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| Title | Ten Ways to Use Jokes in the Classroom |
| Body | An MFL Resources listserv subscriber recently posted the following ideas for using jokes in the classroom: 1. Running Dictation – Divide your students into groups of 4. Allow them to number themselves 1, 2, 3 and 4. Attach a joke to the board – in fairly small letters. On the word go, the number 4s come out, remember as much of the text as they can, go back to their group, dictate it to them. As soon as number 4 is back, number 3 can go up etc. The winning group is the one who has a perfect copy of the joke. Remind your students of basic health and safety – and play by standard WWF rules. No biting, kicking, punching, gouging etc. 2. Get your students to look through some jokes and find 3 jokes about animals. 3. Shouting Dictation. Get your students find a partner. They should stand on opposite sides of the classroom so that you have two lines of students facing each other, at least three metres apart. Give each student a short joke. They have to dictate it to their partner and write down the joke dictated to them by their partner. This can be a VERY noisy exercise. 4. Matching two parts of a joke. Select short jokes that have two lines. For example: Waiter waiter, there’s a fly in my soup! Don’t worry sir, there’s a spider on your bread. Cut up the jokes into individual lines. The students then have to find their partner. This is best done as an oral exercise and the students cannot read the other lines, only listen to them. 5. Get your students to look through some jokes and find 3 jokes about children. 6. Who has the punchline? Hand out 5 punchlines to some jokes to the students in groups of 4-5 (Each group has all five punchlines). Then read out the jokes, stopping just before the punchline. Which group will be fastest in finding the correct punchline? 7. Reward your students. Print out some of the jokes. If a student does a particularly good piece of work, attach a funny joke for them as a reward. 8. Find the joke. A variation on the running dictation in which lines of a joke are ‘hidden’ around the classroom. The students have to find the lines, copy them down, then try to arrange them in the correct order to make the joke work. 9. Get your students to look through some jokes and find 3 jokes about romance. 10. Get your students to write out their favorite joke in the foreign language you are teaching. Spanish teachers can get a joke e.mailed to them every day from http://www.chistes.com/scripts/subscription/chistes_subscribe.asp Anyone wanting liven up their German lessons may like to have a look at http://www.jeremytaylor.eu/germanjokebook.htm French teachers could do worse than to download an e.book of French jokes from http://www.sharewareebooks.com/eBooks/Multimedia_eBooks/Learn_French_With_Jokes Taylor, J. [mflresources] Ten ways to use jokes in the classroom. MFLResources listserv (mflresources@yahoogroups.com, 11 Jun 2009). Visit Mr. Taylor’s website and learn more about his jokebooks and jokes in many languages at http://www.jeremytaylor.eu . |
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