SPOOF

Social function: To tell an event with a humorous twist.
Generic structure:

1.  Orientation (who were involved, when and where was happened)
2.  Events ( tell what happened in a chronological order)
3.  Twist (provide the funniest part of the story)

Language features:

• Use of connectives (first, then, finally)
• Use of adverbial phrases of time and place (in the garden, two days ago)
• Use of simple past tense (he walked away from the village)