C1.2 Unit 6: Joking Apart

Overall aims for the week:

1. Survey advanced level grammar points and target language of material of the 1.2 cycle

2. Analyse story structure and character types.

3. Discuss the political purpose of satire and pranking.

4. Project: Generate and craft an original humorous story.

Supplementary material:

Ted Lesson - How to Write Comedy
Who is America? Excerpt from Episode 1

Reading Unit 6 - focusing on physical gesture and characterization

Elements of Surprise – listening and worksheet

Facial expressions - T blog

Shhh! – analyzing a story structure 


Game of Thrones Personality Adjectives


Jon Snow comes to dinner






Useful vocabulary:















Spoof





















Physical comedy























Black comedy

















Improv



















Sketch


















Sitcom



















Mockumentary

















Wordplay
















Deadpan
















Stand up

















Vaudeville
















Bathos
















Absurdist comedy















Wit


















Satire

















Pranking














Selective Attention Test