GLOSSARY
an envelope n
a rectangular paper cover that you
put a letter in
to down vb
to drink
to carry on phr vb
to continue
about exp
if you are “about” to do something,
you are going to do it very soon
a bill n
a piece of paper that tells you how
much you must pay in a restaurant, etc.
to chat away exp
to talk continuously with someone
to drift from exp
if the conversation “drifts from” one topic
to another, it moves to that new topic
a dish n
a plate – the ceramic object you put
food on so you can eat itI’m
clever!JOKES, ANECDOTES AND STORIES AS TOLD BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS.
STORY TIME
STORY TIME
AUDIOFor great private language classes, e-mail: [email protected] / http://www.learnhotenglish.com / 11A: I say, I say, I say. What
starts with an “e”, ends
with an “e” and only has
one letter?
B: I don’t know. What does
start with an “e”, end with an “e” and only has
one letter?
A: An envelope!Teacher: Rodney, please
point to
America on the
map.
Rodney: Here it is.
Teacher: Well done,
Rodney. Now
class, who
discovered America?
Class: Rodney did!A Martian walks into a bar and orders a bottle of
whisky, a bottle of vodka, 12 martinis, 16 pints of
Guinness and a gin and tonic. He downs them all
in one then asks for the same again. He carrieson drinking all night. Then, as he’s about to
leave, the barman says, “That’s amazing, but do
you know your bill is more than €2,000?”
And the Martian says, “That’s OK, but have you
got change for a zonk?”Two students are chatting away when the
conversation drifts from politics to cooking.
“I got a cookbook once,” says one, “but I could
never do anything with it.”
“Why’s that?” asks the other student.
“Too much work. Every one of the recipes began
the same way: take a clean dish...”e
This
is too
hard!