3. • What are things that make you laugh??
– Comic
– Cartoon
– Witty
– Slapstick comedians (physical,visual humour)
– Stand-up comedians (one person telling jokes)
– Sketches(skits)
4. Different Text Types
• An Ancedote: is a short and amusing or
interesting story about a real incident or
person
• A Corny Joke: such a stupid joke that you
have to laugh at it.
• A Non-P.C. joke (politically correct)- could be
offensive, not caring about other’s feelings
5. • A put-down: humor that disrupts and
weakens a team or person
• A limerick: a 5 line poem that is witty and
humorous
• An epigram: a brief clever usually memorable
statement
• A pun: a play on words
• A scene from a sitcom: self explanatory
6. What is this??
• “I’m reading a book about anti-gravity..it’s so
hard to put down!”
• A PUN
7. What is this?
• There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,
That my nose is too long,
You are certainly wrong!'
That remarkable Man with a nose.
• A Limerick
8. What is this?
• “Excited First Grader: I learned how to write in
school today.
• Mother: What did you write?
• Excited First Grader: I don’t know. They
haven’t taught us to read yet!”
• A Corny Joke
9. What is this?
• "Great people talk about ideas, average
people talk about things, and small people
talk about wine."
(Fran Lebowitz)
• An Epigram
10. • What is a punch line?
• Homework p 18&19 exercise 4
11. Cleft Sentences
• What is it?
– A complex sentence which has a meaning that
could be expressed by a simple sentence.
• Why do we use it?
– To put a particular component into focus
12. • Is there an equation??
– It + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clause
– X: noun phrase, prep phrase or adjectival/ adverbial
phrase
It + is+ Joey+ for whom we are looking.
We are looking for Joey.
It+ is+ money+ I love.
I love money.
13. Different kinds of cleft starters
• It-cleft: It is Jaime for whom we are looking.
• Wh-cleft: What he wanted to buy was a Fiat.
• Reversed wh-cleft/Pseudo-cleft: A Fiat is what
he wanted to buy.
• All-cleft: All he wanted to buy was a Fiat.
• There-cleft: And then there's a new house he
wanted to build.
• If-because cleft: If he wants to be an actor it's
because he wants to be famous.
15. Re-write these sentences as cleft
sentences
1. You need a few days’ rest and recreation.(what)
2. Money is the thing people care about nowadays. (It)
3. We need someone to help us, not someone to
criticize.(What)
4. I like the way he always listens sympathetically. (What)
5. His attitude towards other people really annoys me. (It)
6. I don’t understand why you had to lie to me. (What)
7. I didn’t decide to take a short cut across the country! (It)
8. The world needs love, peace and understanding. (What)
16. Answers
1. What you need is a few days’ rest and recreation.
2. It’s money that people care about nowadays.
3. What we need is someone to help us, not someone to
criticize.
4. What I like (about him) is the way he always listens
sympathetically.
5. It’s his attitude towards other people that really annoys
me.
6. What I don’t understand is why you had to lie to me.
7. It wasn’t me who decided to take a short cut across
country!
8. What the world needs is love, peace and understanding.
