265. Telling Jokes in English (Part 2)

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 23 April 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this one we're going to look at some typical joke structures, consider what makes a joke funny, and then I'm going to tell you lots of jokes and explain the vocabulary you need to understand them. Click here to read a transcript and to download the episode http://wp.me/p4IuUx-3rs

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information visit teacher Luke.co.uk.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to Luke's English podcast this is part two in a short series that I'm doing about jokes in the last one we considered some of the social codes around joke telling, including when, why and how we should tell jokes and
0:27.6	respond to jokes in social situations.
0:31.6	I suggest that you listen to that if you haven't already
0:34.6	done so. Okay now in this one we're going to look at some some typical joke
0:39.9	structures. We're also going to consider what makes a joke funny and then I'm going to
0:44.8	tell you lots of jokes too. We'll also be thinking about some of the psychology of
0:49.7	jokes and puns during this episode.
0:53.8	Okay, so there's more entertaining and useful listening
0:56.2	practice for you here with some jokes that you can learn
0:59.8	and share, and of course plenty of vocabulary teaching too. I think we're killing
1:05.4	something like five birds with one stone in this episode and if you don't know
1:09.2	what that phrase means I would suggest that you go back a couple of episodes
1:12.2	and have a listen because I explain it.
1:14.5	All right? Again, there might be a part three to this episode depending on how long it is.
1:19.7	This episode could easily stretch over several other episodes so we will see. I should
1:26.3	also remind you that most of what I'm saying to you in this episode I planned in
1:31.9	advance fairly carefully and you can read it you can read most of this
1:36.3	stuff on the page for this episode on my website teacherlooc.co.uk.uk.
1:42.1	I think you know the website by now. I hope so. I mean you
1:46.5	should do. Everyone's talking about it. So yes you can if you want to read
1:51.6	these words as well as listen to them, you can do that.
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