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.