Spoof Text

a.       Definition

Spoof is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending. Its social function is to entertain and share the story.

b.      Generic Structure

      Orientation

      Events

      Twist

c.       Language Feature

      Focusing on people, animals or certain things

      Using action verb; ate, ran, etc

      Using adverb of time and place

      Told in chronological order

d.      Example

Green, pink, and yellow

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.

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 clothes walking through the green grass”.

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

“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?”