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Unit 1 A Summer forever

A Swift-footed Fellow

Jonathan, an old soldier who spent many years in the Army, was walking along a country road. The war was over and he thought of find­ing a good job for himself when he saw a farm house. The farmer was standing at the door and Jonathan said, «I have been walking all day looking for work. Will you give me a job»?

«Have you ever done any farm work»? asked the farmer.

«No», said Jonathan. «I have been a soldier all my life, but I will do any job you will give me».

The farmer thought and said: «All right. I'll give you a chance. Do you see that flock of sheep scattered over the hill»?

«Yes», answered Jonathan.

«Well», said the farmer. «Get them all through that gate and into the yard».

«OK», said Jonathan. «I'll do that».

About an hour later the farmer went into the yard. Jonathan was standing at the gate wiping his forehead.

«Did you get them all in»? said the farmer.

«Yes», said Jonathan. The farmer looked and saw that, indeed, all the sheep were gathered in the yard and the gate was shut. And then the farmer saw a hare running round among the sheep. The soldier saw what he was looking at.

«Yes», he said, «that fellow there gave me more trouble than all the rest put together».

I.  Say if the sentence is true or false:

1. The soldier's name was James.

2.  He had been at war for many years. _y

3.  He had been walking all day looking for a job.

4.  He asked the farmer for some water.

5.  The soldier had never done any farm work before.

6.  The farmer asked the soldier to get the goats together.

7.  The soldier had never seen hares before.

Unit 2 A Zoo in my suitcase

A Brown Wolf (after J. London)

John Smith and his wife, Mary by name, lived high up in the moun­tains. Once, while Smith was hunting deep in the forest, he saw a dog, terribly hungry and tired. There were no villages nearby and he decided to save the dog's life. He took the dog home. But the animal was so wild that didn't let Smith and his wife touch him, though he followed them to their house. Smith gave him some, fresh meat and left it in the house. In the morning he could find neither meat nor the dog. In two days he found the dog in the forest and brought him back home. But the dog ran away again, and it continued for a long time.

At last the day came when the dog stayed in the house. He never let the people touch himself, but Smith and his wife got very much attached to him. They called him Wolf.

Once a man appeared in their place. As soon as the dog saw him he jumped towards the man. Smith noticed that the man had recognized the dog at once.

««His name is not Wolf», he said, «it's Brown. This dog is my friend, my true friend. He has known me since he was born».

«Oh», cried Mary, «please don't take him away. We like the dog and he likes us».

«Are you sure he wants to stay with you»? asked the man.

«Yes, of course», said Smith. «I'm sure of it».

«Well», said the man, «I'll go away. If he wants to stay, let him stay. But if he wants to go with me, let him go».

Smith and his wife agreed.

The man walked away and Wolf ran after him and tried to stop him. But the man didn't stop and the dog ran back to Smith and Mary. He wanted to be both with them and with the man. Mary looked at her hus­band and smiled. She was happy that their Wolf came back.

But the dog stood for a while and suddenly ran after the man. He ran quicker and quicker and never turned his head.

I.               Say if the sentence is true or false:

1.              John Smith and his wife Mary lived in the forest.

2.               Once, while Smith was hunting in the forest, he found a dog.

3.               He took the dog home and gave him some vegetables.

4.               In the morning he could find neither the food nor the dog.

5.              In a week he found the dog in the forest and brought him home.

6.               The dog didn't let Smith touch himself.

7.              The Smiths got attached to the dog and called him Brown Wolf.

8.              When the dog saw Smith for the first time, he jumped at him.

9.              A man came to the Smiths and took the dog with him.

10.              The dog recognized his old master and ran with him.

II.               Answer the questions:

1.              Where did John and his wife live?

2.               How did John meet the dog?

3.              Why did he decide to take the dog home?

4.               Why didn't the dog let them touch himself?

5.               Did the dog want to stay with the Smiths?

6.               How did the Smiths get to know his real name?

7.               Did they want to part with the dog?

8.               Did the man take his dog by force?

9.               What was his decision?

10.              Whom did the dog choose?

    Unit 4 Tell me a story

Mystery of the Girl in a Blue Dress

John Hanson was driving home from London after hard working day. It was rainy, windy and misty autumn night. He was approaching the place and dreaming of a cup of hot tea and a bath, when suddenly a little girl showed up in his headlights. She stood by the roadside but didn't seem to hitchhike.

John stopped and rolled down his window. She was about twelve or thirteen, quite pretty! A round face, big eyes, straight brown hair. But John was astonished — she was wearing only thin blue dress, though the weather was stormy and dank. John said nothing but just opened the door. The girl climbed into the back seat and said quietly: «My name is Mary. Pleasfe take me home». Her voice was so quiet that John could hardly hear it. Her face was dead pale and John thought that she must have been frightened to stay there on the road, all alone.

He drove her the way she told him to go. But when he opened the door to help her out of the car, he couldn't believe his eyes: nobody was in the back seat. John looked all around the car, but all in vain. The girl disappeared.

He wanted to find an explanation to this strange fact and went to the house he had stopped at. A woman about fifty opened the door.

«Excuse me»; John said. «But there must be some mystery. I'm look­ing for a girl aged about thirteen. A round face, dark brown hair, big eyes».

The woman smiled and brushed away a tear. «Yes... Of courses It was really kind of you to have a trouble... But thirteen years ago our darling Mary lost her life in an accident... And we still miss her so much... I'm so sorry... You are the thirteenth person who has been here to bring her home».

I.   Say if the sentence is true or false:

1. John Hanson lived in London.

2.  It was raining hard when he was driving home.

3. A little girl stopped his car and asked him for a lift.

4.  The girl was wearing a blue dress though the weather was windy and cold.

5.  She was about eighteen.

6.  John asked her if she was cold.

7.  John took her home and helped her out of the car.

8.  The girl disappeared.

9.  John talked to a woman who lived in the house and asked her about the girl he was looking for.

10.            The       woman answered the girl was her daughter.

II.  Answer the questions:

1. Where did John Hanson work?

2.  What was the weather like the day when he was coming back home?

3.  What was he dreaming of?

4.  Whom did he see by the roadside?

5.  Did the girl want to stop the car?

6.  How old was she?

7.  What astonished John the most?

8. What did the girl look like?

9.  Did John take her home?

10. What was unusual in that story?

A strange dream

This is a story of a strange dream.

The man's name was Colonel Parker. He lived in a large house by himself. His only companion was a dog named Laddie. But the dog had died some years before, and the Colonel was then quite alone.

On the night of his dream snow was falling outside. The ground was covered with it. Colonel Parker could not get to sleep. So he went down to the living-room in his robe and slippers and sat down in a comfortable chair in front the fire. This chair was the place that his dog Laddie had liked best. But that night the Colonel was not thinking about the dog.

Soon the Colonel fell asleep. He began to dream that Laddie was there with him and

the two of them went out into the snowy garden together.

  Then the two returned to the house. Once more the Colonel sat down in his chair and fell asleep again.

A short time later Colonel Parker woke up. He felt cold. The fire had gone out and the door to the living-room was wide open. This was not as he had left it.The Colonel reached for his slippers. To his surprise, he found that they were wet. He hurried to the front door. The floor in front of it was wet too. Then he opened the door and looked out. In the fresh snow he saw a man's footprints. They ran down the garden and then back again. This was surprising but then the Colonel noticed something even more surprising next to the man's footprints were the footprints of a dog.     

                                          Unit 5 As busy as a bee

                                                Cough Medicine

Jim lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years old, and then he got a job in the office of a big factory in another town, so he left home. He found a comfortable little flat which had two rooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom, and he lived there on his own.

At first he cleaned it himself, but he did not want to have to go on doing this, so he determined to find someone else to do it instead of him. One of his fellow-workers said, «Oh, Mrs. Roper comes and cleans my flat regularly. I'll introduce you to her, if you like. She's a charming old lady. She does her best, but she hasn't got much energy.»

So the next evening Mrs. Roper came to see Jim, and she agreed with pleasure to come to his flat every morning for an hour.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, he looked at the mirror in his bedroom and thought, «That mirror looks very dusty. Mrs. Roper's forgotten to clean it. I can write on it with my finger.» He wrote a message in the dust: «I'm coughing whenever I breathe because everything in this room is very dusty».

When he came into his bedroom that evening and looked at the mirror he saw that it hadn`t been cleaned.

Then he bent down and saw a bottle in front of the mirror. He picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.

«She's written some words on it,» he said to himself. He read the words. They were: «Cough medicine.»   

                                                                        Unit 6 Are you a foodie?

                                                  The Tortoises' Picnic

Once upon a time there were three tortoises — a father, a mother and a baby. One beautiful spring day, they decided to go for a picnic. They got tins of salmon, and sandwiches, and chocolates, and ice creams, and fruit, and orange squash and put everything in their baskets and after three months they were ready. It was summer and it was sunny and very hot, and they set out carrying their baskets.

They walked and walked and walked and after three months they sat down and had a rest. They were a mile from home. It was autumn and it was cloudy and raining. They set out again and walked and walked and walked and in three months they reached the picnic place. They were two miles from home. It was winter and it was snowing and very cold. They unpacked their baskets and spread out the cloth, and arranged the food on it and it looked lovely.

Then Mother tortoise looked into the baskets. She turned them all upside down and shook them, but they were empty.

At last she said, «We've forgotten the tin opener»!

They looked at each other and at last Father tortoise said, «Baby, you'll have to go back for it».

«What»! said the baby. «Me! Go back all that long way»!

«We can't start without a tin opener. We'll wait for you», said Father tortoise.

«Do you promise that you won't touch a thing till I come back»? Baby said.

«Yes, we promise», they said, and Baby disappeared behind the trees.

And Father and Mother waited. They waited and waited and waited and a whole year passed and they got really hungry.

«Don't you think we could have just one sandwich each»? said Moth­er tortoise.

«No», said Father tortoise. «We promised. We must wait till he comes back».

So they waited and waited and waited, and another year passed, and they got really angry.

«It's six years now. Let's just have one sandwich while we're wait­ing», said Father tortoise.

They picked up the sandwiches, but just as they were going to eat them, a little voice said, «Aha! I knew you would cheat». And Baby tor­toise popped his head out of a bush. «It's a good thing I didn't go back for the tin opener», he said.

I. Say if the sentence is true or false:

1. One beautiful summer day the family of tortoises decided to go

for a picnic.

2.  They took plenty of food with them.

3.  They were ready for the picnic in three minutes.

    4. They reached the picnic place in winter.

   5. When they came, Mother Tortoise realised they had forgotten the tin opener.

   6. Mother Tortoise asked baby Tortoise to bring the tin opener back.

    7. Baby Tortoise bruoght the tin opener in six years.

Forks and Finger

In 1608 an Englishman, Thomas Coryate by name, visited Italy. When he came back to England he brought little forks the Italians used to eat meat with. His friends looked at the forks and laughed. They thought the Italians were fools because the forks were very inconvenient.

Thomas Coryate argued with them and explained to them that it was not good to eat meat with one's fingers because people's hands were not always clean.

The Englishmen were indignant at this.

«Do you think that people in England don't wash their hands before eating?» one of his friends asked.

«Isn't it enough to have ten fingers for eating? Must we add two ar­tificial fingers to eat meat?» asked the second friend.

Then the host decided to show how easy it was to use the fork. But the first peace of meat he picked up off his plate slipped off the fork to the tablecloth.

His friends couldn't stop laughing and joking about it, so the poor host had to put his fork back into his pocket.

Now listen to the story about why people began to use forks. The story says that forks came into use when people began to wear lace- trimmed collars. Those collars hindered them when they ate. They held the chin up in the air and kept one from bending his head. It looked as if the head was on a big round plate.

With such a collar it was more convenient to eat with a fork than with fingers.

I.   Say if the sentence is true or false:

1. An Englishman visited Italy in 1608.

2.  He brought little forks the Italians used to eat meat with.

3.  His friends liked the forks he had brought.

4.  They thought the Italians were clever people.

5.  The forks were convenient.

6.  Thomas Coryate argued with his friends.

7.  He explained to them how to eat with one's fingers.

8.  Everyone was indignant at this.

9.  The first piece of meat he picked up didn't slip off the fork.

10. His friends joked about it.

11.A hundred years passed before forks came into style in England.

12. Lace-trimmed collars hindered the people to use forks.
                                    

                             Unit 7 School

                       The Girl and the Bottle of Ink.

Many years ago I was a teacher in a small school on the north coast of Scotland. It was my first job as a teacher, and I wanted to do well. My students were mostly the children of local fishermen. On the first day of school when I walked into the classroom and up to the blackboard, I saw a very strange thing. A girl was walking around the room spilling ink from a bottle all over the classroom floor. All the other children were sitting at their desks. They were completely silent. When the girl saw me, she quickly went to her desk and sat down. Nobody said a word. Well, I decided not to say anything about it. After all, it was my first day as a teacher, and I was happy as long as the children were quiet, and they were.

The next day I had forgotten all about this when I went into the classroom for the first lesson. To my surprise, there was the same girl walking around the classroom, spilling ink on the floor from the bottle. When she saw me, the girl quickly went to her desk and sat down. Nobody said a word. Again I decided not to say anything because the children had already taken out their books and were waiting for me to start the lesson.

On the third day when I walked into the classroom, the same girl was walking around with the same bottle, spilling ink all over the classroom floor. This time I decided to speak. «What are you doing?» I asked the girl.

«I'm spilling ink on the floor,» said the girl.

«I can see that», I said. «Why are you spilling ink on the classroom floor?»

«It's to keep the crocodiles out of the classroom,» the girl answered. The class was completely silent.

«To keep the crocodiles out of the classroom?» I asked.

«Yes», she said. «We don't want any crocodiles in the classroom, you see.»

«But there aren't any crocodiles in the classroom», I said.

«I know», said the girl. «This ink really works!

Write if the sentences are true or false to the text

1.        The teacher worked in a small school on the south coast of Scotland.

2.        . On the first day of school she saw a very strange thing in the classroom.

3.        The teacher was not surprised after all.

4.        The teacher didn`t say anything as she thought that the students wouldn`t understand her.

5.        The girl was spilling ink every day before lessons.

6.        The girl was sure that ink helps to keep crocodiles out of the classroom.

                         Unit 8 The World of Wonders