I’ve done some lessons this week based around humor and jokes. Mainly I just wanted to inject some life into my business students at 6.30am and to try and coax an acceptable pronunciation of ‘laugh’ out of people.
I also had to do this lesson as my slightly random teaching colleague requested I taught the students when we can use the present tense to talk about the past, and this is pretty much all I could think of.
So, I thought I would fill up an easy blog post with the jokes my students found funniest, whilst demonstrating the present tense sometimes refers to the past…
Number 1- A patient says: “Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: “Could you please pass the butter.” But instead I said: “You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life”.”
Number 2- Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 ate 9 (7 8 9).
Number 3 - A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "That'll be $10. You know, we don't get many kangaroos coming in here." The kangaroo says, "At $10 a beer, it's not hard to understand."
Personally, Number 1 just brings back bad memories…
I bet you brummied their pronunciation of laugh to laff, right?
ReplyDeleteNice! I'm with you on the MIL, mine's perfectly nice but she still gives me the jitters every time!
ReplyDeleteHow well do some of these translate?
ReplyDeleteI think they translate quite well, there are no specific English language play on words.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, I have been recycling my 'jokes lesson' with some of my privates this weekend and we have a new winner for most liked joke....
A woman carrying a baby gets on a bus. As she pays the fare, the bus driver looks at the baby and says, "Ugh! Lady, that's absolutely the ugliest baby I've ever seen." The woman is fuming. Still carrying the baby, she walks back toward the rear of the bus, finds an empty seat and sits down. She says to a man sitting next to her, "The bus driver was terribly rude to me when I got on. I've never been so insulted in all my life! I've got half a mind to tell him off." The man says, "And that's what you should do. Don't let him get away with insulting you. Walk right up there and let him know how you feel. Go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."
This joke is great to look at in an ESL clas because there's loads to talk about- Phrasals, Idioms, Superlatives...
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