Understanding jokes in English

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hello lovely students and welcome back

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to English with Lucy I've got a really

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fun lesson for you today because we're

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going to delve or dive into the world of

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jokes this is a really important part of

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British culture it's how we connect and

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follow social cues we're going to talk

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about play on words puns all that good

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stuff now I know that jokes tend to be

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silly but trust me this is actually

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quite serious business because

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understanding jokes and Nuance is a

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really important aspect of the advanced

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levels of fluency familiarizing yourself

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with multiple meanings of words is

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important at any level so practicing

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with the flexibility of words and

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sentences is a great way to put your

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brain to work and increase your

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comprehension skills something that

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might help you even further is that I

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have created a free PDF for today's

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lesson it contains everything that we're

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going to cover today plus a quiz so you

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can test your understanding if you'd

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