Tongue twisters
(1)The rat-catcher can't catch caught rats.
(2〕Six silly sisters sell silk to six sickly senior citizens.
(3)Jenny and Jimmy went to Jamaica and Germany in January, but Joan and John went to Jordan and Japan in June and July.
(4)writer named Wright was instructing his little son how to write Wright right. He said:" It is not right to write Wright as 'rite'－try to write Wright aright!
Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe? 狗为什么害怕日光浴?
Because they are afraid of becoming hotdogs! 因为它们害怕变成热狗（香肠）。这是双关语。呵呵。
English sayings
1.Don't speak evil of people behind their backs.(不要在人背后讲坏话)
2.You can't gain knowledge without practice.(不经一事，不长一智)
3.Time makes it inevitable taht in every profession, young men replace the old.(长江后浪推前浪，世上新人换旧人)
4.Deliberate slowly,excute promptly.(慎于思，敏于行)
（3）找规律
Ten animals I slam in a net 把十只动物一网打尽，你注意到这句话有什么特别之处吗？英语里面把这个叫做回文palindromes顺读和倒读都是一样的
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Was it a rat I saw? 我刚才看到的是一只老鼠吗？
附：活动除主题谈话以外还可以组织一系列的游戏活动（如猜谜游戏，英文歌曲歌曲大赛，英语小品戏剧大赛等）以增加活动的趣味性。鼓励学生动手制作一些小礼物，作为游戏的礼物。
5、英文小品
羊肉串和纳税人
Characters:
Mr. Shi, Xiao fu, Dabao
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Mr. Shi: Tax is the major source of the fiscal revenue. There is an evident change about the relationship between the tax collector and taxpayer in the past 20 years. Now, the tax collector, Xiaofu, and the tax payer Dabao, a vendor selling Yangrouchuan will show you the very change. The first Act happened in 1980s.
Act I
(in Bazaar of Beijing, sanlihe, 1980s)
Dabao: Yangrouchuan , yangrouchuan, eaten one ,want nine, eaten one, want nine.
Hi, Take my yangrouchuan.(slipped, take it up, )
Xiaofu: Tax! Pay the tax!
Dabao: (change faces)
Taxi? Where is the taxi? Here’s no taxi.
Xiaofu: Tax! T---A ---X!
Dabao: What’s the tax? I just know taxi! Do you want me to call a taxi for you?
Taxi----! Taxi----!
Xiaofu: Enough! Are you the vendor?
Dabao: No, No, No, no! I ’m just have a look. The vendor has gone to the toilet.
Xiaofu: Not the vendor ? Impossible! you ’ve been here for 2 hours.
Dabao: Really ? (Xiaofu: Yes, of course.)
How do you know it?
Xiaofu: The window of my office is open to here and I ’ve been looking at you for two hours.
Dabao: It’ｓa big bug!
Xiaofu: Oh. Don’t waste my time! Please pay the tax---- 10 Yuan!
Dabao: 10 yuan?! My god. I had just earned 20 Yuan one day! 5 Yuan, ok?
Xiaofu: Don’t cheat me, you’ve sold more than 2 hundred ones.
Dabao: 6yuan, my dear sisiter.
7Yuan, my lovely beauty.
Dabao: Not for you ,not for me, let’s split the difference. 8 yuan ,ok ?
Xiaofu: (looking around) All right ,a deal. But no receipt.
(Dabao payed 8 yuan and Xiaofu left)
Dabao: What a smart woman! Bad luck! I’m bankrupt. I have to change my place.
Hope I would not meet her any more! Let’s go!
Act II
Mr. Shi: The next scene happened in new century. China had been marching in the way of the market economy for twenty years more, in the new era of building the well-off society in an all-round way, how do the vendor regard tax as and how is the tax collected? The scene will tell you.
Let’s enjoy it!
(In the market; Dabao in white clothes ,a board with "NO SARS")
Dabao:: Yangrouchuan, yangrouchuan. Eaten one, want nine. Eaten one, want nine.
Xiaofu: Hi,
Dabao: Hi.
Two: What a familiar face.
Two: It’s you!
Dabao: 10 years past, you are a still a tax collector.
Xiaofu: 10 years past, you still sell Yangrouchuan.
How is your business?
Dabao: Everything is OK!
10 years past, you are still beautiful lady in Sanlihe of Beijing.
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Xiaofu: 10 years past, you and your Yangrouchuan look more clean than 20 years before.
Dabao: Thank you. No SARS, no dirtiness; Serve people, serve me.
Xiaofu: Great! Have you……
Dabao: Married? I ‘m not married; I’m still single.
Xiaofu: Have you claimed your tax this month?
Dabao: What? Taxi? Oh, tax! Of course. I should pay the tax of 50 Yuan this month and I have claimed at the begin of this month.
Xioafu: Your receipt, please.
Dabao: (shows the receipt )
Here you are, I have paid my tax in the tax service center by computer.
Xiaofu: Great! What a good taxpayer you are.
