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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Monk Celebration

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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Monk Celebration ☀ / ☾ theme Learn English With Jokes Monk & the Missing R Intermediate · Past Simple · Vocabulary Building ✦ Survolez ou tapez sur les mots en ambre pour voir les définitions en français. A young monk MOINE arrives at a monastery MONASTÈRE . He is assigned to helping the other monks copy the old laws LOIS of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript MANUSCRIT . So the new monk goes to the head monk to ask why, signalling FAISANT REMARQUER that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, nobody would realise it. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent SUIVANTES / ULTÉRIEURES (copies) ...
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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Art Collector & Attorney

Learn English With Jokes • Ret's ESL Jokes ☀ / ☾ theme Learn English With Jokes Art Collector & Attorney Intermediate · Past Simple · Vocabulary Building ✦ Survolez les mots en ambre pour voir les définitions en français. An attorney AVOCAT / REPRÉSENTANT LÉGAL named Johan telephoned and requested to speak with his client, a wealthy TRÈS RICHE art collector. “Pieter,” he said, “I have some good news and some bad news.” The collector sighed A SOUPIRÉ (EXPRIMANT LA DÉCEPTION) . “Johan, I’ve had a truly rotten day TRÈS MAUVAISE JOURNÉE . Please, let’s hear the good news first.” “Well,” the lawyer AVOCAT said, “I met with your wife today. She informed me that she invested only €5,000 in two remarkable pictures—ones she believes could fetch SE...
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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Vietnam War Stakeout

Learn English With Jokes • Ret's ESL Jokes ☀ / ☾ theme Learn English With Jokes Vietnam War Stakeout Intermediate · Past Simple · Vocabulary Building ✦ Survolez les mots en ambre pour voir les définitions en français. During the Vietnam War GUERRE DU VIETNAM , a Black man, an Asian man, and a white man are on a stakeout FILATURE / POSTE D'OBSERVATION in the jungle JUNGLE , far from their base BASE . They receive a call from command COMMANDEMENT saying that it’s time to resupply SE RAVITAILLER . The white man says to the others, “Alright, I’m going to go pick up some food NOURRITURE . Black guy, you go get the ammunition MUNITIONS , and Asian guy, you go get the other supplies RÉSERVES / FOURNITURES . We’ll meet back here in three hours.” They p...
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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Mostly Absurd

Learn English With Jokes • Ret's ESL Jokes ☀ / ☾ theme Learn English With Jokes Mostly Absurd Intermediate · Mostly Absurd · Puns & Wordplay ✦ Survolez les mots en ambre pour voir les définitions en français. Did you hear about the Italian chef CUISINIER who died? Yeah... he pasta-way JEU DE MOTS: "passed away" (décédé) → "pasta-way" (pâtes) . Two friends are robbing DÉVALISANT a liquor store MAGASIN D'ALCOOL , and as they are clearing the shelves VIDANT LES RAYONS , the first one asks: "is this whiskey WHISKY ?" His friend replies: "Sure, but not as wisky JEU DE MOTS : « whisky (-> risky) » prononcé avec un zozotement as wobbing a bank JEU DE MOTS : « robbing a bank » prononcé avec ...
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Learn English With Jokes ✦ Trumpelstiltskin

Learn English With Jokes • Ret's ESL Jokes ☀ / ☾ theme Learn English With Jokes Trump One-Liners Intermediate · One-Liner Collection · Political Humour ✦ Survolez les mots en ambre pour voir les définitions en français. The problem with Trump jokes BLAGUES is that Republicans don’t think they’re funny DRÔLE , and Democrats don’t think they’re jokes. What does the Trump administration use instead of AU LIEU DE | PLUTÔT QUE emails COURRIELS ? Alternative fax FAX ALTERNATIF (JEU DE MOTS AVEC "ALTERNATIVE FACTS") . People keep grouping all Trump supporters with these movements recently, which I disagree with JE NE SUIS PAS D'ACCORD , and think is quite silly. After all APRÈS TOUT , the Russians ...
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