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If you can understand these jokes,
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If you can understand these jokes,
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you are basically fluent in English.
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All of the jokes today rely on wordplay,
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which we use heavily in Britain.
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Understanding humour in a second language can be really difficult.
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It often depends on knowing two meanings of the same word and recalling those two meanings very quickly.
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Those are really advanced skills.
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I'm going to put you to the test today with five jokes based on wordplay.
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And to help you even further,
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I have created a free guide on British English humour.
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This guide talks about irony,
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sarcasm, puns and so much more.
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It's essential to understand British humour if you want to fit in in the UK.
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You can download this for free.
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Just click on the link in the description box or scan the QR code there.
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join my mailing list and I will email you the guide.
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Okay, we'll start with the simplest jokes and move to the hardest joke at the end of the lesson.
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I'll tell you the joke,
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see if you understand it and then I will explain it.
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Joke number one.
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My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo.
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I had to put my foot down.
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Okay, did you laugh?
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Don't worry if you have no idea why it's supposed to be funny.
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Firstly, you need to know what a flamingo is.
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It's this.
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It's a bird that's usually pink with very long legs and a long neck,
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and they often stand on one leg.
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If you are pretending to be a flamingo,
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you're probably standing on one leg.
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So, to put your foot down literally means to stop doing the flamingo pose
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and place your foot on the ground so that you're standing on two feet.
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But to put your foot down also has a figurative meaning.
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It means to firmly oppose someone or something.
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So in this case, we can imagine that the person says, I won't stop.
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I love impersonating a flamingo.
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They put their foot down.
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Okay, now you're warmed up with that first joke,
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let's look at our second.
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I fired my masseuse today.
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She just rubbed me the wrong way.
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Okay, did you get that one?
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This relies on the literal and figurative meanings of to rub somebody the wrong way.
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Before we get into that,
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do you understand the verb to fire?
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It means to dismiss someone from a job,
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to tell them they no longer work somewhere.
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So I fired my masseuse,
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the person who gives me massages.
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Why?
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Well, a masseuse literally rubs you during a massage.
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So if my masseuse rubbed me the wrong way,
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I always imagine someone stroking a cat the wrong way,
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you know, against the direction of their fur.
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Most cats don't like this.
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I did have a cat that loved it.
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She might have used an unpleasant or incorrect technique.
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I didn't like it, so I fired her.
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But figuratively, to rub somebody the wrong way means to annoy someone or to make them feel uncomfortable.
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In British English, we tend to say rub somebody up the wrong way,
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but the joke doesn't work as well with up.
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So which was it?
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Did my masseuse use a bad technique or did she annoy me?
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Maybe it's both.
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All right, joke number three,
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we have a dad joke.
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My sister bet that I couldn't build a car out of spaghetti.
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You should have seen her face when I drove past her.
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Okay, that even made my husband laugh, who's just off screen.
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Did you laugh at that one?
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Let's break it down from the beginning.
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So in this context, to bet means you're almost certain that something is true or will or won't happen.
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So, she's convinced that I can't make a car out of spaghetti.
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The next thing we hear is,
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you should have seen her face.
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We use this expression to describe someone's facial expression when they are shocked,
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amazed, have some other strong reaction.
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Notice that I used the informal contraction shoulda or should have.
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And then we have, I drove past her.
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This works on two levels.
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First, because she looks shocked,
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it sounds like I actually made a car out of spaghetti and drove it past her.
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She saw me driving.
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Secondly, you probably know that spaghetti is a type of pasta.
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So, I drove pasta or pasta using the American pronunciation means I drove a car literally made of pasta.
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That double meaning is what makes the joke funny.
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Now to make the joke work,
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the words have to sound the same.
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And in my modern received pronunciation accent,
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I usually pronounce past with a long R sound past.
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In many North American accents and parts of the UK,
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people use the short a sound, past.
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Most dictionaries show the noun pasta with the short a sound in British English,
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pasta, you will hear pasta, especially in North America.
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Either way, we want them to match,
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so we change the pronunciation slightly.
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We can either go with past and pasta or past and pasta.
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We also need to drop the h sound in her and just replace it with a schwa.
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Pastor, pastor.
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Number four, get your thinking caps on.
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Why don't scientists trust atoms?
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Because they make up everything.
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So this is another typical dad joke,
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especially if your dad is a scientist like mine.
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It relies on people having a basic knowledge of physics
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or chemistry and the double meaning of the phrasal verb to make up.
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First, let's go back to physics 101.
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What's an atom?
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Well, it's the smallest unit of any chemical element.
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They literally make up everything.
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Everything consists of atoms.
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Everything is made up of atoms.
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To make up means to constitute or form.
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So atoms make up all matter in the universe,
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including our bodies, the air, water, rocks and stars.
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So what's the joke?
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Well, to make up means to invent or to lie.
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As in, she made up a story about her dog eating her homework.
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So scientists don't trust atoms because they make up, invent everything.
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They lie.
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Okay, I promised you that the last one would be really hard.
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So if you get this, your English is amazing.
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Are you ready?
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A termite walks into a bar and asks, is the bartender here?
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I love that one.
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So the set up of this joke is very common in English-speaking countries.
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Someone or something walks into a bar.
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I wonder if you have a similar setup in your first language.
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Well, we have a termite walking into a bar.
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First things first, a termite is a small insect that usually lives in hot places.
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An important thing to know for this joke is that termites eat wood.
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They can cause a lot of damage to wooden buildings and furniture.
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So a termite enters the bar and asks, is the bartender here?
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Now, a bartender is a person who works behind a bar serving drinks.
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So that's who the termite is looking for, right?
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No. The termite asks, is the bartender here?
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Can you hear the stress shift?
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Bartender.
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The person person, bartender.
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When we talk about food,
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tender means fairly soft, easy to bite through or easy to cut.
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And what is a bar in a pub traditionally made of?
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Wood.
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Do you see where the joke is going here?
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The termite is looking for its next meal and asking if the wooden bar is soft and easy to eat through.
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I love that one.
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Okay, firstly, how many times did you laugh in today's lesson?
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Did any of my jokes make you laugh?
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I'd love to know which one was your favourite.
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And I would also like you to make me laugh.
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So please write your favourite English joke in the comments.
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I can't wait to read them.
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Remember, if you're interested in British humour, it really is fascinating.
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We have a great sense of humour.
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Download my British humour guide.
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It's free, just for you.
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The link is in the description box or you can scan the QR code there.
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I'll send it to you via email.
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I really hope you enjoyed this video.
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I hope you learnt a little bit of vocabulary
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and have some new jokes up your sleeve to share with your new English friends.
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I'll see you in the next lesson.
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Wichtiger Wortschatz & Phrasen
- to fire - jemanden entlassen
- to rub somebody the wrong way - jemanden unangenehm behandeln
- to put your foot down - hartnäckig sein
- impersonate - nachahmen
- flamingo - Flamingo
- humour - Humor
- irony - Ironie
- sarcasm - Sarkasmus
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