Meeting XIV The Spoof Text Definition Spoof is

Meeting XIV The Spoof Text

Definition Spoof is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending. Its social function is to entertain and share the story.

The Communicative Purpose • • To share with other of an unusual or amusing incident To entertain readers with an amusing story To share unusual experience To tell an amusing story

Generic Structure of Spoof 1. Orientation 2. Events 3. Twist

Language Feature of Spoof text 1. Focusing on: people, animals or certain/specific things, 2. Using action verb (verb II); ate, worked, took, ran, etc. 3. Using adverb of time and place, 4. Told in chronological order.

Penguin in the Park Once, a man was walking in a park when he came across a penguin. He took the penguin to a policeman and said, "I have just found this penguin. What should I do? " The policeman replied, “Take it to the zoo!" The next day the policeman saw the same man in the same park and the man still carrying the penguin with him. The policeman was rather surprised and walked up to the man and asked, “Hey, why are you still carrying that penguin about? Didn't you take it to the zoo? "I certainly did, sir“ replied the man. "And you know, it was a great idea because the penguin really enjoyed it, so today I am taking him to the movies, and the next day I'll take it to the beach. It'll be so much fun. " said the man. Oh my God, hello! I asked you to take the penguin and give it to the zoo. I didn't ask to take it to the zoo and had fun there with it. " policeman said.

Generic Structure Orientation Once a man was walking in a park when he come across a penguin. Event He took him to a policeman and said, "I have just found this penguin. What should I do? " The policeman replied, “Take the penguin to the zoo". Twist "I certainly did" replied the man.

Instruction: Determine the Generic Structure! Now you try as you click the next slide!

Three Rooms in Hell A man dies and goes to Hell. The Devil meets him at the gates and says "There are three rooms here. You can choose which one you want to spend eternity in". The Devil takes him to the first room where there are people hanging from the walls by their wrists and obviously in agony. The Devil takes him to the second room where the people are being whipped with metal chains. The Devil then opens the third door, and the man looks inside and sees many people sitting around, up to their waists in garbage, drinking cups of tea. The man decides instantly which room he is going to spend eternity in and chooses the last room. He goes into the third room, picks up his cup of tea and the Devil walks back in saying "Ok, guys, tea break's over, back on your heads!"

Wrong email address A couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. Unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow. P. S. Sure is hot down here.

Cannibal Fruit Three men who were lost in the forest were captured by cannibals. The cannibal king told the prisoners that they could live if they pass a trial. The first step of the trial was to go to the forest and get ten pieces of the same kind of fruit. So all three men went separate ways to gather fruits. The first one came back and said to the king, "I brought ten apples. " The king then explained the trial to him. "You have to shove the fruits up your butt without any expression on your face or you'll be eaten. " The first apple went in. . . , but on the second one he winced out in pain, so he was killed. The second one arrived and showed the king ten berries. When the king explained the trial to him he thought to himself that this should be easy. 1. . . 2. . . 3. . . 4. . . 5. . . 6. . . 7. . . 8. . . and on the ninth berry he burst out in laughter and was killed. The first guy and the second guy met in heaven. The first one asked, "Why did you laugh, you almost got away with it? " The second one replied, "I couldn't help it, I saw the third guy coming with pineapples. "

The bomb and the pilot Three people were on a plane. One said to the pilot, "I have a glass bottle. What do I do with it? " The pilot told him to throw it out the window. The second one asked the same question and the pilot also told him to throw it out the window. The third one asked the pilot, "I have a bomb. What do I do with it? " The pilot told him to throw it out the window. When they landed they met a man crying. When asked why he was crying, he replied, "Because I got hit in the head with a glass bottle. They met a woman who was crying for the same reason. Then he met a man laughing. They asked him why he was laughing and he replied, "Because I walked by a building and farted. Then the building blew up. ”

The Bank Job When I first started working in a bank in the center of the city, I was always afraid someone might rob me. I was behind bulletproof glass, but the alarm buttons always reminded me that someone could rob me. We had secret signals that changed every day, and there was an automatic alarm that rang when the last money came out of my drawer. Sure enough, one day a man I thought looked suspicious entered the bank. He walked by the other tellers to come to me. I thought he knew I didn't have much experience. He put his hand into his pocket, pulled out a note, and put it under the teller window. I was very scared, dropped down under the counter, and hit the alarm button. The guards came and held the man. Then I read the note. It said, "Would you have lunch with me? "

The Birthday Present A woman needed to buy her mother a birthday present. She didn’t know what to buy her mother. She only had one day to buy her mother something. So she went out window shopping. Soon enough, she walked by a pet store window. She thought to herself, “What a lovely idea for a present! My mother is so lonely and she needs a pet. ” The woman went into the store and saw many wonderful animals. Puppy dogs, fluffy cats, gold fish, cute mice. But the woman didn’t think these were special enough. She asked the manager if he had a pet that was really special. The manager thought for a moment and replied, “Yes, but it costs a lot of money. $5, 000” “I have a parrot that can speak 7 languages, Chinese, English, French, Korean, German, Russian and even Hindi!” The woman said, “Perfect” and bought the bird. She sent it by special delivery to her mother, so she would get it the next day. The next evening after work, the woman called her mother. She asked, "How do you like your birthday present. ” Her mother replied, “Thank you, It’s Delicious!”