How to use humor properly in classroom teaching

Teaching humorous language is a kind of humorous, meaningful, philosophical and inspiring advanced language. It is the crystallization of teachers' wisdom. If it is properly used in classroom teaching, it will make the teaching language targeted, interesting, inspiring and instructive, thus achieving better teaching results. Teaching humor is mainly manifested by teachers' body humor and verbal humor, among which verbal humor is more important. Humorous language in Chinese classroom is the crystallization of Chinese teachers' thoughts, temperament, talent, vision and inspiration. It is like an elf, which can make language shine with dazzling wisdom in an instant. Humor in Chinese teaching should refer to the humor and wit of language and action, which can make students smile or understand the profound meaning of the teacher when they hear the humorous language of the teacher. An American educator once said: "Humor will not only affect the acquisition of direct knowledge, but after a few weeks, students will consciously write down more concepts from the humor used in teaching." In other words, the value of humor lies not only in arousing students' interest and relaxation, but also in helping to strengthen the memory of what they have learned. Vilov, an educator in the former Soviet Union, also thought: "Humor is the most important first assistant in education." It can be seen that using humor in Chinese teaching is a very effective teaching method. So what are the common types of humor in Chinese teaching? Let me first talk about several types and methods of humor that are common in class.

First, the method of shifting time, misplacing and misinterpreting words

"Shifting time" is to consciously break through the time limit according to the teaching content, and connect ancient things with modern things, thus producing humorous effects. When talking about the appellation of the ancients, I gave an example. The appellation is based on a person's native place. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei in the South China Sea was called Kang Nanhai. In the future, when you meet the principal of our Dali High School, you can directly call him Kuang Dali. The students soon remembered some differences between ancient and modern appellations. For example, in Pu Songling's "Wolf" lesson, there is a sentence "Cut off its shares after committing suicide". The teacher consciously misinterpreted the topic and asked the students to analyze it. Is "breaking its shares" cutting its ass? Explain ancient prose in a modern sense, just kidding. Enhance students' memory of "antiquity". On another occasion, when I talked about the word "make people laugh, generous", I deliberately said that this word means that people are generous and decent, and they laugh very gracefully. Mr. Bi walked into the classroom with a big smile. Some students were speechless, and some laughed heartily, so they misinterpreted the meaning and made jokes on purpose, which produced a strong humorous effect, and then led to the correct meaning, which deepened the students' understanding and understanding of this idiom.

Second, gild the lily method

To gild the lily is to add a tail consciously, and without a tail, it can also produce humorous effects. For example, when Lin Daiyu entered Jiafu, Cao Xueqin used a metaphor to describe his face, and his rosy cheeks were like fresh lychees. I added a beautiful face here: "Of course it is like litchi meat, not like litchi shell." At this point, the students have a deeper impression of the Spring Festival. When it comes to the lesson "Remembering Forgetting", when Rou Shi was killed by ten bullets at last, the students all looked very dignified. In order to ease the atmosphere, I "gild the lily" and said that if you are a cunning enemy, you must have fallen after being shot, or played dead before being shot. The students smiled and eased the atmosphere in the classroom a little, and at the same time deepened their hatred for the reactionaries.

Third, shoplifting law.

Use things that students are familiar with, such as texts, advertisements, pop songs, etc. It can also create a rich humorous atmosphere at an appropriate time. Especially popular songs, students are very familiar with them. Singing them can not only make students feel cordial, but also easily enliven the classroom atmosphere. For example, in an evaluation exercise, I asked the representative of my favorite class, and she didn't do this question, so she couldn't answer it at all, and the atmosphere was a bit embarrassing. Her little face turned red and she was embarrassed. So I was going to help her, so I just came out. This question is a bit difficult, even He Laoshi feels it is not easy. At that time, I "looked around, and every answer was so cute ..." I easily released the lyrics of Richie Jen's song "Look at the girl opposite" to help the girl get out of trouble, and the classroom teaching continued smoothly in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

Fourthly, introduce the art of cross talk.

Crosstalk is a humorous art, which expresses abstract and profound truth intuitively in humorous and popular language, and makes people inspired by laughter and has unique charm. Teachers can also convey knowledge and information to students through humorous language, grasp students' attention, make each class a work of art, and cultivate students' sentiment. The introduction of crosstalk art into Chinese classroom teaching also requires teachers' humorous teaching actions. The teacher gestures in class, smiles and has a moderate sense of humor. Emotional places make people thrilling, witty places make people laugh, indignant places make people angry, and heroic places make people confident. So that students' brains are always in an active and excited state, with a relaxed and happy mental state, so that students can feel the pleasure of seeking knowledge and creating to the maximum extent, and classroom learning is always full of vitality and passion. For example, when the suffixes of the words overlap, I introduced Huang Junying's cross talk "Guangzhou Dialect", which is red. Yellow, yellow catch. Green, green BB. I was forbidden to be a green BB, and I was captured by the green. I have to, some solution? A: Because in Cantonese, there is no one called "picking up girls", but picking up girls does exist. Oh, yellow is a hug, green is a BB, and it is forbidden. White ... students can understand the suffix of adjectives in a flash with cheerful laughter. Teaching in dialect areas is bound to be accompanied by dialect humor. Of course, in the teaching process, we should also pay attention to the differences between Mandarin and Cantonese dialects. 5. In the rhetoric of exaggeration, exaggeration is a rhetorical way of deliberately expanding or narrowing the image, characteristics, function and degree of things in order to achieve certain expression needs. Exaggeration with humor is also a kind of humor I once saw such a story in a humorous fable: It is said that a private school gentleman knew the word "biography". Once a student went to ask him for advice. He wanted to find a word "biography" to teach his students, but he couldn't find it after turning over a few pages. Later, he suddenly found the word "three" in the book. "He scolded: I can't find you, so you are lying here." ; The situation in the above story may never happen in the world, but after the storyteller's exaggeration, he buried a profound philosophy of life in his humor. It is precisely because of these reasonable "exaggerations" that it is thought-provoking. When we are teaching Chinese, we can also get good enlightenment from it, correctly understand the value of humor and give full play to its role in teaching. Once in the "Medicine" class, when Lu Xun described Master Kong, a black man with eyes like two knives cut the old bolt in half. In order to make students better understand the exaggeration, I added, you should observe discipline well, otherwise the head teacher's eyes can stab two-thirds of the students who violate discipline like bayonets! Students soon left a deep impression on this rhetorical device, and at the same time, discipline education also penetrated into classroom teaching.

The above summarizes several common humorous methods in Chinese classroom teaching. Let me briefly summarize the role and effect of these humorous methods in classroom teaching.