Mary (take) him in hand. She (wash) him, (brush) his hair and (get) out his suit. Tom (look) nice, uncomfortable and unhappy. Soon the family (leave) for the Sunday school, a place that Tom (hate) with all his heart.
Answer the questions:
1. How did Tom «wash» his face for the first time?
2. What was the second attempt (попытка) like?
3. What did Mary do in the end?
Vocabulary: sermon – проповедь; minister – священник; suffer – страдать; beetle – жук; bite (bit) – кусать; miss – зд. промахнуться; fan – веер; variety – разнообразие.
Tenses to use: Present Simple, Past Simple.
Sunday sermon (be) always a hard time for Tom – he (not/listen) to the minister and he couldn’t look out of the church window, as Aunt Polly (not/let) him take a seat near it.
That Sunday, as usual, there (be) nothing interesting. For a time, Tom (suffer) as he (not/know) what to do. Suddenly he (remember) about the treasure that he (have) in his pocket. He carefully (take) it out. It (be) a large black beetle. Immediately, it (bite) Tom’s finger. Tom (throw) it away, and it (land) between the rows of seats, its legs in the air. Some of the people (begin) to watch it.
At that moment, a poodle (come) into the church. He (be) hot and bored and tired of waiting for his master outside. The poodle (see) the beetle. He (walk) around it, (smell) it from a distance, then (walk) closer and (open) his mouth to catch it, but (miss). He (try) again and again, but with no result. Some faces (go) behind the fans, so that nobody couldn’t see them laughing. Tom (be) happy.
The poodle (get) tired. He (forget) about the beetle and (see) on it. There (be) a shout of pain, and the dog (start) to rush about in the church like a woolen comet. By that time there (be) nobody in the church who (not/laugh).
Tom (go) home feeling happy and thinking that it (be) great to bring some variety to the sermon.
Answer the questions:
1. Why was Sunday sermon a hard time for Tom?
2. Why did he throw the beetle away? Where did it land?
3. Why did the poodle come into the church? Why did the people in the church begin to laugh? What did the poodle do in the end? What was the result? Why did Tom feel happy on his way home?
Vocabulary: wet – мокрый, branch – ветка, splash – брызгать, плескать; shirt – рубашка, drop – ронять, by accident – случайно.
Tenses to use: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple
It (be) our first morning on the river. We (look) down at the water. The night before we (want) to get up and jump into the water. But now the water (look) wet and cold. The wind (not/be) warm, too. I (decide) to splash some water on myself. So I (begin) to walk along the branch that (be) above the water. But the branch (break) and the next minute I (be) in the middle of the river with a litre of the Thames inside me.
«It (be) all right?» George (ask).
«Beautiful! Why you (not/want) to come?» But he (not/want) to.
«I (stay) in the boat», he (say).
When I (be) back in the boat, I (be) very cold. I (want) to put on my shirt. By accident, I (drop) it into the water. It (make) me angry, but George (start) laughing.
«Why you (laugh)?» I (cry). I (be) really angry with him. But then I (see) that it (not/be) my shirt. So, I (begin) to laugh, too. «Are you going to get it out?» he (cry) between the shouts of laughter.
At first I couldn’t answer him because I (laugh), too. But in the end I (say), «It (be) not my shirt, it (be) yours!»
Later I (try) to tell him that it (be) very funny, but he (not/agree) with me.
Answer the questions:
1. What were the friends’ plans for their first morning on the river?
2. Why did not they want to jump into the water in the morning?
3. What did the narrator decide to do instead of swimming? What did he begin to do? What happened?
4. What made the narrator angry when he was back in the boat?
5. When did George stop laughing?
Vocabulary: fence – забор, bucket – ведро.
Tenses to use: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous
Saturday (be) a beautiful day. It (be) summer and there (be) flowers in all gardens. It (be) a day for everybody to be happy.
Tom (come) out of the house with a big bucket of white paint in his hand. He (look) at the fence. It (be) three metres high and thirty metres long. He (put) his brush in the paint and (paint) some of the fence. Then he (put) down his brush and (sit) down. There (be) hours of work in front of him, and he (be) the unhappiest boy in the village. But after 10 minutes Tom (have) an idea.
…Tom (paint) when Joe Harper (come) to the fence.
«I (be) sorry you (not/can) (go) with me to the river, Tom. You must work.»
Tom (say) nothing. He (paint) the fence. He often (stop) and (look) at his work. The brush (move) np and down. At last he (say),
