Text 1

Mr. and Mrs. Peters went to Brighton for a holiday last summer.

Brighton is a town by the sea in England. Mr. Peters likes fishing very much, and on the first day he said to his wife, 'I'm going to go out fishing on the sea. Are you going to come with me?'

'No,' his wife answered. 'It's cold and windy today.'

Mr. Peters went out in a boat alone and fished for several hours. But he caught nothing-except an advertisement on a piece of plastic for a fish-shop in the town.

He went back to the hotel and gave it to his wife.

"How did you catch that?' she asked him.

'A diver put it on my hook,' Mr. Peters answered.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Where did Mr. and Mrs. Peters go ?

2. Why did they go to brighton?

3. Does Mr. Peters like fishing?

4. Did he go fishing on the first day of his holiday?

5. Did Mrs. Peters go with him?

6. Why did not Mrs. Peters go with him?

7. What did Mr. Peters catch?

8. Did he throw it back into the sea?

9. What did his wife ask him?

10. And what did Mr. Peters answer?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. next

2. hate

3. few

4. last

5. calm

6. hot

7. in

8. front

9. took

10. answer

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mrs. and Mr. Peters went to Odessa.

2. They had work in Brighton.

3. Brighton is a huge city.

4. Mr. Peters likes playing chess.

5. Mr. Peters went fishing with his friends.

6. Mr. Peters went fishing by boat.

7. He caught a lot of fish.

8. He came back to the cinema after fishing

9. Mr. Peters gave his "catch" to his wife.

10. A diver put an advertisement on Mr. Peter's hook.

Text 2

Sam left school last June. 'You don't like work very much, Sam,' his friend Paul said. 'What are you going to do now?'
'I'm going to study music,' Sam answered. 'I'm going to go to a music college.'
Sam went to the music college, but he did not study much. He played games and went to dances and enjoyed everything. But he never had much money.
Then he had some holidays. He went home and saw his friend Paul
again. Paul said, 'How are you getting on, Sam?'
'Quite well,' was Sam's answer, 'but my father isn't very nice. I wrote
to him and asked him for £500 for a new violin, but he didn't send me the money. He sent me a violin.
Exercises:
A) Answer these questions:
1.What was Sam?
2. What did Paul say to Sam last June?
3. And what did Sam answer?
4. Did he go to a music college?
5. Did he study much there?
6. What did he do at the college?
7. Did he have much money?
8. What did Paul say to him during his holidays?
9. And what did Sam answer?
10. Was his father ill ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. came

2. hate

3. play

4. asked

5. worked

6. a little

7. badly

8. old

9. next

10. enemy

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.Sam entered to the school last May.

2.Sam was going to enter the University.

3. He went to music collge

4. He studied very hard in the college.

5. Sam had a lot of girl-friends.

6. He had a lot of money.

7. He hated playing different games.

8. Sam met his teacher during his college holiday

9. His father had medical problems.

10. Sam's father always sent him a lot of money.

Text 3

An old woman lived alone in her house, because her husband was dead.

She fell down the stairs and hurt her left leg very badly. She telephoned her sister, and her sister came to her house and took her to the doctor in her car.

The doctor cleaned the leg and then he bandaged it. After that, he said to the old woman, 'Now, Mrs. Grace, this leg's going to be bad for a long time. Don't run up and down the stairs in your house for a few weeks.'

Mrs. Grace visited the doctor every week for about a month, and then he said, 'Your leg's quite well again, Mrs. Grace.'

'That's very good,' said the old woman happily. 'I hated climbing up and down that drainpipe to my bedroom every day.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Mrs. Grace live with her husband in her house?

2. Why?

3. How did she hurt her leg?

4. Did she drive herself to the hospital?

5. What did the doctor say to her?

6. Did Mrs. Grace visit him every week after that?

7. What did he say after a month?

8. And what did Mrs. Grace answer?

9. What was Mrs. Grace's mood when she heard the doctor's report?

10. Why was Mrs. Grace climbing the drain-pipe into the room during her injury?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. young

2. up

3. right

4. good

5. short

6. up

7. love

8. ask

9. sadly

10. down

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. An old woman lived with her daughter.

2. She jumped down from the stairs.

3. An old woman broke the right leg.

4. She telephoned to her sister.

5. An ambulance drove her to the hospital.

6. The nurse gave her a lot of injections.

7. Mrs. Grace's leg was bad for a long time.

8. She visited the doctor every day.

9. Her leg was good after a month.

10. She loved climbing up and down the drainpipe.

Text 4

Jean and Mark were twins. They were ten years old, and they were in the same class at their school. A few weeks ago, their English teacher said to the children, 'I did not give you any homework for two weeks, children. Now this week, write a composition about "Our cat", and bring it to me next Monday. Do all of you have got a cat at home?'

'Yes, Miss Jones,' all of them answered.

All the pupils wrote the compositions, and they brought them to the teacher on Monday. The teacher read all the compositions and then she gave them back to the pupils on Tuesday.

"Jean,' she said, 'your composition is the same as your brother's.'

'Yes,' answered Jean quickly. 'It's the same cat!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Was Jean older than Mark?

2. What did their English teacher say a week ago?

3. Did all the pupils have cats?

4. What did the pupils do then?

5. Did the teacher read all the compositions?

6. When did she give them back to the pupils?

7. What did the teacher say to Jean on Tuesday?

8. And what did Jean answer?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. young

2. many

3. asked

4. take

5. last

6. slowly

7. different

8. front

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Jean and Mark were neighbours.

2. They went to different schools.

3. Their teacher gave a lot of homework for one week.

4. Their teacher said that they must visit historical museum next week.

5. The children forgot and did not bring compostions on Friday.

6. The teacher checked all the compositions.

7. Some of the students had the same compositions.

8. Jean and Mark had two cats.

9. The teacher brought all compositions on Saturday.

10. Jean and Mark had the same compositions.

Text 5

Many years ago, Wonder Air was a small, very new company. It had very little money and its aeroplanes were very old. Mr. Black flew by Wonder Air once. That day, he went to the airport, got on the Wonder Air aeroplane and waited.

After a few minutes, there was a lot of noise, and then the captain came out and shouted, 'I'm not going to take this aeroplane up! One of the engines is broken, and they aren't going to get a new one.'

The passengers got out, and then, an hour later, an air-hostess said, 'The aeroplane's ready again now.' The passengers walked past her to the aeroplane again.

'Did you get a new engine?' Mr. Black asked the air-hostess.

' No, we got a new captain,' she answered.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1.What was 'Wonder Air' ?

2. Were Wonder Air's aeroplanes new, or old?

3.How much money did the company have?

4. Where did Mr. Black wait?

5. What did the captain of the aeroplane shout?

6. Did the passengers stay on the aeroplane after that?

7. Did they get out of the aeroplane?

8. What did the air-hostess say an hour later?

9. Did they get a new engine?

10. What did they get?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. few ( little)

2. huge

3. old

4. into

5. put

6 down

7. earlier

8. asked

9. whispered

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. 'Wonder Air ' was a modern company.

2. This company had a lot of money.

3. Mr. Black always flew by 'Wonder Air '.

4. The captain of the aeroplane greeted all passangers.

5. The aeroplane was serviceable.

6. The passengers got out of the a aeroplane

7. The passengers were waiting for half an hour.

8. They were hungry.

9. They shouted at air-hostess.

10. 'Wonder Air's administration changed the engine.

Text 6

Mr. Kent is sixty-five, and his wife is sixty-one. Mr. Kent is small and

thin, and his wife is big and tall. She is not a happy person. She always criticizes everybody and everything, and she criticizes her husband more than anyone else. She always says to her neighbours, 'He never does anything right.'

Last month she said to her husband, 'Look at your shirt! There are

two holes in the collar! I'm going to buy you some new shirts.' She went

to the shops that afternoon and bought him three new shirts.

The next morning, Mr. Kent put one of them on and went down to

the kitchen. Mrs. Kent looked at him and then shouted angrily, 'And

what's wrong with the other two shirts? Don't you like them?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Is Mrs. Kent tall, or small?

2. Is she happy?

3. What does she always say to her neighbours about her husband?

4. What did she say to her husband last month?

5. What did she do then?

6. Did Mr. Kent put one of the new shirts on the next morning?

7. What did his wife shout at him?

8. Do people put three shirts on at the same time?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. big

2. thick

3. little

4. small

5. sad

6. never

7. sell

8. take off

9. whisper

10. hate

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Kent was seventy years old, tall and fat man.

2. His wife was a very polite person.

3. Mrs. Kent liked to speak with her neighbours

4. She found out a dirty spot at her husband's T-shirt last month

5. Mrs. Kent went to the market and bought four shirts.

6. She went to the shop in the afternoon.

7. She went to the shop by car.

8. Mr. Kent put two shirts on the next morning

9. Mrs. Kent kissed her husband very hard.

10. They went to the cinema in the evening

Text 7

Norman Harris worked in an office for twenty years, but then he lost his job, because he began doing everything wrong. His wife sent him to a doctor, and the doctor asked him a lot of questions for an hour and then

said to him, 'Mr. Harris, there are two different people in you, and

they're fighting each other. I'm going to send you to a hospital for a

week, and I'm going to examine you again after that.'

The doctor gave him a bill for £20. Norman took £10 out of his

pocket and gave it to the doctor. Then he said to him, 'Get the other

half from the other man. I'm not going to pay for him too!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Norman work in the same office for a long time?

2. Why did he lose his job?

3. Did his wife send him to the doctor?

4. What did the doctor say to him?

5. What did he give Norman after that?

6. Did Norman give the doctor any money?

7. How much did he give him?

8. And what did Norman say?

9. How long did the doctor ask Norman questions ?

10. Where is doctor going to send Norman ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. found

2. stopped

3.received

4. got

5. gave

6. answer

7.took

8. right

9. same

10. play

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Norman worked in the zoo for two weeks.

2. Norman found a new work.

3. Norman`s wife bought him ticket on the airplane.

4. The doctor didn`t ask Mr. Harris any questions.

5. The doctor said that Mr. Harris has a flu.

6. The doctor said that he is going to send Mr. Harris to a Hospital for a week.

7. The doctor is going to examine Norman after hospital.

8. The doctor gave him a bill for 50 $.

9. Norman took 20 $ out of his jacket.

10. Norman said to the doctor that he gets other money from his wife.

Text 8

John was ten years old, and he was a clever boy. Most of the pupils in

his class at school were not very good at mathematics, but John usually

answered the teacher's questions very well.

Last Tuesday the teacher said to the class, 'Now I'm going to give

you a mathematics test. I'm going to give you a question and say a

name, and that boy or girl's going to answer. Now, there's £5.73 in

your left pocket, and £3.27 in your right pocket. What have you got?

Peter? Mary? Helen?'

None of the pupils said anything for a long time. Then the teacher said,

'What's the answer, John?'

John answered quickly, 'Somebody else's trousers!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Were most of the pupils in John's class good at mathematics?

2. Did John usually give good, or bad answers?

3. What was the teacher's first question?

4. Did the teacher ask several pupils then?

5. What did the pupils answer?

6. Who did the teacher ask then?

7. And what did John answer?

8. Did the teacher want that answer?

9. What answer did the teacher want?

10. What names did the teacher call before John ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. stupid

2. seldom

3. take

4. short

5. next

6. slowly

7. wrong

8. bad

9. right

10. ask

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. John was six years old and naughty boy

2. John usually had bad answers

3. Less of the pupils in John`s class were good at French

4. Teacher is going to give a task of mathematics.

5. The money was in a shirt in this task .

6. Everybody from the class knew answer the question.

7. Teacher didn`t ask Helen answer the question.

8. John thought for a long time after last teacher's question

9. John said that somebody else`s trousers.

10. Mary answered that money was lost.

Text 9

Mr. Green went to Germany, because he had some work there. He

came back last Monday, and his young wife met him at the airport.

They walked to their car and passed a tall, pretty air-hostess. Mr.

Green said to her, 'Goodbye, Miss Harris,' and the air-hostess smiled

and said, 'Goodbye' too.

Mrs. Green stopped and looked at the air-hostess. Then she said to

her husband, 'How did you know her name?'

'That was easy,' answered Mr. Green. The names of the captain and

all the crew were on a piece of paper in front of our seats.'

'What was the name of the captain?' Mrs. Green asked with a smile.

Mr. Green laughed and answered, 'I don't remember any of the other

names.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Mr. Green go to France, or to Germany?

2. Did anyone meet him at the airport in England?

3. What did he say to the air-hostess?

4. Did the air-hostess answer?

5. What did Mr. Green's wife ask then?

6. What was Mr. Green's answer?

7. What did his wife ask then?

8. Did Mr. Green remember any of the other names?

9. When did Mr and Mrs Green meet air-hostess ?

10. Was air-hostess small and ugly ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. hard

2. small

3. ugly

4. greet

5. back

6. cried

7. forget

8. old

9. stop

10. next

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Green came back from Germany last Tuesday.

2. He came back from the trip.

3. Mr. Green`s sister met him at the rail-way station.

4. Mr. Green said that weather is fine to Miss Harris.

5. Miss Harris was tall and pretty.

6. Miss Harris said with smile.

7. Mrs. Green asked about breakfast at the hotel.

8. Names of the captain and crew were in front of their hats.

9. Mrs. Green asked about name of the captain.

10. Mr. Green remembered all of the crew`s names.

Text 10

Mike was not well. He was tired all the time, and his head often hurt.

'Go to the doctor,' his wife said.

Mike did not like visiting the doctors, but after a week, he went. The doctor asked him a lot of questions and wrote Mike's answers down.

'What do you eat in the morning?' he asked him.

'Eggs, bread, butter, jam and coffee,' Mike answered.

'And what lunch do you have?' the doctor asked.

'Meat or fish and bread.'

'And what do you have in the evening?' the doctor asked. 'Eggs and bread.'

Then the doctor said, 'Eat some fruits every day, and eat all the skin

of the fruits. The skin is very good. What fruit do you like the best?' Mike was not happy. 'Coconuts,' he answered.

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Why did Mike go to the doctor?

2. Did he like going to him?

3. Did the doctor ask him any questions?

4. Did Mike eat bread at every meal?

5. Did he eat any fruits?

6. What did he eat in the evening?

7. What did the doctor say then?

8. And what did Mike answer?

9. What did Mike drink?

10. Did Mike eat jam?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. badly

2. seldom

3. before

4. asked

5. sad

6. the worst

7. up

8. bad

9. hate

10. morning

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mike was well all the time.

2. He had stomachache one time.

3. Mike loved to visit the doctors.

4. The doctor didn`t write down the answers.

5. Mike ate potatoes and sandwich in the morning.

6. The doctor said to eat more vegetables.

7. Mike didn`t eat bread

8. Mike`s the best fruit is coconuts.

9. Mike liked drinking cup of tea at 5 o`clock.

10. The doctor sent Mike to a hospital.

Text 11

Mr. Lloyd went to the barber every month to have a haircut. He sometimes took his small son Philip with him, and Philip sat and looked at magazines during his father's haircut. But at that time, the barber did not cut Philip's hair. Mrs. Lloyd always cut it at home.

Then, one day, Mr. Lloyd said to his wife, 'Philip's five now and the barber is going to cut his hair next time.'

He took Philip there the next day, and first the barber cut Mr. Lloyd's hair. Then he put Philip in the chair and asked, 'How do you want your hair, young man?'

'Like my father's,' answered Philip. 'With a hole in the middle.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Where did Mr. Lloyd go every month?

2. Did Philip's mother, or his father cut his hair at home?

3. Where did Mr. Lloyd sometimes take Philip?

4. What did Philip do in the barber-shop?

5. What did he say to his wife then?

6. Did the barber cut Philip's hair first?

7. Did he put him in the chair?

8. What did he ask Philip then?

9. And what did Philip answer?

10. Did the barber make the hole in the middle of Mr. Lloyd's hair?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. old
2. big
3. then
4. asked
5. gave
6. last
7. stayed
8. never
9. often
10. take

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Lloyd went to the barber every three months.

2. He never took his son with him.

3. Philip sat and looked at the barber during his father's haircut.

4. Philip always cut his hair on his own.

5. Mr. Lloyd said that the barber is going to cut her hair the next time.

6. Mr. Lloyd did not take his son to the barber when Philip was 5 years old.

7. First, the barber cut Philip's hair.

8. Then, the barber put Philip in the chair and asked - "What haircut does he want? "

9. The barber called Philip - the old man.

10. Philip wanted to have hair like his father.

Text 12

Ted Lawrence was an artist. He painted very modern pictures blue squares and yellow circles, red sheep and green sky....

Last December, there was an exhibition of his pictures in our village hall for a week, and there was a big book on a table at the door. In it there were two questions:

'Why did you come to this exhibition?'

'Which of the pictures did you like?' Every evening, Ted went to the

book and read the visitors' answers.

The weather was not very good, and on the Saturday, it rained a lot.

That evening Ted looked at the book at the door of the hall, and read

one lady's answers to his two questions. They were:

'I did not like any of the pictures. I came into the exhibition because

it began raining, and I didn't have an umbrella.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Ted paint pictures?

2. What pictures did he paint?

3. What was there in the village hall last December?

4. Was there anything on the table at the door?

5. Were there any questions in the book?

6. What was the first one?

7. And what was the second?

8. What did one lady answer?

9. How long was there exhibition?

10. Who checked the notes in the book?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. antiquated
2. small
3. leave
4. hate
5. bad
6. question
7. ended
8. out
9. morning
10. first

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Ted Lawrence was a musician.

2. Ted Lawrence played the guitar.

3. There was exhibition of Ted`s photo in the village hall.

4. There was exhibition in last December.

5. There were tickets to the theatre on a table.

6. The artist approached to visitors to ask them some questions.

7. He read the answers on his questions after sunny day.

8. He read the lady`s answers on his email.

9. Lady didn`t like any of the pictures.

10. She didn`t come to the hall to see the exhibition.

Text 13

Jeremy is a student at a university. He likes rock music very much.

Last October he said to some of his friends, 'We're going to start a rock

band, and we're going to play every evening in my parents' living-room.

They aren't at home then, because they work at a hotel.'

Jeremy and his friends went to his house every evening and played

their music, but they played very badly, and the neighbours always

shouted, 'Stop that! Be quiet!' Then Jeremy closed the windows, and he

and his friends played more music.

But last June, Jeremy opened a window, put his head out, listened

and then said to his friends, 'We're playing better! The neighbours are

shouting, "Turn that radio off!" now.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Is Jeremy a student at a school, or at a university?

2. Does he like music?

3. What did he say to his friends last October?

4. Did they play well?

5. Did the neighbours enjoy their music?

6. What did the neighbours shout first?

7. And what did they shout last June?

8. What did Jeremy say then?

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 14

Mr. White found work in a small town, and he and his wife sold their house in London and bought one in the new town. Mr. White went to work by bus every day with some of his new neighbours.

Last month he was on the bus, and one of his new neighbours was in front of him. Mr. White said to him, 'One of my teeth is hurting very badly. Is there a good dentist here?'

'You don't need a dentist,' answered the neighbour. 'One of my teeth hurt a lot yesterday too, but my wife put her arms round me and kissed me, and the tooth stopped hurting. Go and try that too.'

Mr. White stood up. 'Good,' he said happily. 'Where's your wife

now?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Mr. and Mrs. White go to a new town?

2. Why did they move to another town ?

3. Did they buy a house there?

4. Did Mr. White go to work by car?

5. Did he go alone by bus?

6. Who was in front of him on the bus?

7. What did Mr. White say to him?

8. What did the neighbour answer?

9. And what did Mr. White ask then?

10. What happened then ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. Lose

2. Big

3. Buy

4. Old

5. Stay

6. Answer

7. Few ( little)

8. Begin

9. Sad

10. First

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. White found work in a big town.
2. They sold their new house in Oxford.
3. Mr. White went to the work by train with his wife.
4. One day Mr. White talked with his neighbour in the shop.
5. Mr. White complained about headache.
6. Mr. White asked his neighbour for medicines.
7. The neighbour told to Mr. White about doctor`s help (him).
8. The neighbour had a stomachache.
9. Neighbour`s wife helped to stop Mr. White`s toothache.
10. The neighbour asked where Mr. White's wife is now.

Text 15

Lily was twelve years old, and her brother Tim was eight. Lily had a

small dog. His name was Rover.

Lily liked cooking very much, and during the holiday, she made two

beautiful, small cakes.

'We're going to eat them this afternoon,' she said to Tim. 'You're

going to have one, and I'm going have the other one.'

Their parents were not at home that afternoon, and at four o'clock

Lily made some tea and put the cakes on the table.

'Where's Rover?' she said.

'He's under the table,' Tim answered.

They began their tea, but then Lily shouted, 'Tim, quick, I've

dropped my cake under the table, and Rover's going to eat it!' 'It's all

right, Lily,' Tim answered. 'I've put my foot on it.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Lily make anything during the holidays?

2. What did she say to her brother?

3. Did she, or her brother make tea at four o'clock?

4. What did she ask Tim then?

5. Was Rover under the table?

6. Where were children's parents ?

7. Did the children begin their tea then?

8. What did Lily shout during their tea?

9. And what did Tim answer?

10. What was Tim's age ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. Big

2. Little

3. Picked up

4. Above

5. Take

6. Answer

7. End

8. slowly

9. wrong

10.whisper

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Lilly was twenty years old.
2. Lilly had a little sister Jean.
3. Lilly had a two small cats.
4. Her brother cooked pasta for dinner.
5. Their grandmother helped to cook Lilly
6. Lilly made some tea.
7. Rover walked on the yard near home.
8. Lilly dropped the piece of meat.
9. Tim fed Rover the piece of meat.
10. Tim put foot on the cake.

Text 16

Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city. Every day, thousands of

people passed his door, and a lot of them stopped and said to him,

'What's the time, please?'

After a few months, Dan said to himself, 'I'm not going to answer all

those stupid people any more. I'm going to go to a shop and buy a big

clock. Then I'm going to put it up on the wall here.' He bought a clock

and put it up on the wall.

'Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time,' he said

happily. But after that, a lot of people stopped every day, looked at the

clock and then said to Dan, 'Is that clock right?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What work did Dan do?

2. Did many people stop at his door?

3. Why did they stop at Dan's door?

4. Did they ask Dan the time?

5. Was he happy about this?

6. What did he say to himself then?

7. And what did he do?

8. Did people stop and look at the clock?

9. And what did they say to Dan?

10. Did Dan quit his work after all of that?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. Small
2. before
3. smart
4. sell
5. then
6. answer
7. sad
8. take
9. down
10. wrong

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Dan was a barman.
2. He worked in the small town .
3. None of the people stopped in the front of him.
4. People asked - "Where is croissant shop ?"
5. Dan said that he is going to go to the shop and buy chocolate croissants .
6. He bought a watch.
7. People did not look at the clock.
8. People stopped asking the time when Dan put the clock up on the wall.
9. They started to ask if this clock is right.
10. Dan quited his work.

Text 17

Larry was sixteen years old. He was a student, but he was not a very

good one. He always sat at the back of the class, and he often went to

sleep during lessons, because he stayed up late every night.

One of Larry's teachers was Miss Perry. One day Larry was asleep in

her class, and she came and woke him up. You can go to sleep in my

class, Larry,' she said to him, 'but please say, "Good night" to me first.'

Another day, Larry arrived at school very late in the morning, and

Miss Perry said to him, 'Why are you late, Larry?'

'I didn't wake up at the right time this morning, Miss,' Larry

answered.

'Oh,' Miss Perry said, 'do you sleep at home too?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Was Larry a good student?

2. What did he often do during lessons?

3. Why did he do this?

4. Was Miss Perry a student too?

5. What did she say to Larry one day?

6. Was Larry late another morning?

7. Why was he late?

8. What did Miss Perry say to him then?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1.Young

2.Bad

3.Front

4.Seldom( rarely)

5. Go

6.Morning

7. Early

8. Wrong

9. Ask

10. Down

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Larry was the best student in the university.

2. He often was very attentive on the lessons

3. He always went to the lessons in time.

4. Miss Perry was displeased his behavior.

5. Larry went to sleep early every day.

6. Miss Perry woke him up when he was asleep one day in her class.

7. One day Larry was late because he didn`t wake up at right time.

8. Larry was late because his car was broken.

9. Miss Perry didn`t ask Larry why was he late.

10. Miss Perry asked Larry where is his homework.

Text 18

Helen Smith liked Japanese food very much. One day she went to a Japanese restaurant and looked at the menu. She said to herself, 'The

Japanese letters on this menu are very pretty,' and she wrote two of them

on a piece of paper. Her hobby was sewing, and at home she sewed

them on the front of her new blouse.

All her friends liked the blouse very much, but then a few days later,

she went to the Japanese restaurant again. The Japanese people looked

at her blouse, and then began smiling.

Helen said, 'Why are you smiling?' and one of the Japanese answered,

'Because the words on your blouse mean : "young chicken"."

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Helen like Japanese food?

2)Where did Helen like to go?

3. And did she enjoy sewing?

4. What did she say to herself in the Japanese restaurant?

5. What did she do then?

6. Did her friends like it?

7. What did the Japanese people in the restaurant do?

8. What did she ask them?

9. What were the words on Helen's blouse?

10) Did Helen's friends understand words - meaning on her blouse ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1) little ( few)

2) ugly

3)old

4)finish

5)answer

6)old

7) crying

10)

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1) Helen Smith usually went to the restaurant of Chinese food.

2) Helen found pretty letters on the signboard of the Japanese restaurant

3) She saved the words in the notes in her smartphone.

4) Helen`s hobby was swimming.

5) She sewed her blouse.

6) She sewed her blouse with red threads.

7 Her friends didn`t like her blouse after she sewed it.

8) Japanese people were sad when they looked at Helen`s blouse.

9) Helen didn`t ask people why did they react like this.

10) Words in the blouse said «fish with rice»

Text 19

Billy and Bobby were small boys. They were brothers, and they often

had fights with each other.

Last Saturday their mother said to them, 'I'm going to cook our lunch

now. Go out and play in the garden-and be good.'

'Yes, Mummy,' the two boys answered, and they went out.

They played in the garden for half an hour, and then their mother

heard something. She said to herself, 'Someone broke some glass.'

Then Billy ran into the kitchen. He was older than Bobby. 'Mummy,'

he said, 'Bobby broke a window in Mrs. Allen's house.' Mrs. Allen

was one of their neighbours.

'He's a bad boy,' his mother said. 'How did he break it?'

'I threw a stone at him,' Billy answered, and he ducked.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What did the boys' mother say to them last Saturday?

2. Did the boys play in the garden then?

3. Did their mother hear a noise?

4. What did she say to herself?

5. Who appeared then ?

5. What did Billy say to his mother?

6. What did his mother say then?

7. And what did Billy answer?

8. Did Bobby, or Billy break the window?

9)What did brothers often do?

10)Were Billy and Bobby brothers?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. big

2.seldom

3.new

4.good

5.create

6.ask

7. out

8. younger

9. stood

10. work

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.Billy and Bobby weren`t brothers.

2.They were friends and helped each other.

3.Last Saturday mother was going to clean their house.

4.Brothers played in the garden.

5.Mother heard some laughing when she was in kitchen.

6.Billy said to mother that dad brought the cake.

7.The dog broke a window in Mrs. Allen`s house.

8.Mrs. Allen came to their mother.

9.Billy threw a stone at the car.

10.Billy accused Bobby for the broken window.

Text 20

Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to London and bought a very old house there. Then Mrs. Miller's old friend, Mrs. Yates, came and visited her.

Mrs. Yates went around the house with Mrs. Miller, and she was

surprised, because there were bells on the walls of every room.

She asked Mrs. Miller, 'Why have you got all those bells in your house, Gladys?'

Mrs. Miller answered, 'Fifty years ago, ladies and gentlemen had servants. The ladies and gentlemen rang the bells in the rooms, and then the servants came up from the kitchen. But now everything's different. I work in the kitchen, and I sometimes ring the bells in the rooms. Then my husband, or my children come down and help me.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Where did Mr. and Mrs. Miller move?

2. Did Mr. and Mrs. Miller buy an old, or a new house?

3. Did anyone visit Mrs. Miller there?

4. Were Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Yates friends?

5. Why was Mrs. Yates surprised?

6. What did she ask Mrs. Miller?

7. What did ladies and gentlemen do fifty years ago?

8. Did the servants come then?

9. Did Mrs. Miller sometimes ring the bells?

10. And what did her husband, or the children do then?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. sold

2. new

3. without

4. stood

5. (to be ) silent

6. up

7. play

8. leave

9. then

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to Kyiv.

2. Mr. and Mrs. Miller bought old car.

3. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Yates went around the store.

4. Mrs. Yates was upset.

5. Mrs. Yates was their neighbour.

6. The servants rang the bells.

7. The ladies came up to the kitchen.

8. Husband and children did not help Mrs. Miller.

9. The bells were only in the kitchen

10. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Yates studied in the university

Text 21

Mrs. Andrews said to her husband, 'There's going to be a big dance at

the club on Saturday, and all the other women are going to have new

dresses. I want a new one too.'

But her husband answered, 'No, I'm not going to buy you a new

dress.'

Then Mrs. Andrews went to a shop, bought a beautiful dress, and

put it on her husband's account, but she did not say anything about it to

him.

She wore the dress at the dance, and everyone said, 'That's a

beautiful dress!"

At midnight, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews went home, and Mr. Andrews

said to his wife, 'You were as pretty in your old dress as the other

women were in their new ones.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What did Mrs. Andrews say to her husband?

2. And what did he answer?

3. Did Mrs. Andrews go to a shop then?

4. And did she buy anything there?

5. Did she give any money for it?

6. And did she say anything about it to her husband?

7. What did everyone say about her dress at the dance?

8. And what did Mr. Andrews say to his wife after the dance?

9. Why did Mrs. Andrews want a new dress?

10. Did Mrs. Andrews's children like her dress?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. small

2. old

3. asked

4. sell

5. ugly

6. stood

7. take

8. now

9. took off

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mrs. Andrews said that the club is going to show a nice film.

2. All women are going to have the old dresses.

3. Mrs. Andrews said that she wants a new kitchen.

4. Her husband is going to buy a new car.

5. Mrs. Andrews went to barber shop.

6. She bought a beautiful T-shirt .

7. Mrs. and Mr. Andrews went to visit Mrs. Andrews's grandmother at midnight.

8. Mr. Andrews said that his wife was pretty in her T-shirt.

9. Mrs. Andrews wore her new T-shirt at the dance.

10. Nobody liked her dress.

Text 22

Mr. Walker had one son. His name was Harry, and he was twelve

years old. Mr. Walker went to work by car every day, and he took

Harry with him to his school.

Harry wanted a bicycle very much. 'A lot of my friends ride to school

on their bicycles,' he said to his father.

A few days ago, Mr. Walker stopped his car at a red light, and then

he said to Harry, I'm going to give you a bicycle next month, Harry.

But first I'm going to ask you some questions. Now, do you know the

meaning of these traffic lights?'

'Yes, I do,' Harry answered quickly. 'Red is "Stop", green is "Go",

and yellow is "Go very fast"!"

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Was Harry a boy, or a man?

2. Did his father have a car?

3. Did Harry have a bicycle?

4. Did he want one?

5. What did he say to his father?

6. Where did Mr. Walker stop his car?

7. What did he ask Harry then?

8. And what did Harry answer?

9. Did Mr. Walker buy a bicycle after their conversation ?

10. Did Mr. Walker say that Harry is going to get a bicycle when he finishes the school?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. stood

2. little ( few)

3. began

4. last

5. slowly

6. asked

7.slow

8. answer

9. left

10. start

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Walker had a daughter.

2. Mr. Walker's daughter was 13 years old and her name was Juliya.

3. Harry studied at the University.

4. Harry wanted a skateboard.

5. A lot of his classmates went to school by train.

6. Mr. Walker stopped his car at the red traffic-light to buy a coffee a few days ago.

7. Mr. Walker is going to give his son a coffee.

8. Mr. Walker bought a bicycle for his son.

9. Mr. Walker asked if his son knows the meaning of traffic lights.

10. Harry did not know the meaning of traffic lights.

Text 23

Mr. Williams went to India for a few months, and he grew a moustache and a beard there. Then he came back to England, and he and his wife had a holiday in a hotel by the sea.

After the first day, his wife said to him, 'I don't like your beard,

Ted.' He shaved it off, but he did not shave his moustache off.

Then the next morning he said to himself, 'Now I don't like my

moustache.' He shaved that off too.

Then he and his wife went down to breakfast, and all of the people at

the other tables looked at them and began whispering to each other.

Everybody said, 'That woman always comes down to have breakfast with a different man each morning!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Mr. Williams go to Africa, or to India?

2. Did he grow a moustache, or a beard?

3. Did he go to a hotel alone during his holiday?

4. Did his wife like his beard?

5. What did her husband do then?

6. What did he say to himself the next morning?

7. And what did he do?

8. What did everybody whisper at breakfast time?

9. How long was Mr. Williams in India?

10. Did his wife come down for breakfast with different man?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. stood

2. front

3. before

4. last

5. never

6. last

7. up

8. stopped

9. shouting

10. the same

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Williams went to Ukraine for one week.

2. He grew his hair.

3. He came back to Ukraine.

4. Mr. Williams and his wife had a vacation in the garden in the their country-house.

5. His wife said that she does not like his shoes.

6. He shaved his beard off.

7. Mr. Williams looked at himself the next moring and he liked his mustache the next morning.

8. He decided to grow up his mustache.

9. Mrs. Williams always comes down to the swimmimg -pool to have a breakfast with different man each morning.

10. Everybody whispered that this "different " man looks much cooler.

Text 24

Edward Lake was twenty. He visited the manager of a bank, because he wanted work there. The manager's name was Thompson.

Mr. Thompson said to Edward, 'Where did you work before?'

Edward answered, 'I was in an office in London.'

'For how long?' the manager asked.

'For a year and a half,' Edward answered.

'Which office?' the manager asked then.

Edward gave him the name, and Mr. Thompson telephoned the

manager there. 'How long did Edward Lake work for you?' Mr.

Thompson asked.

'About a week,' the other manager answered.

'But he said, "I was there for a year and a half"! Mr. Thompson said.

'Yes, that's correct,' was the answer. 'He was with us for a year and a

half, but he only worked for a week during that time.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Edward visit Mr. Thompson because he wanted money?

2. What did Mr. Thompson ask him first?

3. What was Edward Lake's answer ?

4. What was Mr. Thompson's second question?

5. What was Edward Lake's answer ?

6. And what was his third question?

7. What was Edward Lake's answer ?

8. What did Mr. Thompson ask the manager of the office in London?

9. And what did the manager answer?

10. What did Mr. Thompson say then?

11. And what did the other manager answer?

12. Did Mr. Thompson have the questions for Edward then?

13. Did Mr. Thompson hire Edward ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. after

2. short

3. answered

4. took

5. wrong

6. question

7. without

8. played

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Edward Lake was 12 years old.

2. He visited his grandmother.

3. The manager's name was Edward too.

4. Mr. Thompson asked - "Where did Edward learn to cook?"

5. Edward answered that his grandmother taught him cook tasty cookies.

6. The manager asked him - " For How long did Edward learn to cook" ?

7. Edward said that he learnt to cook for one week.

8. Mr. Thompson called to Edward's grandmother.

9. The grandmother said that she does not know who is Edward .....

10. Edward worked in the office in London for a week.

Text 25

Annie and Julie were twins, and they were ten years old. They liked

nice clothes very much, and they always wanted the same ones.

Last week their mother said, 'Today I'm going to buy you some new

dresses, and the girls were very happy. Their mother took them to a

shop in town and said to them, 'What colour do you want this time?'

'Blue!' both of them answered together, and then they all laughed.

A woman brought them some pretty blue dresses, and the twins put

them on.

The woman said to them, 'There's a mirror on that wall. Look at

yourselves in it.'

Their mother laughed again and said, They don't need a mirror. They

always look at each other in their new clothes.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did the twins like nice clothes?

2. Did they always want different ones?

3. What did their mother say to them last week?

4. Did she take them to a shop in town then?

5. Did they both want red dresses?

6. Did a woman bring them any then?

7. What did the woman say?

8. And what did the twins' mother say then?

9. Did the twins look amazing in their blue dresses?

10. Did they buy a blue dress for their mother too?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. young

2. asked

3. never

4. another

5. next

6. sell

7. old

8. sad

9. cried

10. ugly

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Annie and Julie were friends.

2. They liked nice shoes very much.

3. Their mother said that she is going to buy some T-shirts .

4.The girls were unhappy because they did not want T- shirts.

6. Their mother took them to the zoo which was out of the town.

7. The girls said that they want a red T-shirts.

8. The woman said to the girls that there is a mirror on the ceiling.

9. The girls needed a mirror because they chose different dresses.

10. They bought these blue dresses.

Text 26

Two old men were friends. They did not work last Thursday and they

went out for a walk. But it was cold and wet in the streets, and after a

quarter of an hour, they went into a big shop. It sold cheap,

second-hand things. Each of the old men said to himself, 'My friend's

going to buy something. He wants something in here,' but both of them

were in the shop because it was warm and dry.

They walked around for another quarter of an hour and looked at a lot

of things, and then each of them said to himself, 'He doesn't want

anything. He's like me.'

Then one of them asked : 'We aren't going to buy anything, are we?

Come and look at some more beautiful things in the expensive shops.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did the old men go for a walk together last Thursday?

2. Was the weather good?

3. What did the old men do after a quarter of an hour?

4. Did the shop sell expensive things?

5. What did each of the old men say to himself first?

6. Did they look at anything in the shop?

7. What did each of them say to himself after that?

8. And what did one of them say to the other then?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. before

2. play

3. new

4. dislike

5. sell

6. leave

7. less

8. cheap

9. next

10. dry

11. warm

12. into

13. enemies

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Two young women were friends.

2. They went shopping last Monday.

3. The weather was warm and windy.

4. Two women went into a huge supermarket.

5. They wanted to buy a washing-machine.

6. Two men walked around for 20 minutes in the shop.

7. They chose a modern washing-machine.

8. They decided to go to another shop.

10.

Text 27

Mrs. Holland lived in a big city and she worked in a shop. She went

there by car every morning for twenty years. Then she was forty-five

years old, and she said to herself, 'I'm fat and soft now, because I go

everywhere by car. I'm going to buy a bicycle.'

She bought one, and after that, she always went to her shop on that,

and not in her car. Sometimes all the cars stopped at the red light and she went quickly past them to the front, because her bicycle was narrow. Then she was happy.

Yesterday she stopped at a red light, and a man came up behind her

on another bicycle. He stopped too and said, 'Have the police taken

your driving licence away too?'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Dis Mrs. Holland work in an office?

2. What did she say to herself after twenty years?

3. Did she buy anything then?

4. Did she go to her shop on it?

5. Where did she stop one day?

6. Who came up behind her then?

7. Did he stop too?

8. And what did he say to Mrs. Holland?

9. What made her happy on her bicycle ?

10. Why did the police take driving - licence away from this man ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. small

2. new

3. thin

4. hard

5. sell

6. before

7. slowly

8. back

9. wide

10. began

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mrs. Holland lived in the small town and worked in the restaurant.

2. She went to the shop by skateboard every evening.

3. She worked in the shop fifteen years.

4. She said to herself that she is thin and hard because she goes everywhere by skateboard.

5. She said that she is going to buy a car.

6. She went to her shop by car but she did not go on her skateboard.

7. She was happy to go to the shop by her car.

8. One day, she stopped at the yellow light.

9. Another woman stopped behind her too.

10. This man asked if the police took her ice-cream away too.

Text 28

Jim was sixteen. He left school, but he could not find any work for a long time. Then he began selling brushes to ladies in their houses. He came to the front doors of the houses and knocked at them, or rang the bell.Then the lady came to the door, and Jim said, 'I've got some beautiful

brushes here. Some ladies did not want any brushes, but others bought

some from him.

Last Monday he came to the front door of one house and rang the bell. A big dog came round the corner. It was angry, and Jim was afraid.

Then a lady came to the door and shouted at Jim, 'Stop attacking my

poor dog! Take your leg out of its mouth!'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Jim find work easily?

2. What did he say to ladies?

3. Did all of them buy his brushes?

4. What did Jim do last Monday?

5. What came round the corner of the house?

6. Were the dog and Jim happy?

7. Did a man open the door then?

8. What did the lady shout at Jim?

9. How old was Jim ?

10. Why did not he find a work for long time ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. lose

2. short

3. stopped

4. buying

5. stayed

6. back

7. ugly

8. next

9. little

10. kind

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Jim was 18 years old.

2. He graduated his school and found a work easily.

3. He began selling cookies to kids .

4. He came to the front doors and threw the stones to the windows

5. Jim said that he has chocolate and vanilla cockies .

6. All women bought his cookies.

7. He came to the front door and saw a rabbit last Tuesday.

8. The rabbit was kind and Jim was happy to see him.

9. Then the man came to the door and made a compliment to Jim.

10. Then the man said that Jim could take his rabbit with him.

Text 29

An English film director made a film in a small village in India. The

weather was very important for making the film, and the director always

listened to the weather forecasts on the radio. But then every morning,

an old Indian said to the director, 'It's going to rain today,' or The sun's

going to shine today,' or 'It's going to be cloudy,' and he was always

right.

Then the film director stopped listening to the radio and asked the old

man about the weather every morning. But one morning, the old man

was not happy and did not speak to the film director.

'Look,' the film director asked kindly, 'what's wrong? Are you ill?

We've got a doctor here.'

The Indian answered, 'Radio. Broken.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Was the film director Indian, or English?

2. What did he listen to on the radio?

3. Why did he stop doing it?

4. How was the old Indian one morning?

5. Did he speak to the film director?

6. What did the director say to him then?

7. Was the old Indian ill?

8. What did the old Indian answer?

9. Why did film director always ask the man about weather forecast?

10. Did the direcor buy a new radio for Indian ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. tall

2. city

3. never

4. began

5. rudely

6. right

7. sad

8. there

9. asked

10. create

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. The film director was from Germany.

2. He made a film in the big city.

3. The fim director did not pay attention about weather .

4. His assistent listened the weather forecast.

5. The yound kid told to the film director about weather.

6. This kid was always wrong.

7. The film director's assistent was continuing to listen the weather forecast.

8. The film director asked the kid about the weather every morning.

9. One morning , kid was not happy and he did not speak to the film director.

10. This kid was upset because the film director did not pay him.

Text 30

Tom is twelve. Last Saturday, his uncle David visited him and his

parents. He arrived at eleven; and at half past twelve, they had their

lunch. They had meat, and then oranges and apples.

Then Tom's mother said to Uncle David, 'You like cheese very much,

David, but the box is empty. 'I'm sorry.' Then she took the dirty plates

out of the dining-room and carried them to the kitchen.

Tom went out of the dining-room quietly and came back after a

minute with a piece of cheese. He gave it to Uncle David, and Uncle

David was happy. He put the piece of cheese in his mouth and then said,

'You've got very good eyes, Tom. Where did you find this nice

cheese?'

The boy answered, 'In the rat-trap, Uncle David.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Tom's uncle visit him and his parents last Saturday?

2. Did they all have lunch together?

3. What did Tom's mother say after lunch?

4. Did she go to the kitchen then?

5. And did Tom go out of the dining-room too?

6. What did he bring his uncle then?

7. And what did his uncle say?

8. What was Tom's answer?

9. What was David's reaction ?

10. Where did they have a lunch ?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. next

2. now

3. hate

4. full

5. clean

6. in

7. stayed

8. loudly

9. left

10. before

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Tom visited his uncle David and his parents last Monday.

2. David arrived at 8 o'clock in the morning.

3. They had their breakfast at half past nine.

4. They ate only fish.

5. David hated cheese.

6. The box was full of cheese.

7. Tom went out of the living-room and went to the kitchen.

8. Tom gave his uncle a candy.

9. Tom went to the shop to buy some cheese.

10. The uncle David was happy to eat this cheese.

Text 31

Mr. James Richards lived in a flat. At midnight last Friday, he was

asleep, but then he woke up, because there was a lot of noise.

'Someone's knocking at a door,' Mr. Richards said to himself. He went

into his living-room, but the noise was not at his door.

The person knocked for a long time, and then Mr. Richards opened

his door. A man with a telegram was at the door of the next flat. Mr.

Richards went and knocked at the door hard, and they made a lot of

noise.

Then Mr. Richards' neighbour came to the door. She was a lady. The man gave her the telegram and said, 'A telegram for Mr. James Richards. The lady was not happy!

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What woke Mr. Richards?

2. What did he say to himself?

3. Did he go into his living-room then?

4. And did he go out of his flat?

5. Did he knock at his neighbour's door too?

6. What did the man give Mr. Richards' neighbour ?

7. And what did he say to her?

8. Was she happy then?

9. Was Mr.Richards' neighbour a man ?

10. How many times did the man knock in Mr. Richards' neighbour's door?

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. next

2. down

3. out

4. short

5. before

6. easy

7. left

8. took

9. stayed

10. sad

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr. Richards lived in a big house.

2. He woke up to drink water at midnight last Friday.

3. Mr. Richards said to himself that someone broke a window.

4. The noise was at his door.

5. Then Mr. Richards came back to his bed.

6. Mr. Richards went to the bar with with man at midnight.

7. Mr. Richards' neighbour was a man.

8. The man gave a telegram to Mr. Richards .

9. The telegran was for a lady.

10. The lady was unhappy.

Text 32

Mr. Wall is the manager of a big bank. Last Thursday afternoon, Mr.

Nelson came to Mr. Wall's office in the bank and talked to him for a

long time. Then Mr. Wall looked at his watch and said, 'Look at the

time! The bank closed a quarter of an hour ago! They've locked all the

doors now, and there are three of them between us and the street. But

I've got keys, because I sometimes work late here after everyone else.'

He took some keys out of his pocket.

Mr. Wall and his visitor went out of his office, and then they saw

Mrs. Field. She cleaned the bank every evening after 5.30.

'Go out through the back door,' she said to the manager. 'They

never lock that one.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. What was Mr. Wall?

2. Did anyone visit him last Friday afternoon?

3. What did Mr. Wall say to the visitor then?

4. Did he take any keys out of his pocket?

5. And did Mr. Wall and his visitor go out of the office?

6. Did they see anyone then?

7. What work did Mrs. Field do in the bank?

8. What did she say to Mr. Wall?

9. What time did Mrs. Field clean the bank ?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. small

2. next

3. short

4. opened

5. left

6. into

7. always

8. there

9. put

10. night

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. Mr.Wall was manager in grocery store

2. Nobody came to the bank last Thursday

3. Mr.Wall and the visitor talked for a few minutes

4. Mr.Wall said to visitor that they can talk 5 minutes more.

5. He did not have keys because he doesn't work after everyone

6. He took some keys out of his bag

7. When they went out of bank , they saw bank director

8. She said that all doors were closed

9. Mrs. Field was manager of the bank too and she completed her work

10.Mrs.Field was cleaner of the bank

Text 33

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan lived in Weymouth. Mr. Bryan worked in a bank

there, and Mrs. Bryan always bought her meat from a butcher near the

bank. The meat in that shop was always very good.

Then the bank sent Mr. Bryan to Penzance. He bought a house there,

and Mrs. Bryan began looking for a new butcher. There was one near

her house, and she went into his shop and found a nice piece of meat.

'I want two kilos of that,' she said to the butcher, and he began

cutting it, but Mrs. Bryan said, 'You're giving me a lot of bone in that.

'No, I'm not,' the butcher answered. I'm not giving it to you. You're

going to pay for it.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Mrs. Bryan buy good meat in Weymouth?

2. Did she go to Penzance alone, or with her husband?

3. Did she find a butcher there?

4. Was there any nice meat in his shop?

5. What did she say to the new butcher?

6. What did he do then?

7. What did Mrs. Bryan say to him?

8. And what did he answer?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

10.

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

10.

Text 34

Mr. and Mrs. Perry had four children. One evening, Mrs. Perry went

out, and Mr. Perry stayed at home with the children. They were

upstairs in their bedrooms. Mr. Perry read his newspaper for half an

hour, and then he heard someone on the stairs.

'Go up to your bedroom and stay there!' he shouted.

A few minutes later, he again heard someone on the stairs.

'Go upstairs, or I'm going to come and spank you!' he said angrily.

This happened again, and then someone knocked at the front door.

Mr. Perry went to it. One of his neighbours was there.

'Is my small son here?' he said to Mr. Perry.

'Yes, I'm here,' someone answered from upstairs, 'but Mr. Perry

always stops me going home.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Was Mrs. Perry at home that evening?

2. Were her children at home?

3. Did Mr. Perry hear anyone on the stairs?

4. What did he shout then?

5. What did he say a few minutes later?

6. Did anyone come to the front door then?

7. What did he say?

8. And what did his son say?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. stood
2. Whispered
3. Many
4. Happily
5. Back
6. Here
7. Tall
8. Asked
9. Never
10. Out

C) Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1. That evening everybody were at home.

2. They were in the kitchen

3. Mr. Perry cooked dinner for children

4. He read his newspaper for five minutes

5. He read his newspaper for five minutes because he understood that newspaper is not interesting

6. Nothing happened before his wife arrived

7. Mr. Perry did not allow go down because he knew that it was not his son

8. Mr. Perry said friendly that someone goes down

9. The boy upstairs was his son

10. Neighbour came to Mr. Perry to take a son

Text 35

Professor Carter visited some friends on the other side of town. After a good dinner and a game of cards, he said, 'I'm going to walk home

now.'

But his hostess looked out of the window and said, 'The weather's

very bad. It's cold and wet and windy. Please stay here tonight.' She

went and made him a bed.

After a few minutes, she came back to the living-room, but the

professor was not there. She and her husband waited for half an hour,

and then they went to bed. But then the professor knocked at the back

door of the house. He was very wet. His host came to the door. 'You're

here!' he said happily.

'Yes,' the professor answered. He smiled and said, 'I went home and

got my pyjamas.'

Exercises:

A) Answer these questions:

1. Did Professor Carter have dinner at his friends' house?

2. What did he say after the game of cards?

3. And what did his hostess answer?

4. Did she go and make Professor Carter a bed then?

5. Where did she go after that?

6. Was the professor there?

7. Where did the professor go?

8. Did he get his pyjamas from there?

10.

B) Which words in the story mean the opposite of:

1. before

2. bad

3. work

4. stood

5. in

6. hot