms of comedy are
mentioned in the video?
Question . Watch the video Comedy through the ages and answer the questions.
1.What forms of comedy are
mentioned in the video?
Stage plays with happy
endings, comedy acts
with clowns, cross-
talk, stand-up, sitcom
and comedy film.
Question . Watch the video Comedy through the ages and answer the questions.
2.
stand-up comedy,中文译名:单口喜剧。单口喜剧是“逻辑喜剧”,在内容上言简意赅,叙事的基本形态为笑话或段子,而笑话和笑话、段子和段子之间也无需任何联系,表演者在表演中自成逻辑,演员需养成个人的风格标签。且取材多为自己对于过往经历和当下生活的情绪感悟。
Stage plays with happy endings, comedy acts with clowns, cross-
talk, stand-up, sitcom
and comedy film.
情景喜剧(Situation Comedy/Sitcom),亦称处境喜剧,是一种喜剧演出形式,最开始出现在广播中,时至今日将大本营搬到了电视屏幕上。情景喜剧一般有固定的主演阵容,一条或多条故事线,围绕着一个或多个固定场景进行,如家庭、职场、校园等。
Task 2 Reading
1.Look at the pictures and tick the
places where you would expect to
see a clown.
a private garden
a circus
a busy street
Look at the pictures and tick the
places where you would expect to
see a clown.
a hospital
an amusement park
a theatre
Can a clown appear in a hospital? What dose he do in hospital?
2.Now listen and find out what is special about this clown’s job.
This clown works in a
hospital or other health care
facilities. His job is to comfort,
entertain and cheer up patients,
their families as well as the hospital staff in order to remove
their nervousness and make
them feel better.
3.Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
a Which patient is in need of the clown doctor’s
attention and why?
b What is a clown doctor and why did the
author choose to be one?
c How does the author feel after a day’s work?
d What are the responsibilities of a clown
doctor?
e How does the clown doctor help the patient?
f What does this clown doctor wear and what is
his working environment like?
a-2
A small girl called Lara is in need of