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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 04
Section 7 - Joke
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Section 7 is a joke. A joke is normally a funny story you hear and tell someone else. But you can also describe funny things that happen to you. The most important thing is to watch your friends to see if they are enjoying the story or not – then you can make it longer or shorter.
Suggestion: Listen to the joke on your computer/mp3 player. Then put the lines in the right order. Then look at the notes and tell the story without looking at the script... Then, think of a funny story that you know. Write down the most important words in English (use a dictionary?). Then try telling the joke.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Read sentences and put them in the right order to tell the joke.
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Now try to tell the joke yourself. You can use these words to help you. When you see a slash (/) it means that one or more words are missing:
Tom’s tip
When we tell jokes we sometimes use the past tense and we sometimes use the present tense. Gordon told this joke in the present tense. You can use either the past or the present when you tell it.
A man / cinema / a film
He / down / in front / there / man / dog
/ romantic comedy.
After a little while / funny part / film, / dog / laughing
A little while after / sad scene
dog / crying its eyes out
goes on / whole film – the dog / the funny parts and / the sad parts
end of the film / man / outside the cinema until the man / out
“Excuse me” /
“ I / your dog / all through the film
“absolutely amazing”
“I / “ the man with the dog
“It / amazing”
“He / the book”
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Transcript
Gordon: OK then. A man goes into a cinema to watch a film. He sits down and in front of him there’s a man and a dog.
Ravi: You can’t take dogs into a cinema, can you?
Gordon: You can in this cinema. Anyway, the film’s a romantic comedy. After a little while there’s a funny part in the film, and – amazing – the dog starts laughing at the film.
Ravi: Uh-huh.
Gordon: Yeah. A little while after that there’s a very sad scene. The dog starts crying its eyes out. This goes on for the whole film – the dog laughs at the funny parts and cries at the sad parts.
Well, at the end of the film, the man waits outside the cinema until the man with the dog comes out. “Excuse me” he says, “I watched your dog crying and laughing all through the film. It’s absolutely amazing”. “I know” says the man with the dog. “It is amazing. He hated the book”.
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