Book 6
Text 153
Dave worked in a factory, and he always made sandwiches in the morning, took them to work and ate them at midday.
Then he married, so he thought, ‘Now my wife's going to make my sandwiches.'
On the first day, she made him some, and when he got home in the evening, she said to him, Were the sandwiches all right?"
'Oh, yes,' he answered, but you only gave me two slices of bread.'
The next day she gave him four slices, but he said again, 'Four slices aren't enough.'
The third day she gave him eight slices, but those were not enough for him either, so on the fourth day she took a loaf of bread, cut it in half and put a big piece of meat in it.
In the evening she said to him, "Was your lunch nice?"
Oh, yes,' he answered. But two slices of bread aren't enough.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Dave?
2. Who made Dave's sandwiches before he married?
3. Who made them after he married?
4. What did his wife say on the first evening?
5. How many children did they have?
6. What did Dave answer?
7. What did Dave tell his wife on the second evening?
8. What did she do on the fourth day?
9. What did she ask him in the evening?
10. What did Dave answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. played
2. never
3. gave
4. divorced
5. asked
6. wrong
7. deficiency
8. big
9. left home
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Dave worked in an office.
2. He made pizza.
3. He made sandwiches in the evening.
4. He threw away his sandwiches.
5. Dave always made sandwiches for his friends.
6. He had a lot of children
7. His children made sandwiches for him.
8. Five slices of bread were not enough for Dave.
9. Dave's wife gave him only two slices of bread on the fourth day.
10. Dave ate a lot of bread.
Text 154
Harry did not stop his car at some traffic-lights when they were red, and he hit another car. Harry jumped out and went to it. There was an old man in the car. He was very frightened and said to Harry, ' What are you doing? You nearly killed me!'
'Yes,' Harry answered, I'm very sorry.' He took a bottle out of his car and said, 'Drink some of this. Then you'll feel better. He gave the man some whisky, and the man drank it, but then he shouted again, 'You nearly killed me!'
Harry gave him the bottle again, and the old man drank a lot of the whisky. Then he smiled and said to Harry, ' Thank you. I feel much better now.But why aren't you drinking? '
'Oh, well,' Harry answered, I don't want any whisky now. I'm going to sit here and wait for the police better now.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Harry ?
2. Why did Harry hit another car?
3. What did the old man say?
4. What did Harry answer, and what did he do?
5. What did the old man do?
6. What did the old man say then?
7. What did Harry do?
8. What did the old man do and say then?
9. What did Harry say?
10. What did Hary wait for?
1. start
2. in
3. young
4. asked
5. worse
6. whisper
7. far
8. took
9. cried
10. there
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Harry stopped his car at green lights.
2. Harry hit an old man .
3. Harry hit another car where a beautiful lady was.
4. The old man was very happy.
5. Harry gave the old man some water.
7. The old man drank a lot of beer.
8. Harry did not drink any whisky.
9. Harry was waiting for ambulance
10. The old drank a lot of whisky and he felt much worse.
Text 155
John lived with his mother in a rather big house, and when she died, the house became too big for him so he bought a smaller one in the next street. There was a very nice old clock in his first house, and when the men came to take his furniture to the new house, John thought, I'm not going to let them carry my beautiful old clock in their truck. Perhaps they'll break it, and then mending it will be very expensive.' So he picked it up and began to carry it down the road in his arms.
It was heavy, so he stopped two or three times to have a rest.
Then suddenly a small boy came along the road. He stopped and
looked at John for a few seconds. Then he said to John, 'You're a
stupid man, aren't you? Why don't you buy a watch like everybody
else?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was John?
2. Why did John buy a smaller house?
3. Was it a long way from his old house?
4. Why did he not want to let the men carry his clock in their truck?
5. How did he take it to the new house?
6. What did he do two or three times on the way?
7. Why did he do this?
8. Who arrived then?
9. What did the boy say?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. small
2. last
3. young
4. ugly
5. build
6. cheap
7. easy
8. hate
9. sell
10. start
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. John was an old man.
2. John and his father lived in a big flat.
3. John bought a small house in the next street.
4. John had a beautiful new car.
5. John and his friend carried the clock to his new house.
6. The clock was heavy.
7. John was a stupid man.
8.
9.
10.
Text 156
Two soldiers were in camp. The first one's name was George, and the
second one's name was Bill. George said, 'Have you got a piece of
paper and an envelope, Bill?'
Bill said, 'Yes, I have,' and he gave them to him.
Then George said, 'Now I haven't got a pen.' Bill gave him his,
and George wrote his letter. Then he put it in the envelope and said,
'Have you got a stamp, Bill?' Bill gave him one.
Then Bill stood up and went to the door, so George said to him, 'Are
you going out?"
Bill said, 'Yes, I am,' and he opened the door.
George said, 'Please put my letter in the box in the office, and...'
He stopped.
'What do you want now?' Bill said to him.
George looked at the envelope of his letter and answered, 'What's
your girl-friend's address?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who were these two people?
2. What were their names?
3. What did George say at the beginning of this story?
4. What did Bill say, and what did he do?
5. What did George say then?
6. What did Bill give him?
7. What did George ask after that?
8. What did Bill do?
9. What did George want Bill to do when he went out?
10. What did he ask Bill for at the end of this story?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. took
2. down
3. erase
4. closed
5. sat up
6. started
7.turned
8. asked
9. take
10. down
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Two women were in the bar.
2. The two soldiers names were Nike and Mike.
3. They were in the park.
4. George wanted to drink a beer.
5. George wanted Bill to write a letter for him.
6. George gave Bill a piece of paper and an envelope.
7. George got a stamp from Bill.
8. George wanted Bill to take his letter to the office.
9. Bill had a girl-friend.
10. George wanted to write to Bill's girl-friend.
Text 157
General Pershing was a famous American officer. He was in the American army, and fought in Europe in the First World War.
After he died, some people in his home town wanted to remember him, so they put up a big statue of him on a horse.
There was a school near the statue, and some of the boys passed it every day on their way to school and again on their way home. After a few months some of them began to say, 'Good morning, Pershing',
whenever they passed the statue, and soon all the boys at the school were doing this.
One Saturday one of the smallest of these boys was walking to the shops with his mother when he passed the statue. He said, 'Good morning, Pershing to it, but then he stopped and said to his mother,
I like Pershing very much. Ma, but who's that funny man on his back?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was General Pershing?
2. What did he do in the First World War?
3.Where did General Pershing fight ?
4. Why did people in his town put up a statue of him?
5. Who began to say 'Good morning, Pershing' whenever they passed the statue.
6. Who was walking past the statue one Saturday?
7. Who was with him?
8. What did he say to the statue?
9. What did he ask his mother then?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. small
2. unknown
3. started
4. biggest
5. down
6. sad
7. bad
8. befor
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. General Pershing was British.
2. Some people put up a statue of him in his own country.
3. The statue was in a cinema.
4. The boys at the school always said, 'Good evening, Pershing.'
5. The little girl was walking with her father.
6. They went to the cinema.
7. The little boy thought, 'Pershing is the horse.'
8. One of the smallest
9.
10.
Text 158
Jack worked in an office in a small town. One day his boss said to him, Jack, I want you to go to Manchester, to an office there, to see Mr Brown. Here's the address.'
Jack went to Manchester by train. He left the station, and thought, "The office isn't far from the station. I'll find it easily."
But after an hour he was still looking for it, so he stopped and asked an old lady. She said, 'Go straight along this street, turn to the left at the end, and it's the second building on the right.' Jack went and
found it.
A few days later he went to the same city, but again he did not find the office, so he asked someone the way. It was the same old lady! She was very surprised and said, 'Are you still looking for that place?
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Jack?
2. Where did he work?
3. What did Jack's boss want him to do?
4. How did Jack go to Manchester?
5. What did he think as he left the station?
6. What happened then?
7. What did the lady say to Jack?
8. Where did he go a few days later?
9. What happened to him again?
10. Whom did he ask the way?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. huge
2. came
3. near
4. lose
5. hard
6. before
7. go
8. answered
9. different
10. left( side)
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jack worked in an office in a large town.
2. Jack's boss wanted him to go to Manchester.
3. Jack did not have the address of the office in Manchester.
4. Jack found the office easily.
5. He found his love.
6. Jack went to Manchester again a few months later.
7. He asked the same old lady the way again.
8.Jack went to Manchester by air-plane.
9.
10.
Text 159
When Billy was very small, he loved pictures. His mother often drew some for him on old pieces of paper. She was very bad at drawing, but Billy enjoyed her pictures and always wanted more.
Then, when he was a little older, Billy's mother gave him some pencils and a drawing book, and he began drawing pictures too, but they were never good.
When Billy was five years old, his mother gave him a small blackboard, some pieces of chalk and a duster. He liked those very much. One day he was trying to draw a picture of his father on the blackboard. He drew lines and rubbed them out, drew more and rubbed those out too for ten minutes, but when he looked at his picture he was not happy.
'Well,' he said at last to his mother, I'll put a tail on it and
make it a monkey."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Billy and Billy's mother?
2. What did Billy like very much when he was small?
3. What did Billy's mother often do for him?
4. What did Billy's mother give him when he was a little older?
5. What did he do?
6. Was he good at drawing?
7. When did Billy begin to draw?
8. What did his mother give him when he was five years old?
9. What did he try to do one day?
10. What happened then?
11. What did Billy say?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1: big
2. hated
3. good
4. new
5. sad
6. younger
7. took
8. always
9. into
10. next
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. When Billy was very small, he loved balls.
2. Billy's father often drew pictures for him.
3. His mother drew some pictures in the sidewalk.
4. She was very good at drawing.
5. Billy had ability to draw.
6. Billy's grandmother gave a big blackboard when Billy was five years old.
7. Billy hated his blackboard.
8. Billy wanted to draw an animal.
9. Billy drew a good picture of his father.
10. Billy was very happy.
Text 160
There were men soldiers and women soldiers in an army camp, and every Sunday morning they all went to church, but a lot of the soldiers did not like it much. There was a choir of men soldiers, and Captain Jones was trying to find women soldiers to sing in it too, but none of the ones in the camp offered to do this.
Then one day Captain Jones saw a new girl soldier. She was a tall, very beautiful girl. Captain Jones went to her and asked, 'Will you come and sing in the choir at our church, please?
The girl was very surprised and said, "But, sir, I can't sing at all!'
'Oh, that's all right,' answered Captain Jones. That doesn't matter at all. You don't need to sing: I only want someone to keep the men soldiers looking in front of them when they are in the church.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were in the army camp ?
2. What did the soldiers do every Sunday?
3. Did they all enjoy doing this?
4. What was Captain Jones trying to do?
5. What did the women soldiers do about this?
6. What was the new girl soldier like?
7. What did Captain Jones say to her?
8. What did she answer?
9. What did Captain Jones say then?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. little ( few)
2. back
3. hate
4. ugly
5. answered
6. wrong
7. lose
8. old
9. small ( short)
10. wrong
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. There were only women soldiers in the camp.
2. The men went to the cinema every Sunday in the evening.
3. The army men sang sons in the bar.
4. There was a choir of women soldiers.
5. The soldiers wanted to sing in the choir.
6. The Captain Jones wanted to find a better singer.
7. The new woman soldier was a good singer.
8. She was small and unhappy person.
9. The Captain Jones wanted the women soldiers to sing.
10.
Text 161
Len was thirty years old, and he had very long hair. He lived in a big city, but one year he did not find any work there, so he went to a small town and began looking for work there. He went to a lot of places, but nobody wanted him.
Then he met an old friend, and this man said to him, 'People in this town don't like long hair. Why don't you go to a barber? He can cut a lot of it off, and then you can get some work.'
Len went to a barber and said, 'Please cut most of my hair off.'
The barber began. He cut and cut for a long time and then he said
to Len, 'Were you in the army a few years ago?"
'Yes, I was,' Len answered. 'Why did you ask that?"
'Because I've found your cap,' the barber said.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What was Len?
2. Why did Len go to a small town?
3. Did he find work at once?
4. What did his old friend say to him?
5. Where did Len go then?
6. What did he say to the barber?
7. What did the barber ask Len?
8. What did Len say?
9. And what did the barber answer?
10. How did Len react ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.little (few)
2.huge
3.hate
4.country
5.young
6. Lose
7. Short
8. Come
9.asked
10.finished
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Len was twenty years old.
2. Len was bаld.
3. Len found work easily
4. Len met his classmates.
5. The barber put extra hair on Len's bаld.
6. Len fought during the war.
7.Len lived in the country.
8. Len had a huge family.
9. Len had a lot of fancy cars
10. Len had a lot of girlfriends.
Text 162
Mrs Robinson was a teacher in a big school in a city in America. She had boys and girls in her class, and she always enjoyed teaching them, because they were quick, and because they thought about everything carefully. One day she said to the children, 'People in a lot of countries in Asia wear white clothes at funerals, but people in America and in Europe wear white clothes when they're happy. What colour does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
Mary said, 'White, Miss, because she's happy."
"That's good, Mary, Mrs Robinson said. "You're quite right. She
wears white because she's happy."
But then one of the boys in the class put his hand up.
'Yes, Dick!' Mrs Robinson said. 'Do you want to ask something?"
Yes, please, Miss,' Dick said. "Why do men wear black in this
country when they marry, Miss?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Mrs. Robinson?
2. Where did she work?
3. What subject did she teach?
4. How did she like her work?
5. Why did she like her work?
6. What happened one day?
7. Why did Mrs. Robinson begin ask some question?
8. Whom did she ask?
9. What was the answer?
10.What did Dick want?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. hated
2. slow
3. sad
4. never
5. wrong
6. left
7. ugly
8. back
9. old
10. out of
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Robinson taught history at college.
2. She worked in Canada.
3. She hated her work because children had bad behavior.
4. There were adults in Mrs Robinson's class.
5. Mrs Robinson enjoyed cooking in her class.
6. The children in Mrs Robinson's class were silly and stupid.
7. People in a lot of countries in Asia wear black at funerals.
8. A lot of women in America wear blue when they marry.
9. Men wear white in America when they marry.
10. The children were confused by her explanation.
Text 163
A few years ago, there were a lot of hijackings on aeroplanes, so now people always search passengers and their luggage at airports before they let them get into an aeroplane, because they do not want them to take guns or bombs or other dangerous things on to the plane with them.
Mr and Mrs Smith were singers, and they travelled a lot. Whenever they went by plane, people searched them and their luggage, of course.
One day, Mr Smith came to the airport, and the men searched him and his luggage first. He was ready to get on the plane. Then Mrs Smith arrived. She was late and in a hurry, but the people searched her and her bag carefully. Then Mr Smith heard her laugh and say to the men happily, 'Oh, that's very good! I've looked for those scissors for several days, and now you've found them for me! Thank you very much!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What happened a few years ago?
2. Why do people search passengers and their luggage at airports now?
3. What was Mr and Mrs Smith's work?
4. Did they travel much?
5. What happened whenever they went by plane?
6. Who arrived one day when Mr Smith was ready to get on the plane?
7. Why was she in a hurry?
8. What happened to her?
9. What did he say?
10. What did Mr. Smith look for several days?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. few ( little)
2. never
3. put
4. safe
5. a lot of
6. last
7. lost
8.
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr Smith sometimes carried guns and bombs.
2. Mrs Smith arrived after her husband.
3. She was in a hurry because she was late.
4. She was happy because the men searched her luggage.
5. She lost her scissors in the aeroplane.
6. The men stole her scissors.
7. Mrs. Smith cried when the man found her scissors.
8. Mrs. Smith wanted to hijack the aeroplane.
9. Mrs. Smith went to prison.
10.Mrs. Smith's husband went to travel without his wife.
Text 164
Mick lived in the country, and he had quite a big garden. He grew vegetables, and he had some nice, fat chickens too. He sold the eggs and the meat, and got quite a lot of money for them.
His neighbour had a big garden too, and he also had vegetables and nice, fat chickens in it. There was a wire fence between the gardens, but it was very old, and the chickens often found holes in it and went through.
Now Mick wanted a new fence between his garden and his neighbour's, so Mr Biggs came to build it. Mick said to him, 'Please make the fence out of strong wood. And I want a hole in it. Make it big
enough for my chickens to get into my neighbour's garden and eat his vegetables, but too small for his to get into mine and eat mine."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Mick ?
2. Where did Mick live?
3. What did he do in his garden?
4. What did he do with his eggs and chickens?
5. What did his neighbour have?
6. What was there between Mick's garden and his neighbour's?
7. Why did the chickens often get through it?
8. What did Mick want Mr Biggs to do?
9. What did he say to him?
10.What happened then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. small
2. thin
3. ugly
4. young
5. weak
6. destroy
7. enemy
8. into
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mick was a builder.
2. Mick had a big family - wife and four children
3. Mick had a small garden.
4. He grew fruits and had some ducks.
5 .Mick took the eggs and the meat to the market
6. He used his chicken's eggs to cook in his restraurant.
7. Mick was very poor.
8. The wooden fence was strong, and it had branches on it.
9. Mick wanted a strong fence with a hole in it.
10. Mick wanted his neighbour's chickens to come into his garden.
Text 165
It was winter, and Mrs Hermann wanted to do a lot of shopping, so she waited until it was Saturday, when her husband was free, and she took him to the shops with her to pay for everything and to carry her parcels. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things. She often stopped and said, 'Look, Joe! Isn't that beautiful!'
He then answered, ‘All right, dear. How much is it?' and took his money out to pay for it.
It was dark when they came out of the last shop, and Mr Hermann was tired and thinking about other things, like a nice drink by the side of a warm fire at home. Suddenly his wife looked up at the sky
and said, 'Look at that beautiful moon, Joe!"
Without stopping, Mr Hermann answered, 'All right, dear. How much is it?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who were Mr. and Mrs. Hermann?
2. Why did Mrs Hermann go shopping on Saturday?
3. What did she buy?
4. What did she often say?
5. What did he answer?
6. And what did he do then?
7. What was Mr Hermann thinking about when they came out of the last shop?
8. What did his wife say to him?
9. What did he answer?
10. Why did Mrs. Hermann wait for Saturday?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. busy
2. cool
3. asked
4. light
5. seldom
6. little ( few )
7. wrong
8. next
9. down
10. ugly
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr Hermann worked on Saturdays.
2. She wanted to visit her friends on Saturday.
3. Mr. Hermann bought the things and Mrs. Hermann carried and paid for them.
4. They went to the market.
5. Mr Hermann came out of the last shop and had a nice drink.
6. When they came out of the last shop - it was 6p. m.
7. Mr Hermann came out of the last shop and saw his classmate.
8. Then his wife saw a beautiful picture of the moon in a shop - window.
9. Mr Hermann offered to buy the picture-moon for her.
10. Mr. Hermann was fond of shopping.
11. They fininshed shopping on the next Sunday morning
Text 166
Mr and Mrs Smith married thirty years ago, and they lived in
the same house since then. Mr Smith goes to work at eight o'clock
every morning, and he gets home at half past seven every evening
from Monday to Friday.
There are quite a lot of houses in their street, and most of the
neighbours are nice. But the old lady in the house opposite Mr and
Mrs Smith died, and after a few weeks a young man and woman
came to live in it.
Mrs Smith watched them for a few days from her window and then
she said to her husband, 'Bill, the man in that house opposite always
kisses his wife when he leaves the morning and he kisses her again
when he comes home in the evening. Why don't you do that too?"
"Well", Mr Smith answered, 'I don't know her very well yet."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who were Mr. and Mrs. Smith?
2. When did Mr and Mrs Smith marry?
3. Does Mr Smith go out to work?
4. What are the neighbours like?
5. What happened in the house opposite?
6. Who came to live in the house?
7. What did Mrs Smith do then?
8. What did she say to her husband?
9. And what did he answer?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. different
2. never
3. bad
4. asked
5. before
6. play
7. leave s
8. few
9. badly
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr and Mrs Smith lived in the different flats for fifty years.
2. Mr Smith goes to work on Saturday at 9 o'clock in the morning .
3. He works 10 hours a day.
4. Mr Smith comes home at six o'clock every day.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Smoth's house did not have neighbours.
6. Mrs Smith went to her new neighbour's house.
7. The neighbours were rude.
8. Mrs Smith watched her neighbours from her window.
9. Mrs Smith wanted Mr Smith to kiss their neighbour.
10. Mrs. Smith wanted to kill er husband
Text 167
Mrs Peters had two children. Sammy was seven years old, and his sister Annie was four. Sammy went to school, but Annie did not. When Sammy was at home, he often played with Annie while their mother was cooking or washing or cleaning, and he was usually very nice to his small sister, and Mrs Peters was free to do her work quietly.
One Saturday morning, the two children were playing in the garden while their mother was cooking the lunch. They were quite happy until Annie suddenly began to cry and ran into the kitchen to
her mother.
Mrs Peters stopped cooking and said, 'Why are you crying, Annie?"
Sammy's broken my toy horse, Annie answered, crying more
loudly.
'How did he break it?' her mother asked.
Annie stopped crying, but did not answer for a few seconds. Then she said, 'I hit him on the head with it."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What was Mrs. Peters ?
2. What did Sammy do when he was at home?
3. Why was Mrs Peters usually free to do her work quietly when he was at home?
4. What were the children doing one Saturday morning while she was cooking the lunch?
5. What happened suddenly?
6. What did Mrs Peters say to Annie?
7. And what did Annie answer?
8. What did Mrs Peters ask then?
9. And what was Annie's answer?
10. What happened then ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. many
2. sad
3. fix
4. seldom
5. huge
6. laugh
7.
8. started
9. asked
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Mrs. Peters had seven children.
2. Sammy was seventeen years old.
3. Annie was three years old.
4. Sammy and Annie went to the same school.
5. Their mother had home-business.
6. Sammy often behaved badly with his sister.
7. Mrs Peters met with her friend while her children were playing.
8. Sammy broke Annie's toy doll.
9. Annie hit Sammy with her friend's toy.
10. Their mother put then in the corners of the walls.
Text 168
Ted worked in a factory in a big town. He liked fishing very much, and was very good at it. Whenever he was free, he went down to the small river behind the factory and tried to catch some fish, but there were very few there, because the water was dirty. Then one summer he went to the seaside during his holidays and stayed at a small, cheap hotel.
I've never fished in the sea before, he thought. It will be rather different from fishing in our river.'
On the first day he caught a lot of fish and was very happy. He gave
them to the hotel, and they cooked them for all the guests, and they
enjoyed them very much. After that, he did this every day. But when
Ted got his bill at the end of the week, he saw on it:
'For oil to fry fish (7 days): £3.50.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Ted?
2. Where did he work?
3. What was Ted's hobby?
4. Where did he fish?
5. Why did not he catch many fish there?
6. Where did he go one summer?
7. Where did he stay?
8. Where did he fish there?
9. When he caught a fish, what happened to it?
10. And what happened at the end of the week?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. small
2. after
3. busy
4. many ( much)
5. hated
6. always
7. expensive
8. clean
9. sad
10. played
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Ted worked in the garden in a small village.
2. He was very bad at fishing.
3. During his holidays he went to the lake.
4. Ted caught a few fish.
5. He sold the fish to the hotel.
6. Ted stayed in the hotel for one week.
7. Ted liked fishing in the river.
8. The river was clean.
9. He has often in the sea before.
10. The River-fishing is same as sea-fishing
Text 169
Nat lived in a small town in England. He always stayed in England for his holidays, but then last year he thought, I've never been outside this country. All my friends go to Spain, and they like it very much, so this year I'm going to go there too."
First he went to Madrid and stayed in a small hotel for a few days. On the first morning he went out for a walk. In England people drive on the left, but in Spain they drive on the right. Nat forgot about this, and while he was crossing a busy street, a bicycle knocked him down.
Nat lay on the ground for a few seconds and then he sat up and
said, 'Where am I?'
An old man was selling maps at the side of the street and he at once came to Nat and said, "Map of the city, sir?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Nat live?
2. Where did Nat always have his holidays?
3. What did he think one year?
4. Where did he go?
5. What did he do on the first morning?
6. What happened while he was crossing a busy street?
7. What did he say after a few seconds?
8. What was the old man doing?
9. What did he say to Nat?
10. Where did Nat's friends travell?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. huge
2. always
3. inside
4. enemies
5. last
6. little
7. left
8. down
9. remembered
10. free
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Nat lived in a large suburb in Ukraine.
2. Nat always went outside England before last year.
3. In England people drive on the right side.
4. Nat decided to go to Canada.
5. Nat stayed in his friends' house.
6. Nat went to the cinema one day.
6. A car knocked Nat down.
7. An ambulance took Nat to the hospital.
8. The young lady ran to Nat.
9. Nat wanted a map of the city.
10.
Text 170
Harry and Bob were neighbours, and they worked in the same bank. They were young and they often went out together. Then the bank
sent both of them to a new town. They did not know any other people there, so on the first Saturday, Bob said to Harry, 'There's a dance at the Bridge Hotel this evening. Let's go there. Perhaps we'll meet some nice girls.'
Harry answered, 'All right,' and they went to the dance together.
They danced several times with the girls there, and then Harry went
to Bob and pointed to one girl.
'She's a nasty one,' he said angrily. 'Don't talk to her.'
Bob was surprised. 'Why? What happened?" he asked his friend.
Harry answered, 'She said to me, "Do you dance?" "
Bob laughed and said, 'But that isn't a nasty thing to say!'
'She said it while I was dancing with her,' Harry answered angrily.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.Who were Harry and Bob ?
2. Where did Harry and Bob work?
3. Where did the bank send them?
4. What did Bob say to Harry on the first Saturday?
5. Where did they go that evening?
6. What did they do there?
7. What did Harry do and say then?
8. What did the girl say to Harry?
9. When did she say it?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. into
2. separate
3. played
4. nice
5. different
6. asked
7. last
8. happily
9. without
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Harry lived far from Bob.
2. Harry and Bob worked in different banks.
3. They were old friends.
4. They worked together before and after that the bank fired them.
5. They went to a mall in the new town.
6. Harry and Bob went to the dance on Saturday.
7. Many girls knew Harry and Bob .
8. Harry and Bob ganced in Crown Hotel
9. Bob was angry with one of the girls at the dance because she
did not want dance with him.
10.
Text 171
Mr Miller had a shop in a big town. He sold ladies' clothes, and he always had two or three shopgirls to help him. They were always young, because they were cheaper than older women, but none of them worked for him for very long, because they were young, and they did not meet many boys in a women's shop.
Last month a pretty girl came to work for him. Her name was Helen, and she was very good. After a few days, Mr Miller saw a young man come into the shop. He went straight to Helen, spoke to her for a few minutes and then went out of the shop again.
Mr Miller was rather surprised, and when the young man left, he went to Helen and said, 'That young man didn't buy anything. What did he want to see?"
Helen answered, 'Me, at half past five.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Mr Miller ?
2. What did Mr Miller's shop sell?
3. Who worked there with him?
4. Why did he have young shopgirls?
5. Why did none of them stay very long?
6. Who began to work in the shop last month?
7. What did the young man do when he came into the shop?
8. What did Mr Miller ask Helen then?
9. What did Helen answer?
10.Why did young girls become the shopgirls in the Mr Miller's shop ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. into
3. expensive
4. little
5. ugly
6. bought
7. many( much)
8. asked
9. next
10. short
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr Miller's shop was in a big village.
2. He had a lot of boys to help him.
3. The girls worked during long time.
4. A few boys came to the shop.
5. Helen was very unkempt .
6. The young man came to buy a dress for his wife.
7. Mr. Miller had fishing shop for men in the small town.
8. Mr. Miller paid high salaries for young ladies because they were beautiful.
9. The new girl had a lot of skills in sellings.
10. The young man came to the shop and offered other women's clothes for selling
Text 172
When Jimmy was a boy, he always liked watches and clocks very much. When he was eighteen years old, he went into the army, and after a year, he began to teach himself to mend watches. A lot of his friends brought him broken watches, and he mended them for them.
Then his captain heard about this, and one day he brought him a watch too and said, 'My watch has stopped. Can you mend it for me, please?"
Jimmy said, 'Yes, sir, I can.' After a few days, he brought the watch back to the captain.
'How much do I owe you?" the officer asked.
'One pound, sir,' Jimmy answered. Then he took a small box out of his pocket and gave it to the captain, saying, 'Here are three wheels from your watch. I didn't find a place for them when I put everything back.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Jimmy ?
2. What was Jimmy's hobby when he was a boy?
3. What happened when Jimmy was eighteen years old?
4. What did he do when he was nineteen?
5. What did he do for his friends?
6. Who brought him a watch then?
7. What happened after a few days?
8. What did the officer ask?
9. What did Jimmy answer?
10. What did he do and say then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. gave
2. enemies
3. before
4. into
5. break
6. huge
7. began
8. front
9. lose
10. never
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jimmy liked cars very much
2. Jimmy learnt to mend watches from a teacher.
3. He mended watches for his girl-friends.
4. Officers did not bring him watches.
5. He mended a watch for an officer.
6. He wanted the captain to pay him £10.
7. He mended the captain's watch very well.
8. Jimmy opened his own repairing shop.
9. Jimmy became a very famous watchmaker in his own city.
10.
Text 173
When Alan was young, he played a lot of football, and he was very good at it, but then he went and worked in a town, and there was no team for him there, so he stopped playing.
Then he began to get rather fat, so he thought, I've stopped playing football, and now I'm getting fat. ''What am I going to do?” He thought about it for a few days, and then he said to himself, 'I know: I'll play tennis.'
He had a few lessons, and then played for a few months.
He met a nice girl at the tennis club one day, and they played agame of tennis against another young man and woman. Alan played very badly, and was very angry with himself. I've never played as badly as this before," he said to the girl.
"Oh,' she said, you have played before, have you?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Alan?
2. What did Alan play when he was young?
3. Why did he stop playing?
4. What happened to him then?
5. What did he think?
6. What did he say to himself a few days later?
7. What did he do about it?
8. What happened then?
9. Why was Alan angrywith himself?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. worked
3. happy
4. bad
5. always
6. well
7. started
8. ugly
9. after
10. thin
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Alan was awful at football.
2. He stopped playing football because he was lazy.
3. He moved to the country.
4. Another teams did not want take him.
5. Alan started to have problems with health.
6. He learnt to play golf .
7. One day he played tennis with three other people.
8. He played perfectly.
9. Alan got a diet because he began getting more weight.
10. The girl said to Alan , " Let's marry me"
Text 174
Bruce was an Australian and worked for a newspaper in Sydney. Then he thought, I want to see Europe, so I'll go to England and work for a newspaper there for a few years."
He flew to London and soon got work, because he was good at his job.
He lived in a small but comfortable house near London, and he had a small garden. He enjoyed working in it on Saturdays and Sundays. He had nice neighbours on both sides, and they often worked in their gardens on Saturdays and Sundays too, and then they talked and joked together.
One day he was digging a hole in his garden to plant a bush when one of these neighbours came to the fence between the two gardens and looked at Bruce's work. He laughed and said, 'Are you making a
swimming-pool?'
'Oh, no,' answered Bruce, I'm going home.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Bruce?
2. Where did he work and live?
3. Why did he go to England?
4. Where did he live?
5. What were his neighbours like?
6. What did they often do on Saturdays and Sundays?
7. What was he doing in his garden one day?
8. What did one of his neighbours say to Bruce?
9. And what did Bruce answer?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. played
2. alone
3. enemies
4. good
5. hated
6. ugly
7. far
8. cried
9. rare
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Bruce lived in Odessa.
2. Bruce worked for a plant.
3. Bruce decided to go to Canada by ship.
4. Bruce hated his work .
5. He lived in a flat
6. Bruce worked in his garden on Saturdays and on Wednesdays.
7. Bruce hated his neighbours.
8. His neighbour thought, Bruce is making a basement.
9. Bruce wanted to go back to Australia.
10. Bruce wanted to work on TV , but he worked in newspaper.
Text 175
Dick lived in Oxford, and he had a new girl-friend. Her name was Daisy, and Dick liked her very much. One Sunday they went for a picnic in the country, and when they were walking to a nice place near a river, they saw a cow and its calf.
'Look, Daisy,` Dick said, 'that cow's giving its calf a kiss. Isn't that nice?"
Daisy stopped and looked. Then she smiled and said, 'Yes, it is, Dick. It's very pretty."
'Doesn't it make you want to have a kiss too, Daisy?" Dick said then, looking at her.
Daisy thought for a few seconds and then she said, “No, it doesn't really, Dick. Does it make you want to have one?
'Yes, it does, Daisy, Dick answered, holding her hand.
All right, then go and get a kiss, Daisy answered, and I'll wait here. It looks like a nice, quiet cow."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Dick live?
2. Where did Dick and Daisy go one Sunday?
3. What did they see?
4. What did Dick say?
5. And what did Daisy answer?
6. What did Dick ask her then?
7. And what did she answer?
8. What did Dick say?
9. What did Daisy answer?
10. Why did Daisy resent him for comparing her to a cow?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. old
2. far
3. little ( few)
4. start
5. noisy
6. ugly
7. cried
8. asked
9. wrong
10. horribly
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Dick lived in Odessa
2. Katya was Dick's girl-friend.
3. Dick liked her a little.
4. Dick and his girl-friend went to the theatre one Saturday.
5. They saw a steed and its calf near the sea.
6. They saw two cows near a river.
7. Dick wanted to kiss the cow.
8. Dick wanted to kiss Daisy.
9.
10.
Text 176
Joe and Fred were helping to build a house in a village. The weather was very warm, there was a lot of dust everywhere, and by half past twelve, they were very thirsty, so they stopped work to have their lunch. They found the nearest small bar, went in and sat down with their sandwiches.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen. What can I get you?" the man behind the bar asked.
Joe looked at Fred and said, 'Beer, I think. Yes, a pint of beer each. Is that all right for you, Fred?'
'Yes, that's all right, Fred said. Then he turned to the man behind the bar and said, 'And I want it in a clean glass! Don't forget that."
The man behind the bar filled the glasses and brought them to Joe and Fred. Then he said, 'Which of you asked for the clean glass?"
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What were Joe and Fred?
2. What was the weather?
3. What were Joe and Fred doing in the village?
4. Why were they very thirsty by half past twelve?
5. What did they do at lunch time?
6. What did the man behind the bar say to them?
7. What did Joe answer?
8. What did Fred say to Joe?
9. And what did he say to the man behind the bar?
10. What did the man say when he brought Joe and Fred their beer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. began
2. dirty
3. answered
4. carried away
5. cold
6. wrong
7. furthest/farthest
8. play
9. remember
10. big
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Joe and Fred lived in the city.
2. Joe and Fred were working at night .
3. The weather was perfect.
4. Joe and Fred went fishing when weather became bad.
5. They had sandwiches for lunch.
6. They had two pints of whisky each.
7. Joe asked for a clean glass.
8. The man brought beer in two clean glasses.
9. The bar had two waitresses.
10. Continue the story....
Text 177
Mr Johnson was a rich old man. He lived in a beautiful house in the country with lots of servants, but his wife was dead, and they did not have any children.
Then he died suddenly, and people said, 'His servants killed him, because they wanted his money."
But the servants said, 'No, he killed himself.'
The police came and asked the servants a lot of questions, and after a few weeks, there was a big trial. There were two famous lawyers and several important witnesses.
'Tell me, one of the lawyers said to a witness one day, 'did Mr Johnson often talk to himself when he was alone?"
'I don't know, the witness answered at once.
'You don't know?" the lawyer repeated angrily. You don't know? But you were his best friend, weren't you? Why don't YOU know?"
'Because I was never with him when he was alone,' the witness answered.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mr Johnson live ?
2. What was Mr Johnson ?
3. What did people say when Mr Johnson died?
4. What did his servants say?
5. What did the police do?
6. What happened then?
7. What did one of the lawyers say to a witness?
8. What did the witness answer?
9. What did the lawyer say then?
10. And what did the witness answer?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. together
2. always
3. asked
4. happily
5. rare
6. small
7. little-known
8. the worst
9. poor
10. before
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr Johnson was a poor young man.
2. He lived in the city.
3. He lived in a castle with lots of servants.
4. He had a lot of wives and he had one child.
5. The police knew who killed Mr Johnson .
6. The witness said, 'Mr Johnson often talked to a witch "
7. Mr Johnson was always funny man.
8. The police came and asked neighbours about Mr Johnson.
9. There were lawers who worked with Mr Johnson papers.
10. The witness and Mr Johnson were the best friends.
Text 178
When Pat was twenty-one years old, he began to work in a small office in a city. At first he never travelled anywhere, but then he became a little more important, and he began to go to other cities for a few days to do some work there. Of course, he stayed in small hotels, when he was away from his home, but he did not know very much about living in hotels at first.
One evening when he was staying in a small hotel in Sheffield, he came back from the office and said to the clerk at the desk in the hotel,'Good evening. Did any letters come for me today, please?'
The clerk was busy, but when he finished his work, he went to a big pile of letters and said, 'What name, please?'
'Well,' answered Pat, 'the name will be on the letters.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Pat?
2. How old was Pat?
3. Where did he live?
4. Where did he start to work?
5. Why did he go to another cities?
6. For how long did he go to another cities?
7. Where did he stay?
8. Why did he stay in small hotel?
9. Where did Pat stay one day?
10. What happened in a small hotel in Sheffield ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. asked
2. last
3. front
4. finished
5. huge
6. free
7. bad
8. young
9. began
10. never
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Pat started to work when he became 18 years old.
2.He worked at the plant.
3. At first Pat did not work in other cities, because he was not important enough.
4. He stayed in fancy hotels when he was in other cities.
5. At first he knew much about hotels.
6. One day he asked his office clerk about telephones calls.
7. The clerk asked him his telephone number.
8. Pat did not tell the clerk his name.
9. Pat was an old man.
10. He worked online at home.
Text 179
Mr Reece was a farmer. He and his wife grew a lot of different things and they had a few cows. They worked very hard. One day, Mr Reece said to his wife, 'Let's go to Portsmouth next Sunday. We can have a good
lunch there, and then we can go to the cinema.'
His wife was very happy when she heard this, because she and her
husband always ate a lot, and she did not like cooking three times a
day every day.
They went to Portsmouth by train and walked about for an hour.
Then, when was 12 o'clock, they wanted to have a meal. They
looked at several restaurants. In one of them there was a notice
outside: 'Lunch: 12.30 to 2.30: £1.50.'
'Well, that's good,' Mrs Reece said. 'We can eat for two hours for
£1.50 here! This is the place for us.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Reece?
2. What work did Mr Reece do?
2. What did his wife do?
3. What did he say to his wife one day?
4. Why did this make his wife happy?
5. How did they go to Portsmouth?
6. What did they do at 12 o'clock?
7. What did they see on the notice outside one restaurant?
8. What did Mrs Reece say then?
9. How much did the lunch cost in the restaurants?
10. Was Mrs. Reece happy when she heard Mr. Reece's preposal ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. few
2. hard
3. leave
4. answer
5. good
6. happy
7. always
8. stood
9. several
10. some
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr and Mrs Reece lived in a city.
2. They did not work.
3. They always ate a little .
4. Mrs Reece enjoyed cooking every day.
5. They walked about in Odessa for two hours.
6. Mrs Reece often ate in restaurants.
7. Mr and Mrs Reece went to art-gallary.
8.
9.
10.