SPOOF

SPOOF

Spoof is a narrative text that can tell us a about a funny story based on an events in our life with a purpose to entertain us.

Social Function

Spoof / Recount is written to retell an event with a humorous twist.

Text Structure

Orientation: sets the scene

Event(s): tell what happened

Twist: provide the punch line

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

Focus on individual participants

Us of material process

Circumtances of time and place

Use of past tense

Example :

THREE BIRDS ON A TREE BRANCH

            During a math lesson, a teacher taught her students to count. “There are 3 birds which are perched on a tree branch. Then a hunter comes. He takes and aims his gun to one of the bird. The hunter shots one bird and hit it. So how many birds which are left on the tree? “The teacher asked to the student.

All of the students were silent. They were busy counting the remaining birds. However, there was a student named Andi looked calm. The teacher was confused with what he had done. Then she asked him, “Andi, answer my question!” He confidently replied, “There are three birds and then one of them being shot. So the bird which is left on a tree branch is nothing”

The teacher was surprised to hear his answer. The teacher then asked again, “Andy, try to answer my question seriously. How many birds are left?” “There’s nothing left mom!” said him. She was increasingly annoyed even she told Andy to use his hands as a tool to count. “Point out your three fingers, then removes one of them” the teacher explained. “There is no birds left mom!” he didn’t change his answer.

            The teacher gave up and asked, “Tell us, why you said no birds left?” “When the hunter shot one of them, two other birds was flying away because they heard gunfire. So there is nothing left mom! “Andy explained. Hearing the answer, the teacher was silent while his entire friend laughed out loud.