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        <mattext texttype="text/html">Some questions for you in connection with humour, so you think of vocabulary about what makes you laugh and get an initial idea of what the accents of the people in the videos sound like.</mattext>
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        <mattext label="heading" texttype="text/html">What do we mean by "funny"?</mattext>
        <mattext label="instructions" texttype="text/html">"Funny" here means "funny ha-ha". It can also mean "funny peculiar": you may find some humour "funny peculiar" indeed...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the previous video, "The Simpsons" has been described as "consistently funny"... but what does that mean to you? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the next screen are some questions for you to activate your knowledge and vocabulary about the topic of humour; &lt;b&gt;take notes&lt;/b&gt; of your answers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="3" border="0" align="texttop" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_f7_vgiYMQJw/S-FnwWR2mGI/AAAAAAAAAFI/-SlR3XC1RDE/s128/feedback_pre s.JPG"/&gt;Click on the small &lt;b&gt;lightbulb&lt;/b&gt; buttons for possible answers.</mattext>
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        <mattext label="text" texttype="text/html">Click on the picture of the Simpsons to hear mini-dialogues from three comedy series from Britain, Ireland and the US. Can you match the pieces with the country, considering the people's accents? Can you understand what the people say?</mattext>
        <mattext label="feedback" texttype="text/html" textBox="T">The nationalities of the comedies in the recording are: 1. American ("Friends"); 2. Irish ("Father Ted"); and 3. British ("Monty Python's Flying Circus".) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Transcript :&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Relax, this is not even a date. I - it's not. It's just two people going out to dinner and - not having sex." &lt;br&gt;"Sounds like a date to me." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Would you like a cup of tea?" &lt;br&gt;"No, we'd rather die of thirst." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Morning." &lt;br&gt;"Morning." &lt;br&gt;"What have you got, then'" &lt;br&gt;"Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam..." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[Incidentally, "spam" is canned pre-cooked pork meat; it became popular in the UK during World War II. The name comes from "SPiced hAM".]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You may have identified the American accent because of the pronunciation of "not" (the vowel sounds to us closer to an "a") and "dinner" (the final R is pronounced). The Irish accent is felt to have more of a "melody" to it, the Rs are pronounced (a different sound from the American R), and the vowel in the word "cup" may sound closer to an "o" to us. The British accent is from the London area: the T in "got" is "glottalized" (i.e. there is a stop instead of a T), and the /ei/ in "bacon" sounds close to /ai/.</mattext>
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        <mattext label="text" texttype="text/html">You will probably know "The Simpsons". Do you find the series funny? Did you find the mini-dialogues in the recording and in the Simpsons video funny? What makes you laugh?</mattext>
        <mattext label="feedback" texttype="text/html" textBox="T">Humour can be based on many things - you may find them more or less funny: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Parody &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Satire, laughing at authority &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Irony and sarcasm &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Wordplay &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Absurd and uncomfortable situations &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Coincidences&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Context inapropriateness; "deadpan" humour (i.e. saying or doing the funniest thing in the most serious possible way.) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Misunderstandings&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Stereotypes &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Physical and mental disability&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Self-deprecation (believing one is not so good or so important), laughing at oneself&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* "Slapstick" humour (the classic "silent movie" scenes where people slip on banana skins, get a pie in their face...) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* "Toilet humour" (about bodily functions) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* "Black humour" (about death and illness) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* "Dirty jokes" (about sex...)</mattext>
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        <mattext label="text" texttype="text/html">People talk about "British humour". Do you think humour is different from country to country? In what sense?</mattext>
        <mattext label="feedback" texttype="text/html" textBox="T">According to the stereotype, the British say about the Americans that they don't understand irony and their humour is too obvious, whereas the Americans say about British humour that it's too dry and sometimes too silly, or too cruel, to be funny. Simpsons fans know things are not so simple. The British comedian Simon Pegg wrote an article in The Guardian about British and American senses of humour: if interested, &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/feb/10/comedy.television" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;click here&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.</mattext>
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