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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of the sentences is 3, 2, 1.

An old hunter talked to the younger ones.

"After an elephant drinks water, the bullets cannot enter him."

So the hunters took their rifles, and the killed the elephant on the road.

The right order of the sentences is 5, 4, 6.

They cut up the meat and took it to their hut.

The men feasted on the elephant meat. It tasted good.

"The elephant was big, but he was foolish."

The right order of the sentences is 9, 8, 7.

"Did you hear that noise, my brothers?" he said.

The strange noise came again. Now all the men could hear it.

Then the elephant's skull spoke. "Are you laughing at me?" it said.

B. But…

1. 1/c. "The elephant was big, but he was foolish."
2. 2/a. "You took away my eyes, and I am blind, but one day I will eat you."
3. 3/b. "It is dead, but it speaks to us."

C. Missing words

The hunters prepared the elephant meat for cooking. Fill in the missing words.

1. Then they sliced the meat and hung it on ropes to dry.
2. They cut all the meat from the elephant's head.
3. The hunters hung the dry skull on the wall of their hut.

D. The elephant's song

The elephant does not sing, "I will eat you tomorrow."

He sings, "But one day I will eat you."