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Mixed Emotions

Mixed Emotions. Module 2. What are things that make you laugh?? Comic Cartoon Witty Slapstick comedians ( physical,visual humour ) Stand-up comedians (one person telling jokes) Sketches(skits). Different Text Types.

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Mixed Emotions

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  1. Mixed Emotions Module 2

  2. What are things that make you laugh?? • Comic • Cartoon • Witty • Slapstick comedians (physical,visualhumour) • Stand-up comedians (one person telling jokes) • Sketches(skits)

  3. Different Text Types • An Anecdote: is a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person • A Corny Joke: such a stupid joke that you have to laugh at it. • A Non-P.C. joke (politically correct)- could be offensive, not caring about other’s feelings

  4. A put-down: humor that disrupts and weakens a team or person • A limerick: a 5 line poem that is witty and humorous • An epigram: a brief clever usually memorable statement • A pun: a play on words • A scene from a sitcom: self explanatory

  5. What is this?? • “I’m reading a book about anti-gravity..it’s so hard to put down!” • A PUN

  6. What is this? • There was an Old Man with a nose,Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,That my nose is too long,You are certainly wrong!'That remarkable Man with a nose. • A Limerick

  7. What is this? • “Excited First Grader: I learned how to write in school today. • Mother: What did you write? • Excited First Grader: I don’t know. They haven’t taught us to read yet!” • A Corny Joke

  8. What is this? • "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."(Fran Lebowitz) • An Epigram

  9. What is a punch line? • Homework p 18&19 exercise 4

  10. Cleft Sentences • What is it? • A complex sentence which has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. • Why do we use it? • To put a particular component into focus

  11. Is there an equation?? • It + conjugated form of to be + X + subordinate clause • X: noun phrase, prep phrase or adjectival/ adverbial phrase It + is+ Joey+ for whom we are looking. We are looking for Joey. It+ is+ money+ I love. I love money.

  12. Different kinds of cleft starters • It-cleft: It is Jaime for whom we are looking. • Wh-cleft: What he wanted to buy was a Fiat. • Reversed wh-cleft/Pseudo-cleft: A Fiat is what he wanted to buy. • All-cleft: All he wanted to buy was a Fiat. • There-cleft: And then there's a new house he wanted to build. • If-because cleft: If he wants to be an actor it's because he wants to be famous.

  13. Subordinate Clauses • afteralthoughasbecausebeforeeven ifeven thoughifin order that onceprovided thatrather thansinceso thatthanthatthoughunless untilwhenwheneverwherewhereaswhereverwhetherwhilewhy

  14. Re-write these sentences as cleft sentences • You need a few days’ rest and recreation.(what) • Money is the thing people care about nowadays. (It) • We need someone to help us, not someone to criticize.(What) • I like the way he always listens sympathetically. (What) • His attitude towards other people really annoys me. (It) • I don’t understand why you had to lie to me. (What) • I didn’t decide to take a short cut across the country! (It) • The world needs love, peace and understanding. (What)

  15. Answers • What you need is a few days’ rest and recreation. • It’s money that people care about nowadays. • What we need is someone to help us, not someone to criticize. • What I like (about him) is the way he always listens sympathetically. • It’s his attitude towards other people that really annoys me. • What I don’t understand is why you had to lie to me. • It wasn’t me who decided to take a short cut across country! • What the world needs is love, peace and understanding.

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