SPOOF TEXT

Eleventh Grade

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SPOOF TEXT

Spoof is a text which tells an event,happened in the past time with a humoroustwist (unpredictable and funny ending)

The purpose of spoof text is to retell anevent with humorous twist

The generic structure of spoof text

▪ Orientation :Introduces characters, setting, place,and time

▪ Events : Tells what happened

▪ Twist : Provide the punchline of the text refers theevent => punchline di sini maksudnya adalah suatukalimat yang menjadi letak kelucuan dari spoof textini atau disebut 'Point of Joke'

EXAMPLES “That Phone is Off”

Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his uncles who was very rich and had nochildren of his own died and left him a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own realestate agency. Dave found a nice office. ORIENTATION

He bought some new furniture and moved in. he had only been there for e few hours when heheard someone coming toward the door of his office. EVENT

“It must be my first customer” Dave thought. He quickly picked up the telephone andpretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York whowanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country. EVENT

The man knocked at the door while this was going on. He came in and waited politely forDave to finish his conversation on the phone. Then the man said to Dave; “I am from thetelephone company and I was sent here to connect your telephone”. TWIST

“The Boss and The Trainee”

A Man joined a big Multi National Company as atrainee. On his first day he dialed the pantry and shouted intothe phone, "Get me a coffee quickly!" The voice from theother side responded, "You fool you've dialed the wrongextension! Do you know who you're talking to, Dumbo?"No", replied the trainee. "It's the Managing Director of thecompany, you fool!" The man shouted back, "And do youknow who YOU are talking to, you fool?" "No", replied theManaging Director. "That's Good!", replied the trainee andput down the phone!

“ABSENCE”

One day Joe's Mother got angry because her son got a low mark

on English test. "Why did you get such a low mark on that test?"

Asked mother angrily. Asked by his angry mother, Joe just kept silent

and went out. A few moment, Joe came back home and met his

mother again. His mother asked the same question. Joe answered

steadily, "Because of absence.“ "You mean you were absent on the

day of the test?" Mother wondered. Joe replied, "No, but the kid who

sits next to me was."

“Refrigerator”

One husband came home drunk in the night. He needed use thetoilet as soon as he got to the house. Then he did it and went to sleep.

Next day he woke up and went to his wife…

Husband: Darling, yesterday I felt something different when I wasusing the toilet. The door of the toilet has to be pulled. And also therewas an automatic light when I opened the door…

His wife thought for a while and went to check…

Wife: OMG…next time please check whether you are going to use thetoilet or the refrigerator…

“Indian taxi”

Once a Japanese came to India for sightseeing. On the last day,he hired a taxi and asked the driver to take him to the airport.On the way, a Toyota car passed them very fast, the Japanese yelled“Toyota” made in Japan very fast. Then the Mitsubishi passed, theJapanese again yelled “Mitsubishi” made in Japan very fast. On the3rd time, he yelled again when he saw another Japanese car.The taxi driver got angry but he didn’t say anything.When they reached the airport, the taxi driver asked a charge of 800rupees.The Japanese exclaimed: “What!That is too much.”The Indian driver yelled back loudly: Meter, made in India, very, veryfast!

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NIDA SOFI HAITI