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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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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