1. Telling anecdotes
1 Look at the photographs and think about the answers to the questions below.
Then describe the photographs.
1 What are the people in the photos doing?
2 What sort of stories do you think they are telling or listening to?
3 In what ways are the speakers ’ situations different, and how does that affect the
way they tell their stories?
4 In the bottom photo, how are the people who are listening reacting to the story?
5 What do people do and say when they hear a funny story?
2 Read the task and tell your own anecdote. Remember to describe what
happened and say how you felt and why.
Task
Tell a funny story about something that happened recently to you or one of your
friends.