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Unit 3 A taste of English humour Using language 所谓pun, 通常是指利用一个单词 的两个含义, 或者利用两个特定的 单词, 达到“一语双关”的目的。如: English jokes Garcia: Thank you doctor. My fever is gone. Doctor: Don’t thank me. Thank God. Garcia: Then I will pay the fees to God. Listening Listening on P23 Mary made some jam but John, knowing nothing about the jam, threw it into the kitchen yard. 1. What was Mary going to do with the cooked plums in the pan? Before you listen to Part 2, try to put these sentences below in order. Then listen again and check if you were right. ___ Mary got angry with John. ___ Mary saw the chickens behaving strangely. ___ John was sorry. ___ The chickens enjoyed the jam. ___ John said he thought the jam was porridge. ___ Mary looked at the red mess on the ground. ___ John said the chickens were drunk. ___ Mary came home. Fill in the blanks while listening to Part 2 a second time. Listening text Mary Smith looked at the beautiful ripe plums. They would make lovely jam. When she had finished the cooking, she filled all her empty jam jars and left the rest of the jam in the pan. She would put it in the fridge when it was cooler. But just then the telephone rang, her mother was in hospital after a car accident. Mary picked up her bag and ran out of the house. Some days later, her husband, John, came home from a business trip. He had been traveling all day and felt like having a drink and a piece of cake. As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan with a dark red mess inside it. He lifted it up and smelled it. It smelled bad. Mary must have forgotten to clean this pan, he thought. So he poured all the jam into the chicken yard and cleaned the pan. Then feeling comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake. When Mary returned, she noticed the chickens behaving strangely. They were running around the yard as if they were sick. She saw the dark red mess on the ground and went closer. When she saw a plum stone she went into t