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The Three Sons
Three sons left home,
went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the
gifts they were able to give their elderly Mother.
The first said,
"I built a big house for our Mother." The second said, "I sent
her a Mercedes with a driver." The third smiled and said, "I've got
you both beat. You remember how Mom enjoyed reading the Bible? And you know she
can't see very well any more. I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the
entire Bible. It took Elders in the church 12 years to teach him. He's one of a
kind. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites
it."
Soon thereafter, Mom
sent out her letters of thanks: "Milton," she wrote one son,
"the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to
clean the whole house."
"Gerald,"
she wrote to another, "I am too old to travel any more. My eyesight isn't
what it used to be. I stay most of the time at home, so I rarely use the
Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"
"Dearest
Donald," she wrote to her third son, "you have the good sense to know
what your Mother likes. The chicken was delicious!"
Vocabulary
- able
- capaz
- build
(build, built, built) - construir
- chicken
- galinha
- church
- igreja
- clean
- limpar
- driver
- motorista
- elderly
mother - mãe idosa
- Elders
- membros mais idosos, antigos
- eyesight
- visão
- gift
- presente
- good
sense - bom senso
- go
out on their own - sairam para a vida por conta própria
- huge
- enorme
- leave
(leave, left, left) - partir
- letter
- carta
- most
of the time - maior parte do tempo
- parrot
- papagaio
- read
- ler
- remarkable
- maravilhoso, fantástico
- remember
- lembrar
- send
(send, sent, sent) - enviar
- son
- filho
- soon
thereafter - logo em seguida
- stay
- ficar
- teach
(teach, taught, taught) - ensinar
- too
old - muito velha
- travel
- viajar
- used
to be - costumava ser
- whole
house - casa inteira
- write
(write, wrote, written) - escrever
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