Keywords: humor, charm, active classroom atmosphere, classroom teaching
In daily life, when we see some comic sketches, we will laugh from the heart; When reading some newspapers and magazines, you can often see humorous jokes that make people happy. Humor expresses sincerity, generosity and kindness in a pleasant way. It brings people closer like a bridge. Humor creates a harmonious and happy atmosphere through relaxed and humorous words and meaningful laughter. Humor is indispensable in daily life. As an English teacher, humor is indispensable in normal classroom teaching. The former Soviet educator Svetlov once said: "Humor is the most important first assistant of educators." Humorous language can make knowledge easy to understand; Humorous language can make people relax and make the classroom atmosphere harmonious. Teachers with a sense of humor make students feel amiable and very popular with them. Teachers' proper use of humor can enliven the classroom atmosphere, help students to have a happy mood, accept knowledge more easily, and also help to enhance the feelings between teachers and students. When humor creates a warm atmosphere, not only students are willing to listen to the class, but also the "* * * vibration" effect will occur, and the teacher's level can also be brought into play and excellent results can be achieved. In the usual English teaching, the author deeply understands that the proper use of humor in teaching can bring good results to teaching.
First, "take care of" problem students and enliven the classroom atmosphere.
One of the students in the class, Bob, falls asleep easily for physical reasons. Once, while he was sleeping with his eyes narrowed, I sang "Are you asleep? This song. When the students saw the teacher singing, they sang along happily. They followed my eyes and suddenly realized that he had reached "that moment" in the class, and everyone would laugh. That classmate seemed to notice it, too, and cheered to listen to my lecture. My "sleeping" song became a "waking" song. Remind students who are not paying attention in class in this humorous way, which can not only make students consciously realize their mistakes and protect their self-esteem, but also enliven the classroom atmosphere because of this "episode". As German Speaker Hein Lehman said, "It is more acceptable to tell the serious truth in a humorous way than to say it directly."
Second, warn students who violate discipline and expand the teaching content.
Once, Jane, a student, was talking sideways to Mike at the same table. I made a gesture to calm everyone down and said emotionally, "Please listen to Jane. She has a way to tell Mike. I think she will tell Miss Wu after class. Yes or no, Jane? " And emphasized the way of using words. The students listened and laughed. At this moment, Jane and Mike stopped to listen to my lecture. At this point, I think why not teach them the extracurricular phrase "the way of words"? I said, we often hear such a song "A thousand words are not as good as one sentence …", and this "a thousand words" can be regarded as "the thought of words". For example, mom, I have a thousand words to say to you today. Mom, I have something to say to you today. Students feel very fresh, so they recite it immediately. I didn't reprimand the students directly, but asked them to tell the teacher after class. As a teacher, I was also inspired by teaching in an instant. Using this humor to teach an extra-curricular knowledge point and word is impressive to students and easier to accept and master.
Third, activate students' thinking and promote classroom teaching. In a class, students are bowing their heads and thinking about problems. Suddenly, a bee flew out of the window and slammed into the glass window. The bee was "furious" as if performing a difficult "air show". Many students are watching this bee's performance. Seeing this, I quipped, "Everyone is attracted by this bee. Teacher Wu's charm is not as good as a little bee, is it? " After a burst of laughter, I played with "bees". I asked the students, "Why does this bee fly to our classroom?" Now, the students raised their hands high and rushed to answer, sweeping away the dull atmosphere when thinking about the problem just now. Someone said, "He wants to have a rest." Someone said, "He wants to see our beautiful classroom." Someone said, "He wants to be our friend." Finally, I said that everyone's answers were very good. In fact, the bee has been observing everyone outside the window. It sees that everyone is slow to answer the question. In a hurry, I flew in and wanted to tell you (in a bee tone): Come on, come on, boys and girls. Please consider carefully and answer Mr. Wu's question quickly. The students' laughter enlivened the classroom atmosphere again.
In the course of class, we often encounter such a situation: a classmate in class has an accident, or someone has left outside the classroom, and there are always students who want to distract themselves. In this class, a bee distracted the students, but the teacher's classroom teaching was not affected. But skillfully use bees to actively guide students to think about why it flies in. This not only cultivates students' divergent thinking, enables students to attend classes with a positive thinking state, but also better mobilizes the classroom atmosphere. Using humor to solve emergencies in teaching can not only safeguard the authority of teachers, but also avoid students' embarrassment. Turning passivity into initiative will not make accidental events interfere with the normal operation of the teaching order, but also make the teaching order run more smoothly and flexibly. As long as the teacher takes the opportunity to quote some humor, students can unconsciously relax in laughter, re-concentrate, and re-engage in the classroom with an excited attitude.
Fourth, cleverly motivate students and change their personality.
Once, organize an English short play performance in the class. The content of the performance is that Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, the four most familiar and favorite students, go to Huaguoshan to pick fruits. The students quickly divided the roles. There are three people in a group competing to perform on stage, only Tom is flushed and afraid to go on stage. Tom's comprehensive English level is good, but he is introverted and a little timid. I think we must make him shine today. I asked him what role he had arranged. He told me it was Friar Sand. I suddenly made a gesture of the Monkey King and said in the Monkey King's voice, "Brother Sha, come here! I will help you! " As I spoke, I let Friar Sand shoulder the burden and made my classmates laugh. Tom stepped onto the platform with a smile. He bears a "heavy burden" like Friar Sand in TV series. The vivid performance won the applause of the students. With the success of this initial test, he performed more times on the stage, became more courageous and gradually changed his introverted personality.
A class is like a melting pot, with lively students and introverted students. Teachers' humorous words and deeds can often "tease" these introverted students, stimulate their desire for expression, and then change their personalities.
Fifth, close the distance between teachers and students and deepen their feelings.
Through teaching humor, teachers can let students appreciate the colorful personality and spiritual world of teachers and make students feel that they are not only an awesome "teacher" but also an amiable "friend". Harmonious and humorous atmosphere can make the relationship between teachers and students closer, which is conducive to emotional communication and synchronize * * * into an inclusive and interesting teaching world. I deeply realized this. The author sees from the weekly diary written by students that our teacher Wu is too humorous in class and feels relaxed. He always feels that class will be over soon. I didn't like English at all before, but now my favorite class is English. Everyone feels very happy and not depressed. Teacher Wu must have read many humorous books when he was a child, so he became humorous. Teacher Wu often makes us laugh with humorous language and actions. I'm always looking forward to having an English class ... The children show their admiration and admiration for a humorous teacher between the lines. Of course, the affection between teachers and students has also become deeper.
Proper use of humor can produce such great effects, so how can we cultivate a sense of humor? Humor, of course, depends on rich knowledge, agile thinking and fluent oral English, but it is important to have harmonious love, broad mind, optimistic mood and cheerful personality. If humor is the crystallization of wisdom, knowledge and experience in language use, then humor is the concentrated expression of a person's comprehensive quality. The composition of sense of humor includes witty and flexible thinking, extensive knowledge, healthy psychological channels and skillful language expression. The cultivation of sense of humor can start from two aspects, namely, basic quality and expression habits. (1) First of all, we should start with the cultivation of basic qualities: 1, with a sound and mature personality. It is necessary to cultivate an open mind, an open mind, a cheerful personality, a chic attitude towards life and a strong self-control ability. Only with these basic qualities can we be open-minded, enthusiastic and kind, bring kindness and goodwill to others through humorous words, and show confidence and calmness, humor and freedom in various occasions. As a teacher, if you want to draw students' hearts closer with humorous language and establish a good image among students, you need these qualities in particular.
2. Accumulated knowledge and experience. Humor needs not only the accumulation of cultural knowledge, but also the accumulation of social experience, and it also needs to understand what to say in what context. Teachers' humor should inspire students and adjust the atmosphere, not hurt them.
3. resourceful. Humorous thoughts are always floating around, and humorous dialogues have the ability to seize opportunities and react quickly. Therefore, teachers need to be good at grasping the opportunity and "quiet" it in a suitable place.
(2) the cultivation of expression habits. The ultimate embodiment of sense of humor involves the expression ways and means of humorous discourse;
1, subtle and gentle. When expressing humorous words, don't be superficial, rude or hurt others. It pays attention to the profound meaning in the plain, and hides its edge in the smile.
2. Be appropriate. All effective speech activities should be adapted to specific contexts. Humorous discourse should pay special attention to this, because humor needs the organic connection between discourse and context. The verbal expression of humor should be appropriate and moderate. There are many ways to cultivate humorous language expression habits. The key is to keep thinking and understanding in teaching practice, so as to gradually develop humorous language expression habits.
Humor can produce great charm, but in the application process, we should still pay attention to the following points:
1, humor should be moderate. The verbal expression of humor should be appropriate. The first is not to abuse humor. Humor is the finishing touch and condiment of language. To give full play to its role, it is necessary to use it sparingly and accurately. As you can imagine, if a person talks about humor endlessly, even the best humor will be eclipsed and disgusted. The use of humorous language in classroom teaching should conform to the teaching content and should not be used casually, interrupting teaching activities and distracting students. Although it enlivens the classroom atmosphere, it is also for fun. The second is to pay attention to occasions and objects. Humor, regardless of occasions and objects, will not only play a role in regulating the atmosphere, but will have the opposite effect. Third, civilized and healthy speech habits, put an end to low-level taste and low-level humor.
2. Humor should be moderate, not humorous for humor's sake. Too much humor or far-fetched humor will make the classroom environment relaxed and casual, and the normal classroom order is difficult to control. In the eyes of students, you are a teacher who is not serious and dignified. Therefore, moderate humor is a buffer and decompressor in a tense, boring and boring classroom environment. As a teacher, you must gain and maintain students' respect for you, know how to use humor and know when to adjust the atmosphere, which will be very helpful to your classroom.
As an English teacher, the proper use of humor in the usual classroom teaching is not only conducive to creating a harmonious teaching situation and adjusting the relationship between teaching and learning, but also conducive to the smooth completion of classroom teaching in a harmonious state, thus achieving good teaching results. Let our teachers and colleagues be more humorous, let students be more humorous, and let our English class be full of humorous charm!