1. Isn’t it ironic? View the following PowerPoint with your partner. Determine the type of irony each photo displays. Decide on the top three pictures that you feel are the best examples of irony. Record your vote on the note card you have been given.

2. Picture #1

3. Picture #2

4. Picture #3

5. Picture #4

6. Picture #5

7. Picture #6

8. Picture #7

9. Picture #8

10. Picture #9

11. Picture #10

12. Picture #11

13. Picture #12

14. Picture #13

15. Picture #14

16. Picture #15

17. Picture #16

18. Picture #17

19. Picture #18

20. Now, Vote! You and your partner must agree on the top three pictures. Put the number of the picture on the card. The numbers are at the top of each PowerPoint slide. Then rank them 1-2-3, choosing the order for your top three pictures. On the other side of the card, write the reason WHY you think your #1 picture should win. Hold your card. You will be called on to reveal your choices.

21. Life and fiction are filled with ironies, as in the following "true news stories" which have been circulating on the Internet since the spring of 1988. 1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.

22. Experiment gone bad 2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe, leaving her mentally impaired.

23. You think you’re having a bad day? 3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole- sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight hours short of the 400- day record, to find that his sponsor had gone bankrupt, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

24. Only in America 4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

25. In world news 5. Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

26. In real life… 6. Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.