笑話***jokes***指能引人 發笑的談話或故事,篇幅短小,故事情節簡單而巧妙,往往出人意料,取得令人捧腹的藝術效果;笑話大多揭示生活中荒謬的現象,具有諷刺性和娛樂性。以下我整理了壹些適合講給孩子聽的英語幽默笑話，可以讓小朋友在玩樂的過程中學習英語。
A Smart Housewife
精明的家庭主婦
A *** art housewife was told that there was a kind of stove which would only consume half of the coal she was burning. She was very excited, and said: "That' ll be terrific! Since one stove can save half of the coal, if I buy two, no coal will be needed!"
壹位精明的家庭主婦聽人說有壹種爐子用起來可以比她現在用的爐子省壹半的煤。她聽了大為興奮，說：“那太好了!壹個爐子可以省壹半的煤，那麽如果我買兩個爐子的話，不就可以把煤全都省下來了嗎?”
Logic Reasoning
邏輯推理
A fourth-grade teacher was giving her pupils a lesson on logic.
"Here is the situation," she said. "a man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help. His wife hears the motion, knows that he can't swim, and runs down to the bank. Why do you think she ran to the bank?"
A girl raised her hand and asked, "to draw out all of his savings?"
小學四年級的教師正在給學生們上壹堂邏輯課。
她舉了這麽壹個例子：“有這樣壹種情況，壹個男人在河中心的船上釣魚，突然失去重心掉進了水裏。於是他開始掙紮並喊救命。他的妻子聽到了他的喊聲，知道他並不會遊泳，所以她就急忙跑向河岸。誰能告訴我這是為什麽?”
壹個女生舉手答道，“是不是去取他的存款?”
[註]bank在英語***精品課***中除了我們平時很熟悉的“銀行”之外，還有“河岸”的意思。
Does the dog know the proverb,too?
狗也知道這個諺語嗎?
The little boy did not like the look of the barking dog.
"It's all right," said a gentleman, "don't be afraid. Don't you know the proverb: Barking dogs don't bite?"
"Ah, yes," answered the little boy. "I know the proverb, but does the dog know the proverb, too?"
壹個小男孩非常不喜歡狗狂叫的樣子。
“沒有關系，”壹位先生說，“不用害怕，妳知道這條諺語嗎?‘吠狗不咬人’。”
“啊，我是知道，可是狗也知道嗎?”