88 FREE Humour Worksheets

FREE Humour Worksheets

Everyone has a different sense of humour and jokes are not always appropriate for all audiences so here are some worksheets that other busy teachers created to talk about this fun and yet complex topic. There are 88 worksheets available which are all free and easy to print out for use in your classes. Humorous worksheets like this and this include some jokes you may consider using in class. Instead of focusing on jokes for an entire lesson, perhaps you can find a way to include just one a day or one a week in your regular lessons. For example when talking about numbers you can ask students “Why is 6 afraid of 7?” and when they give up say “Because 7 ate/eight 9!” The problem with including jokes in class is that if students do not understand them and you have to explain the punchline, it will not be nearly as fun as you imagined.
Unless students are quite advanced, they will often not be able to get the humour of English jokes which is unfortunate as there are so many good ones to share and students are unlikely to have heard any of them before. Students may appreciate ones like the example above because it is simple but you might have to write out the answer for students to get its meaning. Advanced students will appreciate the challenge that jokes present because they often will not have much exposure to jokes even if they use English on a daily basis, for example at work. Before deciding to include a lot of jokes and humour in your lessons, test it out and see how students respond.

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A Funny Christmas Story

A Funny Christmas Story

Oleg Mazurenko
This is a vocabulary gap-fill worksheet to help young learners retell a short animation film about Three Little Pigs and Santa. I hope your students will enjoy this activity as much as mine ...
1 Views 49,613 Elem
Mr. Popper's Penguins Movie Worksheet

Mr. Popper's Penguins Movie Worksheet

It's a 2011 comedy movie based on the book. This worksheet has simple questions based on a few scenes in the movie and a little activity/picture matching. Vocabulary: eagle / sailing / character / ...
1 Views 20,296 Pre-Int
Illustrations To Explain Why Hyphens Matter

Illustrations To Explain Why Hyphens Matter

Sonali S Vinnakota
This worksheet contains four illustrations that explain the importance of using hyphens. Research has shown that visuals boost engagement levels among students and help with better assimilation an ...
2 Views 15,908 Elem
Flying First Class

Flying First Class

This worksheet is about a joke about a blonde woman travelling to New York. Students are required to answer questions to check their undertanding of the joke, then they can role play the scene in ...
5 Views 30,342 ElemPre-Int
Science Memes

Science Memes

Kauê Moura
Who doesn't like memes? Students sure do! This worksheet will help you warm-up for a class about science, or maybe you can assign it as homework after said class. Teenagers and younger adults will ...
4 Views 24,867 Pre-Int
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Sellng Odd Items

Sellng Odd Items

Cris
This worksheet is intended for students to work on improvisation when they need to prepare a pitch or speech to sell an item. It can turn out to be very funny as the items in this activity are un ...
6 Views 18,823 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Leopards, a Bearcat & Penguin with Jack Hanna

Movie Worksheet: Leopards, a Bearcat & Penguin with Jack Hanna

Helen
This is part of The Late Late Show with James Corden and it's hilarious but still very informative.This video and the exercises are useful for your classes if you talk about animals, nature, envir ...
7 Views 23,058 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: Red Dwarf Lesson B2-C1

Movie Worksheet: Red Dwarf Lesson B2-C1

Jeremy Wysakowski-Walters
This lesson provides both some comic relief from the tedium of course books as well as comprehension and speaking practice. The worksheet must be used in conjunction with episode one of Red Dwarf, ...
1 Views 16,497 Adv
Movie Worksheet: Kids Say the Funniest Things (Reported Speech)

Movie Worksheet: Kids Say the Funniest Things (Reported Speech)

English Through Videos
This is a fun video activity to practise using reported speech. Learners listen to cute kids speaking. Then  they change the direct speech into reported speech (indirect speech). It can be do ...
17 Views 78,697 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Stative Verbs for Teenagers (with Memes)

Stative Verbs for Teenagers (with Memes)

sasha_alexandra
•, , Humour
This worksheet is about stative verbs. There are rules, a table of verbs, exceptions and examples. I created some memes to make it look more teenage-friendly and help the kids to remember it bette ...
10 Views 28,220 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
How to Recognize Real Art and Real Artists

How to Recognize Real Art and Real Artists

William Work
This Powerpoint presentation is adapted from the Internet and the reference URL is noted on the title page. I just adapted it for PPT use. The presentation consists of a famous painting with a des ...
6 Views 10,226 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: IT Help Desk Service

Movie Worksheet: IT Help Desk Service

Alandra
This worksheet starts with some general questions about IT help desks - what kind of people work at the help desk, what the most common problems are, etc. Students then watch a clip from the sitco ...
6 Views 24,000 Pre-IntIntAdv
Einstein's Riddle

Einstein's Riddle

Viviane Moraes
The famous Einstein's Riddle organised in a worksheet, with the reasoning to follow for the teacher. Great for those days when teens don't want to work. It can be used in all sorts of levels, sinc ...
26 Views 112,539 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Mog's Christmas Calamity

Movie Worksheet: Mog's Christmas Calamity

This worksheet is based on the Christmas advertisement by Sainsbury about the cat, Mog. You can extend working on it by making questions or true / false statements after you've watched the video a ...
8 Views 23,153 Pre-IntInt
Conversation on ...er Toilets

Conversation on ...er Toilets

dotty
Conversation on our experiences of public toilets whilst travelling as well as here in the UK. There is also an introduction on who invented the toilet. The worksheet introduces new vocabulary as ...
16 Views 15,383 Pre-IntIntAdv
Comprehension - My Hat Is Full of Rabbits

Comprehension - My Hat Is Full of Rabbits

This is a funny magic poem that was created for primary/elementary students. Students are asked to read the poem and underline the correct spelling of the words in brackets. There are also questio ...
13 Views 38,696 Elem
Poetry - My Sheep Is Being Sheepish

Poetry - My Sheep Is Being Sheepish

This is a funny wordplay poem that was created for primary/elementary school students. They are asked to read through the poem and then answer the accompanying questions. There are seven questions ...
6 Views 17,495 Elem
Animal Jokes for Kids

Animal Jokes for Kids

•, Humour
Enjoy the range of hilarious animal jokes for kids and laugh along with the neat humor and classic jokes related to all our friends living in the animal kingdom. Very useful to make some funny pa ...
7 Views 18,274 Int
Movie Worksheet: Miranda

Movie Worksheet: Miranda

Students watch a 3 minute clip from Youtube of a famous British comedy called Miranda. The students answer questions about the vocabulary and what happens during the clip. This could be used as ...
3 Views 13,280 Adv
Movie Worksheet: Pirates' Weather Superstitions

Movie Worksheet: Pirates' Weather Superstitions

It's a warm-up or a short listening task for students of all ages based on the BBC 1 min "Horrible Stories Pirate Weather Report". This can be used as an extra-material on topics "Traveling", "Wea ...
10 Views 24,781 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)

Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)

Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice listening and speaking from some amusing VDO like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the worksheet ...
5 Views 10,246 ElemPre-Int
Traffic Violation Article

Traffic Violation Article

Presentation for B level students (or up to C) to talk about abiding laws. Includes vocabulary about traffic and violations that work with the article (a real article!). It is a funny story about ...
2 Views 15,438 IntAdvExam
Song Worksheet: Meet Tigger

Song Worksheet: Meet Tigger

This worksheet was created to be used along with the youtube video linked here.The tigger song plays on the screen and the words are written below as it goes. The students have to listen to t ...
2 Views 8,207 Elem
Pyramid - Game to Practice Relative Clauses

Pyramid - Game to Practice Relative Clauses

Pyramid is an American game show based on guessing words. It is perfect for esl classroom as it uses mostly relative clauses and it is pure fun. Show students a part of an actual show (I used one ...
27 Views 112,143 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Mr. Bean Is Packing for a Trip

Movie Worksheet: Mr. Bean Is Packing for a Trip

One of the things I love about using Mr. Bean videos is the varied topics that can be covered using them. We used this one for both past and present continuous, but it can also be used for the sim ...
9 Views 33,418 Pre-IntInt

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