1. VIDYA ISMI AULIA
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SMAN 5 BEKASI

2. LOVING MONEY TOO MUCH
There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted
to save all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his
money. He loved money more than just about anything.
Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you
to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to
the afterlife." So he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he
died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife
was sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished
the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife
said "Wait just a minute!"
She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the
casket. After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not
long after that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that
money in the casket."
The wife turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then
she continued; "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in
that casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have
put every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered;
"Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just
wrote him a check."

3. Notice on Generic structure of spoof sample
Spoof text is very similar to recount text. Both spoof and recount tell about the past event with chronological order. Its
purpose is to amuse reader with funny story. The story mostly is ended with an unpredictable event.
The above spoof sample has generic structure as follow:
Orientation: It is the introduction of the story. By giving the orientation, reader will recognize, for the first time, who
involves in the story.The above story talks about a wife and his husband who loves money too much even up to his
death.
Events: Several events are explored in chronological way which able to arrange the story read nicely.Promising with
her money miser husband, Putting the box inside casket, locking and rolling the casket are the events which build the
complete story.
Twist: This is the unpredictable event/thing/way which amuse the reader. Readers even did not predict before that it
would be. When reading the above story, for the first, readers likely think that the wife would put all the money instead
of just a check

4. What time is it?
A tramp lie down and sleep in the park. He had been sleeping for about 5 minutes
when a couple walked by. The man stopped, woke the tramp up , and asked him,
"Excuse me.
Do you know what the time is?" The tramp replied, "I'm sorry - I don't have a
watch, so I don't know the time."
The man apologized for waking the tramp and the couple walked away.
The tramp lay down again, and after a few minutes went back to sleep. Just then, a
woman, who was out walking her dog, shook the tramp's shoulder until he woke up
again.
The woman said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, but I'm afraid I've lost my watch - do
you happen to know the time?" The tramp was a little annoyed at being woken up
again, but he politely told the woman that he didn't have a watch and didn't know
the time.
After the woman had gone, the tramp had an idea.
He opened the bag that contained all his possessions and got out a pen, a piece of
paper and some string. On the paper, he wrote down, 'I do not have a watch. I do
not know the time'.
He then hung the paper round his neck and eventually dropped off again.
After about 15 minutes, a policeman who was walking through the park noticed the
tramp asleep on the bench, and the sign around his neck.
He woke the tramp up and said, "I read your sign. I thought you'd like to know that
it's 2:30 p.m."

5. “That Phone is Off”
Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his uncles who was very rich and had
no children of his own died and left him a lot of money, so he decided to set up his
own real estate agency.
Dave found a nice office. He bought some new furniture and moved in. he had only
been there for e few hours when he heard someone coming toward the door of his
office.
“It must be my first customer” Dave thought. He quickly picked up the telephone
and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New
York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.
The man knocked at the door while this was going on. He came in and waited
politely for Dave to finish his conversation on the phone. Then the man said to
Dave; “I am from the telephone company and I was sent here to connect your
telephone”

6. Notes on the Spoof’s Generic Structure
Orientation: Dave was a lucky man. He suddenly became a very rich man because of
the death of his rich uncle who had no children. He inherited his uncle’s money.
Event 1: Being rich, he wanted to set up his estate company
Event 2: He had his new office. In his office, he pretended to be a very successful
businessman. He acted as had an important client. He showed by making
conversation on the phone.
Twist: The man whom he showed is a telephone technician. He came to Dave’s
office to connect that phone.

7. General and New Soldier
A man recently appointed general in the army was sitting in
his new office when a new soldier walked in. Wishing to impress
the new soldier, the general picked up the telephone and said,
“Yes, Mr. President. I’m glad you like my suggestions. I’ll come by
and give you a more detailed report at the White House a little
later this week.” After hanging up the telephone the general
asked, “Now, soldier, what can I do for you?”
“Nothing much, sir,” said the soldier. I just came in to connect
your telephone.”

8. Potato Farmer
Potato farmer was sent to to prison just at time when he
should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of
potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do
the digging by herself, but that she could manage to do the
planting, and he also knew that he did not have any friends or
neighbors who would be willing to do the digging for him. So he
wrote a letter to his wife which said “Please do not dig the potato
field. I hide the money and the gun there.”
Ten days later, he got a letter from his wife. It said, “I
think somebody is reading your letter before they go out of prison.
Some policeman arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole
field. What shall I do now?”
The prisoner wrote back at once. “Plant the potatoes, of course!”

9. The Clever Chauffer
There’s a story about how Albert Enstein was traveling to
universities in a chauffer-driven car, delivering tectures on his
theory if relativity.
One day while in transit, the chauffer remarked, “Dr.
Einstein, I’ve heard you deliver that lecture about 30 times. I
know it by heart ang bet I should give it myself.”
“Well, I’ll give you the chance, “said Einstein, “They don’t know me
at the next school, so when we get there I’ll put on your cap, and
you introduce yourself as and give the lecture.”
The chauffer delivered Einstein’s lecture flawlessly. When he
finished, he started to leave, but one of the proffesors stopped
him and asked a complex question filled with mathematical
equations and formulas. The chauffer thought fast.
“The solution to that problem is so simple,” he said, “I’m
surprise you have to ask me. In fact, to show you just how simple
it is, I’m going to ask my chauffer to come up here and answer
your question.”