More humour to use in your English class. Puns are painful, I know, but this unit is so much fun and a great test for understanding the use of language in different settings. Table of Contents: Definitions of Puns Posters that are Puns Word List Knock Knock Jokes I'm Confused! Knock Knock! Rules Punny Business Local Punny Business Types of Puns Puns in Art Get it Right Tearable Puns There are more units that I have developed on Humour that are just as energising. Hope you have as much fun as we did in our class! 21 pages Answer Key included 1 week duration

EVEN MORE printable maps with a simple clue that students use to determine what country is outlined on the sheet. The first pack of What Country is This? was so popular, that I have made another pack Again, the clue might be a longitude or latitude, a key city, or a geographical feature. The task is simple, but the activity is challenging. Students can also use the shape of the country to help in working out the name of the country. The worksheets have an answer key at the end. There are 22 maps in all. Some sample pages shown.

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx “The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use. This is a great interactive Powerpoint set of slides that cover the different types of sarcasm that can occur. The slides includes - samples from Groucho Marx, - how sarcasm can hurt others, - a short video of how sarcasm was used in a 'Friends' episode, and - some interactive tests for students to test their sarcasm detector. 41 slides Answer key included 90 minute activity

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx “The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use. This is a starter pack of humour worksheets centred around the topic of Sarcasm. Topics include: - Irony v Sarcasm - Sarcasm Detector - Sarcasm as Verbal Bullying - Groucho Marx and his form of Sarcasm - Comparing Sarcasm with being Sincere - Plotting types of Sarcasm on the Nasty v Nice scale, and the Funny v not Funny scale ... and more 15 pages, 1 week duration

The Interactive Notebook is a fun, creative and engaging learning experience for each student, and this pack encourages students to acquire the skills to view and analyse the political or editorial cartoon. The various strategies and techniques used in political cartoons are explained and learned by completing tasks that show how cartoonists: - use analogy - use irony - use exaggeration - labelling, and - symbols ..... to comment on the issue of the day The final activities in the pack provides students with a template and practice to analyse political cartoons and make sense of their meanings and subtleties. 48 pages with Answer key included

Great introduction into interpreting Political Cartoons, explaining and illustrating the main strategies used by cartoonists: - labelling - use of symbols - analogy - irony - exaggeration. The slide deck supports the Interactive Notebook Political Cartoons - An Interactive Notebook The interactive slide deck is very expertly made and is another part of the humour and comedy series that I use in my Middle School classes. Downloading this Powerpoint pack also provides you with a very flash template to develop your own great slide presentation.

What's a Malaprop? "It is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco )." This pack has more than 170 Malaprops that are fun, challenging and great for learning about correct English. Many of the Malaprops include common mistakes that English speakers make. Translating what the speaker was meaning needs some hard thinking in some cases. An answer key is provided at the end.

Powerpoint slides of maps with a simple clue that can be used as a class activity. The task is to determine what country is outlined on each slide. First the country outline is shown, then click on to a single clue to help identify the country. The clue might be a longitude or latitude, a key city, or a geographical feature. Use Google Earth to find the country from the clues provided. The task is simple, but the activity is challenging. Once the students identify the country from the shape and/or the clue, click on to see the answer. A great source I used to make these worksheets was http://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/. Here you can download the outline of the maps and import them into Illustrator and move states around or whatever you might like to do for your own worksheets. There are 22 maps in all. Slideshow sequence shows the answer at final transition. (Sample pages only shown here)

Printable maps with a simple clue that students use to determine what country is outlined on the sheet. The clue might be a longitude or latitude, a key city, or a geographical feature. The task is simple, but the activity is challenging. Students can also use the shape of the country to help in working out the name of the country. A great source I used to make these worksheets was http://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/. Here you can download the outline of the maps and import them into Illustrator and move states around or whatever you might like to do for your own worksheets. The worksheets have an answer key at the end. There are 22 maps in all. The maps shown here are samples only.

This is a pack of worksheets with Maths problems students can do on Google Maps. The problems cover a range of activities, but my class particularly liked the activity based on Disneyland where they had to zoom in on Street View as well as use the Earth function to mathematically calculate the number of car parks in a particular structure at Disneyland, and also calculate the commercial profitability of the car park. This is a multi-skilled pack for Middle School students and those who have bought my other packs over the years (thank you all!) you will know that each sheet is well laid out, nicely presented and encourages the student to work independently on each activity. As well as the Disneyland activity, the pack includes: - designing a road trip - searching for mathematical street names in a particular location(we found more than 10 names!) - researching odd mathematical locations - measuring and comparing distance - and more 10 pages of worksheets, PLUS an answer key.