This period includes the reading of English jokes on Page 22 and the reading task AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE:THE NOODLE HARVEST on Page 59.The reading in Using Language introduces the kind of humour we can laugh at—verbal jokes.They use a “play on words” to be funny.The reading task tells us a good joke told on BBC on April Fool’s day.ª¥

The two reading passages can be given to the students as extensive reading tasks.They are expected to appreciate and enjoy the fun by studying the English jokes.And next the students are encouraged to involve in a group activity—change the joke into a short play and then act it out.As for the reading task,the students are expected to go through the questions following the passage first to predicate what the story is about and then skim the passage for the keys to the questions.ª¤