英语教学故事

英语故事与对话教学是英语教学的重要手段,在英语教学中较为常见,而且这种教学方式能够提高学生的表述能力,对学生的英语学习具有重要的意义。我精心收集了一分钟英语经典小故事，供大家欣赏学习!

“Only I Can Read What I Write”

我写的只有我能读

A farmer can’t read or write. One day he asks a man to write a letter for him. He wants to post the letter to his uncle.

一个农民既不会读书也不会写字。一天，他请一个男子为他写一封信。他要把这封信寄给他叔叔。

“I can’t write you letter,” says the man, “Because I have a bad leg.”

“我不能为你写信，”男子说，“因为我有一条腿坏了。”

“Sir,” says the farmer, “I know, but I can’t see what a bad leg has to do with writing a letter.”

“先生，”农民说道，“我知道，但是我不明白写信与腿坏了有什么关系。”

“It has much to do with it,” says the man, “because I can’t walk so far and read the letter to you uncle.”

“有很大关系，”男子说，“因为我不能走那么远为你叔叔读信。”

“What do you mean, sir?” says the farmer. “His son can read it to him. Why do you need to read if for him?”

“您这是什么意思，先生?”农艺说道：“他的儿子可以读给他听。为什么需要你读给他听呢?”

“Don’t you understand,” answers the man, “that only I can read what I write?”

“你还不明白吗，”男子说道，“我写的只有我能读得懂。”

Selling Cow

卖牛

An old man is selling a big cow. A young man comes to the cow and begins to look at it carefully. Then the old man goes up to him and says in his ears. “Don’t say anything about the cow before I sell it, then I will give you some meat.”

一位老人正在卖一头大奶牛。一个年轻人来到奶牛旁边开始仔细地看它。老人走过去对他耳语道：“在我卖掉这头奶牛前不要说任何话，过后我会给你一些肉。”

“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the cow, he gives the young man some meat and says, “Now, you can tell me how do you think of the bad leg of the cow.”

“好吧。”年轻男子说道。老人卖掉了奶牛，他给了年轻人一些肉并说道：“现在你能告诉我关于这头奶牛有条坏腿你是怎么看的?”

“I didn’t find the bad leg,” says the young man. “Then why did you look at the cow carefully?” asks the old man.

“我没发现坏腿呀。”年轻男子说。“那你为什么仔细地看着这头牛?”老人问道。

Then young man answers, “Because I have never seen a cow, and I wanted to know what it looks like.”

年轻人回答道：“因为我从未见过奶牛，我只想知道它长得什么样。”

Number Twenty Now

现在排第二十名

Peter’s father wants to know how his son is getting along in school. One day he asks, “Peter, how are you getting along in school? What is your place in the class?” “Number twenty-one.” “And how many students are there in your class?” “Twenty-one, Father.”

彼得的父亲想要知道儿子在学校表现怎样。一天他问道：“彼得，你在学校表现怎样?在班级排多少名?”“第二十一名”。“那你们班有多少学生啊?”“二十一人，爸爸。”

Some weeks pass. One day Peter brings home his test paper.

几周过后。 一天彼得把他的试卷带回了家。

“What’s your place in the class now?”

“现在你排第几名?”

“Number twenty now.”

“现在排第二十名。”

“Good. Then you are one place ahead.”

“好啊，那么你前进了一名了。”

“No, Father. One of the students left the class. His familys gone to another town.”

“不，爸爸。我们有一位同学离开了班级。他家搬到另一镇上去了。”

在英语学习的初级阶段 ,根据第一语言习得的相关理论及儿童心理特征的研究 ,讲故事有助于激发儿童的语言学习兴趣 ,并能使其处于积极而活跃的最佳学习状态。我整理了适合教学的英语故事短文，欢迎阅读!

Kevin had just finished dessert. It was a piece of dark chocolate, washed down with a glass of cold milk. Delicious! He rinsed his mouth out with a glass of water, and then spit into the kitchen sink.

He sat down at the dining room table and grabbed some floss. He carefully flossed his top teeth and then his bottom teeth. Flossing was a chore. The floss almost always got stuck between two teeth in the upper back and two teeth in the lower front. Finally finished, he threw the frayed floss into the trash.

He went into the bathroom and grabbed his electric toothbrush. TV ads always show people putting toothpaste onto the entire length of the brush. Of course, that was to get them to use up the tube faster so they’d have to buy another tube sooner. Kevin put just a little toothpaste onto the brush. He brushed for about a minute.

He spent another 30 seconds brushing his tongue. Then he spit out all the toothpaste, and gargled and spit again.

Brushing and flossing are such a pain, he thought. If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they invent something easier and faster than toothpaste and dental floss?

Look at those damn shopping carts, Joe thought. Two of them were parked on his front lawn. Two more were parked behind his car in the driveway. His neighborhood had gone to hell. He lived half a mile from Foodco, a supermarket chain. Nobody should take a shopping cart half a mile from the supermarket. And no one with any respect for others should leave a shopping cart in a stranger's yard.

Shoppers should push the cart out to their car, and then leave it there. If they don't own a car, they should buy their own personal cart to transport their groceries home.

He called Foodco to tell them that four carts were on his property. They said they would be over as soon as they could. That meant about a week. Throughout his neighborhood, carts were scattered in various places, including the streets themselves. As if kids, pets, and potholes weren't enough, drivers now had to dodge shopping carts. Joe wondered how there could be any left in the supermarket. Foodco paid over $100 for each cart, so he thought they'd guard them better. Instead, they did nothing to secure the carts. They simply paid someone to drive around the neighborhood once or twice a week to pick up stranded carts.

Joe opened the yellow pages of his phone book. He was going to hire a contractor to build a fence around his lawn and a locking gate for his driveway. Enough was enough.

Tourists from around the world visit Hollywood. Buses take them past the Hollywood sign. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, they press their hands into the imprints of movie stars who long ago pressed their hands into wet cement. Tourists pause at the gold stars in the sidewalks with the movie stars' names on them.

Buses drive past movie stars' houses. Tourists hope to see a star chatting with friends or tanning by the pool. Unfortunately, most of the houses are behind high hedges or down long winding driveways; tourists are lucky to even see a chimney.

And finally, tourists take pictures everywhere and with everyone. A popular picture opportunity in Hollywood is with movie characters like Chewbacca from "Star Wars."

However, Chewbacca might not be so popular anymore. Last week, outside Grauman's, Chewbacca gave two young female tourists a hard time. He kept trying to hug them as they took pictures of each other. The tour bus driver yelled at Chewbacca to leave the ladies alone. Chewbacca took off his headpiece, walked over to the driver, and head-butted him. The driver fell to the sidewalk. Someone called 911, and the cops came and arrested Chewbacca.

Chewbacca was not apologetic. "Women come to America looking for Prince Charming, and here I am!" he shouted to all.

"I hope they leave him in jail," said a tourist, who saw the whole incident. "That guy's an idiot."