Unit 4 Lesson 1 What's So Funny? 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit4 Lesson 1 What’s so funny? Funny Stories Can you tell jokes ? Story A What tense? An English teacher asked the students, “What tense is it when I say ‘ I’m pretty’ ”. The students answered, “Past Tense”. Story B The watch is not mine. One of my classmates was late for school. The teacher in charge showed a watch to him without a word. The classmate looked at the watch and said,“ The watch is not mine.” Story C Please wake him up by yourself Prefessor :“ Please wake up your classmate next to you. This is in class, sleeping is not allowed.” Students :“Professor, please wake him up by yourself. It was you who put him to sleep.” Predicting Look at the 3 pictures and predict what each story may be about. Story A Read Story A and answer the following questions. 1. Which characters are in the story? 2. Where are they? 3. What happened to / between them? Read Story A and answer the three questions. A famous art collector was walking through the city when he noticed a dirty cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store. He did a double take. He noticed that the saucer was an antique and very valuable, so he walked casually into the store and innocently offered to buy the cat for 20 dollars. The store owner replied, “I’m sorry, but the cat isn’t for sale.” The collector said, “Please, I need a hungry cat with a good appetite around the house to catch mice. I’ll pay you 200 dollars for that cat.” The owner said “sold” and handed over the cat. Read Story A and answer the three questions. The collector continued, “Hey, for the 200 dollars I wonder if you could throw in that old saucer. The cat’s used to it and it’ll save me from having to get a dish.” And the owner said, “Sorry my friend, but that’s my lucky saucer. So far this week I’ve sold 68 cats.” Result Where Who What An art collector, a store owner buy a cat in high price to get the saucer for free; sell cats with the saucer buy a cat not get the saucer A stor