Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.3 - Jokers for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Find the mistakes in each sentence and correct them with participles.

Answer

  1. When telling a joke, timing is very important.
  2. Working as a comedian must be a great job because you make people laugh.
  3. Having become famous, comedians usually get depressed.
  4. Made to look out of date by modern comics, old comedians like Chaplin and Groucho Marx are not funny these days.
  5. Telling jokes in a foreign language is extremely difficult.
  6. On being told a joke, you should laugh even if you don't think it's funny.
  7. After watching Mr Bean and Chaplin, etc., I think physical humour can be as funny as verbal.