Laughter is the best m __ __ __ __ __ __ __.

Laughter is the best m e d i c i n e.

What do we laugh at?

Match the words with the definitions

• humans• battle• joke• guess• shake• drown• lawyer

• give an answer• to die in water• people• someone whose job is to give advice• move something very fast• a fight• funny story

Read the text and decide if the sentences are true or false

• Humans started talking before they learned to laugh.

• Modern humour comes to us through the Internet.

• If something surprises us it can be funny.• We laugh when we hear something but we

don’t laugh because of funny pictures.• A ‘punch line’ comes at the end of a joke. • Many television programmes have ‘joke-of-the-

day’.

• Humans started talking before they learned to laugh.

False

• Modern humour comes to us through the Internet.

True

• If something surprises us it can be funny.

True

• We laugh when hear something but we don’t laugh because of funny pictures.

False

• A ‘punch line’ comes at the end of a joke.

True

• Many television programmes have ‘joke-of-the-day’.

False

Read the text again and answer the questions

1. What did people laugh at in the past?

2. What are three main kinds of humour?

3. What animal can you put in an office to make it funny?

4. What is the most famous English joke?

5. Why don’t we understand the jokes from all over the world?

Do you remember?

- Why did the chicken cross the road?

- To get to the other side.

- What do you call someone who watches a lawyer drown?

- Lucky!