Jokes and Situations


Jokes

Have the students find a joke to use by searching the Internet, or have some appropriate joke books available for the students from which to do research.

Situations


You are a new employee at an organization. Your boss has invited you to join him/her for lunch. You feel a little uncomfortable because you don't really know your new boss yet, so you decide to tell a joke to lighten the atmosphere.


You are attending a conference. You have been asked to make a speech in front of your colleagues. Public speaking is not something with which you feel incredibly comfortable. You decide to start your speech with a joke to loosen everybody up.


You are at a party. You have just been introduced to a group of people whom you haven't met before. Within the group are people from different cultural backgrounds. Trying to be friendly, you decide to tell a joke.


You are working at a construction site. The physical labour is difficult and monotonous. You decide to bring all of your co-workers back to life by sharing a joke with them.

You have just run into an old friend from a few years back. Your situation in life has not changed very much from the last time you saw this person (i.e. single/married/single with children/married with children/etc.). Thinking that your friend is still in the same situation from when you last saw him/her, you begin to tell a joke that in the past may have been funny to both of you, but is not now.


Create your own situation:

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