Materi Spoof Text

Materi Bimbel hari ini adalah Spoof Text, yuk simak materinya dan selamat belajar!

1. Definition:

Spoof is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending.

 

2. Purpose:

To tell an event with a humorous twist and entertain the readers

3. Text Organization:
1. Orientation (who were involved in the story, where and when)

2. Event (tell what happened in a chronological order)

3. Twist (provide the funniest part of the story)

4. Language Features:

     - Focusing on people, animals or a certain thing

     - Using action verbs

     - Using adverbs of time and place

     - Using connectives

     - Using past tense

5. Spoof Text:

That Phone is Off

Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his uncles who were very rich and had no children of his own died and left him a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.

Event:

Dave found a nice office. He bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming toward the door of his office.

"It must be my first customer" Dave thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

Twist:

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

6. Find Out:

1. What does the text tells us about ...

2. What is the social function of the text?

3. What lesson you can get from the story above?

4. What tense is mostly used in the text?

5. What kind of the text above?