Book 8
Text 210
Jack was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he was often away with his ship.
One summer he came back from a long voyage and found new neighbours near his mother's house. They had a pretty daughter, and Jack soon loved her very much.
He said to her, 'My next voyage will begin in a few days' time, Gloria. I love you, and I'll marry you when I come back. I'll think about you all the time, and I'll write to you and send you a present from every port.'
Jack's first port was Freetown in Africa, and he sent Gloria a parrot from there. It spoke five languages.
When Jack's ship reached Australia, there was a letter from Gloria. It said, 'Thank you for the parrot, Jack. It tasted much better than a chicken.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Who was Jack?
2. Where did Jack live?
3. Why did Jack make long voyages?
4. What did Jack find when he came back home?
5. Where did Gloria live?
6. Why did Jack think about Gloria all the time?
7. Where did Jack send Gloria the parrot from?
8. Where did Jack get Gloria's letter about the parrot from ?
9. What did Gloria do to the parrot?
10. Did Jack want that Gloria tastes parrot's meat?
11. How many languages did the parrot speak ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. short
4. old
7. worse
2. last
3. little
3. ugly
6. winter
7. seldom
8. divorse
9. send
10. finish
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jack was a cook at his ship.
2. He lived in Odessa.
3. Jack spent all the summer at the ship.
4. Jack's mother acquainted her son with Gloria.
5. Jack found Gloria by himself.
6. Gloria was the parrots' dredger.
7. Jack went to sea.
8. Gloria and Jack had marriage of convenience
9. Jack ran away from wedding.
10. Gloria frightened Jack .
Text 211
Fanny and Ethel worked in the same office, and, they were neighbours at home.
Fanny was rather a careless girl, and she often lost things. Then she usually went to Ethel to borrow more from her.
Ethel was a kind girl, but she sometimes got tired of lending things to her friend.
One Saturday afternoon Fanny knocked at Ethel's front door, and when
Ethel came to open it, Fanny said to her, 'Oh, hullo, Ethel. Please lend me a bag.I've lost mine. I'm going to the shops, and I feel very stupid when I haven't got anything in my hand when I go out in the street.
Ethel laughed and answered, 'Well, Fanny, go down to the end of the
garden. You'll find a nice wheelbarrow in the shed there. Take that when you go down to the shops. Then you'll have something in both of your hands.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Fanny often lose things?
2. Why did Ethel lend things to Fanny?
3. Why didn't Fanny want to go to the shops without a bag?
4. Why didn't Ethel lend her a bag?
5. What did she want Fanny to take to the shops?
6. Did Fanny take it, do you think?
7. Was Ethel abgry for Fanny because she lost her things?
8. What were the girls?
9. Were they old friends ?
10. Why did Fanny knock in Ethel's door ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. friend
2. hello
3. played
4. different
5. careful
6. lend
7. lost
8. active
9. come in
10. at the beginning
11. go up
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Ethel often borrowed things.
2. Fanny often borrowed things.
3. Ethel often lent things to Fanny.
4. Fanny often lent things to Ethel.
5. One day Ethel lost her bag.
6. One day Fanny lost her bag.
7. Fanny liked carrying something in her hand.
8. Fanny did not like carrying things.
9. There was a shed at the end of Ethel's garden.
10. There was a shed at the end of Fanny's garden.
Text 212
Dave married, and when his new wife saw the clothes in his cupboard,she said, 'Dave, you have only got one good shirt. The others are very old, and they've got holes in them. I'm going to buy you a new one this afternoon.'
Dave liked his old shirts, but he loved his wife too, so he said, 'All right,
Beryl, but please don't throw any of the old ones away.'
Dave went to work, and when he came back in the evening, Beryl said to him, 'Look, Dave, I've bought you a nice shirt. Here it is. Put it on.'
Dave put the shirt on, and then he said, 'Look at the sleeves, Beryl. They're too long.
'That's all right,' Beryl answered. 'They'll get shorter when I wash the shirt.'
Then Dave said, 'But the neck's too small.'
'That's all right,' Beryl answered. 'It'll get bigger when you wear the shirt, Dave.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Beryl want to buy Dave a new shirt?
2. Why didn't Dave want his wife to throw any of his old shirts away?
3. Why didn't Dave like the sleeves of his new shirt?
4. What did Beryl say about the sleeves?
5. Why didn't Dave like the collar of the shirt?
6. What did Beryl say about the collar?
7. What part of the day did Dave work ?
8. Was Dave happy to see a new shirt?
9.What kind of things did Dave like to wear?
10. Did he go to the store with his wife together?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. divorce
2. new
3. good
4. sell
5. hated
6. save
7. long
8.asked
9. little
10. pick up
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Dave asked that his wife throws all his shirts.
2. Beryl was his first wife.
3. Dave loved his shirts more than his new wife.
4. Dave was unemployed
5. His wife sewed shirt for him.
6. The shirt sleeves were short.
7. The shirt-collar was loose.
8. Dave had some new clouthes in his wardrobe.
9. Dave went to his work in the evening
10.Dave went to the store with his wife.
Text 213
Mrs. Williams lived in a small street in London, and now she had a new
neighbour. Her name was Mrs. Briggs, and she talked a lot about her expensive furniture, her beautiful carpets and her new kitchen.
'Do you know,' she said to Mrs. Williams one day, 'I've got a new dishwasher. It washes the plates and glasses and knives and forks beautifully.'
'Oh?' Mrs. Williams answered. 'And does it dry them and put them in the cupboard too?'
Mrs. Briggs was surprised. 'Well,' she answered, 'the things in the machine are dry after an hour, but it doesn't put them away, of course.'
'I've had a dishwasher for twelve and a half years,' Mrs. Williams said.
'Oh?' Mrs. Briggs answered. 'And does yours put the things in the cupboard when it has washed them?' She laughed nastily.
'Yes, he does,' Mrs. Williams answered. 'He dries the dishes and puts them away.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mrs. Briggs live?
9. Who moved in a new house?
2. Why was Mrs. Briggs surprised?
3. Did Mrs. Briggs's dishwasher dry the plates and other things?
4. Did it put them away?
5. Did Mrs. Williams's dishwasher put the things in the cupboard?
6. Who was Mrs. Williams's dishwasher?
7. Why did Mrs. Williams cheat about her neighbour?
8. What did she beg to Mrs. Williams about ?
10. Do you know about such dishwasher?
11. Where can we buy such dishwasher?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. died
2. big
3. never
4. cheap
5. wet
6. ugly
7. calmly
8. put
9. asked
10. before
11. near
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Williams lived in a big street.
2. She lived in Odessa.
3. Mrs. Williams moved in another house.
4. The neighbour told about washing machine.
5. The washing machine washed dishes perfectly.
6. Mrs. Williams washed her dishes by herself.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 214
One day a man went to see his doctor and said to him, 'I've swallowed a horse, doctor, and I feel very ill.'
The doctor thought for a few seconds and then said, 'All right, Mr. Lloyd, I'll help you. Please lie down on this bed.'
The doctor's nurse gave the man an injection, the man went to sleep, and the doctor went out quickly to look for a horse in the town.
After half an hour he found one, borrowed it and took it into his office, so when Mr. Lloyd woke up, it was there in front of him.
'Here's the horse, Mr. Lloyd,' the doctor said. 'I've taken it out of your
stomach, and it won't give you any more trouble now.'
At first Mr. Lloyd was happy, but then he looked at the horse again and said, 'But, doctor, my horse was white, and this one's brown!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Did the doctor think, 'This man has really swallowed a horse'?
2. Why did the nurse give the man an injection?
3. What did the doctor do when he went out?
4. What did Mr. Lloyd see when he woke up?
5. Why was Mr. Lloyd not happy when he looked at the horse
more carefully?
6. Did Mr. Lloyd have alive horse?
7. Was the doctor wizard?
8. Did Mr. Lloyd sleep whole day?
9. Who made injection for Mr. Lloyd?
10. Did Mr. Lloyd have a stomachache ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. stopped
2. answered
3. spat out
4. up
5. took
6. wake up
7. came in
8. lose
9. never
10. slowly
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Lloyd went to the office.
2. The doctor was very ill.
3. Mr. Lloyd fell asleep because he was tired.
4. The doctor treated Mr.Lloyd when he slept.
5. Mr. Lloyd complained about his headache.
6. The doctor operated Mr. Lloyd .
7. The doctor painted the horse in red.
8. Mr. Lloyd's horse was white in his dream.
9.
10.
Text 215
A history teacher was talking to his class about the ancient Romans.
'They were very strong, brave people, and they were good soldiers,' he said.
'They always wanted to have strong bodies, so they played a lot of games.'
'Did they like swimming?' one of the girls asked. 'That makes people's
bodies strong. She was very good at swimming.
'Oh, yes, some of them swam a lot,' the teacher answered. Then he told
them a story about one famous Roman.
'There was a big, wide river in the middle of Rome,' he said. 'It was the
Tiber, and this man swam across it three times every day before breakfast.'
The girl laughed when she heard this.
'Why are you laughing?' the teacher asked her angrily. 'Have I said anything funny?'
'Well, sir,' the girl answered, 'Why didn't he swim across the river four times, to get back to his clothes again?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did the ancient Romans play a lot of games?
2. Why was one of the girls interested in swimming?
3. Who swam across the Tiber before breakfast?
4. Why was the teacher angry?
5. Why did the girl laugh?
6. What many times did Roman swim across the river?
7. Who was good at swimming among the pupils?
8. Who was angry and who was funny?
9. What were Romans?
10. What did Romans want to have ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. weak
2. modern
3. bad
4. played
5. asked
6. ( to be ) silent
7. happily
8. sad
9. cried
10. never
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. The literature teacher told the story.
2. This story was about strong and brave people.
3. This story was about ancient Greek.
4. The Roman had a big body and he swam in the lake.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 216
Betty Brown was five years old, and her mother wanted her to begin going to school, because she wanted to start working in an office again.
A month before the beginning of the school year Mrs. Brown began telling Betty about school. 'It's very nice,' she said. 'You'll play games and paint pictures and sing songs.
Mrs. Brown began doing these things with Betty. Betty liked the games and the painting and the singing very much, but she always wanted to be near her mother, so Mrs. Brown was rather afraid and thought, 'What will she do when I leave her at school?'
But on the first day at school Betty was very good. She did not cry, and she was happy.
On the second morning Mrs. Brown said, 'Put your clothes on, Betty. I'm going to take you to school in half an hour's time.'
'School?' Betty said. 'But I've been to school!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Mrs. Brown want to send her daughter to school?
2. What did Mrs. Brown do to make Betty like school?
3. Why was Mrs. Brown afraid?
4. Did Betty like school when she went there?
5. Why was Betty surprised when her mother said, 'I'm going to
take you to school in half an hour's time on the second morning?
(Because she thought, '. . . .')
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. nasty
4. young
7. far from
2. bad
3. after
3. sad
6. little
7.
8.
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 217
One morning Mrs. Perry said to her husband, 'Jack, there's a meeting of our ladies' club at Mrs. Young's house at lunch time today, and I want to go to it. I'll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?"
'Oh, yes,' her husband answered, that's quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?'
'This tin of fish,' Mrs. Perry said. 'And there are some cold, boiled potatoes and some beans here, too.'
'Good,' Mr. Perry answered. I'll have a good lunch.'
So Mrs. Perry went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs. Young's house, and at three o'clock Mrs. Perry came home.
'Was your fish nice, Jack?' she asked.
'Yes, but my feet are hurting,' he answered.
'Why are they hurting?' Mrs. Perry asked.
'Well, the words on the tin were, "Open tin and stand in hot water for five minutes"."
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why didn't Mrs. Perry want to cook her husband's lunch?
2. What did she leave him for his lunch?
3. Did Mr. Perry enjoy his lunch?
4. What was the matter with his feet?
5. What mistake did Mr. Perry make when he read the words on the tin?
6. Did Mrs. and Mr. Perry have chidren?
7.
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Perry wanted to belong to a ladies' club.
2. Mrs. Perry belonged to a ladies' club.
3. Mrs. Perry did not cook her husband's lunch that day.
4. Mrs. Perry cooked the lunch for her husband that day.
5. Mrs. Perry had lunch with several ladies.
6. Mrs. Perry had lunch with Mrs. Young only.
7. Mr. Perry didn't like his lunch.
8. Mr. Perry liked his lunch.
9. Mr. Perry put the tin of fish in hot water.
10. Mr. Perry put his feet in hot water.
Text 218
Miss Green was very fat. She weighed 100 kilos, and she was getting heavier every month, so she went to see her doctor.
He said, 'You need a diet, Miss Green, and I've got a good one here.' He gave her a small book and said, 'Read this carefully and eat the things on page 11 every day. Then come back and see me in two weeks' time.'
Miss Green came again two weeks later, but she wasn't thinner: she was
fatter. The doctor was surprised and said, 'Are you eating the things on page 11 of the small book?'
'Yes, doctor,' she answered.
The next day the doctor visited Miss Green during her dinner. She was very surprised to see him.
'Miss Green,' he said, 'Why are you eating potatoes and bread? They aren't in your diet.'
'But, doctor,' Miss Green answered, 'I ate my diet at lunch time. This is my dinner.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Miss Green go to see her doctor?
2. How did the doctor try to help her?
3. Did she get thinner?
4. Did she eat the things on page 11 of the book?
5. Why didn't she get thinner?
6. When did the doctor come to her?
7. What did Miss Green eat?
8. What didi the doctor say when he saw Miss Green's meal ?
9. What did Miss Green say ?
10. What did the doctor say ?
11. What did Miss Green answer?
12. Why did the doctor come to her?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. fat
2. bad
3. previous
4. tall
5. answered
6. take
7. careless
8. front
9. those
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Miss Green was very thin.
2. Miss Green was getting taller.
3. The doctor gave her a piece of paper.
4. The doctor said that Miss Green must come back one month later.
5. Miss Green was like a model.
6.
7. Miss Green ate beans and meal.
8. Miss Green became fatter because she she ate sweets and drank wine.
9.
10.
Text 219
Rose left school when she was seventeen years old and went to a college for a year to learn to type. She passed her examinations quite well and then went to look for work. She was still living with her parents.
A lot of people were looking for typists at that time, so it was not difficult to find interesting work. Rose went to several offices, and then chose one of them.
It was near her parents' house. She thought, I'll walk there every morning. I won't need to go by bus.'
She went to the office again and said to the manager, 'I want to work here, but what will you pay me?'
'We'll pay you £27 now,' the manager answered, and £30 after three
months.
Rose thought for a few seconds before she answered. Then she said, 'All right, then I'll start in three months' time.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why was it easy to find interesting work?
2. Why did Rose want to work in an office near her parents' house?
3. Why did Rose go to one office again?
4. Whom did she talk to there?
5. Why did she want to start working there in three months' time?
6. How much would the manage have to pay after three months work?
7. When did Rose leave her school?
8. How did Rose pass her examination?
9. What did Rose do after her examination?
10.With whom did Rose live?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. visit
2. easy
3. lose
4. far
5. many
6. ask
7. finish
8. after
9. there
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Rose left school when she was eighteen.
2. She passed her examination very badly.
3. She decided to go to work after school.
4. Rose left her parents house when she finished school and college.
5. Rose travelled for searching a work.
6. Rose received two pounds for one woking day
7. A lot of people were standing in order for interview
8. Rose quarelled with a manager.
9. Rose found a work because she had a resume.
10. 30 ponds for Rose was not enough.
Text 220
Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well.
But one year Mr. Day said to one of his friends, 'I'm going to have a holiday in Athens. But I don't speak Greek, so I'll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go.'
He studied very hard for a month, and then his holidays began and he went to Greece.
When he came back a few weeks later, his friend said to him, 'Did you have any trouble with your Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?'
'No, I didn't have any trouble with it,' answered Mr. Day. 'But the Greeks did!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where did Mr. Day usually spend some time during his holidays?
2. Why did he want to have Greek lessons?
3. Where did he go to learn Greek?
4. How long did he stay in Greece?
5. How much did his Greek help him while he was in Greece?
6. Why did Mr.Day go Greece instead of France or Germany?
7. Why did Mr. Day visit evening classes instead of morning classes?
8. How long did Mr. Day learn Greek ?
9.Why did Mr. Day need to learn Greek ?
10. Why did he choose Athens?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. Little
2. south
3. many
4. After
5. easy
6. finish
7.front
8. enemy
9.without
10. badly
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Day was a mechanic.
2. Mr. Day had a vacation.
3. Mr. Day knew Greek, German and French languages.
4. He travelled with his students.
5. Mr. Day's friends arrived to him to Greece
6. His wife heard his story about Greece.
7. Mr. Day had a trouble with Greek language.
8. He learned Greek language alone.
9. Mr. Day went to Olimpia Game.
10. Mr.Day lived in a small town in West part of English.
Text 221
Mr. Pearce liked shooting ducks very much. Whenever he had a free day, he went out shooting with his friends.
But one summer he said to himself, 'I've never been to the mountains. My holidays are going to begin soon, so I'm going to go to the mountains and shoot deer. They're more interesting than ducks, I think.'
So when his holidays began, Mr. Pearce went to the station, bought his ticket and was soon in the mountains.
He got out at a small station and walked through fields and forests for a few kilometres. Then he saw a farmer in a field. 'Good morning,' Mr. Pearce said to him. 'Are there any deer here?'
'Well,' answered the farmer slowly, there was one last year, but all the
gentlemen from the town came and shot at it, and it's gone somewhere else now, I think.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What sport did Mr. Pearce enjoy most?
2. When did he go hunting?
2. Why did he want to go to the mountains?
3. How did he go to the mountains?
4. Whom did he speak to there?
5. Why did the deer go away from that place?
6. Whom did he go hunting with?
7. Whom did he hunt ?
8. Did the hunters hunt the bears?
9. Was Mr. Pearce a good hunter?
10. Where did Mr. Pearce live?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. Hated
2.( to be ) boring)
3. next
4. Snapper
5.front
6. Flat land
7. Night
8. Fast
9. Asked
10. Winter
11.enemies
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.Mr .Pearce was a fisherman
2. Wild boars 🐗 hunted for Mr Pearce
3. Mr.Pearce was office clerk.
4. He went to the forest to look for deer.
5. Mr.Pearce' s wife liked to hunt with her husband
6. Mr Pearce worked at home.
7. Mr.Pearce wanted to ride deer.
8. The road took
9.
10.
Text 222
Mr. Leonard was twenty-three years old and not very rich. He was not married and he lived in two rooms in a small house in a city.
Every summer, Mr. Leonard went down to the sea for a holiday. He stayed in small, cheap hotels, but he always wanted to have a clean, tidy room. He hated dirty places.
One summer a friend of his said, 'Go to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. I
went there last year, and it was very nice and clean.'
So Mr. Leonard went to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. But there was a
different manager that year.
The new manager took Mr. Leonard to his room. The room looked quite
nice and clean, but Mr. Leonard said to the manager, 'Are the sheets on the bed clean?'
'Yes, of course they are!' he answered angrily. 'We washed them this
morning. Feel them. They're still damp.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did Mr. Leonard stay in cheap hotels?
2. What kinds of rooms did not Mr. Leonard like?
3. Who gave Mr. Leonard the name of the Tower Hotel?
4. Why was the new manager angry?
5. Where were the damp sheets?
6. How old was Mr. Leonard ?
7. How many children did Nr.Leonad have?
8. Did Mr.Leonard have a wife?
9. Where did Mr. Leonard go every summer?
10. Where did Mr. Leonard live ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. poor
2. divorce
3. winter
4. expensive
5. enemy
6. sloopy
7. same
8. next
9. dirty
10. dry
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Leonard did not have a wife.
2. Mr. Leonard's wife was quite young.
3. Mr. Leonard went to cheap hotels because they were usually clean.
4. Mr. Leonard went to cheap hotels because he did not have much money.
5. Mr. Leonard's friend liked the Tower Hotel.
6. Mr. Leonard's friend did not like the Tower Hotel much.
7. The sheets on Mr. Leonard's bed were not very clean.
8. The sheets on Mr. Leonard's bed were clean.
9. His sheets were not dry.
10. His sheets were quite dry.
Text 223
Two years after Tom and Elizabeth married, they went to live in a small flat in a big city. They were both quite young: Tom was twenty-six and Elizabeth was twenty-two. Tom worked in a bank, and Elizabeth worked in a big office.
Elizabeth always cooked the dinner when they got home, and when they had meat, Tom always cut it up when they sat down to eat.
While Tom was cutting the meat up one evening, Elizabeth said to him,
'When we were first married, Tom, you always gave me the bigger piece of meat when you cut it, and you kept the smaller one for yourself. Now you do the opposite: you give me the smaller piece and keep the bigger one for yourself. Why do you do that? Don't you love me any more?'
Her husband laughed and answered, 'Oh, no, Elizabeth. It isn't that! It's because you've learned to cook now!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. How long did Tom and Elizabeth marry ?
2. Where did they live and work ?
3. For how many years is Tom older than Elizabeth ?
4. Who cooked in Tom's house?
5. What work did Tom do during meals?
6. What did Tom always do when he and Elizabeth first married?
7. What does he do now?
8. Why has he changed?
9. Did Tom fall out of love with his wife?
10. What did Elizabeth ask her husband then?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. before
2. divorce
3. died
4. never
5. last
6. stand
7. starve
8. get
9. hate
10. cried
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Tom and Elithabeth already live together for thee years
2. They lived in a small house in a big city.
3. Tom and Elithabeth were coeval.
4. Tom and Elithabeth worked together.
5. Tom cooked because Elithabeth could not cook.
6. Tom always cut meat when they had lunch.
7. Tom loved with his wife.
8. Elithabeth and Tom had meal at the restaurant.
9.
10.
Text 224
Mrs. Jenkins went to see her doctor one day, because her heart was giving her trouble.
The doctor listened to her heart carefully and did a few other things. Then he said, 'Well, Mrs. Jenkins, stop smoking, and then you'll soon be quite all right again.'
'But doctor,' answered Mrs. Jenkins quickly, 'I've never smoked. I don't like smoking.'
'Oh, well,' said the doctor, 'then don't drink any more alcohol.'
'But I don't drink alcohol,' answered Mrs. Jenkins at once.
'Stop drinking tea and coffee then,' the doctor said to her.
'I only drink water,' answered Mrs. Jenkins. 'I don't like tea or coffee.'
The doctor thought for a few seconds and then said, 'Well, . . . er ... do you like fried potatoes?'
'Yes, I like them very much,' answered Mrs. Jenkins.
'All right, then stop eating those,' said the doctor as he got up to say
goodbye to Mrs. Jenkins.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Mrs. Jenkins have trouble with?
2. Whom did she want to visit ?
3. What did the doctor do before he said something?
4. How did the doctor examine her?
5. What were his first words ?
6. Why did not Mrs. Jenkins smoke?
7. What did Mrs. Jenkins drink?
8. What did she like eating?
9. What did the doctor want her to do?
10. Did Mrs. Jenkins have a healthy lifestyle?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.stayed
2. carelessly
3. go
4. slowly
5. asked
6. hate
7. greet
8. many
9. less
10. wrong
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mrs. Jenkins visited the doctor because she fell in love.
2. Mrs. Jenkins went to the doctor once a week.
3. Mrs. Jenkins was a heavy drinker .
4. The doctor had a lockbox in his office.
5. Mrs. Jenkins had an inactive lifestyle.
6. Mrs. Jenkins and her husband visited McDonald's every day.
7. Mrs. Jenkins felt worse after party.
8. The doctor did not find the reason of her paint.
9.Mrs. Jenkins was a passive smoker.
10.
Text 225
John liked chocolates very much, but his mother never gave him any, because they were bad for his teeth, she thought. But John had a very nice grandfather.
The old man loved his grandson very much, and sometimes he brought John chocolates when he came to visit him. Then his mother let him eat them, because she wanted to make the old man happy.
One evening, a few days before John's seventh birthday, he was saying his prayers in his bedroom before he went to bed. 'Please, God, he shouted,' make them give me a huge box of chocolates for my birthday on Saturday.'
His mother was in the kitchen, but she heard the small boy shouting and went into his bedroom quickly.
'Why are you shouting, John?' she asked her son. 'God can hear you when you talk quietly.'
'I know,' answered the clever boy with a smile, 'but Grandfather's in the next room, and he can't.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why didn't John get any chocolates from his mother?
2. Why did his grandfather give him chocolates?
3. Whom did John really mean when he said 'them' while he was saying his prayers?
4. Why did John's mother go into his bedroom quickly?
5. What did John want his grandfather to do on Saturday?
6. Who first heard small boy ?
7. Why was John a clever boy?
8. Why did John shout in his bedroom in the evening?
9. Why did John like chocolate?
10. Where did John hide his candies ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. good
4. always
7. stupid
2. tall
5. hated
3. quietly
6. slowly
7. little
8. shouted
9. sad
10. avoid
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. John liked sweets.
2. John had a very nice relatives.
3.
4. John and his grandfather hid chocolates from John's mother.
5. John's mother allowed her son to eat whole box of chocolate.
6. John liked to shout in his bedroom at night .
7.John prayed that a big box falls at him from the sky.
8. The mother heard a loud noise at the John's Birthday
9. The boy was silly.
10. The mother was not at home, but she heard her son.
Text 226
It was Jimmy's birthday, and he was five years old. He got quite a lot of nice birthday presents from his family, and one of them was a beautiful big drum.
'Who gave him that thing?' Jimmy's father said when he saw it.
'His grandfather did,' answered Jimmy's mother.
'Oh,' said his father.
Of course, Jimmy liked his drum very much. He made a terrible noise with it, but his mother did not mind. His father was working during the day, and Jimmy was in bed when he got home in the evening, so he did not hear the noise.
But one of the neighbours did not like the noise at all, so one morning a few days later, she took a sharp knife and went to Jimmy's house while he was hitting his drum. She said to him, 'Hullo, Jimmy. Do you know, there's something very nice inside your drum. Here's a knife. Open the drum and let's find it.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. When did Jimmy get the drum?
2. Whom did he get it from?
3. Why didn't his father hear it?
4. Why did the neighbour really want Jimmy to cut the drum open?
5. What did she say to Jimmy to make him cut it open?
6.
7. What time did Jimmy go in the bedroom?
8.When did the neighbour come to Jimmy's house?
9. What was neighbour's knife ?
10. What is your opinion - did Jimmy or did not Jimmy cut the drum?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. horrible
2. ugly
3. noisy
4. hated
5. little
6. asked
7. blunt
8. deaf
9. shut
10. to be in dark
11. reconcile
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Jimmy was in his brother's birthday.
2. Jimmy cried because his grandfather did not give ( present) him a drum.
3. he had a lot of presents from his friends.
4. The father liked when Jimmy drummed the drum.
5. The neighbour liked Jimmy's music.
6. The neighbour was at Jimmy's birthday.
7.Jimmy was interested in drum's content.
8. Jimmy always played the drum for his grandfather.
9. The neighbour was Jimmy's baby-sitter.
10. The neighbour threatened Jimmy with knife.
Text 227
When Tom Howard was seventeen years old he was as tall as his father, so he began to borrow Mr. Howard's clothes when he wanted to go out with his friends in the evening.
Mr. Howard did not like this, and he always got very angry when he found his son wearing any of his things.
One evening when Tom came downstairs to go out, his father stopped him in the hall. He looked at Tom's clothes very carefully.
Then he said angrily, 'Isn't that one of my ties, Tom?'
'Yes, Father, it is,' answered Tom.
'And that shirt's mine too, isn't it?' his father continued.
'Yes, that's yours too,' answered Tom.
And you're wearing my belt!' said Mr. Howard.
'Yes, I am, Father,' answered Tom. 'You don't want your trousers to fall
down, do you?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. When did Tom begin to borrow his father's clothes?
2. When did he put them on?
3. What did Tom's father do when he borrowed his clothes?
4. Which of his father's clothes was Tom wearing in this story?
5. Did Tom lose his clothes in his trips ?
6. Did Mr. Howard give his own clothes by his wish ?
7. Where did Tom and his father meet one evening ?
8. Was Tom a female ?
9. Did Tom's father pay attention when he saw his son in his clothes in the hall ?
10. Why did father stop noting his clothes ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. young
2. small
3. lend
4. go into
5. confused
6. never
7. lose
8. careless
9. happily
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Tom was twenty-seven yeats old.
2. Tom was a married man.
3. Tom was a son in a large family
4. Tom often prefered to change his clothes.
5. Tom came up to his room.
6. When Tom chose clothes for himself - he was very careful
7. Tom's sister liked to wear Tom's clothes.
8. Tom did not have taste in clothes at all.
9. Mr. Howard was a roommate.
10. Tom's father restrained with his losing.
Text 228
Mr. Yates was nearly ninety, so it was often difficult for him to remember things, but he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit some friends. These people had two young daughters.
One afternoon Mr. Yates was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. 'You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren't you?' he said to her.
'Yes, we were,' answered the girl. 'We were very ill.'
The old man said nothing for a minute, because he was thinking. Then at last he said, 'Oh, yes, I remember now! One of you died. Which one of you was it, you or your sister?'
The girl answered, 'It was me.'
'Oh? I'm very sorry to hear it,' said the old man.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did not Mr. Yates remember things very well?
2. Where did his friends live?
3. Who were ill when Mr. and Mrs. Yates visited Spain another time?
4. Who really died then?
5. Was the girl having a joke with Mr. Yates?
6. Who were these two sisters?
7. What happened with sisters last year ?
8. What did Mr. Yates like?
9.Where were Mr. Yates and a girl one afternoon?
10.How Do you think - What house did Mr. Yates' friends have?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. healthy
2. far
3. Easy
4. Winter
5. leave
6. quietly
7. forget
8.next
9.enemies
10. little
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. This story is about two daughters.
2. Mr. Yates and his wife went to the Rome every year.
3. Mr. Yates' s friends had two sons.
4. Mr. Yates had a perfect memory.
5. Mr. Yates's friends had a house at the seaside
6. Mr. Yates thought that one of the sisters was dead.
7. Mr. Yates met one of the girls in the cafe.
8. Mr. Yates liked frequent meeting .
9. Mr. Yates's friend's family was ill.
10. Mr. Yates was old retired person.
Text 229
Mr. Knott was a teacher. He taught in a big school in London. He lived a long way from the school, so he was usually quite tired when he got home. At nine o'clock one evening, when he was in bed, the telephone bell rang in the hall of his small house, so he went downstairs, picked up the telephone and said, 'This is Whitebridge 3165. Who's speaking, please?'
'Watt,' a man answered.
'What's your name, please?' said Mr. Knott.
'Watt's my name,' was the answer.
'Yes, I asked you that. What's name?' Mr. Knott said again.
'I told you. Watt's my name,' said the other man. 'Are you Jack Smith?'
'No, I'm Knott,' answered Mr. Knott.
'Will you give me your name, please?' said Mr. Watt.
'Will Knott,' answered Mr. Knott.
Both Mr. Watt and Mr. Will Knott put their telephones down angrily and
thought, 'That was a rude, stupid man!'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Mr. Knott?
2. Why did not Mr. Knott get enough sleep ?
3. Why was Mr. Knott usually tired in the evenings?
4. Why did he get up and go downstairs when he was already in bed?
3. Who telephoned him?
4. Whom did Mr. Watt want to speak to?
5. When Mr. Knott said, 'Will Knott,' what did Mr. Watt think?
(He thought, ....)
6. What time did Mr. Knott get up ?
7. What did his house look like ?
8. How often did he get night calls ?
9. Whose name was Jack Smith?
10. Why did not Mr. Knott understand Mr. Watt?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. small
2. to be dead
3. shot
4. energetic
5. asked
6.take
7. happily
8. polite
9. clever
10. up
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Mr. Knott was a traveller .
2. Mr. Knott was a famous confectioner .
3. Mr. Knott was tired because he cooked pudding.
4. He saw a nightmare so he was angry.
5. Telephone's ring was Mrs.
6.Mr Knot knew Mr Watt
7. Mr. Will Knott put his telephone receiver down happily.
8. Wаtt and Knot thought "That was a nіce, polite man!'"
9. Jack was Wott's neighbour.
10. That was efficient told.
Text 230
Carol Roberts left school when she was seventeen and then thought, 'What's going to happen now? I want to marry a nice, young man and have children, but nice, young men did not aske me yet. Will I meet one soon, and will he want to marry me?'
She spoke to her best friend about these questions, and her best friend said. 'Go and ask a fortune-teller. Perhaps she'll give you the answers.
So Carol went to see a fortune-teller. The fortune-teller said to her, 'I'll give you answers to two questions. It'll cost you five pounds.'
Carol was surprised. She thought for some time, but at last she paid the money. Then she said to the fortune-teller, 'Isn't that very expensive for only two questions?'
'Yes, it is,' answered the fortune-teller. 'And now what's your second
question?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did Carol want to do after she left school?
2. What questions did she want to ask the fortune-teller?
3. Why was Carol surprised?
4. How much money did she give the fortune-teller?
5. How did she spend half that money?
6. Who let Carol know about fortune-teller ?
7. Did Carol get an answer for her first qustion ?
8. From whom did she wait an answer ?
9. Did Carol have a boy-friend ?
10. Was Karol's friend married ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. came
2. divorce
3. enemy
4. nice
5. adults
6. take
7. question
8. cheap
9. next
10. boring
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Carol left school when she was 18 years old
2. Carol want to marry her childhood's friend.
3. Carol hated children.
4. She spoke with her best friend about second-half.
5. Carol wen t to see fortune - teller with her friend.
6. The fortune-teller asked Carol two questions .
7. Carol was glad that she asked first question.
8. Carol spent all her money for fortune-teller
9. The fortune-teller was cheap.
10. Carol met her love.
Text 231
Jack had a small, red car, and he liked driving it very fast. This was all right when he was out in the country, but in towns and big villages driving fast is dangerous, so there is always a speed limit. In Jack's country it was fifty kilometres an hour. Jack often drove faster than that through towns.
One day Jack was driving his small, red car through a town when a very young policeman stopped him and said, 'You were driving at more than fifty kilometres an hour, sir. Please give me your name and address.'
Jack looked at the young policeman carefully for a few seconds and then said to him, 'But I started my journey less than an hour ago!'
The policeman was new to this work and did not know the answer to Jack's excuse. He thought for a few seconds and then let Jack go.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why is there a speed limit in towns and big villages?
2. How fast did Jack sometimes drive through towns?
3. Why did the young policeman stop Jack?
4. What was Jack's excuse? (He said, '. . .')
5. Why did the policeman let Jack go?
6. Was Jack tourist ?
7. What was Jack's car ?
8. What did the policeman ask Jack ?
9. Did Jack break traffic rules ?
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. slowly
2. safe
3. more
4. big
5. wrong
6. carelessly
7. slower
8. old
9. take
10. allowance
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. There was no speed 'limit outside towns and big villages.
2. The speed limit outside towns and big villages was 50 kilometers an hour.
3. Jack often drove faster than 50 kilometers an hour in towns.
4. Jack often drove faster than the speed limit.
5. The policeman wanted Jack's name and address.
6. Jack wanted the policeman's name and address.
7. Jack's excuse was a good one.
8. Jack's excuse was a bad one.
9. The policeman let Jack go because he thought, 'Perhaps that's a
good excuse.'
10. The policeman let Jack go because he was new at that work.
Text 232
Dick was seven years old, and his sister, Catherine, was five. One day their mother took them to their aunt's house to play while she went to the big city to buy some new clothes
The children played for an hour, and then at half past four their aunt took Dick into the kitchen. She gave him a nice cake and a knife and said to him, 'Now here's a knife, Dick. Cut this cake in half and give one of the pieces to your sister, but remember to do it like a gentleman.'
'Like a gentleman?' Dick asked. 'How do gentlemen do it? 'They always give the bigger piece to the other person,' answered his aunt at once.
'Oh,' said Dick. He thought about this for a few seconds. Then he took the cake to his sister and said to her, 'Cut this cake in half, Catherine.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did the children's mother leave them at their aunt's house?
2. What did Dick's aunt want him to do with the cake?
3. What do gentlemen do when there are two pieces of cake?
4. Which piece did Dick's aunt want him to give Catherine?
5. What did Dick do with the cake?
6. How old were Dick and his sister ?
7. When did Dick's aunt give him a cake?
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. gave
2. worked
3. bad
4. forget
5. asked
6. sold
7. never
8.many
9. stopped
10. hate
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 233
A small boy and his father were having a walk in the country when it suddenly began to rain very hard. They did not have their umbrellas with them, and there was nowhere to hide from the rain, so they were soon very wet, and the small boy did not feel very happy.
For a long time while they were walking home through the rain, the boy was thinking. Then at last he turned to his father and said to him, 'Why does it rain, Father? It isn't very nice, is it?'
'No, it isn't very nice, but it's very useful, Tom,' answered his father. 'It rains to make the fruit and the vegetables grow for us, and to make the grass grow for the cows and sheep.'
Tom thought about this for a few seconds, and then he said, 'Then, why does it rain on the road too, Father?'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where were the small boy and his father when it began to rain?
2. Why did they get wet?
3. Why didn't the small boy feel happy?
4. How is rain useful?
5. Was Tom happy with his father's answer?
6. What was the rain like ?
7. What was the boy thinking when it rained?
8.
9.
10. Does the boy like the rain for its usefulness?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. everywhere
2. suddently
3. dry
4. big
5. easy
6.sad
7. useless
8. asked
9. short
10. decrease
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 234
A man went into a bar, sat down, called the barman and said to him, 'Give me a drink before the trouble starts.
The barman was busy with other people, so he did not say anything, but he gave the man the drink, and the man drank it quickly. Then he put his glass down, called the barman again and said to him, 'Give me another one before the trouble starts.
Again the barman was too busy to say anything, so he gave the man his drink and went away. The man drank that too, and then again he called the barman and said to him, 'One more drink before the trouble starts, please.'
This time the barman was not very busy, so when he brought the man his third drink, he said to him, 'What trouble are you talking about?'
The man answered, 'I haven't got any money.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why didn't the barman ask any questions when he gave the man
his first two drinks?
2. How many drinks did the barman bring the man?
3. How did the man drink his first drink?
4. Why did the barman have time to ask the man a question when
he brought him his third drink?
5. What was the man's trouble?
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 235
A man and his wife had a small bar near a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.
At two o'clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He was asleep. The barman's wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, 'You've woken that man six times now, George, but he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It's very late.'
'Oh, no, I don't want to send him away,' answered her husband with a smile. 'You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him he pays it. Then he goes to sleep again.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Why did people come to drink in the bar after midnight?
2. Why did the barman's wife want him to send the man at the table away?
3. What was he doing at 2 a.m.?
4. Did her husband send the man away?
5. Why did he let him stay?
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Text 236
Two friends were camping together. Their names were Jim and Tim. Tim was very lazy. The first evening of their holiday, Jim said to Tim, 'Here's some money. Go and buy some meat.'
'I'm too tired,' answered Tim. 'You go.' So Jim went to buy the meat.
When he came back, he said to Tim, 'Now, here's the meat. Please cook it.' But Tim answered, 'No, I'm not good at cooking. You do it.' So Jim cooked the meat.
Then Jim said to Tim, 'Cut the bread,' but Tim answered, 'I don't want to,' so Jim cut the bread.
Then he said to Tim, 'Go and get some water, please.
'No, I don't want to get my clothes dirty,' Tim answered, so Jim got the
water.
At last Jim said, 'The meal's ready. Come and eat it.'
'Well, I'll do that,' answered Tim. 'I don't like saying "No" all the time.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What were the boys' names?
2. What did two friends do?
3. Who was hard-working boy?
4. What did they decide to do on their holiday?
5. What was Tim's excuse for not buying the meat?
6. What was his excuse for not cooking it?
7. What was his excuse for not cutting the bread?
8. What was his excuse for not getting the water?
9. What did he do when Jim asked him to eat?
10. Did they enjoy their camping?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1.separate
2. active
3. morning
4.sell
5. front
6. ask
7. go away
8. next
9. clean
10. yes
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Three boys went camping.
2. Jim did all the work in this story.
3. The boys went camping on the 10-th of July
4. Tim did not buy the meat because he did not have any money.
5. Jim cooked the meat because Tim was not good at cooking.
6. Jim cooked the meat because Tim was a lazy boy.
7. Tim got his clothes dirty when he went to get some water.
8. Tim did not get his clothes dirty because he did not go to get the water.
9. Tim was not too tired to eat.
10. Tim did not want to eat.
Text 237
One morning a man was crossing a narrow bridge when he saw a fisherman on the shady bank of the deep, smooth river under him, so he stopped to watch him quietly.
After a few minutes, the fisherman pulled his line in. There was a big, fat fish at the end of it.
The fisherman took it off the hook and threw it back into the water. Then he put his hook and line in again. After a few more minutes he caught another big fish. Again he threw it back into the river. Then, the third time, he caught a small fish. He put it into his basket and started to get ready to go. The man on the bridge was very surprised, so he spoke to the fisherman. He said, 'Why did you throw those beautiful, big fish back into the water, and keep only that small one?'
The fisherman looked up and answered, 'Small frying-pan.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What did the street man do at the beginning of this strory?
2. Why did the man stop on the bridge?
3. Where was the fisherman?
4. What did the fisherman do when he caught the first fish?
6. What did he do when he caught the second?
7. What did he do when he caught the third?
8. What did a man ask?
9. What did the fisherman answer?
10. Why didn't he keep the first two fish?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. thin
4. rough
2. ugly
5. wide
3. shallow
6. sunny
7. noisily
8. small
9. down
10. lose
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. A man was crossing a wide street.
2. He saw a beautiful lady on the sunny bank of the deep, smooth river.
3. A man stopped and looked at the fisherman.
4. The fisherman pulled his line in seven times.
5. The fisherman caught only one fish.
6. The fisherman put the fish on the frying-pan.
7. The man was surprised at the end of the story.
8. The fisherman and the man did not speak.
9. The fisherman had three lines.
10. The fisherman had a small frying pan.
Text 238
When the Americans were getting ready to send their first men to the moon, an old Irishman was watching them on television in the bar of a hotel.
There was an Englishman in the bar too, and he said to the Irishman, 'The Americans are very clever, aren't they? They're going to send some men to the moon. It's a very long way from our world.'
'Oh, that's nothing,' the Irishman answered quickly. 'The Irish are going to send some men to the sun in a few months' time. That's much farther away than the moon, you know.'
The Englishman was very surprised when he heard this. 'Oh, yes, it is,' he
said, 'but the sun's too hot for people to go to.
The Irishman laughed and answered, 'Well, the Irish aren't stupid, you know. We won't go to the sun during the day, of course. We'll go there during the night.'
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. Where were Englishman and Irishman at the behinning of this story?
2. What did they do ?
3.What did Englishman say to Irish ?
4. What did the Irish want to do?
5. Why was the Englishman surprised?
6. Is the sun really cool during the night?
7.
8.
9.
10.
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. bring
2. young
3. stupid
4. short
5. a little
6. cried
7. clever
8. slowly
9. cold
10. morning
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. An old Irishman was watching cartoon on the television.
2. An Englishman was eating his meal.
3. Americans are going to send men on Jupiter
4. It is a very short way from Earth to Jupiter.
5. The Irish are going to send people to the sun
6. English man was nervous.
7. The sun is very cold for people
8. The Irish are silly people.
9. The Irish are going to get to the sun at night.
10. An old Irish and an Englishman were at the stadium.
Text 239
Dave's class at school were studying English history, and one day their teacher said to them, 'Well, boys, on Friday we're all going to get on a bus and go to Conway. There's a beautiful castle there, and we're going to visit it.' The boys were very happy when they heard this.
'Now, has anybody got any questions?' the teacher asked.
'How old is the castle, sir?' Dave asked.
'It's about seven hundred years old, Dave,' the teacher answered.
'What's the name of the castle, sir?' another boy asked.
'Conway Castle,' the teacher said.
On Friday the boys came to school at 9 o'clock and got into the bus. They visited Conway Castle, and then they came back and went home.
'Well,' Dave's mother said to him when he got home, 'Did you like the
castle, Dave?'
'Not very much, Dave answered. The stupid people built it too near the
railway.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1. What was Dave's class studying ?
2. What did their teacher say one day?
3.What was Conway?
4. Why did Dave's class go to Conway?
5. Who did the children go to visit Conway with ?
6. When was the castle built?
7. What was the castle's name?
8. When and how did Dave's class go to the castle?
9. Did Dave enjoy visiting the castle?
10. Why did not he like it ?
B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:
1. shout
2. ugly
3. young
4. answer
5. front
6. clever
7. destroy
8. left( leave)
9. sad
10. far
11. front
C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?
1. Dave was a teacher.
2. Dave's class was studying English language.
3. The teacher said that they are going to go to the cinema.
4.The teacher said that they are going to go to the castle by train.
5. The castle was beautiful and new.
6. The boys were very happy
7. The castle was more than one thousand years old.
8. The castle's name is Kiev Rus.
9. The class went to visit the castle without teachers or parents.
10. Dave did like the castle.