tailieunhanh - Longman Fast Track To Cae Coursebook_1

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman fast track to cae coursebook_1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Amusing yourself 1 In pairs take turns to tell each other one of these jokes. Did your partner get the joke Did the jokes make you laugh 1 After their fourth defeat in succession the players in the football team were so angry they threw their coach in the river. They had to bring a crane to get it out. 2 A man said to his friend We have a real problem in our family. My brother thinks he s a chicken. His friend replied Why don t you take him to see a psychiatrist so that he can be cured We can t do that said the man. We need the eggs. 3 Patient Nobody listens to anything I say. Doctor Next 1 How many homophones can you think of for these words Write them down. 1 roar ro 2 taut toit J 3 meet milt 4 sea si 5 write rait 6 site salt 7 weigh wet 8 brake breik 9 pear pea 10 heir ea 11 herd d 12 through 0ru 2 Underline the different spellings that can be used to represent the same vowel sound. For example roar raw taut Read these pairs of words and decide if they are homophones or not. Then listen to the recording to check your answers. 1 soar saw 8 wonder wander 2 walk work 9 role roll 3 mood mud 10 bear beer 4 choose chews 11 born borne 5 hall whole 12 advise advice 6 lip leap 13 lose loose 7 real reel 14 life live 4 Question Why did the chicken cross the football pitch Answer Because the referee shouted foul 5 Question How do you know when there is an elephant under your bed Answer Your nose is touching the ceiling. 2 Which joke s relies on one of the words having a double meaning displacement where an obvious conclusion is replaced by an unexpected one in the punchline Y 1 Homophones Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but a different spelling and a different meaning. A lot of jokes are made with homophones for example joke 4 above. Words with more than one meaning Many words have more than one meaning and jokes often make use of the ambiguity that results as in joke 1 opposite. Read these sentences. What is the meaning of the word in italics in .