Using LanguageⅡ教学实录与评析

Book 4 Unit 3 课时学案

Using Language GUIDED WRITING 如何写幽默故事

【单元写作呈现】

Think of a funny English or Chinese story and tell it to your partner.

Write down the story. Use a logical order: explain the situation, what happened and then give the punchline.

Read it through when you have finished checking for mistakes. Read it to your partner and ask for advice. Rewrite your story and put it into a class collection of funny stories. 【写作分析】

本单元要求写一篇幽默故事。幽默故事属于记叙文类写作，写作时除了要具备记叙文的六要素外，还要特别注意幽默故事的特殊性。幽默故事通过讽喻、双关等修辞手法，合乎情理而又出人意料的故事情节使人感到好笑；同时，要在塑造人物、展开情节上下功夫，使其引人入胜。

幽默故事一般都比较简短，或表现生活中的一些场景，或以对话的形式出现。

【审题要素】

写作时应注意以下几点：

1. 确定文体：幽默故事大多属于记叙文。

2. 主体时态：文章以一般过去时或一般现在时为主。

3. 主体人称：第一人称或第三人称。

4. 内容要点：①故事场景；②展开情节；③意外结尾。

【思路引导】

写幽默故事首先要设计好故事发生的场景，即时间、地点、主要人物和发生的事。做好前文的铺垫之后，故事最后的点睛之笔（punchline）才显得既在情理之中又出乎意料之外。相声中称之为“抖包袱”，即把之前设置的悬念揭开，或者把前文铺垫酝酿好的笑料关键部分说出来。

写幽默故事时要注意前文的逻辑顺序，结尾处要与人们的生活常识或经历相

矛盾，这样才能使人联系上下文体会到幽默所在。写英文幽默故事，还应注意东西方人思维方式的差异以及汉英语言文化背景的差异。

【语言积累】

I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

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Stephen Wright I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

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Robert Orben Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. —

Thomas Henry Huxley Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. —

Mel Brooks When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. —

Albert Einstein 【参考范文】

A girl is seated next to a lawyer on a long flight. She was very sleepy, but he keeps waking her up. “Let’s play a little game,” he suggests. “If I answer wrong, I’ll pay you $50. If you answer wrong, you owe me $5.” The girl agrees, and the lawyer goes first. “What’s the distance between the earth and the moon?”

The girl hands the lawyer $5. Now it’s her turn. “What goes up a mountain on three legs and comes down on four?”

The lawyer is dumbstruck. He scans the Internet, flips through his pocket encyclopedia, and texts every scientist he can find. No dice. Hours later, he wakes up the girl, hands her $50, and asks, “So what’s the answer?” Without a word, she hands him $5 and goes back to sleep.

通过学习这篇写作指导，你掌握了幽默故事的写作方法了吗？试着写一下吧，然后与范文加以对照，找出其中的不足并加以改进。