Unit 1 Leisure Activities
leisure: use of free time
-- leisure activities
-- leisure time
Part One: Preparation
1. pictures of leisure activities
2. Categories of leisure activities
3. Chat: How do you usually kill time
(What are your favorite pastimes)?
4. Laughter and quick wits
1. pictures of leisure activities
Bowling
Golf
shooting
Airsoft / WG
tourism
river cruise
crossword
library / reading
2. Categories of leisure activities
 Outdoor activities:
Tourism (traveling)
Sports activities: playing tennis, playing table tennis, playing football,
playing basketball, going swimming, going skating…
bowling, golf…
“Thrill seeking” kinds: mountaineering, skiing,
white water rafting, bungee, parachute jump,
shopping
 Indoor actitivities:
reading, listening to music, watching VCDs, watching a sports match,
Playing Video games, playing musical instruments, playing cards…
 Active activities:
sports activities, dancing, going to Karaoke bars, …
 Passive activities:
going to a concert, going to movies, going to theaters, going to the
bars (pubs), …
Recent ones are not much included…
3. Chat: How do you usually kill time?
(What are your favorite pastimes?)
Step 1: chat in small groups /
talk to yourself
Step 2: point out how your
pastimes (leisure activities)
affect your life
4. Laughter and quick wits
 Learn the words and expressions in E2 (P2)
 some types of humors that you are familiar
with
Cross-talk
A play on words
Pun; double entendre
Clown Stand-up comedies
--what makes people laugh in a certain type of
humors? (cross-talk to many old people, a play on words,
double entendre).
(optional)
watch the following comedies of several
comedians with their own styles.
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Spoof: State of the Nation Address; whatever you like
stand-up comedies:
Nazi healthcare
Cellphone
Gay vs. Black
Joe Wong
Try to answer the following two questions:
1.
What makes those jokes funny?
2.
Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and some didn’t?
Part two:
Reading-centered Activities
In-Class Reading:
Entertaining Humor—What’s Funny
After-Class Reading:
I: Fatal Attraction
II: Wow, Would I Love to Do That
In-class Reading
Entertaining Humor—What’s Funny?
I. watch the following comedies of several
comedians with their own styles.

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Spoof: State of the Nation Address; whatever you like
stand-up comedies:
Nazi healthcare
Cellphone
Gay vs. Black
Joe Wong
Try to answer the following two questions:
1. What makes those jokes funny?
2. Why did some of you laugh at the jokes and some didn’t?
II: Find out the answers to the
following questions in the passage
 Q1: What makes a story funny?
--para. 1, 2, 5
 Q2: Why do some people laugh at a joke while others don’t?
--para. 3
 Q3: List different types of humor, then define or illustrate them.
--para. 6—12
 Q4: Tell the difference between “A Play on Words” and “Puns”,
and the difference between “Puns” and “Double Entendres”
 Q5: What are the usual criticism of today’s humor?
And what is the author’s response to those blames? – Pra 13
If you want to tell people
a truth, you’d better make
them laugh, or they would
hate you.
--more remarks on humor on P15-E5
III. Language studies
 long / difficult sentences: grammar &
writing
 A quick look at “New Words” & “phrases
and expression”
 Exercises: Vocabulary
After-Class Reading
Passage I:
A. Students’ presentation
B. Further exploration
Further exploration
 the pattern / characteristics of “whodunit” novels –para 2-7
 differences between the real world and “whodunit”
world –para 6,7 vs. para 8
 differences between “whodunit” and “whydunit”
novels –para 9
 new words:
assemble, aristocracy, loose end, (under) arrest, death penalty, convict,
miscarriage of justice, unsettle, take on, exert
 E3-P26
Recommend:
Lie to me
Castle
After-Class Reading
Passage II:
A. Students’ presentation
B. Further exploration
Further exploration
Several phases: from an amateur to a
professional (in juggling performance)
What he scared of at first
All the turning points
New words
start over, auditorium, elation, try out, get through
E2: P35
Part III Further Development
1. Enrich your word power
Part IV Translation
英译汉的长句翻译（1）-- 概述
 practice
Preparation for quiz
 1. dictation: 10 new words
 2. word formation: part of speech
 3. prepositions & adverbs
 4. translation: E—C, from ICR / ACR
 5. Question answering: What is it that makes a
joke or a story funny? (50-80 words)