Using Humor in Language Teaching

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Using Humor in Language Teaching

• Presenter Mohamed LAIMOUNA
• bonhomme2006_at_hotmail.fr

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Workshop Objective

• To highlight the importance of using humor
  through a
  
• variety of fun activities that can be
  implemented in our Moroccan classrooms.

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Workshop Activities

• Translating a Joke
• Watching a Video
• Scrambled Funny Stories
• Jumbled jokes
• Other Funny Fillers

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Translating jokes

• Students can be given some mother language
  jokes to translate into the target language

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• Different types of jokes
• Universal jokes
• Cultural jokes
• Language -based jokes

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• -Do you know what I got for fathers day?
• No, what?
• - The bill for mothers day.
• The dark ages were so named because the period
  was full of knights.
  
• -Are you fishing?
• - No, I am just drowning worms.

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Watching a video

• After Watching a humorous short clip,
  students can be assigned a variety of language
  tasks including reading comprehension and writing.

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Scrambled Funny Stories

• The teacher can ask the students to put a
  scrambled funny passage in the right order, and
  then assign some related tasks to develop various
  skills.

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Jumbled Jokes

• Each student can be given a part of a joke on
  a slip of paper with a symbol on it, and then be
  asked to move around and match according to the
  symbol they have. Once done, they will try to
  unscramble the jokes and share them with the
  whole class.

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Some funny fillers

• Line up game and acting out jokes can be
  appropriate back up activities.

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