Book 2
Text 41
Mrs. Jones wanted a picture for her living-room. She took the bus and went to town. She looked for a picture shop, and after a few minutes she found one. There were some pictures in the window, but she did not like them very much.
She went into the shop and looked at some other pictures. She liked some of those more. There was a picture of a young girl, and Mrs. Jones liked it very much. She went to the shopkeeper and said, " How much do you want for this picture? "
The shopkeeper turned the picture round. He looked at the back of it and then said, “Thirteen pounds!"
" Thirty pounds? " Mrs. Jones said. “That's very expensive. I'm going to offer you twenty pounds for it. "
" I said, “Thirteen pounds”, not “Thirty pounds”, the man answered.
" Thirteen?” Mrs. Jones said. “Then I'm going to offer you nine pounds for it.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Mrs. Jones want?
2. What did she want this picture for?
3. Why did Mrs. Jones go to town?
4. How did she get to the town? = What transport did Mrs. Jones take?
5. How long did she look for picture shop?
6. Which picture did she like most?
7. What did she ask to the shopkeeper?
8. What did he say to Mrs. Jones?
9. What did she answer and ask then?
10. What did the shopkeeper answer then?
11. What did Mrs. Jones answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. cheap
2. front
3. less
4. little
5. a lot of
6. old
7. hate
8. asked
9. front
10. stood
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Mrs. Jones wanted a picture for dining-room.
2.Mrs. Jones went to the city.
3.Mrs. Jones wanted a picture.
4.Mrs. Jones took a car.
5.Mrs. Jones looked for picture shop long time.
6.Mrs. Jones spoke to the shopkeeper.
7.Shopkeeper was rude.
8.Shopkeeper did not know the price.
9.Mrs. Jones wanted to have a discount.
10.Shopkeeper sold the picture.
Text 42
Mary worked in an office in London, and she usually went out and had lunch in a restaurant. She liked foreign food and often looked in the newspaper for the names of new restaurants, because she enjoyed going to them and eating new things. Sometimes she said, 'I don't like this restaurant. I'm not going to come here again’; but often she said, 'I like this one. I'm going to have my lunch here often.'
One day she saw the name of a new Greek restaurant in her newspaper, and she went there for lunch. It was very small, but it was clean and nice, and the food was good.
But then Mary found something hard in her mouth. She took it out. It was a button.
"Look here, waiter!" she said. “I've found this button in my food."
" Thank you, thank you!' the waiter answered happily. " I looked everywhere for it.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mary work?
2. Where did she usually eat her lunch?
3. What food did Mary like?
4. Where did she go one day?
5. Where did Mary find the name of this restaurant?
6. What was Greek restaurant?
7. What did she find in her mouth?
8. What did she say then?
9. What did the waiter answer?
10. When did waiter lose his botton?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.old
2.big
3. dirty
4.ugly
5. bad
6. easy
7.angrily
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mary worked in a bank.
2. Mary had breakfast in the restaurant.
3. Mary liked her country food.
4. Mary liked eating new things.
5. Mary found the name of new restaurant in the book.
6. Mary went to French restaurant.
7. Greek restaurant was big and dirty.
8.Mary found a ring in her mouth.
9. Mary hid a ring in her handbag.
10. A waiter was happy to find his buttom.
D) Write this story. Put one word in each empty space.
This is Mary's brother. His ... is George. He lives in the ... of Chicago and works in a small Greek ... there. He is a ... . A lot of people come and have ... there, because the ... is
good. Look at that man. He is ... some meat and reading his ... . He comes to this restaurant, because he works in an quite near here.
Text 43
Peter was ten, and his sister Jane was eight. They lived in the country ten kilometres from Cardiff.
One day they saw a picture of a circus in the newspaper, and Jane said to her mother, " There's going to be a circus in Cardiff next week. Please take us there."
The children's mother bought tickets, and on Saturday evening Peter and Jane and their parents went to the circus.
The tent was full of people, and after a quarter of an hour, the circus began.
A beautiful young girl came in. She put a cake in her mouth, and then a big lion came and took the cake out of her mouth.
A man in a red coat shouted to the people, "Who's going to do the same for £100? "
Nobody answered. But then a funny man stood up and said, " All right... but first take the lion away! "
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did the family live?
2. Where did they see a picture of circus?
3. What did they buy?
4. Why did the family buy the tickets?
5. Where did the children and their parents go on Saturday evening?
6. Was the tent empty?
7. What did the beautiful girl do?
8. What did the lion do?
9. What did the man in a red coat say then?
10. And what did the funny man say?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. empty
2. sold
3. angry
4. gave
5. whisper
6. different
7. little
8. ugly
9. old
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jane was ten.
2. They lived in the city.
3. They lived in Cardiff.
4. The children's mother bought books.
5. They saw a picture of a circus in the newspaper.
6. The tent was empty.
7. The circus began in twenty minutes.
8. She put a cake in her mouth.
9. A man shouted at the people in a blue coat.
10. A happy man stood up and said, " All right... but first take the lion away! "
Text 44
Ann Grimes had a small car, and she drove a lot in town, because she went to work by car every morning and came home by car too, and she did her shopping with her car on Saturdays.
But she very seldom went out into the country in it, because she did not have much time.
Then one Sunday morning last August she said to herself, " It's a beautiful day, and it's hot in town. I'm going to drive out into the country and have a picnic in a quiet field there."
She drove twenty kilometres, and then she came to a small country road. She looked at it and said to herself, " This road's very steep, isn't it?" She stopped in front of a house and asked a man, " Is this road dangerous?"
" No," the man answered, “it isn't dangerous up here.
They always crash down at the bottom.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Ann have?
2. Where did she drive?
3. Why did not she have much time?
4. What did Ann say to herself one Sunday morning?
5. What did she decide?
6. How many kilimetres did Ann drive?
7. What did she come to after twenty kilometres ?
8. What did she say to herself there?
9. What did she ask a man?
10. What did he answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. big
2. evening
3. often
4. little
5. cold
6. up
7. top
8. back
9. ask
10. drive
11. loud
12. safe
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Ann had a bike.
2. She went to work by bus.
3. Ann did shopping on Saturday.
4. She often went out into the country.
5. Ann went out into the country on Sunday.
6. She drove fifty kilometres.
7. She came to highway.
8. Ann looked at handsome man.
9. She stopped in front of the house.
10. The road was safe.
Text 45
Paul Robinson liked fishing very much. In summer he went out fishing every evening, and in winter he fished on Saturdays and Sundays. His wife Joan did not see him very much.
Then one day last summer Paul said to her, " I'm going to have two weeks' holiday this year, and we're going to go to Scotland and fish there."
‘And what am I going to do?' said Joan.
'You're going to fish with me,' Paul answered.
They went to Scotland and fished there for two weeks. Then they came home, and Joan talked to her neighbour, Mrs. Andrews, about her fishing trip with her husband. 'I did everything wrong on the trip,' she said to her. 'I talked loudly in the boat and the fish were afraid. I put the
wrong things on my hook, I pulled my line in very quickly ... and I caught a lot more fish than Paul did.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Paul's hobby?
2. How often did he fish in summer?
3. How often did he fish in winter?
4.How often did Joan see her husband?
5. What did Paul say one day last summer?
6. Where did he and his wife go last August?
7. What did they do for two weeks?
8. What did Joan talk to after that?
9. What did Joan do wrong?
10. Was it interestening story for neighbo(u)r?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. morning
2. summer
3. quietly
4. right
5. few
6. slowly
7. let go
8. brave
9. push
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Paul loved shooting .
2. Paul hated fishing.
3. He fished with his wife every day in summer.
4. He fished every day in winter.
5. He was out of his house a lot.
6. He was with his wife most of the time.
7. He had two weeks' holidays alone.
8. He had two weeks' holidays in the mountains.
9. She caught very few fish, because she did everything wrong.
10. Paul's wife told everything to her brother.
Text 46
Mrs. Davis lived near the sea, in Yarmouth, and went to the same fish shop there for twenty-five years. She always bought beautiful, fresh fish from that shop, but then she and her husband went to London and lived there. She wrote to her friends, 'I'm not going to find nice, fresh fish in the London shops. They lie there for days and weeks.
There was a fish shop near her house, and she went and bought her fish there for two or three weeks, but she did not like them very much. Then last Wednesday, she went into the shop and looked at all the fish there.
‘These ones aren't fresh,' she said to the shopkeeper. 'Look at them!'
The shopkeeper came and looked. Then he said angrily, 'That's your fault, not mine. These same fish were here in this shop last Friday, but you didn't buy them then, did you?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mrs. Davis live?
2. Where did she buy fish?
3. How long did she buy fish in the same fish shop?
4. What fish did Mrs.Davis buy in the same fish shop?
5. Where did Mrs. Davis and her husband move then?
6. What did Mrs. Davis write to her friends?
7. Where did she buy her fish for two or three weeks?
8. What did she do last Wednesday?
9. What did she say to the shopkeeper?
10. What did he answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. far
2. different
3. never
4. old
5. ugly
6. calmly
7. next
8. sold
9. little
10. lose
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Davis lived near the river.
2. She went to the different fish shops in Yarmouth for twenty years .
3. She always bought beautiful, fresh fish from that shop.
4. Then Mrs. and her husband went to Paris and lived there.
5. She wrote to her friends.
6. There was a shoe shop near her house, and she went and bought her shoes there for two or three weeks.
7. Mrs. Davis liked fish shop in London.
8. She spoke to the shopkeeper last Wednesday.
9. The shopkeeper answered politely.
10. Mrs. Davis was satisfied.
Text 47
Helen was eight years old, and one day one of her teeth began hurting. She cried in her class at school, and her teacher said kindly, 'Why are you crying, Helen?'
'Because one of my teeth hurts,' answered Helen.
‘Speak to your mother about it,' said the teacher, ‘and then go and see the dentist.'
That afternoon Helen spoke to her mother about her tooth, and her mother took her to the dentist a few days later. The dentist looked at the tooth and then he said to Helen, 'It's very bad. I'm going to take it out, and then you're going to get a nice, new tooth next year.' He pulled the tooth out.
The next day Helen's teacher asked her about the tooth. She said to her, ‘Does it still hurt, Helen?'
'I don't know, Helen answered.
'Why don't you know?' the teacher said.
‘Because the dentist's got it,' Helen answered.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. How old was Helen?
2. What happened to Helen?
3. What did the teacher say?
4. What did Helen do?
5. Where did Helen's mother take her?
6. What did the dentist say and do to Helen?
7. What did her teacher ask the next day?
8. What did Helen answer?
9. What did the teacher ask then?
10. And what did Helen answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. bring
2. earlier
3. good
4. laughed
5. morning
6. nastily
7. old
8. stopped
9. ugly
10. give
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Helen was eighteen years old.
2. Helen's head began hurting one day.
3. She did not cry.
4. The teacher did not say anything about her toothache.
5. Helen spoke to her mother about her tooth.
6. Helen's mother took her to the barbershop.
7. The dentist said that Helen has perfect teeth.
8. The dentist pulled the tooth out.
9. Helen was angry after that.
10. The dentist took away her tooth .
Text 48
Mrs. Stephens lived in a small village, and she had five children. She always had a lot of work. The children went to different schools, and Mrs. Stephens took them there in the morning in her car. Then she bought food at the village shop, and then she went home and cleaned the house, washed the clothes and made cakes or other things.
In the afternoon she drove back to the children's schools and brought them home, and then she cooked their evening meal. Every evening she was very tired.
One morning she was in the village shop, and she saw a small notice there. It said, 'I do cleaning for $ 1.50 an hour. Telephone Miss Joan Brown, 7508.'
Mrs. Stephens looked around the shop. ' Nobody's looking, ' she said. That's good.”
Then she took her pen out of her bag and wrote under the notice, 'I do cleaning for nothing. Don't telephone me!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Did Mrs. Stephens live in a big city?
2. How many children did she have?
3. Why did Mrs. Stephens always have much work?
4. Where did she take her children every morning?
5. What did she do after taking children to different schools?
6. Where did Mrs. Stephens buy food?
7. What did she see in the village shop one morning?
8. What did the notice say?
9. What did Mrs. Stephens say?
10. And what did she write?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.big
2. same
3. gave
4. in the evening
5. sold
6.energetic
7. front
8. for a fee
9. died
10. seldom
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Stephens had a very easy work.
2. Mr. Stephens had seven children .
3. The children went to same school.
4. The children went to schools in the evening.
5. The children went to schools on foot .
6. Mrs. Stephens had a lot of energy in the evening.
7. The cleaner cleaned Mrs. Stephens's house.
8. Mrs. Stephens wanted a new telephone.
9. Mrs. Stephens got 20 dollars an hour for cleaning.
10. She brought her children home in the evening.
.
Text 49
In hot, sunny countries, a lot of people like eating their meals in the fresh air. During the day, they eat under trees or big umbrellas, because the sun is usually very strong, but in the evening they eat under the moon and the stars.
People do this a lot in Italy. The restaurants put tables in a gardens or in the streets, and most people eat there and not in the restaurants.
Renato was an Italian. He came to London and bought a restaurant there. Then he said, 'I'm going to put some of my tables in the street here too. But it rains a lot in England.
Mr. Jenkins went to Renato's restaurant one day, and in the evening he said to his wife, 'I had lunch at that new Italian restaurant today, and it rained all the time. Drinking my soup took twenty-five minutes.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where do people like eating in the fresh air?
2. Where did restaurants put tables : in a gardens or in the streets?
3. Who was Renato?
4. Where did Renato come ?
5. What did Renato buy?
6. What did Renato say?
7. What did Mr. Jenkins do one day?
8.What was the weather like?
9. What did Mr. Jenkins say to his wife?
10. Why did drinking his soup take a long time?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. cloudy
2. spoil
3. here
4. little ( few)
5. weak
6. come
7. morning
8. sold
9. cold
10. took
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.In hot, sunny countries, a lot of people like eating their meals in the
restaurants.
2.People do this a lot in Italy.
3. The restaurants remove tables in a garden or in the street
4. Renaldo sold his restorant in London .
5. Renato was an Ukrainian.
6. Mr. Jenkins went to Renaldo's restaurant.
7. The weather was sunny in England.
8. Mr. Jenkins spoke to his friend in the evening.
9. Mr. Jenkins had lunch at that old Italian restaurant
10. Drinking his soup took thirty-five minutes.
Text 50
Mac had a very old car. It was rusty and dirty, but its engine worked most of the time. One day he took his old car out of the garage and said to his wife, 'I'm going to drive to Bournemouth and do some shopping.
He came to a quiet road after a few kilometres, but then his car stopped. Mac got out, opened the bonnet of the car and looked at the engine, but he did not find anything wrong with it.
His head was under the bonnet for quite a long time. Then a young man ran to the car and began pulling one of the red lights off the back of it.
Mac put his head up, looked at the young man and shouted, 'What are you doing there?'
The young man answered, 'You can steal the pieces at the front. I'm going to take the ones at the back.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What did Mac have?
2. What was Mac's car?
3. What did Mac do оne day?
4.What did he say to his wife?
5. Where did he come after a few kilometers?
6. What did Mac's car do on a quiet road?
7. What did Mac do then?
8. What did a young man do?
9. What did Mac shout?
10. And what did the young man answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. new
2. clean
3. shut
4. short
5. back
6. gave
7. stood
8. asked
9. into
10. returm
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mac had a modern car.
2. Mac's car was always clean.
3. The engine worked perfectly.
4. Mac drove to Kiev one day.
5. He took his wife with him.
6. He wanted to drive his wife to the fancy restaurant.
7. The police stopped him because Mac drove very quickly.
8. Mac opened the bonnet.
9. Somebody wanted to help with Mac's car.
10. Mac fixed his car.
D). Put " a few " or " a little " in each empty space in these sentences.
1. Mac drove ... kilometres. Then his car stopped.
2. He had ... money in his pocket for a bus.
3. He waited for ... minutes. Then a bus came.
4. It was ... slower than his car, but he got to a garage.
5. The man in the garage said to him, 'Wait...!?
6. Then he drove him back to his car with ... things in a bag.
7. He did ... work on the car, and then the engine began running
8. Mac gave the man ... pounds and then drove on to Bournemouth.
.
Text 51
George was an American. He went to Britain last summer, and he visited some of his British friends there. Two of them were Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. They lived near Edinburgh, and George stayed in their house for a week and enjoyed it very much.
On his last evening with the Andrews, George said to them, ‘My aeroplane to New York leaves very early tomorrow morning. I'm going to get up at five o'clock and make my breakfast. Please don't come down.'
He said goodbye to his good friends that evening and came down to the kitchen in the morning and looked at the table. There was a photograph of Mrs. Andrews on it in front of her chair, and a photograph of Mr. Andrews in front of his chair.
George laughed happily and said, “That's very good. I'm not going to eat my breakfast alone this morning!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Was George Ukrainian?
2.Where did he go?
3. Why did he fly to Britаin?
4. Where did his friends live?
5.How long did George stay in his friends' house?
6. Why did not Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have breakfast with George on his last morning?
7. Why did he get up at five o'clock?
8. Who made the breakfast that day?
9. What did he find on the table in the kitchen?
10. What did he say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. next
2. up
3. morning
4. back
5. bad
6. together
7. hate
8. yesterday
9. go to bed
10. cry
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. George was a visitor to America.
2. George was a visitor to Britain.
3. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were his host and hostess.
4. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were his guests.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews drove him to the airport.
6. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews stayed at home, and George went to the airport.
7. There were photographs of George on the table in the kitchen.
8. There were photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews on the table in the kitchen.
9. George ate his breakfast with the photographs that morning
10. George ate his breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. Andrews that morning
Text 52
Mrs. Black had two coal fires in her house, and she always bought her coal from Mr. Matthews. He sold her good coal. There was never much dust in it.
But Mr. Matthews was old, and after a few years he stopped working in his coalyard, and his son Freddie began selling coal to Mrs. Black. He brought two sacks of coal to her house in his truck one day, and Mrs. Black said to him,
" Your father always sold me good coal. There was never much dust in the sacks. "
" I do that too, " young Mr. Matthews said.
A few months later he brought Mrs. Black another two sacks of coal and said to her, " Did you find any dust in the last sacks of coal? "
'No, I didn't find dust in the sacks of coal, answered Mrs. Black. 'I found some pieces of coal in the sacks of dust!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.How many coal fires did Mrs. Black have?
2. Where did Mrs. Black always buy coal?
3.Who was Mr. Matthews?
4. Why did Mr. Mattews stop working in coalyard?
5. Who started to bring coal to Mrs. Black?
6. What did Mrs. Black say to Freddie?
7. What did the young man answer?
8. What did he do a few months later?
9. What did he ask Mrs. Black?
10. What did she answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
2. seldom
3. bought
4. started
5. always
6. lose
7. next
8. finished
9. little (few)
10. buying
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Black bought gas from Mr. Matthews.
2. Mrs. Black had seven coal fires in her house.
3. Mr. Matthews was yound man.
4. Mr. Matthews worked at the plant.
5. He sold Mrs.Black bad coal.
6. Mr. Matthews stopped working in his coalyard because he caught a cold.
7. Mr. Matthews's son began selling coal to Mrs. Black.
8. Freddie brought good sacks of coal to her house in his truck .
9. Mrs. Black was happy about new Freddie's coal.
10.She found some pieces of coal in the sacks of dust.
Text 53
Mr. Gray went to work by train every day and he always walked from the station to his office. It was about one kilometre, and he never went by bus, because he enjoyed walking fast. It sometimes rained or snowed, but then Mr. Gray put his umbrella up, turned the collar of his coat up, and walked fast.
There was always a poor man at the side of a narrow street near Mr. Gray's office. He had one leg, and he sold matches in the street. A box of them cost 20p. Mr. Gray always smiled at the poor man and said, 'Good morning. Then he gave him 20p and did not take any of his matches, because he did not smoke.
One day Mr. Gray gave the poor man his 20p and began walking on, but the man shouted after him, “Sir, the matches cost 25p now!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mr. Gray go by train?
2. How did he get to his work?
3. Why did not he go by bus?
4. Whom did Mr. Gray always see in the street?
5. What did the man do?
6. How did the man look like?
7. What did Mr. Gray always say and do?
8. Did he take any matches?
9. Why?
10. What did the poor man shout after him one day?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. bought
2. give
3. never
4. night
5. rich
6. said very quietly
7. slowly
8. wide
9.hate
10. finish
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Gray went to work by car every day.
2. He always drove from the station to his office.
3. It was about ten kilometres from the station to his office.
4. He never went by bus, because he enjoyed walking fast.
5. A rich man was at the side of a wide street near Mr. Gray's office.
6. A man was selling sweets.
7. A box of matches cost forty-five dollars.
8. Mr. Gray shouted at the poor man.
9.Mr. Gray bought matches.
10. Mr. Gray smoked a lot.
Text 54
Neil was five years old, and he had no brothers or sisters. He lived with his parents in the country, and there were no neighbours near his house.
One Saturday Neil's Uncle Fred came and visited them. He had lunch with Neil and his parents, and then Neil's mother went into the kitchen and washed the dishes, and his father went out and washed the car.
‘Stay here and talk to Uncle Fred, ' Neil's father said to him.
'And show him your toys,' his mother said.
Neil showed his uncle his toys and they talked for half an hour in the living-room. Then Neil said to his uncle, I'm going to go out and play with God in the garden now!
His uncle was surprised. 'How do you play with God, Neil?' he asked him.
'It's easy,' Neil answered. 'I throw the ball up, and then God throws it back down to me.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. How old was Neil?
2. Where did Neil's family live?
3. Who had lunch with Neil and his parents one day?
4.Where did Neil's parents go after lunch?
5. What did Neil's parents say to Neil after luch?
6. What did Neil and his uncle do in the living-room?
7. How long did they talk?
8. What did Neil show to his uncle?
9. What did Neil say then?
10. What did uncle Fred ask Neil?
11. And what did Neil answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. went into
2. aunt
3. hide
4. quiet
5. hard
6. down
7. front
8. leave
9. there
10. work
11. catch
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Neil's parents had a brother and a sister.
2. Neil was not five years old.
3. Five people lived in the house.
4. Uncle came to visit Neil's family on Sunday.
5. Neil's parents and their uncle had lunch.
6. Neil's mother went to the cinema after lunch.
7. Neil's father went shopping after lunch.
8.Neil played with his friend in the living - room.
9. An uncle was surpried that Neil plays with God.
10. God threw the ball up.
D). Write this story. Put one word in each empty space. All the correct words are in the story.
Joan Brown is a small girl. Her ... are Mr. George Brown and his wife Dorothy. They live in a nice ... in the ... and their ... on both sides have children. Joan is going to ... with them this afternoon, but first she is washing up with her mother in their small ... . Joan has a lot of ..., but she likes playing ball with her friends in her ... the best of all. They ... it to each other and catch it.
Text 55
One evening they got into the car at the police station and drove around from eight o'clock to midnight. First the town was quite quiet, but then, at half past eleven, there were a few drunk people in the streets.
George stopped the car, and Jack went to them and said, 'Go home.
Then there was another drunk man. George said to Jack, ‘Look, Jack. That man's going round and round a tree, and he's knocking at it all the time.'
He stopped the car, and Jack got out and went to the man. 'Go home,' he said to him.
The drunk man stopped, looked at Jack for a few seconds and then answered, 'Don't be stupid! There's a wall right round me.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were George and Jack?
2. What did they sometimes do?
3. When did they get into the car ?
4. What did George and Jack do one evening?
5. Whom did they see in the streets at half past eleven ?
6. What did policemen do and say to a few drunk men at half past eleven?
7. what did policemen see than?
8. What did Jack say to another drunk man ?
9. What did the drunk man do before responding?
10. What did the drunk man answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. enemies
2. always
3. apart ( separate)
4. many
5. sober
6. midday
7. last
8. morning
9. loud ( noisy)
10. wrong
11. asked
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jack and George were enemies.
2. They were drivers
3. One morning they got into the car
4. There were no people in the streets.
5. Georgie stopped the car near drunk men at half past eleven.
6. Jack did not say anything to the drunk men.
7. Jack got out and went to the drunk man.
8. The drunk man did not stop.
9. The man’s answer was that there’s a wall right round him.
10. The policemen took him to the police station.
Text 56
Mr. and Mrs. Richards were young, and they loved dancing and loud music, but they did not have very much money. They lived in a small flat and had a small stereo. They listened to it every evening and all the time on Saturdays and Sundays.
Mr. and Mrs. Richards both worked hard in a shop, and after a year they had quite a lot of money. Then they went out and bought a big, new stereo. It played music much more loudly than the old one. Mr. and Mrs. Richards sometimes played music very loudly at night and danced in their living-room for hours.
Then one day Mrs. Richards met one of their neighbours on the stairs and said to her, “We've got a beautiful new stereo now. Come to our flat and listen to it this evening.
‘No,' the neighbour answered, come to our flat and listen to it there!
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Mr. and Mrs. Richards?
2. Where did they live?
3. What did they do at the weekends?
4. Where did they work?
5. How did Mr. and Mrs. Richards get quite a lot of money?
6. What did they buy?
7. What stereo did they buy?
8. Who did Mrs. Richards meet on the stairs?
9. What did she say to her?
10. And what did the neighbour answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. quiet
3. little
4. big
5. morning
6. easy
7. day
8. asked
9. ugly
10. leave
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. and Mrs. Richards were old
2. Mr. and Mrs. Richards loved reading books.
3. Mr. and Mrs. Richards earned a lot of money.
4. They lived in a big private house.
5. They had a very big and new stereo at the beginning of the story.
6. Mr. and Mrs. Richardsworked hard at the market.
7. Then they bought a big, new stereo.
8. Mr. and Mrs. Richards sometimes listened quite music in the morning
9. Then one day Mrs. Richards met one of their neighbours on the stairs.
10. Mrs. Richards and a neighbour quarreled.
Text 57
George never liked work very much. At school he was always at the bottom of his class. Then he went and worked in an office, but he did not do much work there.
There were big windows in the office, and there was a street below them. There were always a lot of people and cars and buses in the street, and George liked sitting at his desk and looking at them.
George had a friend. His name was Peter, and he worked in the same office, but he was very different from George. He worked very hard.
Last Tuesday George stood at one of the windows of the office for a long time. Then he said to his friend Peter, “There's a very lazy man in the street. He began digging a hole this morning, but he hasn't done any work for half an hour. "
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was George?
2. Where did George work ?
3. Who was Peter ?
4.Where did Peter work ?
5. How was Peter different from George ?
6. What did George like to do in the office ?
7.What did George see through the window ?
8. What did George say to Peter last Tuesday?
9. What did the "lazy"man do in the street ?
10. Who was the lazy person?
11. Why was he lazy?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. always
2. play
3. top
4. less
5. small
6. few
7. hated
8. easy
9. same
10. sat
11. hard - working
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. George was a hard-working man.
2. George always worked very hard.
3. George cleaned the windows in an office.
4. George worked at a desk in an office.
5. George watched the cartoons from his office window.
6. George went to the other side of the street and looked at the people and cars from there.
7. Peter worked in the street in front of the office.
8. Peter and George worked in the same office.
9. The man in the street was as lazy as Peter.
10. The man in the street was as lazy as George.
Text 58
Tim Jackson was a rich young man. He liked girls very much and often went out to dinner with them.
He usually went to the same restaurant, but the waiters there did not like him very much, because he did not give them good tips, and because he always asked them difficult questions and then gave them the answers. Then the girls laughed and said, 'You are clever, Tim!' and Tim was happy.
One day he took a beautiful girl to the restaurant. Her name was Susan. Tim said to her, “What are you going to eat, Susan? "
She looked at everything and then said, “ Those fish look good, don't they? "
Tim looked at them and said, 'Yes, they do. I know a lot about fish.' Then he turned to the waiter and said, 'Waiter, these fish are French, aren't they?'
'I don't know, answered the waiter. “They haven't spoken to me.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Tim Jackson?
2. What did Tim Jackson like?
3. Where did he usually go?
4. Why did not waiters like him?
5. What did girls say to Tim?
6. What happened one day?
7. What did Tim ask Susan in the restaurant?
8. What did Susan say to Tim?
9. And what did he answer?
10. What did he say to the waiter?
11. And what did the waiter answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. poor
2. old
3. into
4. little( few)
5. seldom
6. answers
7. took
8. stupid
9. ugly
10. bad
11. hated
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Tim Jackson was a manager in a big company
2. He hated girls.
3. He often invited girls to the theatre.
4. Tim liked to go to the different restaurants.
5. The waiters loved Tim
6. Tim gave a lot of tips to the waiters.
7. The waiters liked to speak with Tim.
8. Tim invited Katya to the restaurant one day.
9. The girl wanted to order fish.
10. The fish spoke in French.
Text 59
It was a very hot day in the middle of summer, and there were no trees along the street. Mr. Brown closed his shop at half past five, went out into the street and began walking to his bus. He was very fat. The sun shone straight down the street, and in a few minutes Mr. Brown was very hot.
A small boy came out of another shop in the street and followed Mr. Brown. He stayed very near him all the time, and he kicked the heels of Mr. Brown's shoes several times. Mr. Brown looked at him angrily each time.
After the third time, Mr. Brown stopped, turned round and said to the small boy, 'What are you doing? Stop following me like that! You're going to hurt my heels.
‘Please don't stop me! the small boy said. “It's very hot today, and there isn't any shade anywhere else in the street!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What was the weather like?
2.Why did not the street have the shade?
3. What did Mr. Brown do ?
4. What time did he close his shop?
5. What man was Mr. Brown?
6. Why was Mr. Brown very hot in the street?
7. Who came out of another shop?
8. What did the boy do?
9. What did Mr. Brown say after the third time?
10. What did the boy answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. cold
2. far from
3. big
4. thin
5. much
6. winter
7. into
8. finished
9.happily
10. go
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. The weather was cold and windy in the middle of winter.
2. The steet had a lot of trees.
3. Mr. Brown opened his garage at half past six.
4. He was a very thin and tall man.
5. Mr. Brown was very hot in a few minutes.
6. A small girl came out of another shop.
7. The boy followed Mr. Brown.
8. Mr. Brown and a boy went to the cinema together.
9. The boy told many jokes to Mr. Brown
10. The boy was very polite.
Text 60
Harry has always loved aeroplanes. When he was younger, he said, I'm going to go into the 'Air Force', but his eyes were not very good, and he did not get in.
Then he said, I'm going to buy a small aeroplane, and I'm going to have flying lessons, but small aeroplanes and flying lessons are very expensive, and Harry did not have much money.
But last year Harry found a new skydiver's club near his home. The lessons did not cost very much, and Harry began going to the club every Saturday and Sunday and having lessons. Now he is a good skydiver.
Last week an old lady said to him, 'You're a very brave young man. How do you jump out of an aeroplane like that?'
I'm not brave,' Harry said and he smiled. 'I'm in the aeroplane, and I say to myself, “It's going to crash in a few seconds!” Then I'm very afraid, and I jump out quickly.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What did Harry love?
2. Where did he want to get in when he was young?
3. What was the matter with his eyes?
4. What did he say to himself then?
5. What did Harry find last year?
6. What did Harry do at the club?
7. What is he now?
8. What did a woman ask him last week?
9. What does Harry always say to himself in an aeroplane?
10. What does he do then? Why?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. next
2. never
3. older
4. bad
5. sell
6. cheap
7. little(...)
8. lost
9. finished
10. coward
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Harry loved shooting bears.
2. He said to himself that he is going to go the best University when he was younger.
3. His eyes were in good condition.
4. Harry wanted to get extra lessons in English.
5. He wanted to buy a black car.
6. He had high-paid work so he had a lot of money.
7. Harry found a new skydiver's club near his home
8. He went to this club from Monday to Friday.
9. The young lady said to Harry that he is coward.
10. Harry was brave.
D) Write this story. Put one word in each empty space. All the correct words are in the story .
When David was a boy, his hobby was making model ... . He was not rich, but making them was not very ... . He enjoyed his models in a field near his house. They went up into the sky like big aeroplanes, and sometimes they fell and hit the ground with a big . . . . When he was older, he found a flying ... near his home, and he had some ... ... there. Sometimes the wind threw the small aeroplane around, but he was never ... because he was a ... young man. Once he nearly crashed, and his teacher said, '...!', but he did not, and the aeroplane came down quite well.
Text 61
Jill was four years old. She was a clever child, but she was not very pretty. She went to school every day, and she loved her lessons. She was always at the top of her class, and she learnt to read and write very quickly..
One day her mother said to her, 'Aunt Kathy and Aunt Judy are going to visit us tomorrow. They live in Canada, and you haven't met them, because they very seldom come to England. They're going to have lunch with us.
The aunts arrived at twelve o'clock the next day, and Jill's mother gave them some coffee. Then she said, 'I'm going to make lunch now, and went into the kitchen. Jill stayed in the living-room with her aunts.
Aunt Kathy looked at Jill and then said to Aunt Judy quietly, 'She isn't very p-r-e-t-t-y, is she?'
‘No,' said Jill quickly, “but I'm very c-l-e-v-e-r.?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1 How old was Jill?
2. What was Jill?
3. Where did she go?
4.What did she love?
5. What did Jill's mother say to her one day?
6. Where did her aunts live?
7. When did the aunts arrive?
8.Why did not Jill know her aunts?
9. What did Jill's mother give them?
10. What did Aunt Kathy say about Jill?
11. And what did Jill answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.stupid(silly)
2. bоttom
3. hated
4. slowly
5. yesterday
6. ugly
7. asked
8. never
9. die
10.last
11. left ( verb)
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jill was twenty years old.
2. Jill was an ugly girl.
3. she was the worst girl at her school.
4. It took long time for Jill to learn to read and write.
5. Jill's uncles came to visit their niece.
6. Jill was always happy to see her aunts.
7. Her aunts lived in Japan.
8. Her aunts came to England
9. Jill stayed in the garden with her aunts
10. the aunts were very polite.
Text 62
Mrs. Grace was forty. One day she said to her husband, 'I weighed myself this morning. I weigh seventy kilos.'
'Is that bad?' aked Mr. Grace.
‘Yes, it is.' Mrs. Grace said. 'It's very bad. Each week I'm heavier now. I'm going to eat less, and I'm going to have a walk every day .
The next morning she put her coat on and began walking, but during her walk it rained, and the rain went through her coat.
That evening she said to her husband, 'I want a good coat for my walks. I'm going to go to the shops tomorrow, and I'm going to buy one.'
The next morning she went into a shop and looked at some coats with the salesgirl. She liked a seal coat very much.
‘This seal coat's nice, ' she said to the salesgirl, “but does the rain come through it?'
The salesgirl smiled and answered, 'Have you ever seen a seal with an umbrella?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. How old was Mrs. Grace?
2. What did Mrs. Grace say to her husband one day?
3.What did her husband ask?
4. What happened with her weight?
5. Why did she get more weight?
6. What did the rain do during Mrs. Grace's first walk?
7. What did she say to her husband that evening?
8. What did she do the next morning?
9. What did she say to the salesgirl?
10. What did the salesgirl answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.lighter
2. took off
3. sell
4. ugly
5. cried
6. asked
7. yesterday
8. finished
9. more
10. last
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Grace was a beautiful, young lady
2. Her weight was near 100 kilograms.
3. Mrs. Grace ate more and more food.
4. She put on a nice hat the next morning.
5. She went for a walk.
6. The rain went through her coat.
7. Mrs.Grace drove herself to the shop.
8. She was looking for hats.
9. The shopkeeper was rude.
10. Mrs. Grace bought seal coat.
D). Write this story. Put one of these words in each empty space:
angry, clothes, club, dance, fat, put, said, sizes, thin, went
Why do some girls not eat much? Because they like being ... and not ... . Last autumn, Mrs. Grace's daughter ate a lot, and then she took some of her ... out of her cupboard and said, 'I'm going to ... this dress on now, but it did not go over her head. Then she was ... and ... , 'I'm going to go to a ... at the young people's ... tonight, and I haven't got a dress! Then she ... to a shop. They had dresses of lots of different ... . She bought one and then she said, I'm not going to eat anything for a week - after the dance!'
Text 63
Ted worked in a factory, but he was not very good, and he lost his job one day. His wife looked in the newspaper and said, 'One of the banks wants a guard.
'I'm going to go there tomorrow, Ted said, “and I'm going to ask for that job. It's quite an easy one, and I'm quite strong.'
The next morning he went to the bank at half past nine and said, 'I want that job here. The guard's job.?
A man gave him a piece of paper. There were a lot of questions on it. 'Write your answers under the questions, the man said to Ted.
One of the questions was, 'Have you ever been in prison?'
Ted smiled happily and wrote 'No' under this question.
Then he looked at the next question. It was 'Why?'
He thought for a long time and then he wrote, “Because the police have never caught me."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Where did Ted work?
2. Why did he lose his job?
3.What did Ted's wife do?
4. What did his wife say?
5. Where did Ted go the next morning?
6. What did the man at the bank do, and what did he say to Ted?
7. What was one of the questions on the piece of paper?
8. What did Ted answer?
9. What was the next question?
10. And what was Ted's answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. played
2. found
3. yesterday
4. answer
5. weak
6. took
7. above
8. cried
9. angrily
10. last
11.always
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Ted worked very well in the factory.
2. The manager was satisfied with Ted's work.
3. Ted lost his job, and then he went to another factory and asked for work.
4. He went to the bank at 8 o'clock in the morning.
5. He found work easily.
6. He wanted a bank clerk's job.
7. The man gave to Ted a test.
8. Ted was in prison once.
9. The police caught him.
10. Ted was a clever person.
Text 64
Ken was fifty, and his wife Liz was forty-eight. They had a old car.
'I'm going to sell this car,' Ken said to Liz last month, but nobody wanted it, because it was old and did not run well.
Last Friday, Ken said to Liz, “I've got some work in Boxbury. Come with me and do your shopping there.?
Liz was very happy, because her husband very seldom took her out, and she usually shopped in their small village.
Ken drove their old car to the River Dee. There was a ferry there, and cars and trucks crossed on it to the other side. It was the shortest way to Boxbury.
The ferryman came to Ken and said, 'A pound for the car and twenty-five pence for the passenger.'
Ken answered, 'Take the car for a pound, but I'm not going to sell my wife for less than fifty pence.?
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Ken and Liz?
2. What did they have?
3. What did Ken want to do with his car?
4. Did he sell his car and why?
5. What did Ken say to his wife last Friday?
6. Why was she happy then?
7. Where did Ken drive first?
8. What did the ferryman say to him?
9. And what did Ken answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. young
2. buy
3. next
4. play
5. sadly
6. often
7. new
8. longest
9. asked
10. more
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Ken was sixty years old.
2. His wife was fifty year old
3. They had a beautiful young daughter
4. Mr. Kent wanted to buy a new car.
5. He had a lot of many buyers who wanted to buy his car.
6. Mr. Kent and his wife went to theatre.
7. Mr. Kent often drove his wife out.
8. They drove to the port.
9. It was the shortest way.
10. Mr. Kent wanted to sell his wife.
Text 65
Mr. Brown had a beautiful shop. He sold sweets, and a lot of children came and bought them after school, but some of them looked into the window of the shop first, and put their fingers on the glass, and Mr. Brown did not like dirty windows.
Then last week he made a big notice. On it he wrote, 'Children! Do not put your fingers on this glass! It is dangerous!' And then he put it up in the window of his shop.
The shop on Mr. Brown's left was a shoe shop, and his friend, Tom Jones, worked there. Tom saw the notice and was surprised. He went into Mr. Brown's shop and said to him, 'Why is the glass in your shop window dangerous, Alf? What does it do to the children?'
Mr. Brown smiled. “The glass doesn't do anything to the children, Tom,' was his answer, 'but I give them a hard smack.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What did Mr. Brown have?
2. What did Mr. Brown sell in his shop?
3. Who bought sweets in Mr. Brown's shop?
4. What did some of the children do?
5.What sis Mr. Brown do?
6. What did Mr. Brown write on his notice?
7. What did Tom ask Mr. Brown?
8. And what did Mr. Brown answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. ugly
2. bought
3. little (few)
4. out
5. clean
6. next
7. take
8. safe
9. down
10. cried
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
2. He sold different cars.
3. The adults bought sweets in Mr.Brown shop.
4. All children liked to touch window's shop.
5. They touched window with their foreheads.
6. Mr. Brown shouted at children.
7. He wrote the notice.
8. The shop on Mr. Brown's left was a book shop.
9. Volodymyr worked in shoe shop.
10. The window glass hurt childtren.
Text 66
Dick Leonard was the captain of a small ship, the 'London Flower'. Sometimes it took engines from one port to another, sometimes it took furniture, and sometimes it took other things. But sometimes there was no work for it, and the ship was empty. Then Captain Leonard was not happy, because he loved being busy, and he loved going from one port to another all the time.
But the other men on the ship were lazy. They did not like work much. They liked sitting and doing nothing.
One day Captain Leonard did not see two of them for a long time. He looked for them. He opened a door and shouted down some stairs, 'Who's there?'
'William, Captain,' was the answer.
'What are you doing there, William?" the captain asked.
‘Nothing, Captain,' William answered.
'Is Tom there?' the captain shouted then.
'Yes, he is,' was the answer.
'What's he doing?' the captain asked.
'He's helping me, Captain,' William answered.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who was Dick Leonard?
2. What was "London Flower"?
3. What was Dick's work?
4. What crew did Dick have?
5.What did they like to do?
6. What were the first question and answer?
7. What were the second question and answer?
8. What were the third question and answer?
9. What was Captain Leonard's last question?
10. And what was William's answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1)huge
2) play
3) hated
4) full
5) short
6) shut
7) whisper
8) ask
9) up
10) little ( few)
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1) Dick Leonard hated being a captain.
2) Dick's ship's name was 'Beautiful Flower'
3) Dick's ship took cars from one port to another.
4) Dick's ship always had work.
5) Dick's crew had hard-working people.
6) The men on the ship liked fishing
7) Dick was looking for two men one day.
8)
9)
10) The captain found all crew members.
D. Write this story. Put one word in each empty space.
Dick Leonard's friend Joe is a ... too. His ... is the ‘Bright on Flower'. It is not doing any voyages now, because its ... have broken. It is in a small ... in the south of England. Joe enjoys doing nothing, because he is a ... man. He does not like hard ... much. Some men are working on the ship's engines, and they are always very ... . They are running up and down the ... now, but Joe is not ... them. He is looking at his glass. It is ..., and he is saying, 'I'm going to get another drink now.
Text 67
Mr. Hughes lived twenty kilometres from London, and his office was in the City. He went to work by train and bus at 8.00 in the morning and got home at 7.30 in the evening.
It rains rather a lot in England, and Mr. Hughes usually took an umbrella with him to London, but he often lost umbrellas. He lost them in buses, in trains and in shops. His wife often said to him, “Umbrellas are expensive, David, and you buy one every week. Bring this one home this evening!"
One evening Mr. Hughes saw an umbrella in his train. “Today I'm not going to lose my umbrella,' he said happily, and he took the umbrella, got out of the train at his station and brought the umbrella home.
His wife saw it and began laughing. 'But, David,' she said, 'you didn't take an umbrella with you this morning. That one isn't yours!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Where did Mr. Hughes live ?
2.Where did he work?
3.How did he get to his work?
4. How many hours a day did Mr. Hughs work?
5. How often does it rain in England?
6. What did Mr. Hughes often do with umbrellas?
7. What did his wife say?
8. What did he see in his train one evening?
9. What did he say and do?
10. What did his wife say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.died
2. play
3. little( few)
4.seldom
5. cheap
6. sell
7. carry away
8. find
9. crying
10. finished
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
2. He worked at home.
3. Mr. Hughes went to work by car.
4. He worked more than 15 hours a day.
5. London has shortage of rain.
6. Mr. Hughes took an umbrellas with him.
7. He brought extra umbrellas every rainy day.
8. The police caught him because he stole umbrellas.
9. When Mr. Hughes brought an ambrella home , his wife was happy.
10. Mr. Hughes liked to be in the prison.
Text 68
Edward was at school. He was sixteen, and he lived with his mother and father near London. Then he left school and worked in a factory for a year, and then in August he said to his parents, ‘I'm going to have a nice holiday in the country now, and I'm going to go there alone.'
He did not have much money, but he found the name of a small, cheap hotel, and he went there by train and bus. His room in the hotel was very small, but it was clean, and Edward was happy, because he was alone.
The first evening, he went down to the dining-room of the hotel at dinner time and sat down at a small table. The young waitress brought him a plate, and Edward looked at it. Then he said to the girl, 'Waitress, this plate's wet!'
‘That's your soup,' the girl answered.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Edward?
2.Where did he work?
3. Did Edward get much money?
4.What did he want to do during his holidays?
5. Did he want to have a holiday with his girl-friend?
6. Why did Edward go to a cheap hotel?
7. Where did he have dinner the first evening?
8. What did the young waitress bring him?
9. What did he say to her?
10. And what did she answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. far
2. expensive
3. huge
4. dirty
5. little (few)
6. sad7. together
8. stood
9. up
10. lost
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Edward was a student at the University.
2. He lived with his girl-friend in Madrid.
3. Edward worked in the plant for several years.
4. He wanted to have a vacation with girl-friend.
5. He earned a lot of money.
6. Edward chose the most expensive hotel.
7. He went to to the hotel by plane.
8. He was tired of his parents.
9. Edward went to the living room the first evevning
10. The plate was dry.
Text 69
Jack was five years old. His small friends had cats and dogs in their houses, but Jack's parents did not have any animals.
Then one day Jack said to his mother, 'I want a cat, Mummy.'
His mother did not say 'Yes' or 'No'. First, she wanted to talk to her husband.
That evening she said to her husband, Joe, all Jack's friends have got dogs or cats, and we have no animals. Now Jack wants one.
'A cat's easier than a dog, Helen,' her husband answered.
‘Our neighbours' cat's going to have kittens, Helen said.
‘They aren't going to want them all.”
'Good,' answered Joe. 'Ask them for one.'
A few days later, the neighbour's cat had four kittens, and after a few weeks, the neighbours gave one to Jack's mother.
But then Jack pulled the kitten's tail, and his mother said to him, ‘Don't pull the kitten's tail, Jack!
Jack answered, 'I'm not pulling it, Mummy. I'm holding it, and the kitten's pulling.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Jack?
2.What did Jack's friends have?
3.What did not Jack have?
4.What did Jack want to have?
5. What did Jack say to his mother one day?
6. What did mother answer?
7. Where did Jack's kitten come from?
8. What did Jack do to the kitten?
9. What did his mother say to him then?
10. And what did he answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. new
2. morning
3. harder.
4. asked
5. many
6.push
7. took
8. dropping
9. before
10.enemies
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Jack was 7 years old.
2. Jack's small friends did not have any cats or dogs in their houses.
3. Jack had some animals.
4. Jack wanted a snake.
5. Jack wanted a dog.
6. Jack's father said, 'Dogs are easier than cats.?
7.Jack's father said that he can buy kittens in the shop.
8. A neighbour's cat brought Jack one of her kittens.
9. The father prohibited to take kittens in their house.
10. Some neighbours gave Jack four kittens.
11. The kitten pulled its tail.
Text 70
Joe Smith sold his house and bought a new one. He put all his furniture in a truck and drove to the new house. There he drove the truck into the garage and took the furniture out. Then the truck was empty, and Joe looked at it.
‘The truck's higher now, because it's empty, he said to himself. “It isn't going to get out of the garage again. He began driving it out very slowly, but it hit the top of the door.
Joe said, 'What am I going to do now?' But then he went to all his new neighbours and said, 'Please come and sit in my truck.'
They were surprised, but they went and sat in the truck. It was heavy now, and Joe drove it out of the garage easily.
The neighbours were happy, and Joe was happy too. 'Now all of us are friends!' he said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Did Joe move to city?
2. What did he do with old furniture?
3.How did he move old furniture?
4. Did Joe buy a flat?
5. Did Joe have the new neighbours ?
6. Why did the truck hit the top of the door?
7. What did Joe say to his neighbours then?
8. And what did they do?
9. Why did the truck not hit the top of the door now?
10. What did Joe say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. bought
2. took
3. out
4. old
5. full
6. lower
7. quickly
8. bottom
9. stood
10. sad
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Joe bought an appartment.
2. He sold old furniture.
3 . He moved his furniture by minivan.
4. Joe drove his truck to the street.
5. He took all his furniture out of the truck.
6. He drove out of the garage easily.
7. Joe destroyed his garade gate.
8. He called to special service which helped him to get his car out of the garage.
9. He called his neighbours.
10. The neighbours did not help him.