I sometimes use this activity as an ice breaker, a filler, and a review. Students work in small groups (3 to 4) and they have to provide the punch line of each anecdote (here in this article, it's printed in bold). This proved to be lively in my class and students often came up with funnier and more creative ideas.
One day Bill was very late for class. "What happened?" asked the teacher.
"I was attacked by a mugger."
"Oh, my! Did he take anything from you?"
"My homework."
Patient to famous psychologist: "Professor, I've been having terrible obsessions for years, and no one has ever been able to help me."
"Well, who treated you before?"
"Dr. Gabel."
"I see. He's an idiot. I'm curious to know what he advised you to do."
"That I should come and see you."
Boy to mother: "I've decided to stop studying."
"How come?" asked the mother.
"I heard on the news that someone was shot dead in
"Take a pencil and paper," the teacher said, "and write an essay with the title 'If I were a Millionaire'." Everyone but Philis, who leaned back with arms folded, began to write furiously.
"What's the matter?" the teacher asked. "Why don't you begin?"
"I'm waiting for my secretary," he replied.
Last week a grain of sand got into my wife's eye, and she had to go to the doctor," a married man told his friend. "It cost me $50."
"That's nothing," his friend replied. "Last week a cocktail dress got into my wife's eye, and it cost me $150."
Judge addresses the man in the courtroom: "Don't you feel ashamed, coming here for the third time?"
The man replied: "I'm here for the third time – you come here every day!"
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