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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- Read the jokes with your partner. Decide which are funny and which are unfunny.
- “cereal” and “serial” are homophones - they have the same pronunciation
- “fiber” can mean the dietary substance in certain foods (such as cereal) and it can mean personal strength and toughness, courage, etc.
- This type of joke is a pun.
- “Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9.” - “eight” and “ate” are homophones
- Punchline: “Only Hugh can prevent florist friars.” - like “Only you can prevent forest fires.”
- chuckle: a small, short laugh when something is a little bit funny
- absurdist humor: humor that is funny because it doesn’t really make sense
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- http://www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/home.html
- - overview of the experiment
- https://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ll-final-report.pdf
- - "scientific" report on the full research and experiment. also includes the funniest jokes in specific countries
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- p. 109 - in groups of 3 or 4, ask and answer the questions in part 2
- He does impressions of politicians. = He imitates politicians for comedic purposes.
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- http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
- (Audio of many different English accents around the world.)
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- Homework: p. 109 part 3b - write the “augh” or “ough” word to fit each definition
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