1 Assistant Smart: “ This house is surrounded. I am afraid I must not ask anyone to leave the room.” (She stops) No I must ask nobody. (She stops) no! (She stops) I must ask everybody to (she stops) I must not ask anyone to leave the ro…(she stops) No one must be asked by me to leave the room (she stops) Shall I leave the room? Understand? The class: You don’t want anyone to leave the room! Teacher: why not? Assistant Smart: elementary, since the body was found in this room. And no one has left it, it is highly probable, in fact almost a complete certainty therefore that the murderer must be somebody in this room . Teacher: What body? Assistant Smart: The murderer of this body is somebody in the room, this the room which nobody must leave ( She stops) Somebody who could be anybody relative to this case is in this room, so nobody may leave with their body, leaving the body here in the room with everybody. ..else. Inspector: Now, I do speak to intromoose dyself. I am sorry (she
stops) No, I do speak to allude to myself to you... eerrm, please allow my intro to loose myself, I mean avow me to promise you we will meet (she stops) No, I allow me to introduce you to me…excuse madam! (she stops) Allow me to introduce myself. I must ask that no one leave the room (she stops). Allow me to introduce myself. I am inspector Tiger Assistant Smart: What ? Where? (realises there is no tiger). Assistant Smart: Me tiger, you Jane. Grr! errr, I beg your pardon. She speaks quite fast and since this part becomes almost a tonguetwister it is very important that you and your students are fully aware of her situation, so you can enjoy it better! We invite you to read this to your students and give them the opportunity to perform this in front of their mates as fast ( but as well performed,) as they can! Perhaps I could share with you the case I solved, where seven silly sheet slitters were caught sillyly slitting sheets and accused of selling blackmarket sea shells by the sea shore . . . Perhaps another time. 2 Ask your students to write her request in as many ways as possible! That means, let’s untwist her! 3 Can you tell us what are the differences between: everyone / no one / nobody / anyone / everybody / someone / somebody Bad joke alert: Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Halloween party? Because he had no body to go with.