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Learn English With Jokes • The Three-Legged Chicken

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A man was driving at eighty kilometres an hour when he was overtaken by a chicken.

He and passed the chicken again. But three minutes later, the chicken overtook him while he was driving at one hundred kilometres an hour!

The man tried to catch the chicken, but it ran down a . He followed it into a , but couldn’t find it anywhere.

He saw the farmer and told him the story. Then he asked for an .

The farmer said, “Well, my wife, my son, and I all enjoy eating chicken legs, so I chickens with three legs.”

“What do they taste like?” asked the man.

“I don’t know,” replied the farmer. “We haven’t caught one yet.”

Key Vocabulary

Three-legged

HAVING THREE LEGS

Accelerated

STARTED MOVING FASTER

Side road

SMALL ROAD NEXT TO A MAIN ROAD

Farmyard

OPEN AREA AROUND A FARMHOUSE

Grammar Notes

Past simple

USED FOR COMPLETED ACTIONS IN THE PAST

Reported speech

USED WHEN TELLING WHAT SOMEONE SAID

Synonyms & Alternatives

Overtook

PASSED

Explanation

REASON

Mini Dialogue

“Did you see the neighbour’s new tractor?” asked Clara.

“Yes,” replied Martin. “I accelerated when it started moving towards the lane.”

“And what happened then?”

“It took a side road, and I never caught up with it.”

ESL JOKES