Daily Archives: 10.01.2016
Task 5. Kelly Ryan
Kelly Ryan lives in Kentucky in the USA and starts her new school year in August. She doesn’t go back to just one school, but two. As well as ordinary high school, she goes to virtual high school. Kelly wants to study history of art, but her local high school doesn’t teach it. So she’s taking it on the Internet.
Task 2. The Girl On the Motorbike
In the early hours of 5 April 1989 a motorbike was speeding along the A20 in Kent. The night was dark and there was very little traffic on the road. Clive Taylor was in a hurry to get home. He had left London later than he had expected. As he approached Wrotham Hill, he glanced at his watch. Exactly two o’clock. A minute later he reached the bend at the top of the hill. It was a dangerous place for accidents. Suddenly, he saw a girl. When he had stopped, the girl calmly walked up to him and asked him if he could give her a lift. He asked her what she was doing in such a lonely spot. She said that there had been an accident. Clive looked around, but he couldn’t see a car or any other people. Clive told her to get on the pillion and to hold tight. As the girl climbed on, Clive suddenly felt very cold, but he noticed that she was only wearing a light dress. They rode on down the hill and Clive talked to the girl over his shoulder. At the bottom of the hill there was a telephone box. Clive pulled off the road and stopped. But when he turned round, he froze in horror. The girl wasn’t there.
Task 7. Good Advice
Once a farmer went to the nearest town to sell some butter and eggs there. It didn’t take him long to sell his goods. After he had sold all the butter and eggs he decided to go to the inn to have his dinner there.On coming to the inn he sat down at a table, called a waiter and ordered his dinner. Then he looked around and saw a group of people who were speaking about the local lawyer. “The lawyer is very clever and always gives good advice to his clients,” said one of the men.
After dinner the farmer went to the lawyer and asked give him some advice. The lawyer asked the farmer what advice he needed. “You can give me any advice you like,” answered the farmer. The lawyer smiled, took a piece of paper, wrote a few words and gave it to the farmer. The farmer took the paper mid without reading it left the lawyer’s office.
Late in the evening the farmer returned home. His wife asked him to gather in the hay. But the farmer was very tired and was about to go to bed. He didn’t know what to do. Then he remembered that he had the lawyer’s advice in his pocket. He took the paper out and read the following words: “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Then the farmer left the house to gather in the hay. He worked for some hours and at last the hay was gathered in.
At night there was a storm and the farmer was very glad that he had followed the lawyer’s advice and that his hay was not ruined.
Vocabulary
an inn – готель
a lawyer – адвокат
hay – сіно
storm – буря
to ruin – руйнувати, занапащати
Task 2. Nelly’s Cat
Nelly has a grey cat. The cat’s name is Carry. Carry is a big cat.
She has three little kittens — a black kitten, a white kitten and a grey kitten. Nelly’s cat Carry and her kittens do not sleep in Nelly’s room. They sleep in the kitchen in a box. The box is on the floor near the table.
Task 4. Martin
Martin lived in a small room where he slept, studied, wrote and cooked his meals. Before the window there was the kitchen table that served as desk and library. The bed occupied twothirds of the room. Martin slept five hours; only a man in very good health could work for nineteen hours a day. He never lost a moment. On the looking-glass were lists of words: when he was shaving or combing his hair, he learned these words. Some lists were on the wall over the kitchen table, and he studied them while he was cooking or washing the dishes. New lists were always put there in place of the old ones. Every new word he met in his reading was marked and later put down on paper and pinned to the wall or looking-glass. He even carried them in his pockets and looked them, through in the street or in the shop.