ESL Lesson PlansPun Intended: Playing with Words

Pun Intended: Playing with Words

This B2 ESL lesson helps teens and adults explore English puns through jokes, familiar expressions, and creative Halloween costume ideas. Learners distinguish literal and figurative meanings, practice useful vocabulary, and explain how wordplay works. The interactive online worksheet includes matching, gap-fill practice, short joke analysis, and a creative speaking task for a 60-minute group lesson.

Skills

Can recognize different meanings of familiar words and expressions in humorous contexts.
Can explain wordplay and develop a creative idea with a partner.

60 min B2 (Upper-Intermediate)Teens Adults Group Speaking Vocabulary Idioms Halloween Free

Online Interactive

Based on CEFR

Fully Customizable

Read the two descriptions. What expression connects them? Explain how its meaning changes.

Someone who loves dancing and going to parties. / A tiger wearing a party hat.
Someone who reads all the time. / A worm sitting inside a book.
Someone who spends hours watching TV on the sofa. / A potato sitting on a couch.

Discuss: Which would make the funniest costume? Why?

Require students to provide an answer