Puns and Spoonerisms

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Lesson six of this series explores puns and spoonerisms. Learners should be quite familiar with puns, as these are encountered quite frequently in advertising and jokes. They should also find it quite easy to find other examples and explain the two meanings in the pun. Spoonerisms are a less common language device; however; learners may enjoy seeing the humour that is sometimes created by words being turned around. As an extension to this lesson you may want to challenge learners to find as many puns as possible in a single magazine or edition of a newspaper. This activity could be completed in groups.
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