8th Grade Fun with Puns

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by Lori Leiszler7 views·Updated Oct 1, 2020
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This video very briefly introduces the students to what homophones and homonyms are, and how, when they're put into a joke, they create puns. As a class later today and tomorrow we'll be analyzing commonly-misused homophones, and we'll have some fun by creating a book of puns to help us understand those concepts.

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  1. Hello and welcome back.
  2. So today you're going to be needing a couple things
  3. first, a pencil or a pen, whichever you prefer, and
  4. some paper so you can write down a few definitions.
  5. Don't worry, they're not too long.
  6. And it's actually this is probably my favorite topic in
  7. all of English.
  8. It's so fun.
  9. So please bring your thinking caps and be super excited
  10. to learn, because it's gonna be really fun today.
  11. So first I'm going to be reading you this poem,
  12. and I think you're going.
  13. They're going to enjoy it.
  14. Be sure to know while I'm reading it the difference
  15. between what I'm saying and what you're seeing on the
  16. paper. The words might not be exactly what you were
  17. expecting. I have a spelling checker.
  18. It came with my PC.
  19. It plainly marks for my review mistakes.
  20. I cannot see.
  21. I strike a key and type of word and way
  22. for it to say whether I am wrong or right.
  23. It shows me straight away.
  24. As soon as a mistake is made, it knows before
  25. too long, and I can put the air right.
  26. It's rarely ever wrong.
  27. I run this poem through it I am sure you're
  28. pleased to know it's letter perfect all the way My
  29. checker told me so.
  30. So what makes that poem so funny?
  31. It's the harm offense.
  32. Now you might not know home phones are so you
  33. can write this down in your definitions.
  34. Ah, homophone is something where it's the same sound.
  35. Two words having the same sound our home phones, for
  36. example. We have right, as in correct and right, as
  37. in something you do with your pencil to write down
  38. the definition of homophone a ZX you can see with
  39. your eyes.
  40. There is also a sea which is like the ocean
  41. and again hair, as in something that's on top of
  42. your head versus a hair like a rabbit.
  43. In addition, tow home phones we also have homonyms thes
  44. are whenever the words sound the same and look the
  45. same as well.
  46. So I like to think of it as Hama phones,
  47. which was on the last slide with C versus C.
  48. Uh, if you're on the phone to somebody, you can
  49. hear what they're doing, but you can't see them.
  50. You can only hear it so it sounds the same,
  51. but it could look a little different, whereas homonyms are
  52. the same exact spelling sound everything but the meaning again,
  53. Just like Hama phones is different.
  54. So, for example, if you're gonna wave Hi, your friend,
  55. you do that with your hand.
  56. But if you're surfing the waves that's on the water,
  57. it's spelled the same sounds the same, but they're different
  58. meanings and what we get whenever we use homonyms and
  59. Hama phones are puns, so you can write this down
  60. as well.
  61. A pun is a play on words that uses either
  62. home phones or homonyms, and you can pause me so
  63. you can write that down really quick.
  64. So let's see how this works.
  65. Because puns air pretty funny, and they're very useful.
  66. If you want to, like, share them with your friends,
  67. have some giggles.
  68. Uh, so, yeah, how do you make a tissue dance?
  69. You put a little buggy in it.
  70. Hopefully you guys are laughing because I think it's funny.
  71. Um, so boogie is ah hominem.
  72. It could either mean it's a dance, or it could
  73. be used as a word for mucus, so that ambiguity
  74. it could go either way.
  75. It could be both of those words, but the same
  76. spelling makes it kind of funny to us.
  77. Let's try another example.
  78. So why did the blind man fall in a Well,
  79. he couldn't see that.
  80. Well, I think that one's funny, because I am almost
  81. blind. I have contacts.
  82. Uh um Well, can be a place where you can
  83. get water.
  84. Or it could be describing how the man sees and
  85. because he's blind, he can't.
  86. He can't see too great.
  87. He Yeah, Yeah.
  88. Uh huh.
  89. Alright, So I have found this earlier, and I thought
  90. it might be more similar.
  91. Thio Younger generations humor in case you don't like my
  92. dad jokes, but spring break or something, I don't know.
  93. And there's a picture of a broken spring.
  94. It's rather funny and punny because spring break generally is
  95. those two words together.
  96. We think of something that happens in the spring of
  97. the year around March, where you get a week off
  98. of school and you can go have fun with your
  99. friends. Uh, where is here?
  100. It's literally a broken spring.
  101. And so that's homonym.
  102. Because the two words, um, spell exactly the same sound
  103. exactly the same.
  104. But again, they have those different meetings.
  105. So now what I'm gonna have you guys try and
  106. do is if you know any puns, write them down
  107. or share them with me.
  108. Because what we're going to do with this is create
  109. a little book of puns for the class.
  110. And don't worry, we're going to be spending a couple
  111. days on this.
  112. And if you need any help looking at this, you
  113. can definitely pause the video at the next slides where
  114. it talks about home phones and homonyms and enlist them.
  115. If you already have a joke that you really like
  116. that has homonyms or home phones, please be sure to
  117. use that if you want to.
  118. A ZX well, and I think we're going to take
  119. a break right now.
  120. So, yeah, look at those two slides and I'll be
  121. right back