Some sites dealing with laughter
(1) INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT LAUGHTER
Science of Laughter
Here are some sites dealing with the science of laughter. Why do people laugh?
What are some of the benefits of laughter?
What makes YOU laugh?
Serious Laughter
New Scientist
Humour
http://people.howstuffworks.com/laughter7.htm
http://www.happiness.co.uk/Default2.asp
Laughter Clubs
Laughter Clubs began in 1995 in India, by an Indian doctor. Since then they have spread all over the world. There are now more than 5,000 laughter clubs around the world. There are even some in Japan. I was really surprised when I found one in Nagoya! Click on this link to find information about WHY Laughter Clubs began.
http://nagoyalaughterclub.blogspot.com/
Here are some sites from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-DRLr8PCCA&feature=related
This clip shows a Laughter Yoga Session In Tokyo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4Ak3fYAj8
Benefits of Laughter Yoga with John Cleese. Famous British comedian goes to India to find out about Laughter Yoga. Click on the link to see him in action.http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=3597648222
(2) COMEDY & OTHER FUNNY STUFF
Have you ever heard of Rowan Atkinson? Probably you know him as the character Mr Bean. This movie clip was many years before Mr Bean.It's very simple. He walks along the road and notices a Cameraman on the other side of the road. He says "hello" and keeps waving to him. But he doesn't look where he's going. First he accidentally walks into a lamppost, because he is too busy watching the cameraman. In the next scene he almost walks into another lamppost doing exactly the same thing. This time, however, he manages to avoid walking into the lamppost. But instead, he falls down a hole! I think that his facial expression is so funny. Find out what happens by clicking on this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewi_KNMs2rg
Patch Adams
Here are some sites about Patch Adams. Who was he? What did he do? What was his job? Why was he so different to other (conventional) doctors?
http://www.patchadams.com/
http://www.chy.com.au/patch.htm
I think that it's interesting because Patch Adams was a real doctor that realised the importance of humour in hospitals: he knew very well about the benefits of laughter. Anyway, he became so famous in the USA (and around the world) for his work that his life story was made into movie starring Robbin Willams. This one is a bit difficult, but it's well written and has a lot of interesting information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Adams
Task
Work together as a group collecting important and useful information about "humour", "laughter" and other funny stuff. Copy and paste the links into your Word File. Then write a bit of information IN YOUR OWN WORDS about the links. WHY do you like them? WHY are they fuunny? and so on (See my examples at the top of this page).
Thursday, 8 November 2007
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