After a long school year, both teachers and students deserve a break, so here you can find a few humorous sketches that, hopefully, will make you giggle. They all come from two British TV shows that were very popular in the early 2000's and in the late 1990's, but whose popularity has increased recently due to their circulation on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook or TikTok.
Firstly, you can watch a scene from the BBC ONE sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, entitled The Pedantic Vicar at a Funeral, which may make some teachers think twice about overcorrecting their students, or you can enjoy Alex and Hugo Wedding, with a hilarious beginning and many sight gags along its 3':47". B2 students can find interesting words in the funeral eulogy, like the word eulogy itself, or the departed, pedantic, namely, to be holding court, to laugh their heads off, a vicar, to fall out [with someone], to put [me] off, to grieve, to lie, and in the wedding scene, ceremonial phrases and expressions like: an impediment, a groom, thee, to worship, a lawful wedded [husband], to have and to hold, till death us do part, insanity, a glimpse, [the power] vested in me, to pronounce you [husband and wife].
B2 students may also enjoy the following clips of the ITV award-winning comedy The Sketch Show: firstly, The Imaginary Friend, with expressions like: to overcome, to pop [next door], [to be] around [ever since], a delusion, rotten [teeth], to keep an eye on [you], a figment of your imagination; then, you can see a teacher and her students in The Trust Exercise, where a couple of expressions come up: [with your arms] outstretched, to let you down; after that, the dark humour sketch The Body Collectors featuring the word darling; then you can go to The Phobia Workshop, with expressions like: an apology, an awkward [silence], borderline, to bark, to snap [a finger]; and finally, you can watch the interaction of a teacher and a headmaster in a classroom in The ABC Lesson with words like: a headmaster, [the rhyme] it goes [like this], to rhyme, to pick on [me], a nursery rhyme.
Remember, laughing is always good for you, but laughing at yourself is really, really healthy!
Below, The Phobias Workshop, from The Sketch Show, on YouTube: