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Words , Words , Words 1 Read each of the following sentences and decide what the highlighted words or phrases mean . Answer on 23 . ^ ^ & Not everyone finds the same joke funny . Different jokes appeal to different people . If something appeals to a person , it means that he or she likes / doesn ' t like it . % Some jokes can be understood all over the world . These jokes are universal . Something that is universal is relevant to somepeople / relevant toall people . c Some jokes are very simple while others are more sophisticated . Something that is sophisticated is complex / confusing . 13 Many jokes are similar . They have things in common . People who have a lot in common share alot / are very different . 0 Some jokes are only funny to people who are familiar with the specific event being laughed at in the joke . Something specific is something broad and general / focused and exact . f A joke may be funny to one person and not at all funny to another . Humor is an individual thing . It is subjective . A subjective opinion is based on scientificfacts / based ona personal opinion . g It is not easy to come up with an original joke . It is much easier to repeat a joke that you have already heard . When a person comes up with something , he or she creates / copies it . IL People from different nationalities often do not find the same things funny . This is because they are from different cultures . Nationality is determined by the country people belong to / religious beliefs . / His articles have appeared only in the local paper , but he has now written a serious article , which he hopes to publish in one of the big national newspapers . Something local is connected to a specific place or neighborhood / the whole country . 2 Which four sentences from activity 1 suggest that it is not possible to find the world's funniest joke ? Choose three of the highlighted words or phrases from activity 1 that you did not know before . What helped you to work out their meanings ? Maybe you paid attention to : other words in the text the place of the word or phrase in the sentence the sound of the word the part of speech of the word , e . g . verb , noun , adjective .
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