So you should laugh much more often.
   
| Jokes are sometimes difficult to understand in a foreign language. They are often based on:
Ø Misunderstandings
Ø A crazy kind of logic
Ø Words that can have more than one meaning or sound the same.
The last line of the joke is called the punch line. This is the line that the narrative has been building up to and the part that makes you laugh. You must get this part to fully understand the joke
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| In funny stories and jokes the situation is very important and is established very quickly.
To establish the situation, you need to know:
Ø the place
Ø the protagonists
Ø what they are doing
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A) Holmes said: “And what does that tell you? ”
B) As they lay down for the night, Holmes said: “Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see”
C) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip.
D) Holmes replied: “Somebody stole our tent”
E) Watson explained: “Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Metereologically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you? ”
F) Watson said: “I see millions and millions of stars”.
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| | | | One day at school, Harold had to do an intelligence test. The teacher started by asking him some very simple questions: “What is one and one? ” “Eleven”, answered Harold. Then the teacher said: “Now, listen carefully, what are two days of the week that begin with T? ”. Harold thought for a minute and answered, “Today and tomorrow”. While Harold was putting away his books, the teacher asked one last difficult question: “How many seconds are there in a year?, she asked. “That’s easy”, said Harold. ”There’s the second of January, the second of February …….. ” At this, the teacher gave up and went home.
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| 1. four/what/cannot/legs/has/but/walk/?
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A chair
2. work/office/many/people/how/this/in/?
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About half of them
3. your/do/living/a/does/what/husband/for/?
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As little as posible
4. do/south/birds/why/fly/?
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Because it’s too far to walk
5. kind/oceans/of/have/hair/what/got/?
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Wavy
6. is/what/crocodile/you/time/it/meet/a/when/?
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Time to run
7. wearing/ring/finger/you/wrong/are/your/on/the/
wedding
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I know, I married the wrong guy
| |      Choose words from the box. There are extra words
| affects - released – laughter – grow – discovered - laugh - relaxed – tolerate – permit – funny – actí vate-
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It has been proven that humour, especially ___________, helps both your body and your mind feel better.
Humour affects your mind in certain ways. When you _______, endorphins, which are brain chemicals, are __________. Endorphins make you feel better, think better and ______________ pain better. Humour can also make you feel more ___________. It has been _______________ that rowing on an exercise machine 100 times is aproximately the same as laughing for 10 minutes. Your muscles ___________ stronger.
So you should laugh much more often.
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| | | | | | | PUNCH LINE
1. My house is on fire
2. I know. It’s very effective, isn’t it?
3. Certainly sir
4. Use another one
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