Book 3
Text 71
Mr Jones had a few days' holiday, so he said, " I'm going to go to the mountains by train." He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the station and got into the train. He had a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the mountains. But the wind pulled his hat off.
Mr. Jones quickly took his old bag and threw that out of the window too.
The other people in the carriage laughed. "Is your bag going to bring your beautiful hat back?" they asked.
"No," Mr. Jones answered, but there's no name and no address in my hat, and there's a name and an address on the bag. Someone's going to find both of them near each other, and he's going to send me the bag and the hat."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Where did Mr. Jones go for his holiday?2.How did he go there?3.What did he often do during the trip?4.What did the wind do then?5.What did Mr. Jones do?6. What did other people in the carriage do then?7. What did they say?8. And what did Mr. Jones answer?9. What did Mr. Jones take with him to the carriage?10. What did Mr. Jones think when he threw his bag deliberately?
1.Where did Mr. Jones go for his holiday?
2.How did he go there?
3.What did he often do during the trip?
4.What did the wind do then?
5.What did Mr. Jones do?
6. What did other people in the carriage do then?
7. What did they say?
8. And what did Mr. Jones answer?
9. What did Mr. Jones take with him to the carriage?
10. What did Mr. Jones think when he threw his bag deliberately?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. took off
2. out
3. push
4. slowly
5. cried
6. asked
7. lose
8. front
9. ugly
10. many
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Jones had a day's holiday.
2. Mr. Jones went to the mountains by car.
3. He put on his sport suit.
4. He talked a lot with people.
5. Mr. Jones threw his hat out of the window.
6. There was only a name on the bag.
7. The people in the carriage shouted at Mr. Jones.
8. The neighbour threw Mr. Jones's bag out of the window.
9. The neighbour and Mr. Jones had a fight.
10. Someone sent Mr. Jones the hat and the bag.
Text 72
An old lady went out shopping last Tuesday. She came to a bank and saw a car near the door. A man got out of it and went into the bank. She looked into the car. The keys were in the lock.
The old lady took the keys and followed the man into the bank.
The man took a gun out of his pocket and said to the clerk, “Give me all the money!”
But the old lady did not see this. She went to the man, put the keys in his hand and said, "Young man, you're stupid! Never leave your keys in your car: someone's going to steal it!”
The man looked at the old woman for a few seconds. Then he looked at the clerk and then he took his keys, ran out of the bank, got into his car and drove away quickly, without any money.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did the man go when he got out of his car?
2. What did the old lady see in the car?
3. What did she do then?
4.What did the man do in the bank?
5.What did the old lady do?
6. What did she say to the young man?
7. What did the man do then?
8. Did he steal any money from the bank?
9. Did the have a truck?
10. What did the woman do last Tuesday?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.young
2. next
3. far
4. into
5. little( few)
6. slowly
7. with
8. take
9. clever
10. walk
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. An old lady went to the bank last Tuesday.
2. A man left a lot of money in his car.
3. The old lady stole the keys in the car.
4. Someone stole the man’s car.
5. The bank clerk gave the man some money.
6. When the man went away, he did not take any money.
7. The old woman said that the man is smart.
8. The man took out of his pocket some money.
9. The man looked at the old woman a few minutes.
10. The man and the old woman were a wife and a husband.
D) Opposites. Put one word in each empty place.
1. The lady was not .... : she was old.
2. The man did not ... keys out of the lock: he left them in it.
3. The man was not. . .: he was young.
4. He did not want. . . the money: he wanted all of it.
5. He was not. . . : he was stupid.
6. He did not. . . out of the bank: he ran out of it.
7. He did not drive away . . .: he drove away quickly.
8. He did not drive away . . . the money: he drove away without it.
Text 73
Mary was an English girl, but she lived in Rome. She was six years old. Last year her mother said to her, " You're six years old now, Mary, and you’re going to begin going to a school here. You’re going to like it very much, because it’s a nice school.”
“Is it an English school?’ Mary asked.
“Yes, it is,” her mother said.
Mary went to the school, and enjoyed her lessons. Her mother always took her to school in the morning and brought her home in the afternoon. Last Monday her mother went to the school at 4 o'clock, and Mary ran out of her class.
"We have got a new girl in our class today, Mummy," she said.
She is 6 years old too, and she’s very nice, but she isn’t English. She’s German.’
‘Does she speak English?’ Mary’s mother asked.
‘No, but she laughs in English,’ Mary said happily.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Where did Mary live?
2. How old was Mary?
3. What did her mother say to her when she was six?
4. What did Mary ask?
5.What did her mother answer?
6. How did Mary like her school?
7. Who took Mary to school?
8.What did she say to her mother last Monday?
9.What did her mother ask?
10. What did Mary say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. never
2. finish
3. there
4. ugly
5. answered
6. hated
7. next
8. old
9. sadly
10. cries
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mary went to Spanish school.
2. Mary lived in Mexico.
3. She hated her school.
4. Mary was 8 years old.
5. Her aunt took her to school.
6. Her mother went to school at 5 o'clock in the morning last Monday
7. Her daughter did not want to leave school.
8. The new girl in Mary’s class was Mexican.
9. German girl sneezed like English girl.
10. The new girl laughed like an English girl.
Text 74
Mrs Jones did not have a husband, but she had two sons. They were big, strong boys, but they were lazy. On Saturdays they did not go to school, and then their mother always said, " Please cut the grass in the garden this afternoon, boys." The boys did not like it, but they always did it.
Then somebody gave one of the boys a magazine, and he saw a picture of a beautiful lawn-mower in it. There was a seat on it and there was a woman on the seat.
The boy took the picture to his mother and brother and said to them, 'Look, that woman's sitting on the lawn mower and driving it and cutting the grass. We want one of those.
"One of those lawn-mowers?" his mother asked.
"No," the boy said. "We want one of those women. Then she can cut the grass every week."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Mrs Jones say to her sons on Saturdays?
2. Why did they not like that work?
3. What did one of the boys see in a magazine?
4. What was there on the lawn-mower?
5. What did the boy say to his mother and brother?
6. What did his mother say?
7. And what did the boy answer?
8. What day did not the boys go to school&?
9. Who gave a magazine to one of the boys?
10. When did the boys cut the grass?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. hard - working
2. little
3. weak
4. seldom
5. took
6. ugly
7. here
8. answer
9. yes
10. stand
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs Jones had three sons.
2. They were іьфд and strong but lazy.
3. The boys went to school on Saturdays.
4. The boys loved cutting the grass.
5. The mother asked her sons to cut grass in the park in the morning.
6. Someone gave one of the boys a lawn-mower.
7. One of the boys saw a beautiful girl in the magazine.
8. A woman cut the grass every week.
9. The boys took a picture to his brother.
10. The woman ran after the lawn-mower.
Text 75
One of Harry's feet was bigger than the other. I can never find boots and shoes for my feet,' he said to his friend Dick.
"Why don't you go to a shoemaker?" Dick said. "A good one can make you the right shoes."
"I've never been to a shoemaker," Harry said. "Aren't they very expensive?
"No," Dick said, "some of them aren't. There's a good one in our village, and he's quite cheap. Here's his address.' He wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to Harry.
Harry went to the shoemaker in Dick's village a few days later, and the shoemaker made him some shoes. Harry went to the shop again a week later and looked at the shoes. Then he said to the shoemaker angrily, You're a silly man! I said, "Make one shoe bigger than the other," but you've made one smaller than the other!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Were Harry's feet the same size?
2. What did Harry complain to his friend of ?
3. What did Dick answer to Harry?
4. Did Harry usually visit shoemaker?
5. What did Harry say and ask then ?
6. What did Dick tell about his village's shoemaker?
7. What did Dick give to Harry ?
8. Did Harry go to the shoemaker after that?
9. What shoes did he order?
10. When did Harry come back for his shoes?
11.What did Harry shout?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1little
2.lose
3.bad
4.asked
5.town
6. left ( leave)
7. clever
8. smaller
9. nothing
10. took
11. happily
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Harry's feet were not the same size.
2. It was easy to find shoes for Harry.
3. Harry had never been to a shoemaker.
4. Dick did not give anything.
5. Harry did not go to shoemaker after that.
6.The shoemaker was from Harry's village
7. Harry went back to the shoemaker two weeks later.
8. Dick wrote the shoemaker's address in the tablet.
9. Harry said that man is good shoemaker.
10.The shoemaker was right.
Text 76
Joe Richards finished school when he was 18, and then his father said to him, "You've passed your examinations now, Joe, and you got good marks in them. Now go and get some good work. They're looking for clever people at the bank in the town. The clerks there get quite a lot of money now."
A few days later, Joe went to the bank and asked for work there. A man took him into a small room and gave him some questions on a piece of paper. Joe wrote his answers on the paper, and then he gave them to the man.
The man looked at them for a few minutes, and then he took a pen and said to Joe, "Your birthday was on the 12th of June, Mr Richards?"
"Yes, sir," Joe said.
"What year?" the man asked.
"Oh, every year, sir," Joe said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Joe's father say when Joe finished school?
2. Where did Joe go a few days later?
3. What did he want?
4. What did a man do then?
4.What did Joe do then ?
5. What did the man ask Joe?
6. What did Joe say?
7. What did the man ask?
8. And what did Joe say?
9.How old was Joe when he finished school?
10.When did Joe have his birthday?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. started
2. bad
3. stupid
4. little ( few)
5. earlier
6. answered
7. answers
8. play
9. gave
10.out
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Joe Richards was seventeen years old.
2. Joe Richards took his examinations.
3. Joe passed his examinations at the university.
4. Joe wanted to work in a bank.
5. Joe was born on the 8-th of June.
6. Joe did not give the right answer.
7.Joe finished his school at 16 years ols
8. Joe got bad marks in his examinations.
9. The bank was looking for silly bank clerks.
10. The bank clerks did not get enough money.
Text 77
Fred works in a factory. He does not have a wife, and he gets quite a lot of money every week. He loves cars, and has a new one every year. He likes driving very fast, and he always buys small, fast, red cars. He sometimes takes his mother out in them, and then she always says, "But, Fred, why do you drive these cars? We're almost sitting on the road!"
Then Fred laughs and is happy. He likes being very near the road!
Fred is very tall and very fat.
Last week he came out of a shop and went to his car. There was a small boy near it. He was looking at the beautiful red car. Then he looked up and saw Fred.
" How do you get into that small car?" he asked him.
Fred laughed and said, 'I don't get into it. I put it on.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What is Fred?
1. Where does Fred work?
2. What cars does he like?
3. Who goes out in cars with him sometimes?
4. What does she always say?
5. What does Fred do then?
6. Is Fred a big man, or a small man?
7. What did a small boy ask him last week?
8. What did Fred say?
9.How does Fred drive a car without his mother?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. plays
2. few
3. sad
4. never
5. huge
6. slow
7. horrible
8. short
9. cries
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Fred works in a plant.2. Fred has a wife.3. Fred is a poor man.4. Fred hates cars.5. He always buys a big and a blue trucks. 6. Fred buys a new car every year.7. Fred is small and thin.8. Fred's mother does not like his cars.9. A small girl was looking at Fred's car.10. Fred gets into his car еasily.
8. Fred's mother does not like his cars.
9. A small girl was looking at Fred's car.
10. Fred gets into his car еasily.
Text 78
Mr. and Mrs. Yates had one daughter. Her name was Carol, and she was nineteen years old. Carol lived with her parents and worked in an office. She had some friends, but she did not like any of the boys very much.
Then she met a very nice young man. His name was George Watts, and he worked in a bank near her office. They went out together quite a lot, and he came to Carol's parents' house twice, and then last week Carol went to her father and said, "I'm going to marry George Watts, Daddy. He was here yesterday."
"Oh, yes," her father said. "He's a nice boy-but has he got any money?"
"Oh, men! All of you are the same" the daughter answered angrily. "I met George on the first of June and on the second he said to me, "Has your father got any money?""
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Was Carol old, or young?
2. Where did she work?
3. Did she like her boyfriends?
4. Whom did she meet then?
5. Did he visit Mr and Mrs Yates?
6. What did Carol say to her father?
7. What did Carol's father ask his daughter about?
8. What did she say then?
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. played
2. old
3. ugly
4. far
5. apart
6. tomorrow
7. asked
8. calmly
9. divorce
10. died
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Carol was a girl.
2. She was 50 years old.
3. Carol worked in the restaurant.
4. She worked with her mother and father.
5. George worked with Carol in the restaurant.
6. George worked near her office.
7. George never visited Carol's house.
8. Carol said to her mother, "I'm going to marry George Watts."
9. Both Mr. Yates and George said, "Has he got any money?"
10. Carol worked in the restaurant.
11. George was Carol's grandfather.
Text 79
Miss Williams was a teacher, and there were thirty small children in her class. They were nice children, and Miss Williams liked all of them, but they often lost clothes. It was winter, and the weather was very cold. The children's mothers always sent them to school with warm coats and hats and gloves. The children came into the classroom in the morning and took off their coats and hats and gloves. They put their coats and hats on hooks on the wall, and they put their gloves in the pockets of their coats.
Last Tuesday Miss Williams found two small blue gloves on the floor in the evening, and in the morning she said to the children, "Whose gloves are these?", but no one answered.
Then she looked at Dick. "Haven't you got blue gloves, Dick?" she asked him.
"Yes, miss," he answered, "but those can't be mine. I've lost mine."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Miss Williams?
2. Did she have big, or small children in her class?
3. What did they often do?
4. What did she find on the floor in the evening?
5. What did she ask the children in the morning?
6. Who answered?
7. What did she ask Dick?
8. What did he answer?
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. big
2. hot
3. ugly
4. never
5. seldom
6. found
7. out
8. put on
9. asked
10. hot
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. There were forty children in Miss Williams' class.
2. Miss Williams hated all the children in her class.
3.The children liked to play snowballs.
4 The weather was very hot.
5. The children's grandparents took their grandchildren to kindergarden.
6. Miss Williams found one small glove
7. Miss Williams found toy-cars on Saturday
8. She found the gloves in the morning.
9. The gloves were Dick's.
10. He was happy.
Text 80
Whitebridge was a small village, and old people often came and lived there. Some of them had a lot of old furniture, and they often did not want some of it, because they were in a smaller house now, so every Saturday morning they put it out, and other people came and looked at it, and sometimes they took it away because they wanted it.
Every Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Morton put a very ugly old bear's head out at the side of their gate, but nobody wanted it.
Then last Saturday, they wrote, “I'm very lonely here. Please take me," on a piece of paper and put it near the bear's head.
They went to the town, and came home in the evening. There were now two bears' heads in front of their house, and there was another piece of paper. It said, “I was lonely too.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did old people in Whitebridge often put their old furniture out ?
2. Where did they put it?
3. What did Mr and Mrs Morton put out every Saturday?
4. What did they write on a piece of paper?
5. Where did they put the paper?
6. What did Mrs. and Mr. Morton do in town last Saturday?
7.When did come home?
8. What did they find at the side of their gate when they came home in the evening?
9. What was near the bears' heads?
10. What did the piece of paper say?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. there
2. huge
3. little ( few)
4. new
5. into
6. beautiful
7. back
8. crowded
9. next
10.bigger
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Whitebridge was a big village.
2. A lot of young people lived in Whitebridge.
3. Some of them had a lot of new dresses.
4. Mr. and Mrs. Morton put a very beautiful dress
5. They put out their furniture every Sunday.
6. The bear's head was very ugly.
7. Nobody wanted the bear's head.
8. They went to town in the morning
9. Mr. and Mrs. Morton went to the cinema one evening.
10. There were now three bears' heads..
Text 81
Two old gentlemen lived in a quiet street in Paris. They were friends and neighbours, and they often went for walks together in the streets when the weather was fine. Last Saturday they went for a walk at the side of the river. The sun shone, the weather was warm, there were a lot of flowers everywhere, and there were boats on the water.
The two men walked happily for half an hour, and then one of them said to the other, 'That's a very beautiful girl.'
"Where can you see a beautiful girl?" said the other. "I can't see one anywhere. I can see two young men. They're walking towards us."
"The girl's walking behind us," said the first man quietly.
"But how can you see her then?" asked his friend.
The first man smiled and said, " I can't see her, but I can see the young men's eyes."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who were two men?
2. Where did the two old gentlemen live?
3. What did they often do together?
4. Where did they walk last Saturday?
5. Who walked behind the men?
6. What did one of them say to the other after half an hour?
7. What did the second man ask?
8. What did the first one say then?
9. What did the second man ask?
10. What was the first man's answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. died
2. enemies
3. next
4. cool
5. little ( few)
6. sadly
7. ugly
8. old
9. loudly
10.cried
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Two young gentlemen lived in Madrid.
2. The two old men were enemies.
3. They often went to town when the weather was drizzling.
4.They went for a walk at the side of the sea.
5.Two man walked happily two hours.
6. A beautiful girl was walking towards them.
7. Two young men were walking towards them.
8. The old man saw the beautiful girl.
9. The young men saw the beautiful girl.
10.Only one old man went for a walk.
11. The two old men walked sadly.
12. The men saw an ugly girl.
13. The old man said cryingly.
Text 82
Fred was a young soldier in a big camp. During the week they always worked very hard, but it was Saturday, and all the young soldiers were free, so their officer said to them, "You can go into the town this afternoon, but first l'm going to inspect you."
Fred came to the officer, and the officer said to him, "Your hair's very long. Go to the barber and then come back to me again."
Fred ran to the barber's shop, but it was closed because it was Saturday. Fred was very sad for a few minutes, but then he smiled and went back to the officer.
"Are my boots clean now, sir?" he asked.
The officer did not look at Fred's hair. He looked at his boots and said, "Yes, they're much better now. You can go out. And next week, first clean your boots, and then come to me!"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Fred?
2. What did he do during the week?
3. What did their officer say to the soldiers on Saturday?
4. How did the officer want to inspect his soldiers?
5. What did he say to Fred?
6. What did Fred do then?
7. What did he say to the officer?
8. Did the officer look at Fred's hair now?
9. What did he say to Fred?
10. What was wrong?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. little
3. easy
4. never
5. short
6. open
7. happy
8. cried
9. dirty
10. answered
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Young soldiers were in an old camp.
2. The soldiers were free on Sundays.
3. The soldiers went to town every afternoon.
4. The officer inspected the soldiers.
5. The officer said that soldiers clean their shirts.
6. Fred sat an hour near fountain.
7. The barber's shop was opened.
8. Fred cleaned his boots.
9. The officer looked at Fred's boots.
10. Fred was optimistic.
Text 83
Mrs Harris lived in a small village. Her husband was dead, but she had one son. He was twenty-one, and his name was Geoff. He worked in the shop in the village and lived with mother, but then he got work in a town and went and lived there. Its name was Greensea. It was quite a long way from his mother's village, and she was not happy about this, but Geoff said, "There isn't any good work for me in the country, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and send you some every week. "
Mrs Harris was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to her son's house in Greensea. Then she said to him, "Geoff, why do you never phone me?"
Geoff laughed. "But, Mother," he said, "you haven't got a phone".
'No,' she answered, 'I haven't, but you've got one!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Mrs. Harris?
2. Where did Mrs Harris live?
3. How old was Geoff?
4. Where did her son work?
5. Where did he go and work after that?
6. Was Mrs Harris happy about this?
7. What did Geoff say to her?
8. Where did Mrs Harris go last Sunday?
9. What did she say to Geoff?
10. What was Geoff's answer?
11. And what did Mrs Harris say to him then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. big
2. live
3. rested
4. bad
5. short
6. cried
7. few
8. happy
9. next
10. asked
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Harris lived in a huge city.
2. She had a handsome husband.
3. She had a daughter.
4. Mrs. Harris's son worked in the market.
5. Geoff went to live in Odessa.
6. Greensea was near hismother's village.
7. Geoff got less money in Greensea.
8. Geoff had a phone.
9. Geoff's mother had a phone.
10. Geoff never phoned his mother.
Text 84
Mr. Robinson never went to a dentist, because he was afraid, but then his teeth began hurting a lot, and he went to a dentist. The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time. On the last day Mr. Robinson said to him, "How much is all this work going to cost." The dentist said, " Twenty-five pounds," but he did not ask him for the money.
After a month Mr Robinson phoned the dentist and said, " You haven't asked me for any money for your work last month".
"Oh," the dentist answered, "I never ask a gentleman for money ."
"Then how do you live?' Mr Robinson asked.
"Most gentlemen pay me quickly," the dentist said, " but some don't. I wait for my money for two months, and then I say, “That man isn't a gentleman," and then I ask him for my money."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Mr Robinson never go to a dentist?
2. Why did he go to one after a long time?
3. What did the dentist do?
4. What did Mr Robinson ask him then?
5. What did the dentist answer?
6. What did Mr Robinson say to the dentist after a month?
7. What was the dentist's answer?
8. What did Mr Robinson ask then?
9. And what did the dentist answer to him?
10.Did the dentist get all patients money?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. next
2. answer
3. much
4. always
5. slowly
6. brave
7. short
8. before
9. play
10. stay
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Mr Robinson went to the dentist every three month.
2. Mr Robinson went to the dentist because he had headache.
3. The dentist fixed Mr. Robinson's teeth very quickly.
4. The dentist wanted twenty-five pounds from Mr Robinson
5. Mr Robinson paid the money quickly.
6. The dentist phoned Mr Robinson after a month.
7. Most people paid the dentist slowly.
8. The dentist waited for the money for three months.
9. The dentist understood people very badly.
10.The dentist got all patients' money.
Text 85
Bill likes football very much, and he often goes to matches in our town on Saturdays. He does not go to the best seats, because they are very expensive and he does not see his friends there.
There was a big football match in our town last Saturday.
First it was very cold and cloudy, but then the sun shone, and it was very hot.
There were a lot of people on benches round Bill at the match. Bill was on one bench, and there was a fat man on a bench behind him. First the fat man was cold, but then he was very hot. He took his coat off and put it in front of him, but it fell on Bill's head. Bill was not angry. He took the coat of his head, looked at it and then smiled and said, “Thank you-but where are the trousers? "
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Does Bill like any sport?
2. Where does Bill go on Saturdays?
3. Why does he not sit in the best seats?
4. Where did his friends sit during the matches?
5. What weather did they have at the match last Saturday?
6. Who was behind Bill?
7. Why did the man take his coat off?
8. What happened to the coat?
9. Was Bill angry?
10. What did he say?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. seldom
2. the worst
3. cheap
4. small
5. next
6. sunny
7. hot
8. few
9. last
10. thin
11. put on
12. cry
13. back
14. in front of
15. take
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Bill likes basketball very much.
2. Bill plays in football matches in our town.
3. He often sees his friends during the matches
4. He sits in the cheap seats.
5. His friends sit in the expensive seats.
6. Last Saturday the weather was very hot, and then it was very cold and cloudy.
7. The benches round Bill were almost empty.
8. A fat man's coat fell on Bill's hand.
9. Bill was angry.
10. Bill spoke to man.
Text 86
Peter was eight and a half years old, and he went to a school near his house. He always went there and came home on foot, and he usually got back on time, but last Friday he came home from school late. His mother was in the kitchen, and she saw him and said to him, "Why are you late today, Peter? "
"My teacher was angry and sent me to the headmaster after our lessons," Peter answered.
“To the headmaster?" his mother said. "Why did she send you to him?"
"Because she asked a question in the class," Peter said, “and none of the children gave her the answer except me."
His mother was angry. "But why did the teacher send you to the headmaster then? Why didn't she send all the other stupid children?' she asked Peter.
Because her question was, "Who put glue on my chair?" Peter said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. How old was Peter ?
2. Where was Peter's school?
3. How did he come home?
4. What did his mother say to him when he came home last Friday?
5. What was Peter's answer?
6. What did his mother ask then?
7. What did Peter answer?
8. What did his mother ask him then?
9. And what was his answer?
10. Did The headmaster invite Peter's mother to school?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. new
2. seldom
3. early
4. next
5. far
6. calm
7. take
8. come
9. answer
10. receive
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Peter was seven years old.
2. Peter usually came home late.
3.Peter always went to school by bus.
4. Peter was late on Wednesday from school.
5.The teacher sent Peter to the headmaster.
6. Only Peter answered the teacher's question.
7. All the children put glue on the teacher's chair.
8. Peter put glue on the teacher's chair.
9. The teacher was angry about the glue.
10. The headmaster invited Peter's mother to school.
Text 87
George was sixty years old, and he was ill. He was always tired, and his face was always very red. He did not like doctors, but last month his wife said to him, "Don't be stupid, George. Go and see Doctor Brown."
George said, "No",but last week he was worse, and he went to the doctor.
Dr. Brown examined him and then said to him, "You drink too much. Stop drinking whisky, and drink milk."
George liked whisky, and he did not like milk. "I'm not a baby! he always said to his wife.
Now he looked at Dr. Brown and said, "But drinking milk is dangerous, doctor."
The doctor laughed and said, "Dangerous? How can drinking milk be dangerous?"
"Well, doctor," George said, "it killed one of my best friends last year."
The doctor laughed again and said, "How did it do that?"
"The cow fell on him," George said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Was George old, or young?
2. Why did he go to the doctor last week?
3. Who sent George to the doctor?
4.How quickly did he go to the doctor?
5. What did the doctor do and say ?
6. What did George say to the doctor?
7. What did the doctor answer?
8. What did George say then?
9. And what did the doctor ask him?
10. What was George's answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. new
2. seldom
3. energetic
4. next
5. useful
6. cried
7. seldom
8. clever
9. little
10. go
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. George was eight years old.
2. George was always energetic.
3. George loved going to doctors.
4. The doctor examined him.
5. George was ill because he drank too much beer.
6. George preferred drinking milk.
7. George said, 'Drinking milk is dangerous.'
8. The doctor shouted at George.
9. George's friend died because he drank too much milk.
10. George's friend climbed under the cow.
Text 88
Mr. White has a small shop in the middle of our town, and he sells pictures in it. They are not expensive ones, but some of them are quite pretty. Last Saturday a woman came into the shop and looked at a lot of pictures. Then she took Mr. White to one of them and asked , " How much do you want for this one? " It was a picture of horses in a field.
Mr. White looked at it for a few seconds and then went and brought his book. He opened it, looked at the first page and then said, "I want twenty pounds for that one."
The woman shut her eyes for a few seconds and then said, “I can give you two pounds for it."
'Two pounds?" Mr. White said angrily. "Two pounds? But the canvas cost more than two pounds."
"Oh, but it was clean then," the woman said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Mr. White?
2.What does he have?
3.What does Mr White sell in his shop?
4. What pictures does he sell?
5. What did a woman say to him last Saturday?
6. What did he do then?
7. And what did he say to the woman?
8. What did she answer?
9. What did Mr White say then?
10. And what did the woman say?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. huge
2. buy
3. cheap
4. ugly
5. next
6. opened
7. take
8. happily
9. little ( few)
10. dirty
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. White has a huge market.
2. His shop was in the city.
3. The pictures in Mr White's shop were expensive.
4. Last Saturday a handsome man came into the shop.
5. She wanted a picture of flowers.
6. The picture cost twelve pounds.
7. The woman said, “I'll give four pounds for it."
8. Mr White was angry.
9. The woman was generous.
10. The woman hated the picture.
Text 89
Miss Green had a heavy cupboard in her bedroom. Last Sunday she said, " I don't like this cupboard in my bedroom. The bedroom's very small, and the cupboard's very big. I'm going to put it in a bigger room." But the cupboard was very heavy, and Miss Green was not very strong. She went to two of her neighbours and said,
" Please carry the cupboard for me."
Then she went and made some tea for them.
The two men carried the heavy cupboard out of Miss Green's bedroom and came to the stairs. One of them was in front of the cupboard, and the other was behind it. They pushed and pulled for a long time, and then they put the cupboard down.
"Well," one of the men said to the other, " we're never going to get this cupboard upstairs."
"Upstairs?" the other man said. "Aren't we taking it down-stairs?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Miss Green ?
2. Why didn't Miss Green like the cupboard in her bedroom?
3. When did she say it?
4. Where did she want it?
5. Why didn't she carry it there by herself ?
6. How did she solve this problem ?
6. What did she say to two of her neighbours?
7. What did the neighbours do?
8. What did one of them say?
9. And what did the other man say?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. light
2. next
3. huge
4. little
5. smaller
6. weak
7. back
8. short
9. always
10. downstairs
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Miss Green had a desk in her bedroom.
2. Miss Green's bedroom was very small.
3. She wanted the cupboard in a smaller room.
4. Miss Green was very strong.
5. The cupboard was light.
6. Two women carried the cupboard.
7. They carried the cupboard upstairs.
8. They carried the cupboard downstairs.
9.
10.
Text 90
Mr Edwards likes singing very much, but he is very bad at it. He went to dinner at a friend's house last week, and there were some other guests too.
They had a good dinner, and then the hostess went to Mr Edwards and said "You can sing, Peter. Please sing us something."
Mr Edwards was very happy, and he began to sing an old song about the mountains of Spain. The guests listened to it for a few minutes and then one of the guests began to cry. She was a small woman and had dark hair and very dark eyes.
One of the other guests went to her, put his hand on her back and said, “Please don't cry. Are you Spanish?"
Another young man asked, “Do you love Spain?"
“No,' she answered, “I'm not Spanish, and I've never been to Spain. I'm a singer, and I love music!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Mr. Edwars?
2. Can Mr Edwards sing well?
3. Where did he go last week?
4. Who else was there?
5. What did his hostess ask Mr Edwards after dinner?
6.Was Mr. Edwars happy about it?
7. What did Mr Edwards sing about?
8. What did one of the other guests do?
9. What did another guest ask her?
10. And what did she say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. hate
2. little ( few)
3. sad
4. next
5. finished
6. young
7. light
8. asked
9. hate
10. enemy
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr Edwards likes dancing very much.
2. He was good at singing.
3. He went to have breakfast at the neighbour's house.
4. The party had a lot of people.
5. He sang before dinner.
6. He sang a song about England.
7. The guests listened singing for 10 minutes.
8. The woman cried because she was Spanish.
9. The woman cried because she loved Spain.
10. The woman was a singer.
Text 91
Hans said to his friend Kurt, "I'm going to take my car and drive to London."
Kurt said, “Driving to London is very difficult. You aren't going to find your hotel."
But Hans was not afraid. He drove to Calais, put his car on the ferry , took it off at Dover, and drove to London.
He stopped near the city and looked at his map. Then he drove into London, but he did not find his hotel. He drove round and round for an hour, and then he stopped and got out of his car. A taxi came, and Hans stopped it. Take me to the Brussels Hotel,' he said. But he did not get into the taxi: he got back into his car. The taxi man laughed, but then he drove to the Brussels Hotel, and Hans followed him in his car. They reached the hotel in two minutes.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Hans and Kurt?
2. What did Hans say to Kurt?
3. What did Kurt answer?
4. What did Hans do then?
5. What did he do when he was near the city?
6. What did he not find?
7. What did he do then?
8. What did he say to the taxi man?
9. How did he get to the hotel?
10. The Brussels Hotel was for rich people.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.enemy
2. easy
3. lose
4. started
5. into
6. front
7. cried
8. far
9. gave
10. leave
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Hans spoke to his wife.
2. Hans drove to Paris.
3. Kurt said that driving to London is very easy.
4. Hans went from Calais to Dover by aeroplane.
5. He stopped in the parking
6. He looked at his watch
7. He found his hotel easily.
8. He drove round for an hour.
9. He got into a taxi.
10. He followed the taxi to the hotel.
Text 92
George is a young man. He does not have a wife, but he has a very big dog—and he has a very small car too. He likes playing tennis. Last Monday he played tennis for an hour at his club, and then he ran out and jumped into a car. His dog came after him, but it did not jump into the same car; it jumped into the next one.
Come here, silly dog! George shouted it it but the dog stayed in the other car.
George put his key into the lock of the car, but the key did not turn. Then he looked at the car again. It was not his! He was in the wrong car! And the dog was in the right one! 'He's sitting and laughing at me!' George said angrily. But then he smiled and got into his car with the dog.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was George?
2.How many wives did he have?
3. What did George do at his club last Monday?
4. And what did he do when he finished?
5. What did his dog do?
6. What did George shout to the dog?
7. What did the dog do?
8. Why did the key not turn in the lock of the car?
9. What did George say?
10. What did he do then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. small
3. next
4. worked
5. into
6. before
7. whispered
8. before
9. wrong
10. cried
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. George was a teenager.
1. George has a wife and a very big dog.
2. His car is quite small.
3. He belongs to a football club.
4. After his tennis last Monday, his dog did not get into the car with him.
5. George shouted, and the dog came to him.
6. The dog was in the right car, and George was in the wrong one.
Text 93
Fred Williams worked in a factory with a lot of other men. They talked and laughed a lot, and at lunch time they sat together and read newspapers and laughed about the picture in them.
Then Fred married. His wife, Betty, was very nice, but she liked better newspapers than Fred. Every day a boy brought Fred's newspaper and Betty's newspaper to the house, and Fred took his to the factory and left Betty's in the hall. Once or twice he looked at hers, but he did not like it, and sometimes in the evening he said to Betty, 'Why do you read that paper? I hate it.'
But last Monday Fred said to his wife, There was something very nice in that newspaper yesterday.'
Betty was happy. 'Oh!' she said, 'that's good, Fred. What was that?
Fred laughed and said, “My friend Bill's lunch. He brought it to work in the newspaper."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who was Fred?
2. Where did Fred work?
3. What did Fred and men do a lot?
4. What did the men do at lunch time?
5. Whom did Fred marry?
6. What did Betty like?
7. What did Fred sometimes say about her newspaper?
8. What did he say to her last Monday?
9. What did Betty answer?
10. And what did Fred say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. played
2. little ( few )
3. apart
4. cried
5. divorce
6. ugly
7. next
8. bad
9. carried away
10. worse
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Fred worked in the plant.
2. Fred worked with young ladies
3. Fred drank a lot of beer with his friends at lunch time.
4. Betty was a bad wife.
5. Fred's wife, Betty, liked better Fred than newspaper.
6. Every day a boy brought three newspapers to Fred's house.
7. Fred took Betty's newspaper to work.
8. Fred loved Betty's newspaper.
9. Fred read a nice story in Betty's newspaper.
10. Fred saw a nice picture in Betty's newspaper.
Text 94
Mr and Mrs Jones very seldom go out in the evening, but last Saturday, Mrs Jones said to her husband, “There's a good film at the cinema tonight. Can we go and see it?'
Mr Jones was quite happy about it, so they went, and both of them enjoyed the film.
They came out of the cinema at 11 o'clock, got into their car and began driving home. It was quite dark. Then Mrs Jones said, 'Look, Bill. A woman's running along the road very fast, and a man's running after her. Can you see them?"
Mr Jones said, 'Yes, I can.' He drove the car slowly near the woman and said to her, Can we help you?"
'No, thank you,' the woman said, but she did not stop running. " My husband and I always run home after the cinema, and the last one washes the dishes at home! "
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Mr and Mrs Jones?
2. Do Mr and Mrs Jones go out often in the evening?
3. Where did they go last Saturday evening?
4.Why was Mrs. Jones happy when they went to the cinema?
5. What did they do when they came out of the cinema?
6. What did Mrs Jones say to her husband in the car?
7. What did Mr Jones answer?
8. What did he do?
9. What did he say to the woman?
10. What was her answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. often
2. into
3. next
4. upset
5. finished
6. light
7. across
8. slow
9. before
10.never
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr and Mrs Jones often go to the theatre.
2. Mrs. Jones was upset because her husband was going to go to the cinema alone.
3. Mr and Mrs Jones went to the cinema last Sunday.
4. They hated the film.
5. They left the ciname at midnight.
6. They took a taxi to home.
7. The went home on foot.
8. It was hot when they went home.
9. A man ran after a woman.
10. Mr and Mrs Jones took the woman home.
Text 95
There were a lot of men's clubs in London a few years ago. Men went there and read their newspapers quietly, or drank or had meals with their friends.
All of these men's clubs had a lot of very good servants. At every club one of the servants was a doorman. Mr Grace was the doorman of one of these clubs. He was fifty-five years old,
and he had grey hair and a big grey moustache. The telephone rang in his office at six o'clock in the evening, and a woman spoke to him. She said, " Are you the doorman of the George Club? "
"Yes, I am," Mr Grace answered.
"Please give my husband a message," the woman said.
"Your husband isn't at the club this evening," Mr Grace answered.
"But I haven't told you his name! " the woman said angrily.
“That isn't necessary," Mr Grace answered. “No husband is ever at the club."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did men do in their clubs in London a few years ago?
2. Who worked in men's club?
3. What was Mr Grace?
4. What did a woman say to him when she telephoned him?
5. What did Mr Grace answer?
6. What did the woman say then?
7. What did Mr Grace say?
8. What did the woman say to him then?
9. And what was his answer?
10. Why was not Mrs. Jones husband at the ckub that evening?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. came
2. bad
3. young
4. small
5. asked
6. take
7.happily
8. never
9. needlessly
10. loudly
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. A lot of man were in men's club a few years ago.
2. The men went to the club and played golf.
3. The men's clubs had very good servants.
4. Mr Grace was a young man.
5. Mr. Grace was the chef one of these clubs.
6. The name of the club was the George Club.
7. The telephone did not ring in the office.
8. Mr Grace took a message from the woman.
9. The woman gave Mr Grace her husband's name.
10. Her husband was not at the club that evening.
Text 96
Jimmy lives in London and he began swimming a few months ago. He likes swimming, and he often goes to the swimming-pool near his house with his mother and swims there for an hour or two.
He was six years old last week, and his mother said, 'You swim quite well now, Jimmy, but you've never seen the sea, have vou? Your father and I are going to take you there on Sunday, and you're going to swim in the sea. It isn't cold now, and it's much nicer than a swimming-pool.
Jimmy's father and mother took him to the sea in their car on Sunday, and they stopped at the side of a small harbour. Jimmy got out and looked at the sea for a long time, but he was not very happy. Then he said to his mother, which is the shallow end?
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where does Jimmy live?
2. How old is Jimmy?
3. What does he like?
4. Where does he swim?
5. What did his mother say to him last week?
6. Where did his parents take him on Sunday?
7. What did Jimmy do there?
8. Was he happy?
9. What did he say to his mother?
10. Does Jimmy take his parents to the sea ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. finished
2. much
3. far
4. next
5. badly
6. give
7. into
8. sad
9. deep
10. hot
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Jimmy lives near London
2. Jimmy is eight years old.
3.He began swimming 10 years ago.
4. Jimmy often goes to the swimming-pool with his uncle.
5. Jimmy hates to swim well.
6. He swims in the swimming pool for half an hour.
7. Jimmy has never been to the sea before.
8. Jimmy, his father and mother went to the sea in their car.
9. The mother said that they are going to to swim in the see.
10. Jimmy jumped into the sea.
Text 97
Mrs Green was eighty, but she had a small car, and she always drove to the shops in it on Saturday and bought her food.
She did not drive fast, because she was old, but she drove well and never hit anything. Sometimes her grandchildren said to her, Please don't drive your car, Grandmother. We can take you to the shops.
But she always said, "No, I like driving. I've driven for fifty years, and I'm not going to stop now."
Last Saturday she stopped her car at some traffic-lights because they were red, and then it did not start again. The lights were green, then yellow, then red, then green again, but her car did not start.
“What am I going to do now?" she said.
But then a policeman came and said to her kindly, "Good morning. Don't you like any of our colours today?"
Exercises:
A) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs Green had a rusty car.
2. She was 90 years old.
3. Mrs Green always bought her fish on Sunday.
4. She loved to drive fast.
5. She drove for fifteen years.
6. Her grandchildren were happy when she drove her car.
7. Mrs Green's engine did not start.
8. She always drove fast so she always hit something.
9. The grandchildren said that they will buy food for her.
10. Mrs. Green always said that she does not driving.
11. THe policeman took her to the prison.
B) Answer these questions:
1. Was Mrs Green old, or young?
2. How did she go to the shops?
3. Why did she drive slowly?
4. Why did she not go to the shops in her grandchildren's cars?
5. Why did she stop at the traffic-lights?
6. What did her car do then?
7. Who came and spoke to her?
8. What did he say?
9. What did she say to herself when her car did not start?
10.Why did not Mrs. Green's grandchildren want that she drove her car?
C) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. huge
2. never
3. sold
4. badly
5. slowly
6. put
7. rudely
8. hate
9. start
10. next .