Week 3 Challenge 🇺🇸 · Fluent and Free by Mackenzie

Week 3 Challenge 🇺🇸

😂 Can You Explain the Joke?

Look at the picture and read the note carefully. At first, it looks like the little girl is saying she wants to grow up to be an exotic dancer… but that’s not what’s happening! 😅

The joke is based on a misunderstanding.

The mom actually works at Home Depot, a huge American home improvement store where people buy tools, paint, lumber, appliances, gardening supplies, and construction materials.

Before a blizzard (nevasca), everyone rushed to buy snow shovels. The mom was simply selling the last shovel (pá para neve) in the store. Because of the way the child drew the picture, it accidentally looks like she’s dancing around a pole with people throwing money at her. 🤣

Vocabulary Focus

Hectic = muito corrido; caótico; agitado

Blizzard = nevasca

Depict(ed) = retratar; representar

Shovel = pá (neste contexto, pá para neve)

🎙️ Your Challenge

Read the entire note.

Listen to my audio and pay close attention to my pronunciation.

Record yourself reading the note out loud.

Don’t worry about sounding perfect; your goal is simply to improve your pronunciation a little every time.

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Week 3 Challenge 🇺🇸