24 ideas for teaching with humour
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1. Crazy Shake: Children shake hands in a new form of handshake they make up - however instead of saying hello etc., they have to talk about the concept learned.
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2. Throw Ball: Take a soft cloth ball. All stand, first student says something about the topic then throws the ball to another and sits. Whole class is covered. They are allowed to repeat.
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3. Mr. Expert: One Student plays the role of Mr expert on the topic. Now they answer questions from others as if they were expert. They are allowed to speak either complete nonsense or full sense.
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4. Jigsaw: It could be picture jigsaw, paragraph or sentence jigsaw. Put whatever or in combinations from your topic and cut it randomly.
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5. Forgetful storyteller: Either you or a student is the storyteller. You start and then pretend that you have forgotten. The children have to fill-in for you. You have to connect what they say and continue the story. Let the story go till you have covered whole of topic.
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6. Finger actions: Students use fingers as puppets to narrate the topic. Use this in discipline situations to hear out the child.
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7. One Minute Machine: Like an extempore children get one minute by turn to talk continuously about what they got out of class today.
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8. Rapid Reader: Pick up the textbook. Start reading at a very fast speed. If you stumble or fumble, you loose the chance and the next child continues.
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9. Interview Time. Use anything for a mike. Another child becomes the camera man. The class is interviewed by TV crew on the topic. Let them Prepare questions in advance.
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10. Pass the drawing: Each Childstarts any drawing. After 10 seconds they stop and they pass their drawing to the next student - who now continues the drawing in his or her own way - again in next 10 seconds. Continue till you wish.
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11. Dumb Charades: Children simply use actions to show the class any aspect of the topic. Vary them from very easy to really challenging.
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12. Singing Lesson: Make a song out of the concept and sing it to a popular tune. Or ask children to present any aspect of the topic or even simply answer the question in a singsong way.
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13. Around the world: You or students ask questions. If a child answers correctly, the child moves a certain number of steps in a specific direction in the class. The number of steps can be based on the difficulty of question. Directions are random.
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14. Pass the whisper: Only this time they pass a concept in another child's ear.
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15. Mad Ad: Children make a TV ad of the concept they have learned.
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16. Repeater Parrot: Students work in pairs. One repeats exactly whatever the other says about the topic. Then switch turns.
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17. Three-minute break: Students get a 3 minute break after every 20 minutes of learning. In this break they talk to person sitting next to them about the topic (sometimes allow unrelated talks also).
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18. Disagreement debate: In pairs or as whole class, students disagree completely to the topic being learnt and debate on it.
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19. Word games: Pick up the key words etc about the topic being learned. Play crossword, jumbled words et al.
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20. Three minute act: A group of students act out whatever they have learned yesterday as a small three minute play right at the beginning of the class. One group every day is appropriate.
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21. Clap games: Teacher says: If I clap once say …., if I clap twice say …. and so on. What they say could be to review the topic.
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22. Guessing game: Specially suitable for maths, true false or objective types questions: Instead of thinking and answering, one students guess. Other tell if he is right or not. (Or play in teams)
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23. Clay Play: Give each student some play dough and ask them to make a sculpture related to the topic
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24. More Games: Invent your own games or modify other childhood games to suit class needs. (Remember to send them to me). Above all enjoy it yourself.
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