Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases
Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced
Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases
Advanced Phrases: Jokes and Humour
For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.
- When our teacher got a piece of chewing gum stuck on his trousers, I don't think he was very amused but all the students were absolutely their sides.
- In the UK, many newspaper headlines contain verbal jokes (or ) based around words which have more than one meaning.
- I didn't really find the last Mr. Bean movie very funny but all my friends laughed their . I suppose that means I'll probably end up having to go and see the new one with them.
- When I said that I though our teacher was a bit funny, I meant 'funny ' not 'funny ha-ha'.
- How many English people to change a light bulb? - None. They'd much rather carry on sitting in the dark and complaining about how they can't see anything.
- In class yesterday, our teacher told us a joke about an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman. Everybody else laughed but I didn't it.
- Children usually enjoy humour where people fall over or accidentally hit each other with long pieces of wood.
- I don't believe for one minute that you're really late because your bus got hijacked. You be joking.
- I don't really enjoy humour. I just can't see what's funny about miserable situations and death.
- When I was at school we once a practical joke on one of our teachers. We removed all the screws from his chair so that when he sat on it, it collapsed. It was hilarious.
- Right. Who wants some more strawberry ice-cream? ... Nobody? Are you having me ? Surely somebody will help me finish it.
- Kenny Bailey is one of my favourite comedians. Whatever he does or says, it hits the funny every time.