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Humor:
Teacher: How can you make so many mistakes in just one day?
Pupil: I get up early!
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Entertainment
Definition:
Entertainment is an action, event or activity that aims to entertain, amuse and interest a public. ("public" can consist of one person). How wonderful to teach through fun! I mean using teaching songs, games, music, jokes, stories and humorous acting. The teacher must play the role of an actor, or a clown in the process of education, inside the teaching halls. School activities outside the process of education are a kind of entertainment. They include school trips, school parties, the library activities, doing festivals, traveling, playing music, singing, computer skills entertainment and accessing to the internet.
What is Entertainment Education:
Entertainment-Education is the process of purposely designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate. This is done to increase audience members’ knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes and influence behavior and cultural norms.
Humor in presentation:
I define humor broadly as an event that elicits laughter. It is not limited to jokes or humorous stories but can include props, puns, short stories, anecdotes, riddles, or cartoons. It can be anything that creates a positive feeling in students and makes them smile and laugh. Humor captures their attention and is memorable.
How wonderful, if you as a teacher, use media and technology in presentation. Learners are attracted to teaching if it is presented through using jokes, funny stories, puns, caricatures, drawings, paintings, miming, TV, Movie maker, electronic programs, story telling,using a projector , a video, a CD, a recording tape Or through acting the scene of the lesson practically in the classroom. Learners feel excited, interested and joyful. All of them are engaged and involved. Using entertainment in teaching is better than circulating around class to know about each learner's progress and managing each student's behavior.
Humor in educational settings serves a variety of positive functions beyond simply making people laugh. Humor builds group (as in class) cohesion. People respond more positively to each other when humor is present. It brings them together. Humor can facilitate cohesion by softening criticism. There are many different types of humor that have been identified and explored in research. Among those listed in a comprehensive table in the article are humor related to class material, funny stories (hopefully related to the content), humorous comments, self-disparaging humor, unplanned humor (spontaneous, unintentional), jokes, riddles, puns, funny props, and visual illustrations. Humor related to course material, funny stories, and humorous comments are almost always appropriate.
In the classroom, besides getting everyone's attention, humor goes a long way toward fostering a healthy learning environment. For one thing, it’s an ice breaker. It can help open the floor up to a free-ranging, topic-oriented discussion in which students relax enough to become fully engaged.
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View resources:
1-Funny Stories.
2-Teaching songs.
3-School activities.
4-Fun with Alphabets.
5-Classroom Activities.
6-A circle of cultures.
7-Pums, puzzles and Riddles.
8-Story Jokes for real communication
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View External Links:
1-Fun activities.
2-Teaching with puzzles
3-English Word Games.
4-Role of music in teaching
5-Using humor in classroom.
6-Role of songs in teaching.
7-Sing Loud Children's Songs
8-Short stories for High Schools.
9-Role-Playing games in teaching.
10-Using Jigsaw puzzles in teaching.
11-Strategies to keep class interesting.
12-Gesture, Mime and feelings in teaching.
13-Using crossword in teaching vocabulary.
14-American, English and Urban Slang online.
15-Teacher in Role(TiR) / Using Drama/Theatre in teaching.
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Other Links and Resources:
3-Curriculum Analysis.
4-Curriculum Develop0ment
5-Go to Cambridge Dictionary online.
6-Go to Oxford Sound Dictionary online.
7-Go to "IBM" Reading Companion granted program .
8-Click here to go to: An English Language Teaching Forum.
