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7.4 Do you have a sense of humour?

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1 Vocabulary

Check the meaning of these words.

  • a joke
  • a comedy film
  • a comedian
  • stand up comedy
  • laugh
  • smile
  • humour
  • 2 Read and fill in

    History of jokes

    You can say that you know a culture, if you can understand their humor. Although all people laugh in the same way, you have to be careful with jokes because what’s funny in one country doesn’t have to be funny in another one. The first jokes come from Ancient Greece. Here is an example of an ancient Greek joke. Complete the joke with the missing words. Then listen to the joke and check.

    A barber, a bald man and an absent-minded professor take a journey together. They have to camp overnight and so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it’s the barber’s turn, he gets bored, so he amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his shift, he feels his head and says, “How stupid is that barber? He’s woken up the bald man instead of me.”

    3 Match

    Match the answers to these jokes.

    Connect the jokes with school subjects. Explain.

    4 Tell a joke

    It’s your turn. Tell a joke in English.

    5 A sense of humour

    Do you have a sense of humour? Finish the sentence. Share your ideas with your class.

    A person who has a good sense of humour...