Who doesn’t remember the wacky Monty Python’s “The Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch? Let me refresh your memory if you don’t:
Mr Teabag – John Cleese- (one of the surreal comedy troupe Monty Python) is a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious United Kingdom government agency entrusted with bestowing grants to those who develop Silly Walks. Throughout the sketch John Cleese is seen to walk in the most absurd, hysterically funny walks: these walks were the reason the sketch earned such popularity as to be rated 15th in the ‘Britain’s Top 50 Comedy Sketches’ list (for a full synopsis of the sketch see here).
And here is the sketch:
What great fun to practice reading these Silly Walks with your students !
What about practicing some of these walks and say which was sillier, the silliest of all etc. (great opportunity to use comparative and superlative forms…)
Now, I’ve made this clock (I love summer because I have more time in my hands to do all the things I cannot do during the school year…)
I used these things (template and instructions here)
And more instructions from these videos
Ministry of Silly Walks Clock DIY / Ministry of Silly Walks Clock – Build
This is my version of the clock in action ( and my first attempt to make a video using time lapse recording ! )
And this is something I made to use with my students at school when we learn to tell the time!
Watch the Official Lyric Video of The Silly Walk Song:
Maybe it will inspire you too! 😉
For more fabulous cartoons visit Pete Emslie’s blog, The Cartoon Cave
