Tired of typical ELT dialogues?
I thought so. Try these with your classes, then:
Student A: How are you?
Student B: Old
Student A: How are you?
Student B: How am I? How should I be?
Student A: How are you?
Student B: How should I be, with my feet?
Student A: How’s your brother?
Student B: Dead
Student A: What’s doing?
Student B: Nothing
A: Nothing?
B: Nothing.
Student A: How was your weekend?
Student B: It should happen to my enemies
Student A: What time is it?
Student B: What am I, a clock?
In case you haven’t guessed they are all from Yiddish, specifically mainly from the surprisingly readable popular linguistics book Born to Kvetch. More good stuff from there coming on TEFLtastic soon.