人教版高一英语下讲解16

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Part 2   PRE-READING
[00:05.69]1 Look at the photos.Do you know who these comedians are?
[00:15.96]What makes them funny?
[00:19.30]2 Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?
[00:24.58]3 Have you seen any of these comedians or proprammes?
[00:39.44]READING
[00:44.41]LAUGHING MATTER
[00:47.65]Comedies are theatre plays that make people laugh.
[00:52.82]The writers of comedies often use different techniques
[00:58.15]to make their auiences laugh.
[01:01.91]Cross-dressing men or women often appear on the stage.
[01:07.66]Dustin Hoffman is famous for his role acting as a woman.
[01:13.22]Funny plays often have characters that are stereotypes of nationalities
[01:19.78]or people doing certain jobs.
[01:23.85]The actors make us laugh by making fun of somebody's way of dressing
[01:30.10]or telling an amusing story.
[01:34.46]Acting out stereotypes of people from different countries can be very funny.
[01:44.52]It sounds funny to hear foreigners speak with an accent.
[01:49.66]Word play is a way to create fun in comedies.
[01:54.63]Shakespeare's plays made people in the sixteenth century laugh loudly.
[02:00.97]But to us his plays are not very funny
[02:05.73]because the meaning of words in English is their mother tongue,
[02:15.18]often cannot understand his jokes.
[02:19.44]Clowns also make people laugh.
[02:23.10]They often act alone or as a pair and make a different kind of fun.
[02:29.66]Clowns often don;t use any words at all.
[02:34.10]It is their clothes,make-up and the way they walk that makes people laugh.
[02:41.04]Some people think clowns are only funny for children.
[02:46.30]Actually they can help people forget their problems,at least for a short moment.
[02:53.66]Another type of people whose job is to make people laugh are comedians.
[02:59.83]They often work alone or as a pair.
[03:04.06]Unlike clowns,comedians'clothes are usually not very strange.
[03:10.90]Although body language and their face are important in their shows,
[03:16.65]they do not use the make-up that clowns use.
[03:21.33]Comedians may act out a situation during their shows.
[03:26.97]We call that a sketch,but usually,their hows don't look like comedies.
[03:34.83]What comedians have in common with the players in a comedy
[03:40.00]is their way of playing with words.
[03:44.05]Comedians make people laugh,but also think about life.
[03:49.80]At one moment in a show,you can hear the audience laughing loudly.
[03:56.04]A few minutes later everybody is quiet,
[04:01.32]listening and thinking about the comedians'words.
[04:06.07]Typical for China is the crosstalk show,
[04:10.93]where a pair of comedians entertains the audience with word play.
[04:16.89]A crosstalk show has two speakers making many jokes and funny conversations.
[04:24.44]They may also dress up a little
[04:28.30]or act out small sketches in front of the laughing audience.
[04:33.87]Comedians of all times and many countries
[04:38.62]have a long tradition of this type of comedy.
[04:43.06]Dating back to the Qin Dynasty(221-207 BC),the traditional crosstalk shows,
[04:50.43]or xiangsheng shows,
[04:54.50]have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries.
[05:00.85]Skilled artists make use of all the richness of the spoken language
[05:07.23]to create a rapid flow of fun.
[05:11.48]Their talk includes rhythm and rhyming words as well as tongue twisters,
[05:18.15]which often make the audience applaud.
[05:22.09]To appreciate the jokes of crosstalk artists,
[05:26.84]listeners have to know very well what the comedians are talking about.
[05:32.72]If you are not fluent in Chinese,you will not catch all of it.
[05:38.78]Perhaps that is the reason why few foreigners know about this Chinese art form.
[12:21.43]1 Then he began to talk to us about French.
[12:34.57]2 What surprised me most was to see some women
[12:39.85]kneeling on the ground at the end of the room.
[14:33.90]LANGUAGE study
[14:50.96]1 bitterness
[15:02.61]She kept weeping in bitterness.
[15:11.36]You can hardly feel the bitterness about her failure