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8 Ways You Can Use Jokes and Anecdotes in Your Classroom

1. Do a Presentation on the Many Types of Jokes and Anecdotes Available

You could spend a whole lesson on jokes! Introduce your students to all the different types of jokes:

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  Puns
  
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  One-liners
  
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  Knock-knock jokes
  
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  Riddles
  
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  Common jokes
  

Prepare a slide presentation or a handout on the various forms jokes take. Start with a general description and provide examples. Within the examples, you may need to explain the answer in detail.
Once you’ve presented your description and explanation of each type of joke, give students a chance to practice what they learned. You can prepare a short worksheet for them to fill out that includes various examples of jokes you want them to identify. Or, if you want to go more in depth, you can display jokes on the board one at a time and ask the class to identify the jokes and, when applicable, come up with an answer.
Here are some examples you can include in your lesson:

Puns

A type of joke that exploits the different possible meanings of a word.
Q: How much does a pirate pay for corn?
A: A buccaneer (a “buck an ear” meaning “a dollar per ear”)
Q: Why was King Arthur’s army too tired to fight? 
A: It had too many sleepless knights (the common “knight” versus “night” issue)
Q: What do you call a thieving alligator?
A: A Crook-o-dile (“crook” the informal word for “thief”)
Q: What do you call a bee that can’t make up its mind?
A: A Maybe
These puns are great to start with because they include some new vocabulary, slang and will, with any hope, instigate a conversation on spelling and pronunciation.

One-Liners

This type of joke is pretty straightforward. It’s basically just a witty play on words.
So what if I don’t know what “Armageddon” means? It’s not the end of the world. 
Did you hear about the crook who stole a calendar? He got twelve months!
I’ve just written a song about tortillas; actually, it’s more of a rap!
Take time to explain, when necessary, each of the examples. You may need to cover the meaning of the word “Armageddon” in the first one-liner. In the second, you’ll have the chance to go over the phrase “to get ‘X amount of time.'” The third phrase is another nice example of a homophone.