Webinar 3:  Using a Touch of Humor to Enhance Language Lessons

Date: Wednesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m. Ukraine time

Presenter: Sally La Luzerne-Oi

Abstract: Adding humor to our lessons and activities can enhance our students’ language learning experience in a number of ways. This webinar will start with a rationale for trying to incorporate humor in some lessons. It will then go through five genres of humor and ideas for using each. Finally, some humor resources will be shared.

Bio: Sally La Luzerne-Oi has taught EFL/ESL, French. and teacher training courses in the U.S. Mexico, Venezuela, Portugal, Japan and Ukraine. She currently works independently on short-term assignments. She coauthored Tell Me About It! a listening and speaking textbook, and a number of chapters and articles. In 1994 she joined Zirka Voronka and other American instructors to provide a Summer Institute on Current Methods and Practices in TESOL held in Vinnytsia and Kharkiv. Little did she know that the Ukrainian teachers and their students would capture a piece of her heart! As a result, she returned to Ukraine for the 1995-96 academic year and four more summers. She is co-liaison for the Hawaii TESOL/TESOL Ukraine partnership.

Zoom link to the session:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/8575070872?pwd=N21TNnNDNjRYMkFYSEdIdXViMzE3dz09