1、 Unit17 lesson3 My Favourite Comedy 1.Do you like to watch comedies?Why or why not?2.What is your favourite funny movie or TV programme?Why?3.Who is your favourite comedian?Why?DiscussionLets enjoy a short comedy and then tell me whether you like it or not?Reading Lets read another comedy,Mr.Bean wh
2、ich was acted by Rowan Atkinson.Reading Strategies1.First,read the text to get the general idea.Then read the questions and use them to guide you.2.Sometimes things are not stated explicitly in the text.You need to make inferences or read between the lines to understand what is meant.3.Read the text
3、 again using logic to make inferences.Read text1 and answer the questions.You must make some inferences.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
4、 the food when the waiters talk to him?1.Because that day was Mr.Beans 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.
5、Because he doesnt 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.Second-reading1.How do you know that Rowan Atkinson is not like his fa
6、mous character Mr.Bean?In what ways is he different?2.Did Rowan Atkinsons 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?Answers1.In the first paragraph,there is a sentence:if you think that Rowan Atkinson is anyt
7、hing like his famous creation,then youre in for a surprise.So we can infer from it that Atkinson is notlike 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 valu
8、e 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 Masters de
9、greein electrical engineering.This might explainhis interest in fast cars,of which he has a vast collection.Words and phrasesgot his Masters/Bachelor/Doctorsdegree.That is why he is so interested in 3.Rowans career change from an electrical engineer to a famous comedian was partly due to some speaki
10、ng problems he had in his childhood.be because of4.He compensated for this by talking very deliberately.make up for(弥补)intentionally5.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
11、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 ar
12、e in the presence of genius.I was convinced he would be more famous than Chaplin.seldom/be faced withSpeaking: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.
