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Q: What looks like an elephant and flies?
A: A flying elephant.

Q: How can you tell the difference between a grape and an elephant?
A: Grapes are purple.

Q: What's the difference between an elephant and grass?
A: They're both green, except the elephant.

Q: How can you tell the difference between a grape and an elephant if you're color blind?
A: Dance on it for awhile. If you don't get any wine, it's an elephant.

Q: What did Hannibal say when he saw elephants coming over the hill?
A: ``Look, there's elephants coming over the hill.''

Q: What did he say when he saw elephants with sunglasses on, coming over the hill?
A: Nothing, he didn't recognize them.

Q: What did Hannibal say when he saw giraffes with sunglasses on coming over the hill?
A: ``Haha! You fooled me once with those disguises, but not this time!''

Vocabulary Help

  • look like: parecer
  • fly: voar (também pode significar mosca)
  • grapes: uvas
  • purple: vermelha, roxo
  • grass: grama
  • both: ambos
  • color blind: daltônico
  • awhile: por um certo tempo
  • saw (see, saw, seen): ver
  • hill: colina
  • sunglasses: óculos de sol
  • fool: enganar
  • disguise: disfarce


Mais histórias como esta podem ser encontradas no livro Read in English: Uma Maneira Divertida de Aprender Inglês, publicado pela Editora Novatec,


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