Spoof text is a humorous narrative that typically includes a twist ending intended to amuse or entertain readers or listeners. It generally consists of an orientation, a series of events, and a twist, all of which contribute to its comedic effect. The document explains the structure of spoof text and provides examples including 'the zoo job story' and other narratives that play with unexpected outcomes.

2. The Definition of Spoof Text
Spoof text is a type of spoken or written text that tells of funny or
humorous story. This type of story which has a twist (funny part in
the end of the story). It contains an unpredictable event which
makes the story funny the text is to amuse, entertain the listener or
readers with humorous story. The important point that makes the
story amusing is twist. The main character of twist in a funny story
should be unpredictable and funny.

3. • The beginning of the story.
It contains the introduction
of characters and the
setting of the story.
• Series of events. It contains
what happen to the
character.
• Twist. It contains
unpredictable funny ending
of the story.
It
consists
of the
following
element.

4. • The social function or the purpose of
the text is to amuse, entertain the
listener or readers with humorous story.
Then, the social purpose of this type of
text is entertaining readers using twist
(unpredictable funny ending). Spoof
text can be found in short story books,
magazine, movies, etc. Spoof text can
make people entertained and amused
with the funny part of the story.
Function

5. Orientation : sets the scene and
introduce the participants.
Events : tell the events
chronologically.
Twist : the humorous part of the
story, put usually at the end of the
story.
Generic Structure of spoof

6. The Example of Spoof Text
“The Zoo Job Story”
One day a clown was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street performance. He acted
and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him
into his office. The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo`s most popular gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper
was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could
get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity.
So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He felt that it
was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a
clown. He pretended the gorilla successfully.
However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He began to notice that the people
were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to
make spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the
lion`s cage. Of course, this made the lion furious but, the crowd people loved it.
At the end of the day, the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on
for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible
day happened. When he was dangling the furious lion, he slipped and feel into the lion cage. The clown was really in big
terrible situation. He was terrified.
Sooner the lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He could do nothing and he
began to run round and round the cage with the lion close and closer behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown
started screaming and yelling, “Help me, help me!”, but the lion was quick and pounces. The clown soon found himself flat
on his back looking up at the angry lion and suddenly he heard a voice the lion`s mouth, “Shut up you idiot! Do you want to
get us both fired?”.

7. GENERIC STRUCTURE OF SPOOF TEXT
“The Zoo Job Story”
1. Orientation : sets the scene and introduce the participants.
One day a clown was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street performance. He acted
and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him
into his office. The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo`s most popular gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper
was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could
get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity.
2. Events : tell the events chronologically.
So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He felt that it
was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a
clown. He pretended the gorilla successfully.
3. Events : tell the events chronologically.
However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He began to notice that the people
were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to
make spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the
lion`s cage. Of course, this made the lion furious but, the crowd people loved it.
3. Events : tell the events chronologically.
At the end of the day, the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on
for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible
day happened. When he was dangling the furious lion, he slipped and feel into the lion cage. The clown was really in big
terrible situation. He was terrified.
4. Twist : the humorous part of the story, put usually at the end of the story.
Sooner the lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He could do nothing and he
began to run round and round the cage with the lion close and closer behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown
started screaming and yelling, “Help me, help me!”, but the lion was quick and pounces. The clown soon found himself flat
on his back looking up at the angry lion and suddenly he heard a voice the lion`s mouth, “Shut up you idiot! Do you want to
get us both fired?”.

8. • Focus on specific participants.
• There are many action verbs (stood, walks, etc.) and
mental processes (verb of perception: think, realize, feel).
• Direct and indirect speeches are often used(some dialogs
are used in the story
• The use of past tenses.
• He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts
• As soon as he started to drive a crowd
• The use of time conjunction
• Then-After that-Afterwards-Finally-etc.
Language Grammatical Features

9. Language Grammatical Features
Language Features
“The Zoo Job Story”
The use of past tenses
A clown was visiting the zoo
• The zoo keeper explained to the clown
• The clown accepted this great opportunity
• He felt that it was a great job
• He pretended the gorilla successfully
• He began to notice
• He kept taunting the lion
• The clown was really in big terrible situation
• The clown was so scared
• The clown started screaming and yelling
The use of time conjunction
• Last week, and, when, after, before, then, finally.

10. Worksheet
 I. Please read carefully the text on how people sometimes do silly things to
maintain their relationship with their neighbors, then answer or choose the
correct one!!!
Fluffy Bunny Rabbit
After a long day at the office, Chris came home one day and found his dog with the
neighbor`s pet rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit was obviously dead. Chris panicked!
“If my neighbors find out my dog killed their bunny, they will hate me forever,” he thought.
“So he took the dirty, chewed up rabbit into the house, gave it a bath and blow-dried its fur.
Chris knew his neighbors kept their backdoor open during the summer, so he sneaked inside
and put the bunny back into the cage, hoping his neighbors would think it died of natural
causes.
A couple of days later Chris and his neighbors saw each other outside.
“Did you hear that Fluffy die?” the neighbor asked.
“Oh…Uhmmmmm ….Sorry to hear that. What happened?” Chris mumbled
The Neighbors replied, “We just found him dead in his cage one day. But the strange
thing is that the day after we buried him, we went out to dinner and someone must have
dug him up, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage!”

11. Worksheet
What does the story tell us about?
A. A rabbit and a dog
B. A boy who patted a rabbit
C. A neighborhood in America
D. A boy who was tried to maintain neighborhood
E. A boy who was angry with his neighbors because their dog killed his rabbit.
What was his dog doing when Chris found it?
A. The dog was barking at a thief
B. The dog was digging the neighbor`s
C. The dog was eating the rabbit
D. The dog was killing the rabbit
E. The dog was carrying a dead rabbit in its mouth,
What did Chris think of his neighbor`s rabbit?
A. It was alive
B. It was killed by his dog
C. It was funny
D. It was stinky because it was already dead
E. He was upset because his neighbor did not bury it
How did Chris cover up the death of the rabbit?
A. By cleaning it and then putting it in his neighbor`s house
B. By burying it in the backyard
C. By throwing it into his neighbor`s rubbish bin
D. By bathing it and then burying it
E. By replacing it with his own rabbit.
How did Chris get into his neighbor`s house?
A. Breaking the side window of the house
B. Breaking the fount door of the house
C. Sneaking through the backdoor.
D. Using the key hidden below the doormat
E. Passing the front gate of the house.

12. Worksheet
What actually happened to the rabbit?
A. The dog and the rabbit
B. The dog found it dead
C. Chris unconsciously killed it
D. Chris`s neighbor killed it and buried it before the dog found it.
E. It died and buried in the backyard before the dog dug it out.
“If my neighbors find out my dog killed their bunny, they`ll hate me forever” (line 4).
The sentence implies …
A. Chris wanted his neighbor to know that his dog killed the rabbit.
B. Chris worried if his neighbor was angry with him
C. Chris hated his neighbor so that he killed the rabbit.
D. Chris let his dog eat the rabbit
E. Chris was happy because his dog could kill the rabbit.
8. The word “him” in line 13 refers to …
A. the dog
B. Chris
C. The rabbit
D. Chris`s neighbor
E. Chris`s rabbit
9. “We just found him dead in his cage one day. But the strange thing is that the day after we buried him, we went out to dinner and someone must have dug him up,
gave him a bath and put him back into the cage!”
What does the statement meant?
A. The dog was dead before the dog out
B. Someone consciously killed the rabbit and hid it
C. Someone found a dead rabbit and then buried it.
D. Chris put it back to its cage because his dog killed it
E. His neighbor did not know that the rabbit was dead in its cage.
10. What actually happened was ….
A. The rabbit was dead because the dog killed it
B. Chris ordered his dog to get the rabbit
C. The rabbit did not die because of the dog
D. Chris`s neighbors thought that the rabbit was still alive
E. Chris`s neighbors actually wanted the rabbit dead.

13. Kunci Jawab soal 1:
1. B
2. D
3. B
4. A.
5. C
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. D
10. C

14. II. Please read carefully the text on this exercise, then answer or
choose the correct one!!!
Vampire Bat
A vampire bat came flapping in from the night, face all
covered in fresh blood and parked himself on the roof of the cave
to get some sleep.
Pretty soon all the other bats smelt the blood and began
hassling him about where he got it. He told them to piss off and
let him get some sleep, but they persisted until he finally gave in.
“Ok, follow me,” he said and flew out of the cave with
hundreds of bats behind him. Down though a valley they went,
across a river and into a huge forest.
Finally he slowed down and all the other bats were excitedly
around him with their tongues hanging out for blood.
“Do you see that large oak tree there? He asked. “YES, YES, YES,
YES, YES!!!!!” the bats all screamed in a frenzy.
“Good!!!!” said the first bat, “Because I didn`t.”

15. II. Please read carefully the text on this exercise, then answer or
choose the correct one!!!
Questions
1. What did the vampire bat get before he got to the cave?
2. Why did other vampire bats hassle him?
3. Why do you think that the vampire bat finally told where he got all the fresh
blood?
4. Where did he get all the fresh blood?
5. How did he get it?
6. What did the bat show the large oak tree to the other bats?
7. What did probably happen when the other bats knew how he got the fresh
blood?
8. What makes the story funny? Tell it in brief!
9. What do the following words refer to?
Himself (line 2)
They (line 4)
Him (line 5)
10. The word frenzy is similar in meaning to…?

16. II. Please read carefully the text on this exercise, then answer or
choose the correct one!!!
OPTIONS
A. Because the vampire
bat smelt the blood
B. Before he got the
cave, he parked
himself on the roof of
the cave to get sleep
C. I think, because the
vampire bats
D. Valley, a cross a
river, and into the
huge forest
E. He get the blood with
their tongues
hanging out for
blood
F. Because the bat
afraid.
G. 1. A vampire
2. The other bats
3. A vampire bats
H. 1. A vampire bats
2. The other bats
3. A vampire
I. 1. The other bats 2.
2. A vampire
3. A vampire bats
J. They follow the other
who knew the blood,
and together all of
them flew out of the
cave with hundreds
of bats behind him.
K. Confusion
L. Spirit
M. Strife
N. When one of them smelt the blood
and began hassling, the others will
follow it which it said “Ok, follow
me,” and they are flew out of the cave
with hundreds behind him..but when
the others bats were excitedly around
him with their tongues hanging out for
blood and they see that large oak tree
there in front of them, He asked.
“YES, YES, YES, YES, YES !!!!!” the
bats all screamed in a frenzy…
Because They didn`t found it, their
hunted had been gone.