Grammar
- Christmas Collocations Quiz - Vocab Game
This game has eight quizzes related to Christmas. General Christmas Christmas decorations Chritmas verbs Food and drink Christmas carols The Twelve Days of Christmas Winter activities Wintry idioms ...
- Idiomatic Matching Pairs With And
There are quite a few idiomatic pairs in English joined with 'and', such as 'bits and pieces'. Match the pairs and use them in context with this double quiz. By default, the pairs are randomised when you open this exercise....
- More Christmas Cracker Jokes - Matching Quizzes
Image from Wikipedia Christmas cracker jokes are written almost to a formula, and make great use of corny puns. We like to groan at how awful they are, but they are a quintessential part of a British Christmas. Some are on Christmas themes, many...
- Confusing Words - Comparison With As And Like
The uses of as and like are often confused. Try and sort them out by doing these quizzes. Matching quiz - sentences with as and like Complete the rules Different uses of as - multiple choice quiz Choose between as and like, gapfill quiz Verbs of...
- Two Christmas Cracker Quizzes
Image from Wikimedia Commons Two gapfill quizzes on the subject of Christmas crackers Remember you can check the meaning of any word by copying and pasting it into the Dictionary Box on the right, and then looking it up in the dictionary of...
Grammar
Christmas cracker joke matching quiz
What lies in a pram and wobbles?
A jelly-baby ?
Why did the tomato blush?
Because it saw the salad dressing ?
How do you hire a horse?
Stand it on four bricks ?
Christmas cracker jokes are notoriously bad, relying heavily on awful puns (word play). Mouse over the ? above for explanations.
Here is a matching quiz, based on somebody's list of the best of the worst.Try and match the beginnings and endings.
Click and drop - Click on a word or expression on the right (abc etc - in grey) and then on its corresponding box(123 etc). If you change your mind just repeat the process.
Match the beginnings and endings of these Christmas cracker jokes
| 1. | What do you call a penguin in the Sahara Desert? | a) | Do you think he saw us? ? | |
| 2. | Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door? | b) | Lost ? | |
| 3. | What does the word minimum mean? | c) | 'It's Christmas, Eve!' ? | |
| 4. | Why don't you see penguins in Britain? | d) | A vicious circle ? | |
| 5. | What do you call a one eyed dinosaur? | e) | He wanted to win the no-bell prize ? | |
| 6. | Who or what goes oh, oh oh? | f) | To do long sentences ? | |
| 7. | What's round and bad tempered? | g) | A sick note ? | |
| 8. | What did Adam yell on the day before Christmas (or maybe on Christmas day)? | h) | Because they're afraid of Wales ? | |
| 9. | Why do pens get sent to prison? | i) | A very small mother ? | |
| 10. | What do you get from a piano that's not feeling well? | j) | Santa walking backwards ? |
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More Christmas cracker quizzes
I have a second post with six more Christmas cracker matching exercises here.
Links
- The Telegraph - the original source for these jokes
- The Telegraph - more jokes
- The Sun - and the UK's biggest selling tabloid has its say
- BBC News - more of the same
- Interactive Christmas jokes - sent in by the kids at Woodlands Junior school
- The English Blog - another TEFL / ESL teacher's blog (hat-tip for the Woodlands page)
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- Christmas Collocations Quiz - Vocab Game
This game has eight quizzes related to Christmas. General Christmas Christmas decorations Chritmas verbs Food and drink Christmas carols The Twelve Days of Christmas Winter activities Wintry idioms ...
- Idiomatic Matching Pairs With And
There are quite a few idiomatic pairs in English joined with 'and', such as 'bits and pieces'. Match the pairs and use them in context with this double quiz. By default, the pairs are randomised when you open this exercise....
- More Christmas Cracker Jokes - Matching Quizzes
Image from Wikipedia Christmas cracker jokes are written almost to a formula, and make great use of corny puns. We like to groan at how awful they are, but they are a quintessential part of a British Christmas. Some are on Christmas themes, many...
- Confusing Words - Comparison With As And Like
The uses of as and like are often confused. Try and sort them out by doing these quizzes. Matching quiz - sentences with as and like Complete the rules Different uses of as - multiple choice quiz Choose between as and like, gapfill quiz Verbs of...
- Two Christmas Cracker Quizzes
Image from Wikimedia Commons Two gapfill quizzes on the subject of Christmas crackers Remember you can check the meaning of any word by copying and pasting it into the Dictionary Box on the right, and then looking it up in the dictionary of...