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[biffinbridge]

In the past few months,stranded in the Libyan desert,I've dsigned loads of communcative activities,which I'm going to use in Poland.One of the lessons is a joke about the size of a woman's mammaries and is basically a dialogue beween a man and his wife,which they have to turn into reported speech. Now the joke's really funny but I'm a bit hesitant about the subject matter despite the fact that Poles love rude jokes and the task is a good one.To do or not to do?....umm....what do you lot think?

[Guy Courchesne]

I'll use some off-color jokes with one-on-one classes, only after I've gotten to know the student well enough to know that he wouldn't be put off. I say 'he' because such a joke would be inappropriate in front of female students, culturally speaking, in Mexico.

[dmb]

Mt students tell me rude jokes But I have been teaching them for a while. As Guy says, know your students first.

Biff, I've heard some of your jokes so I wouldn't advise it

[Guy Courchesne]

You ever hear the one about the blind man and the naked nuns? I tried that in a small business class once. There's nothing better to kill a joke than to have to explain it.

[ls650]

[Guy Courchesne]

[Glenski]

Look at it this way. Would you use rude jokes in your home country to teach a subject? Probably not, even if you felt the people in that area "love" them.

[ls650]

[Glenski]

Maybe I should have stated that a little differently. The OP's situation is NOT knowing his students that intimately.

Would you use rude jokes as a new teacher? Not a very sensitive way to test the waters.

[rogan]

Somebody will always complain and then your PC correct manager will use the complaint against you.

Why provide ammunition to the opposition ?

[Chris_Crossley]

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[dmb]

^Agreed. If I told some of my 'jokes' here. Dave would ban me. You have to know the time and place to tell them. Know your audience.

[Justin Trullinger]

Knowing your audience is key, and there are some kinds of rude jokes that I wouldn't use in any audience, classroom or otherwise.

But many of my students are not children, and I think that using language in a realistic context is important. Jokes, rude and otherwise, are part of culture, and should be looked at. They can also be great for introducing all kinds of topics, and what's more, students get a real feeling of accomplishment when they laugh at something, having found it funny in English.

Here's my favourite. Is it offensive? Hasn't been yet, but I'm careful where I tell it. Good choice for starting discussion on gender roles, though.




A man is talking to God, and he asks, "Why did you make women so beautiful?"

God pauses gravely, and responds, "So you would love them."

The man thinks about this, realizes the wisdom of this response, and asks his second question. "Why did you make them so stupid?"

And God pauses again, and says,
















"So they would love you."

[Boy Wonder]

A 'blue comedian' is usually the funniest.
Nothing worse than tame christmas cracker jokes.
Bin them and put sellotape over the mouths of people who tell them.

When was Eddie Murphy at his funniest? In his 'Raw' phase..that's when.
All the mainstream TV comedians release live DVD performances littered with offensive or blue jokes.

Say rollox to political correctness and let the blue flow.

After all most of the counties i have taught in are as politically correct as a Bernard Manning monologue!!