Do you still remember what spoof text is? Yap, that's right. Spoof text is written to amuse the readers or listeners with a humorous twist. Below I provide some examples of spoof text completed with the exercises.
A bumpy
flight
“This is your captain
speaking. We have had a failure in one of our engines. There is no cause for
alarm as we still have three engines left. Unfortunately this means that we
will be an hour late.”
A short time later the
captain spoke again to the passengers: “there is no cause for alarm, but we
have just lost another engine. We will now be two hours late.”
When the captain spoke
to the passengers for the third time, he again had bad news. “Ladies and
gentlemen, I assure you that we are in no danger, but I must inform you that we
have had another engine failure. This means that we will now be three hours
late.”
Finally, the captain
announced that the fourth engine had failed.
One of the passengers
turned to another passenger and said, “Oh no! That means we’ll be four hours
late!”
1.
Who
were the participants in the story?
2.
Where
do you think the story happened?
3.
When
did the story happen?
4.
What
tense is mostly used in the story?
5.
Which
part of the story is funny?
6.
How
many events are there in the story?
7.
Why
do you think the story is funny?
8.
What
is the purpose of the writer telling the story?
Rearrange
the following paragraphs into a good and meaningful story. Then put in the text
organization of spoof!
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Three
days later the farmer called again and said, “You’ve got to do something about
these drivers. The school crossing sign seems to make them go faster.” So,
again the sheriff went out and put up a new sign: SLOW: CHILDREN AT PLAY.
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So,
he called the sheriff’s office and said, “You’ve got to do something about
these people driving too fast and killing all my chickens.” So the next day the
sheriff went out and put up a sign that read: SLOW: SCHOOL CROSSING.
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A
farmer lived on a quiet rural highway. But a new expressway bypass meant an
alarming increase in traffic. In fact, it was so heavy and so fast that his
chickens were being run over at a rate of three a day.
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Finally,
the telephone calls stopped, and the sheriff became very curious. So, he drove
out to the farmer’s house, and there on the edge of the road he saw a new sign.
It’s a whole sheet of plywood and written in large yellow letters were the
words: SLOW: NUDIST COLONY.
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No
good. So, the farmer called again and again, every day for three weeks, but the
sheriff just didn’t have time to put up signs every week.
Read the
following text and pay attention to the generic structure and answer the
questions.
Title
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Aren’t you his mother?
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Orientation (who, when, where)
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A young boy was playing with a
ball in the street. He kicked it too hard, and it broke the window of a house
and fell inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the
young boy, so he ran away, but he still wanted his ball back.
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Event 1
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A few minutes later he retuned
and knocked at the door of the house. When the lady answered it, he said, “My
father’s going to come and fix your window very soon.”
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Event 2
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After a few more minutes, a man
came to the door with the tools in his hand, so the lady let the boy take his
ball away.
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Event 3
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When the man finished fixing
the window, he said to the lady, “That will cost you exactly ten dollars.”
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Twist (funny part)
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“But aren’t you the father of
that young boy?” the woman asked, looking surprised. “No,” he answered,
equally surprised, “Aren’t you his mother?”
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1.
Who
were the participants in the story?
2.
Where
do you think the story happened?
3.
When
did the story happen?
4.
What
tense is mostly used in the story?
5.
Which
part of the story is funny?
6.
How
many events are there in the story?
7.
Why
do you think the story is funny?
8.
What
is the purpose of the writer telling the story?
State
True or False the sentences below according to the story above.
1.
(…)
A young boy broke the window consciously.
2.
(…)
A young boy came back to the lady’s house to take his ball.
3.
(…)
His father came to the lady’s house and fixed the window.
4.
(…)
The man fixed the window costless.
5.
(…)
The man thought that the lady was the young boy’s mother.
Rearrange
the following jumbled conversation into good and meaningful story.
The
perfect husband
Several men are in the locker
room of a golf club. A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the
hands-free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone in the room stops to
listen.
1.
Woman : Ok. I’ll see you later! I love you.
2.
Woman : I’m at the mall noq and found this beautiful
leather coat. It’s only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?
3.
Woman : I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership
and saw the new 2014 models. I saw one I really like.
4.
Woman : Honey, it’s me! Are you at the club?
5.
Woman : Great! Oh, and one more thing. The house
we wanted last year is back on the market. They are asking $950, 000.
6.
Woman : $80, 000.
7.
Man : Yes.
8.
Man : Well, then go ahead and give them an
offer, but just offer $900,000.
9.
Man : Sure, go ahead if you like it that
much.
10. Man : Ok, but for that price I want it
with all the options.
11. Man : How much?
12. Man : Hello.
13. Man : Bye, I love you too.
The man hangs up. The
other men in the locker room are looking at him in astonishment. Then, he
smiles and asks: “Anyone knows whose phone is it?”
Read the
following story and then answer the questions by choosing the correct answers.
Fixing
the Headstone
Once
there were two men walking home after a Halloween party. They decided to take a
shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery,
they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling
with fear, they found an old ma with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one
of the headstones.
“Holy
cow, Mister,” one of them said after catching his breath, “You scared us half
to death, we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late
at night?”
“Those
fools!” the old man grumbled. “They misspelled my name!”
1.
How
many men were walking though the cemetery?
a.
Two
b.
Three
c.
Four
d.
Five
e.
six
2.
What
made them shocked when they were walking through the cemetery?
a.
The
serene of the cemetery
b.
The
darkness of the cemetery
c.
A
tap-tapping noise
d.
The
howling of wolfs
e.
A
man passing by the cemetery.
3.
Who
did they find in the cemetery?
a.
A
villager
b.
Their
friend
c.
The
cemetery guard
d.
An
old man
e.
A
tombstone maker
4.
What
did the old man do at that night?
a.
He
made a tombstone for someone.
b.
He
corrected his name written on his tombstone.
c.
He
was just passing through the cemetery.
d.
He
had just attended a Halloween party.
e.
He
was just making a devotional visit to a grave.
5.
“The
old man grumbled.” The word grumbled in the sentence is similar in meaning to….
a.
Smile
b.
Attract
c.
Persuade
d.
Think
e.
Complain
Read the
following story and then decide whether the statements True or False. Correct
the False statements.
I’m
sending out some cards.
A
guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing
at the counter methodically placing “Love” stamps on bright pink envelopes with
hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying
scent all over them.
His
curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him
what he is doing. The man says, “I’m sending out one thousand Valentine cards
signed, ‘Guess who?’
“But
why?” asks the man.
“I’m
a divorce lawyer,” the man replies.
Statements
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T
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F
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Corrections
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1.
The
main character of the story was a postman.
2.
He
was sending a ‘love mail’ to his wife.
3.
He
used perfume to spray the envelopes.
4.
He
sent hundreds of envelopes.
5.
Wives
who received the mails would be very angry with their husband.
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Rearrange
the following story and answer the questions.
An Old
Man Dying Request
The priest said, “I have to
admit also, I kept $25,000 for the church. It’s all going to a good cause. I
did, however, thro the other $25,000 in the grave.”
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Well the lawyer just couldn’t
believe what he was hearing! “I am surprised at you two taking advantage of
him like that.”
“I wrote a check for the full
amount and threw it all in!!”
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“Well, today I found out I
don’t have long to live. So I have summoned you three here, because you are
the most important people in my life, and I need to ask a favor. Today, I am
going to give each of you an envelope with $50,000 inside. When I die, I
would ask that all three of you throw the money into my grave,” the old man
said.
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Am elderly man, 82, just returned from the
doctors only to find he didn’t have long to live. So, he summoned the three
most important people in his life to tell them of his fate. They were his
doctor, priest, and lawyer.
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After the man passed away, the
three people happened to run into each other. The doctor said, “I have to
admit I kept $10,000 of his money, he owed me on lots of medical bills. But,
I threw the other $40,000 in like he requested.
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1.
Who
were the most important people in the elderly man’s life?
2.
Why
did the elderly man want to meet them?
3.
What
did the man want the people to do?
4.
How
much money did the doctor take? What was the reason?
5.
What
for did the priest take $25,000?
6.
Did
the lawyer do what the elderly man asked?
7.
“I
wrote a check for the full amount and threw it all in.” What does the statement
mean?
8.
The
word “favor” has similar meaning to…
9.
“So
he summoned the three most important people…” the word “he’ in the sentence
refers to….
10. Do you think that the
story is funny? Why? Why not?
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