Spoof

PURPOSE
retells an event with a humorous twist ; It is used to tell an odd and funny event based on the real life. Spoof is aimed at entertaining the readers and It is usually ended by an unexpected event (TWIST).

GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. Orientation (Pengenalan): who were involved in the story (the characters), when, and where
2. Events: tell what happened in chronological order
3. Twist (Unexpected Ending ; Funny) : provide the funniest part of the story

LANGUAGE FEATURES

• Focus on person, animal, certain thing.
• Use of action verbs, e.g.: run, eat, etc.
• Using adverbs of time and place
• Use of Simple Past Tense
• The use of connectives (e.g. first. Then, finally etc)
• The use of adverbial phrases of time and place (e.g. in the garden, two days ago)
• Told in chronological order
• Action verbs/material processes (went, slept, ran, caught, arrived, bought, looked at) e.g. He went to the zoo; She was happy.
• Temporal sequence (on Friday, one day, at the beginning, in the end, first, then, next, before, later, finally, etc)

NOTES:
Material processes are verbs that show activities which can be seen, e.g. write, eat, walk etc
Material processes consist of DOING and HAPPENING.
DOING : create, make, build, develop, send, throw, strew, pour, dissolve etc
HAPPENING : move, fall, rise, come, go, soften, harden, melt etc

Example of Spoof / Contoh Spoof

Green, Pink and Yellow

Orientation:
Can you name the colors in English? Yes, you are right. They are blue, red, yellow, green, white, brown, purple, black and so on. I have a funny story about the colours. Do you want to know it? ok let me tell you.

Events:

One day, an English teacher talked about colours to his students. After he had been explaining, he asked his students, “Who can make a sentence using the word, Green, Pink and Yellow?”

James, the smartest student in the class quickly raised his hand and answered, “When the yellow morning Sun comes, I see a beautiful girl wearing a pink clothe walking through the green grass”.

“Excellent. James, you are a very good student” the teacher said.

Twist:

“Me, me Sir”. Johny, the lazy student in the class said while raising his hand. And then he said, “I heard telephone ringing green, green, then I pink up the receiver and I said, “Yellow, who is speaking there?

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