Expected Outcomes
Stage 3
Unit 2 Assignment
1
Stage 4 Academic
Unit 1 Assignment 2
Unit 4, Assignment
1, 4
Stage 4 Employment
Unit 7 Assignment 1, 3
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Description
1. The day before doing this lesson,
send the students to the library to find a good joke. The student who already
knows a good joke, may want to share it.
2. Have the students share their
jokes with the class.
3. The students should count the
number of sentences in each joke and then look at the answers on the How to
Tell a Joke Quiz blackline master.
4. Listen to a humourist on an
audiotape or videotape and have the students count the number of sentences in
each joke.
5. Discuss the effects that the
longer jokes have on the audience compared to the shorter jokes and
vice-versa.
Sub-skills Needed:
1. Research strategies
2. Speaking strategies
3. Discussion strategies
Materials Needed
1. One copy to the How to Tell a Joke Quiz
blackline master per student
2. An audio or videotape of a
humourist.
3. If you do not have a library in
your community, you may want to supply joke books from which the students may
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