Lesson 3
My Favorite
Comedy
Do you like to watch comedies?
What is your favorite funny movie or
TV program?
Who is your favorite TV comedian?
First let’s learn the new words and expressions.
Free talk
comedy
put on
turn
sb
. off
regardless of
purely
universal
seal
n.
喜剧
假装
令人讨厌
不管，不顾
adv.
完全地，仅仅
adj.
全世界的，普遍的，通用的
vt
.
封，密封
astonish
saucer
raw
disgusting
desperate
obtain
partly
vt
.
使惊讶，使惊骇
n.
茶托，茶杯碟
adj.
生的，未煮过的
adj.
厌恶的
adj.
不顾一切的
vt
.
得到，获得
adj.
部分的
compensate
deliberately
convince
play around
pull faces
rarely
vt
.
补偿，赔偿
adv.
不慌不忙地
vt
.
使相信
四处游戏
做鬼脸
adv.
很少，难得
For me, I like watching comedies
very much. Of all the comedies I have
watched, I like the Crazy Stone best
because all the lines there are in
chongqing
dialect. And I can easily
follow the plot. The best comedian, in
my mind, is Mr. Bean.
Background
Mr. Bean
The most famous comedy actor
Chaplin
is fond of
imitating other
people.
Zeng
Zhiwei
can
put on different
voices
.
Phrasal verbs
Xie
Tingfeng
always
gets into trouble
and then gets out of
it
.
Mr. Bean
makes out
that he/she is
not very bright.
He usually
dresses up
as different
people.
He tells good anecdotes and
makes
up
good jokes.
Mr. Bean can make you
burst out
laughing
.
I really
turn you off
because you
never return back my things.
Reading Strategies
1.Sometimes things are not stated explicitly in the text. You need to make inferences or read between the lines to understand what is meant.
2. First, read the text to get the general idea. Then read the questions and use them to guide you.
3.Read the text again using logic to
make inferences.
Read Text1 and answer the
questions.
1.Why has Mr. Bean gone to a
fancy restaurant on this particular day?
2.Does Mr. Bean have many
friends? How do you know?
3.Why does Mr. Bean choose the
“steak
tartare
”?
4.Why does Mr. Bean pretend to
like the food when the waiters talk to him?
1.Because that day was Mr. Bean’s
birthday and he wanted to show to a lot of people that someone really sent him a card. Actually , the birthday card was sent to him by himself.
Answers
2.No. because nobody sent him a
birthday card. He could only write it by himself.
3.Because he doesn’t have enough
money to order other dishes.
4. Because if he showed his disliking to the face of the waiter, the waiter would ask him to order something else.
As all of us know, he could not
afford to order other dishes.
1.Mr. Bean is
an internationally
recognized
comedy character on TV
and in films. People all over the world know Mr. Bean. He
constantly
gets into awkward and absurd situations
,
Adverbs and its usages
which
greatly amuses
audiences
regardless of their nationality and
culture.
2.
Frequently getting into
strange
and embarrassing situations
makes somebody laugh.
Its usages
1.Adverbs that describes the way
something is done
2.Adverbs that describe when or
how often something is done
3.Adverbs that can describe
other adjectives
Useful phrases
1.He became so
desperate
in the end
that he even hides some inside the
purse of a woman sitting near him
and throws some down the trousers of the restaurant’s
violinist
!
hopeless
people who major in playing violin(
小
提琴
)
2.The humor is always made clear
through
a series of
simple and funny acts that
purely
rely on body
language, which is universal.
many /only
3.When he looks at the menu,
an
astonished look
swiftly
appears on
his face.
a surprised facial expression
quickly
4. He
makes an attempt to
eat it, but
it is clear from the look on his
face that he finds the taste
truly
disgusting
.
try to do sth.
really bad
Read the second passage, and try to
work out the main idea of the second
passage.
The passage talks about the actor
who plays Mr. Bean, Rowan
Atkinson.
Second-reading
1.How do you know that Rowan
Atkinson is not like his famous
character Mr. Bean? In what ways is he different?
2.Did Rowan Atkinson’s parents
encourage him to become an actor?
Why or why not?
3.Does Rowan Atkinson like to
work with other talented people?
How do you know?
Answers
1.In the first paragraph, there is a
sentence: if you think that
Rowan Atkinson is anything like
his famous creation, then you’re
in for a surprise. So we can infer
from it that Atkinson is not
like
his famous character Mr. Bean at all.
2.No. Because he spent his early
years with his family on the farm
with his mother, three older
brothers and his strict father, who
did not believe in the value of
television.
3.Yes. Because when he met a group of talented people at university, he realized this could be a career for him. We can infer from this passage that he likes to work with other talented people.
1. …, then you are
in for a surprise
.
You will be surprised.
2.At Oxford, he
obtained his Master’s degree
in electrical engineering.
This might explain
his interest in fast cars, of which he has a vast collection.
Words and phrases
got his Master’s /Bachelor'/Doctor's
degree .That is why he is so
interested in …
3.Rowan’s career change from an
electrical engineer to a famous
comedian
was partly due to
some
speaking problems he had in his
childhood.
be because of
4.He
compensated for
this by talking
very
deliberately
.
make up for …(
弥补
)
intentionally
5.This may have
inspired
the
abnormal
speech patterns of many of his characters.
activated /
not normal
6.Although his teachers
predicted
a
career in acting, Rowan was not
convinced
himself, until he met a
group of talented people at university, who
were involved in
theater, and he realized this could
be a career for him.
tell sth. in advance/sure
take part in sth./participate in sth.
7.It was one of those things which
happen very
rarely
in your life,
when you realize you are
in the
presence
of genius. I was convinced
he would be more famous than Chaplin.
seldom/be faced with
Speaking:
Retell the second passage according
the following clues:
When he was young, he …. ,
who ….He studied in the same ....
At 13, he earned …to study in a….
Later he studied …in … university.
he was so interested in …that he had
a vast …of ….
There are two reasons for his change
of career: the first, he had some
problems in …, so he compensated
for this by talking intentionally.
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