Spoofs

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 with the others a real story of which the ending is funny to amuse the audience or readers.

General structure of spoof:

• Orientation, the opening of the story which sets the scene. 
• Events, the details of the events in the story.
• Twist, the funny or unpredictable ending of the story.

Features of spoof:

• Focus on people, animals or certain things.
• Using action verb (material processes).
• Using saying verb.
• Using adverb of time and place.
• Focus on temporal sequence.
• Using simple past tense.

Example of spoof:

A Bumpy Flight

“This is your captain speaking. We have had a failure in one of our engines. There is no cause for alarm as we still have three engines left. Unfortunately this means that we will be one hour late.”

A short time later captain again spoke to the passengers. “There is no cause alarm, but we have just lost another engine. We will now be two hours late.”

When the captain spoke to the passengers for the third time, he again had bad news. “Ladies and gentlemen, I assure you that we are in no danger, but I must inform you that we have had another engine failure. This means that we will now be three hours late.”

Finally, the captain announced that the fourth engine had failed. One of the passengers turned to another passenger and said, “Oh no, that means we’ll be four hours late!”