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Ch. I.   We Go Fishing

Find the Russian equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:

naughty to invite smb to do smth to go fishing to let smb do smth

to allow smb to do smth to pick smth up to look after to promise to do smth

I am an English girl. My name is Mary Brown. I have a little sister. Her name is Nancy. She is very naughty.

One day some children come to our house. They all have fishing-nets. They invite me to go fishing. I ask my mother to let me go fishing. The mother allows me to go fishing and gives me a fishing-net, some bread and butter and a little bottle of milk.

But my little sister wants to go fishing too. She asks the mother to let her go fishing too. The mother allows Nancy to go with us and gives her some bread and butter and a little bottle of milk and a big apple. She gives Nancy a little basket for stones because Nancy likes to pick up little stones. She doesn’t give Nancy a fishing-net and tells her not to go into the water. She asks Mary to look after Nancy. Mary promises her mother to look after her sister.

1.      Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the active vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who is the story about?

2)          What is Nancy like?

3)          Who comes to the house one day?

4)          Where do they invite Mary to go?

5)          What does Mary ask her mother about?

6)          Does the mother let Mary go fishing?

7)          What does she give Mary?

8)          Who else asks the mother to let her go fishing?

9)          What for does the mother give Nancy a little bag?

10)      Why doesn’t she give Nancy a fishing-net?

11)      Whom does she ask to look after Nancy?

12)      What does Mary promise to do?

3.     You are Mary. Tell your groupmates about yourself and your sister Nancy.

Ch. II.  Nancy Doesn’t Obey her Sister

Find the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

повиноваться снимать одежду ловить рыбу приказывать выходить из воды падать вытаскивать из воды

мокрый съесть все сухой гладить догадываться рассердиться на кого-либо

We come to the river. Then my friends and I take off our shoes and socks and go into the river to fish. It is summer and the water is warm.

I tell my sister not to go into the water. I tell her to pick up stones and put them into her bag.

We fish and fish but don’t catch any fish. Suddenly Peter tells me to look at my sister. I see my sister in the water with her shoes and socks on.

I order her to get out of the water. But my little sister runs away from me and falls into the water. Her hair is wet, her dress is wet and her shoes and socks are wet, too.

We pull her out of the water. We take off her wet things and put them on the grass to dry.

We give her some bread and butter and she eats it all up. She also drinks her milk and mine too. Then she eats her apple.

When her dress, her shoes and her socks are dry we go home.

But my mother guesses that Nancy was (была) in the water because her things are not ironed.

She is angry with Mary and she doesn’t give Mary any cake for supper.

My sister goes to bed and my mother gives her some hot milk.

1.      Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the active vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Where do the children come?

2)          What do the children do before they go into the water?

3)          What is the water like on that summer day?

4)          Whom does Mary see in the water?

5)          What does Mary order Nancy to do?

6)          Does Nancy obey Mary?

7)          What happens (случается) to Nancy?

8)          What does Nancy give her sister?

9)          When do the children go home?

10)      Why does the mother guess that Nancy was (была) in the water?

11)      Who is the mother angry with?

12)      How does she punish (наказывает) Mary?

3.     What does the mother tell:

·        Nancy not to do (Chapter I)?

·        Mary to do (Chapter I)?

What does Mary tell her sister to do (not to do)?

What does Peter tell Mary to do?

4.     Write out the sentences with the pronouns “some”, “any”. Explain the use of these pronounces.

5.     Put in the prepositions where necessary.

1)          Sam is angry __ his brother.

2)          We take __ our clothes when we go __ bed.

3)          My younger brother never obeys __ me.

4)          I like to have milk __ supper.

5)          Our teacher doesn’t punish __ her pupils.

6)          Nancy doesn’t want to get __  __ the water.

7)          The teacher gives __ her pupils only good marks.

8)          The cat falls __ the box.

9)          It is difficult to look __ little children.

10)      We like to pick __ flowers in the forest.

Ch. III.  Nancy Is Ill

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations, pay attention to the prepositions:

to talk to smb to fall ill to be in bed to be afraid of smb to call a doctor to look at smth

to complain to smb to stay in bed in the afternoon to take in the medicine to be well

My little sister likes to talk. She talks to the people who come to our house. She talks to the people in the street and in the shops. She talks to her friend the postman. Everybody likes to talk to the little girl as she is very funny.

One day Nancy falls ill. The mother orders her to stay in bed. She promises to call a doctor. But Nancy asks her mother not to call a doctor as she is afraid of him.

My mother gives Nancy a cup of tea, a doll and her best books. But Nancy doesn’t want to play with her toys. She doesn’t want to look at the pictures in her book.

When the postman brings our mother a letter he gives Nancy a big red apple, a pencil and a little notebook.  Nancy complains to him that her mother wants to call a doctor.

In the afternoon my father comes home. Nancy complains to him too that her mother wants to call a doctor. But the father tells her that the doctor has a little black bag and he has many interesting things in it.

Now Nancy wants to see the doctor. She is not afraid of him any more. When he comes Nancy asks him to show her the interesting things in his bag.

Nancy looks at the interesting things. She likes them very much. The doctor tells Nancy to take in the medicine three times a day and to stay in bed. Nancy obeys. She invites the doctor to come again. But the doctor doesn’t come because Nancy is soon well .

1.      Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the active vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Whom does Nancy like to talk to?

2)          Why do people like to talk to Nancy?

3)          What happens to Nancy one day?

4)          Why does Nancy tell the mother not to call a doctor?

5)          What does the mother give Nancy?

6)          What does Nancy complain to the postman about?

7)          Does Nancy want to see the doctor later? Why?

8)          What does Nancy ask the doctor to do?

9)          Nancy doesn’t obey the doctor, does she?

10)      How often does Nancy take in the medicine?

11)      Does she invite the doctor to come again?

12)      Does he come? Why (not)?

3.     Write out the sentences with the verbs of reported speech (to tell, to ask, to order, to complain, to promise).

4.     Prepare a passage for a good reading.

Ch. IV.  Nancy has a Bottle-tree

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

to get up to make breakfast a shed a spade to trample a flowerbed

to plant to make a hole an acorn to be sorry for smb a bottle

One day my little sister gets up very early. My mother is in the kitchen at this time. She is going to make breakfast for the family and she doesn’t see that Nancy is not in bed.

My naughty sister goes to the shed and takes a little spade. Then she goes to the garden.  She goes to the flowerbed, but she doesn’t look at the beautiful flowers which my father likes to plant. She tramples the flowers under her feet. She makes a hole in the flowerbed. Why does she make the hole in the flowerbed? She is going to plant an acorn. She has a nice brown acorn in her hand. She puts it into the hole. Then she puts a stick near it.

Why does she do it? She wants to know the place where the acorn is. She is a clever little girl, isn’t she?

After breakfast Nancy goes to this place again. What is she going to do? She is going to take the acorn out and to see how it grows. Then she puts the acorn back.

She comes to the hole before dinner and after dinner too.

In the evening the father comes home and sees the flowers. He is very angry with Nancy. Nancy begins to cry. The father is sorry for her. So he takes a bottle and puts some water into it. What is he going to put into the bottle? He is going to put Nancy’s acorn into the bottle.

1.      Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who gets up early one day?

2)          Why is the mother in the kitchen at this time?

3)          Where does Nancy go?

4)          What does she take there?

5)          What is she going to do?

6)          Who likes to plant flowers in the family?

7)          What does Nancy do with the flowers?

8)          What does Nancy do with the acorn?

9)          Why does she take the acorn out?

10)      Why is the father angry with Nancy?

11)      The father is sorry for Nancy, isn’t he?

12)      What does he do with the acorn?

3.     Write out the sentences with the intention structure.

4.     Make seven general questions to the chapter.

Ch. V.  The Bottle-tree Becomes an Oak-tree

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

to watch to forget

a shoot to be happy about smth

So the acorn is in the bottle and Nancy is going to watch how it grows.

She puts the bottle with the acorn at the window. She looks at it all the time but it isn’t going to grow.

She puts the bottle near her bed and looks at it in the morning and in the evening. But the acorn isn’t going to grow either.

The mother tells the girl to put the bottle at the window and to go to play with her doll. Nancy obeys her mother and soon she forgets about the bottle.

One day Nancy looks at the bottle and sees a little green shoot. Nancy is very happy about it and she shows her bottle-tree to everybody.

The father is glad too. He goes to the shed, takes the spade and goes to the garden. Why does he go to the garden?  He is going to take out the acorn and to plant it near our house.

The bottle-tree grows and grows and now it is a big oak-tree.

1.     Make up your examples with the active vocabulary.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What is Nancy going to do?

2)          Where does Nancy put the bottle with the acorn at first?

3)          Is the bottle-tree going to grow?

4)          How often does Nancy look at the bottle-tree?

5)          Does she see how it grows?

6)          What does the mother tell Nancy to do?

7)          Does she forget about the bottle-tree soon?

8)          What does she see some days later?

9)          Is Nancy happy about it?

10)      Who else is happy about it?

11)      What does the father do with the bottle-tree?

12)      Is the bottle-tree a big oak-tree now?

3.     Complete the sentences using the prepositions if necessary.

1)          Ann comes __ home __ work late __ the evening

2)          Mrs. Brown is happy __ her son’s progress __ school

3)          Are you sorry __ the sick child?

4)          Never forget __ your promise!

5)          Look __ the picture! It is very beautiful.

6)          Mrs. Green is angry __ her husband who goes __ fishing every Sunday.

7)          Who looks __ your child when you are out __ home?

8)          __ spring people plant __ flowers and vegetables.

9)          Dan gets __ __ 8 o’clock.

10)      Whom are you going to invite __ your party?

11)      Are you afraid __ mice?

Ch. VI.  We Have Dolls

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

pretty

to break smth

a wardrobe

I have a new doll. Its face is pretty, its eyes are pretty, its dress is pretty, too. The doll can open its eyes and say Ma-ma.

I don’t often play with the doll. I am afraid to break it. Usually the doll is in the box, and the box is in the wardrobe in my mother’s room. When I want to see my new doll my mother usually takes it out of the wardrobe and shows it to me. I look at it for some time, and then my mother puts it into the box again.

My little sister has a doll, too. Her doll is not new, and it is not pretty at all. It is old and dirty. It has only one eye and it has no hair. Its dress is not pretty. Nancy likes the doll very much. She always takes it to the garden and to the yard. She often puts it on the floor and on the grass. And when she goes to bed she usually takes her doll with her.

1.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What does Mary have?

2)          What is her doll like?

3)          Why doesn’t Mary play with her doll very often?

4)          What does Mary usually do when she wants to play with her doll?

5)          What is Nancy’s doll like?

6)          Does she like to play with it?

7)          How does she play with her doll?

2.     Write out the sentences with the adverbs of regularity.

3.     Make up 10 disjunctive questions to the chapter.

Ch. VII. We have Beautiful Dolls

hen she goes to bed she usually takes her doll with her. the box again.

Make up your examples with the active vocabulary:

to look for open

that’s why  noise

to run

One morning my mother is in the kitchen. She is making breakfast for the family. That’s why she asks me to look for my sister because breakfast is ready.

I go to look for my sister in the yard. She is not there. I look in the shed. She is not there either. I look in the garden but I don’t see her there. I come back into the house.

Suddenly I hear a noise in my mother’s room. I open the door and look in.

The wardrobe is open and my doll’s box is on the floor. It is open but the doll isn’t in it. Then I see that my naughty sister is playing with it.

 I order my sister to put the doll back into the box but Nancy doesn’t obey me. I am very angry with my sister and begin to pull the doll. Nancy begins to pull it, too. The doll falls to the floor. I pick it up and look at it. Its pretty face is broken. I begin to cry and my sister begins to cry, too. Our mother hears that we are crying and she runs into the room. She is sorry for us and promises to take my doll to the doll’s doctor. But she is going to take my sister’s doll to the doll’s doctor, too.

One day our mother comes home and gives us our dolls.

My doll has a pretty face and hair again. It opens its eyes and says “Ma-ma”. I am very happy about it.

My little sister’s doll is pretty, too. It has a pretty nose and pretty eyes and hair. Its dress is fine, too.

But my little sister doesn’t like her new doll. She doesn’t take it to the yard or to the garden. She doesn’t put it on the floor or on the grass. She puts it into the box and doesn’t take it out again.

1.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Where is the mother one morning?

2)          What is she doing?

3)          What does she ask Mary to do?

4)          Where does Mary look for her sister?

5)          What does she see in her mother’s room?

6)          What does Mary order Nancy to do?

7)          Why is Mary angry with Nancy?

8)          What happens to the doll?

9)          Why does the mother run into the room?

10)      Is she sorry for the girls?

11)      What does she promise to do?

12)      What does the mother give the girls one day?

13)      What is Mary’s doll like now?

14)      She is happy about it, isn’t she?

15)      What is Nancy’s doll like?

16)      Does she like it? Prove it.

2.     Complete the sentences using the correct preposition after the verb “to look”.

1)          My brother is a naughty boy. I have to look __ him.

2)          Look __ the dog. It is sleeping.

3)          Who is looking __ your little daughter when you are out?

4)          Let’s look __ my bag. I can’t find it.

5)          Dan looks __ the room and sees his pal.

6)          Why are you always looking __ yours things?

7)          Look __ Sam. He is so handsome!

3.     Write out the sentences with the Present Continuous Tense.

4.     What doesn’t Nancy like (to do)?

Ch. VIII.  My Mother Punishes My Sister

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

autumn to rain to put on a raincoat to walk

to catch cold to get wet scissors to cut out to notice

One autumn it rains and rains. It is October. It is very cold. When we go out we put on our raincoats. There are a lot of pools in the street.

But my little sister likes to walk in the water. One day she walks in the water and her feet are wet. So she catches cold and her eyes are red.

Our mother orders Nancy to stay in bed. But my sister doesn’t like it. She is going to go out in the rain. The mother brings her some books. There are a lot of interesting pictures in the books but Nancy doesn’t want to look at the pictures. Then my mother gives Nancy some old books and a pair of scissors. There are a lot of pictures of animals in the books and Nancy cuts out a dog and a cat, a brown bear and a red fox.

Then she sees a box that is lying on a chair. She opens it, there is a beautiful dress in it. There are pretty blue flowers on it. My little sister cuts out one flower. She likes it and begins to cut out all the flowers.

Suddenly the mother comes into the room. Nancy is cutting out the flowers and doesn’t notice her. The mother is very angry with Nancy because it is her best dress. She takes the scissors away and promises never to give her scissors again, and she never does.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What is the weather like this autumn?

2)          What does Nancy like to do?

3)          What happens to Nancy one day?

4)          Who orders Nancy to stay in bed?

5)          Where is Nancy going to go out?

6)          What does the mother bring Nancy?

7)          What pictures are there in the books?

8)          Nancy sees a box that is lying on the chair, doesn’t she?

9)          Is there a beautiful blouse in the box?

10)      What does Nancy do with the dress?

11)      Who comes into the room suddenly?

12)      Why doesn’t Nancy see her mother?

13)      Why is the mother angry with her daughter?

14)      What does the mother promise never to do again?

3.     Complete the following sentences:

1)          It is …

2)          It rains…

3)          People put on …

4)          There are a lot of … in the street.

5)          My little sister catches …

6)          My mother brings her …

7)          My sister cuts out … from the book.

8)          Suddenly Nancy sees …

9)          The mother is angry …

10)      The mother promises …

Ch. IX.  We Go to the Zoo

Find the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

зоопарк посещать поехать на автобусе двоюродная сестра тигр волк

обезьяна прыгать карусель кататься на карусели  взобраться на сиденье

It is Saturday. We are having breakfast but my little sister doesn’t want to eat her breakfast. My mother tells Nancy that she is not going to visit the Zoo on Sunday.

And my sister begins to eat. She eats her egg and some bread and butter, she drinks her cup of milk, too. She wants to go to the Zoo very much,

On Sunday we put on our best dresses and white socks and white shoes and go to the Zoo. We go there with our cousin Jane. Jane is sixteen. We take a bus and soon   not going to visit the Zoo  we are at the Zoo.

It is very interesting there. There are a lot of animals at the Zoo: a tiger, a red fox, a brown bear, a wolf and some funny monkeys. The monkeys are jumping and playing in the cage.

There is a little roundabout near the lake. There are little cars and horses and bears on the roundabout. The roundabout goes round and round and the cars and the horses go up and down, up and down.

Nancy wants to go on the roundabout. When it stops my little sister runs up to the little car and gets into the seat. The roundabout goes round and round. Then it stops. Jane invites us to go to see the monkeys again as we have no money now. But Nancy is going to go on the roundabout again.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What is the family doing this Saturday morning?

2)          What doesn’t Nancy want to do?

3)          Why does Nancy agree to eat her breakfast?

4)          What do the girls put on on Sunday morning?

5)          Who do they go to the Zoo with?

6)          How do they find the Zoo?

7)          What is there near the lake?

8)          What does Nancy do when the roundabout stops?

9)          Why does Jane invite the sisters to go to see the monkeys?

10)      What is Nancy going to do?

2.     Make up 5 questions with the structure “to be going to do smth” to the chapter.

Ch. X.  Nancy Is Lost

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

to lose to be frightened a policeman can do smth to decide to do smth a police-station to ask smb questions

to take smth down to answer to have smth on to be tired to take smb home to be hungry

We go the cage with the monkeys. The monkeys are so funny.

We look around but we don’t see Nancy. We go to the roundabout but she is not there either. We look for her everywhere but we can’t find Nancy. We are frightened.

We decide to go to the police-station. We see a policeman there and tell him that we can’t find our sister. The policeman asks us many questions about the girl’s age, appearance, clothes. He takes down our address, too. The policeman promises to find my sister and to take her home.

We thank the policeman and go home. We can’t take a bus because we have no money. When we come home we are hungry and tired. But do you know whom we see when we come home?

We see my naughty little sister who is sitting at table. There are tea-things in front of her. She tells us that the policeman took her home in his car.

Nancy asks the mother if the policeman knows where all little children live. But the mother answers that the policeman knows where all naughty children live. Nancy promises never to run away again.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Where do the children go?

2)          Where do the girls look for Nancy?

3)          What do they feel?

4)          They decide to go to the policeman, don’t they?

5)          What does the policeman ask the girls about?

6)          Does he take down their address?

7)          What does the policeman promise to do?

8)          Why can’t the girls take a bus?

9)          What do they feel when they come home?

10)      Whom do they see when they come into the room?

11)      Whose addresses does the policeman know?

12)      What does Nancy promise never to do again?

3.     Write out the sentences with the existence structure (there is a N), the intention structure (to be going to do smth), the  Present Continuous structure from chapters VIII, IX, X.

4.     Open the brackets using Present Simple or Present Continuous; mind the word-order:

1)    It is morning. Our mother (to make) breakfast. She always (to cook) breakfast for the family.

2)    The mother is angry with Nancy because she (to look) constantly at the bottle-tree.

3)    It is afternoon. Nancy (to lie) still in bed.

4)    The mother (to give) Nancy her toys but she (not to wish) to play with them.

5)    Tomorrow the girls (to go) to the Zoo.

5.     Recall:

1)    What Nancy likes to do;

2)    What Nancy doesn’t like to do.

Ch. XI.  Nancy Goes to the Birthday Party

What is the Russian for?

birthday to break (broke, broken) to come (came, come) to treat to smth a birthday cake

to laugh [la:f] to eat (ate, eaten) to be sick hide-and-seek

There was a little boy who lived in our street. His name was Tom. He was Nancy’s friend. Nancy liked to play with him. But Tom was a naughty boy and Nancy was a naughty girl, too.

They often played in our yard and in our garden. They trampled flowers and picked up green apples. They played with my toys and sometimes broke them. Once they washed my doll in dirty water. They were very happy to play together.

One day Tom came to our house to invite Nancy to his birthday party. He promised to treat Nancy to a nice birthday cake.

When Nancy came to Tom’s house she asked his mother to give her a piece of the birthday cake. Tom’s mother laughed. She promised to give Nancy a piece later.

When the other children came they played in the garden. They played hide-and-seek and then danced. But my little sister didn’t want to play. She didn’t want to dance. And Tom didn’t want to play either.

He invited Nancy to the dining-room. There was a beautiful birthday cake on the table. There were six chocolate roses on it.

My little sister liked chocolate roses very much and Tom treated her to one rose. She ate it up. Then Tom ate a rose, too. My sister ate three roses and Tom ate three roses, too. There were chocolate roses on their hands and on their faces.

When they came into the garden the mother didn’t ask them any questions. She was very angry with them. She ordered Tom to go to bed as he was a very naughty boy. She ordered Nancy to go home. Nancy was sick all night.

My sister is not a little girl now but she doesn’t like chocolate roses even today.

1.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who lived not far from Mary’s house?

2)          What kind of boy was he?

3)          Where did Tom invite Nancy one day?

4)          What did Nancy ask Tom’s mother for?

5)          What did the children do when they came?

6)          Did Nancy want to play with the other children?

7)          What was there on the table of the dining-room?

8)          How many roses were there on the cake?

9)          What happened to these roses?

10)      Why didn’t the mother ask Nancy and Tom any questions when they came into the garden?

11)      What did the mother order Tom and Nancy to do?

12)      What was wrong with Nancy at night?

2.     Write out the regular verbs in the Past Simple Tense; transcribe the endings.

3.     Recall:

What Nancy and Tom liked to do;

What they didn’t like to do.

4.     Make up 10 disjunctive questions to the chapter.

Ch. XII.  My Father Looks After My Naughty Little Sister

What is the Russian for?

to mend to give (gave, given) to put (put, put) to take (took, taken)

to go (went, gone) to begin (began, begun)        to forget (forgot, forgotten)

When my sister was a very little girl and I was a little girl we lived in Oak Street. A shoe-mender lived near our house. He often mended my shoes and my sister’s shoes.  My little sister liked to go to the shoe-mender with my mother. He was an old man and his name was Mr. Smith.

My little sister liked to talk to Mr. Smith and he liked to talk with her, too. He gave her little boxes and she liked to play with them. Then she put the boxes back again.

Mr. Smith had a very funny picture on the wall. In that picture there was a little dog in a very big shoe. Nancy liked that picture very much.

One day my mother wanted to buy a new coat for me. She didn’t want to take my little sister with us because she was too little. My father promised to look after my little sister.

He took his table into the garden and put it under a big tree. Then he took his pen and began to write. My father was a writer. My sister looked and looked at the father and then she asked the father to give her the doll from the wardrobe.

So my father went to my mother’s bedroom, took the box out of the wardrobe and gave it to my sister. Then he began to write again. But my sister asked the father to give her a cup of water. The father went to the kitchen, took a cup of water and gave it to my little sister. Then he began to write again. But Nancy asked the father to give a cup of water to her doll. My father was very angry. He took his table back into his room. He sat down at his table and began to write.

He worked and worked and then he looked at the clock. It was late. He went to the kitchen, took some bread, butter and cheese and went to look for Nancy. He looked in the garden. She was not there. He looked in the yard. She was not there either. He didn’t know what to do.

When we came home the father told the mother all about my naughty sister. We all went to Mr. Smith, and there was my little sister. But she didn’t want to go home. Then Mr. Smith took his beautiful picture from the wall and gave it to Nancy.

My little sister was very happy. She took the picture and forgot to thank the shoe-mender. She ran home.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who lived near Nancy’s house when she was a little girl?

2)          Why did Nancy like to visit the shoe-mender’s shop?

3)          What picture did Nancy like very much?

4)          Where did Mary and her mother go one day?

5)          Who promised to look after Nancy?

6)          Where did the father take his table?

7)          What did he begin to do in the garden?

8)          What did Nancy ask her father to do?

9)          Was the father angry with her?

10)      Did he forget about Nancy?

11)      Why couldn’t he give Nancy her supper?

12)      Where did he look for her?

13)      Where did the mother find Nancy?

14)      What did Mr. Smith give Nancy?

15)      What did Nancy forget to do?

3.     Open the brackets using the Past Indefinite Tense:

1)    The children (to take) off their shoes and (to run) into the water.

2)    The mother (to give) Nancy some bread and butter but she (not to give) her a net.

3)    Nancy (to like) to talk to everybody.

4)    Nancy (to put) the acorn into the bottle and (to look) at it all the time.

5)    Nancy and Mary (to break) the doll’s face.

6)    Nancy (to go) into the garden three times a day.

4.     Put the following regular verbs into the Past Indefinite Tense and transcribe the endings:

to dance, to plant, to live, to want, to open, to show, to mend, to trample, to play, to look.

Ch. XIII.  Nancy Goes To School

What is the English for?

получать (3 формы) находить (3 формы) доска присутствовать на уроке подарок

читать (3 формы) поднимать руку (на уроке) (3 формы) рисовать (3 формы) уснуть (3 формы)

One day when I was a little girl my mother got a letter from my grandmother. She was ill and she asked my mother to come to her. My mother asked me to take Nancy to school. Nancy was very happy.

She found my father’s old bag and put a pencil and a notebook into it. She went to bed very early.

In the morning she got up early. She washed her face and neck and dressed quickly. After breakfast my mother went to my grandmother and we went to school.

Our lessons began at 9 o’clock. But we came to the school-yard early. My sister said “Good morning” to everybody in the yard.

In the classroom my little sister didn’t talk. She looked and looked. She looked at the teacher, the schoolboys and the schoolgirls, the blackboard and the pictures on the wall.

The children opened their bags and took out their pencils and notebooks. My sister opened her bag, too. She took out her pencil and her notebook.

Then teacher called all the children’s names. The children said: “Present”. But the teacher didn’t call my sister’s name because she was not a pupil. Then my naughty sister got up and said that she wanted to get a present, too.

Everybody laughed. Then the teacher read us a story and my sister listened, too. When the teacher asked questions about the story, all the children put up their hands and my sister put up her hand, too. And she gave a good answer.

Then we drew pictures. I drew a horse, a tree and a lake and my sister drew our teacher. She drew her with very little eyes and very long black hair and a very big mouth. The teacher liked Nancy’s picture.

Then we all went to the schoolyard and played there. We played ball. My little sister played ball, too.

Then we went to the classroom again. We read a story in a book, but my little sister could not read, so she fell asleep. She slept till four o’clock when the lessons were over.  

1.     Recall the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Whom did the mother get a letter from?

2)          Where did the mother ask Mary to take her little sister?

3)          How did Nancy get ready for school in the evening and in the morning?

4)          When did the sisters come to school?

5)          What did the children answer when the teacher called them?

6)          Why did everybody laugh?

7)          What did Nancy do when the pupils put up their hands?

8)          What did Nancy draw?

9)          What did the children do in the yard?

10)      Why didn’t Nancy read a story in the book?

11)      How long did Nancy sleep?

3.     Make up 10 disjunctive questions to the chapter.

Ch. XIV.  The Baby-Tooth

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

a baby-tooth to pick apples to get loose

to pull the tooth out to advise to collect

When I was a little girl there was an apple-tree behind our house. We liked to pick apples and to eat them.

One day my little sister picked a very big green apple. When she began to eat it, one of her little teeth got loose. My sister began to cry.

But then she liked her loose tooth and began to show it to everybody. She showed it to the postman and to her friend the shoe-mender.

The shoe-mender wanted to pull her loose tooth out, but Nancy didn’t want the shoe-mender to do it. She liked her tooth. Then the shoe-mender advised Nancy to go to the dentist because the dentist liked to see nice baby-teeth.

So my little sister went to the doctor. She showed her tooth to the people who were there. Everybody liked her little tooth. The doctor liked her tooth, too. He asked Nancy to give him her tooth. He collected teeth and showed them to the people who came to him.

And do you know what my little sister did? She pulled out the tooth and gave it to the doctor. She was a funny little girl, wasn’t she?

1.     Recall the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What was there behind the house?

2)          What did the sisters like to do?

3)          Why did one of Nancy’s teeth get loose?

4)          Whom did Nancy show her loose tooth?

5)          Who advised Nancy to go to the dentist?

6)          What did the doctor ask Nancy to do? Why?

7)          What did Nancy do suddenly?

8)          Nancy was a funny little thing, wasn’t she?

3.     Complete the following sentences using the suitable verbs in the Past Indefinite Tense:

1)    The girls often ___ apples in the garden.

2)    One of Nancy’s teeth ___ loose.

3)    Nancy ___ her loose tooth very much.

4)    The doctor ___ nice teeth.

5)    Nancy ___ her baby-tooth to the doctor.

Ch. XV.  Nancy Goes To The Theatre

What is the English for?

занавес подниматься (о занавесе) приветствовать

падать находить (3 формы)   мороженое

Once when my little sister was four our mother took us to the theatre.

The theatre was very beautiful. My sister and I liked it very much.

When we were at the theatre my little sister didn’t talk. She looked at the curtain and at the beautiful walls and the big lamps over our heads. But when the curtain went up and a little funny man came out, she looked only at that funny man.  His name was Humpty-Dumpty (Шалтай-Болтай). He greeted the children and the children greeted him.

Then beautiful dolls came out and danced. They had very beautiful dresses on, all white and blue. Humpty-Dumpty began to dance, too, but he fell on the floor.

And then Humpty-Dumpty invited the children to dance with him. Nancy ran up to him and said that she wanted to dance with Humpty-Dumpty. Everybody laughed and Humpty-Dumpty laughed, too. The other children ran up to him, too, and they began to dance. Then he asked the children to go back to their seats. All the children went to their seats, but my little sister didn’t go to her seat. She ran away. She wanted to see the dolls behind the curtain. She found the girls. The beautiful dolls talked to my sister, and they gave her an ice.

Humpty-Dumpty found my little sister and took her to our mother. Everybody laughed but my mother was very angry with Nancy.

But my sister jumped up on her seat and cried that the dolls were little girls and they liked to eat ices.

1.     Recall the situations where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Where did the mother take the sisters one day?

2)          Why didn’t Nancy talk at the theatre?

3)          Who came out onto the stage when the curtain went up?

4)          What was his name?

5)          Who came out onto the stage after Humpty-Dumpty?

6)          What did the dolls look like?

7)          Whom did Humpty-Dumpty invite to the stage?

8)          Who was the first to run up to Humpty-Dumpty?

9)          What did Humpty-Dumpty ask the girls to do after the dance?

10)      Did Nancy to go topty ask the girls to do after the dance?

10)      s were little girls and theyunny man.go to her seat or not?

11)      Where did Nancy run? Why?

12)      What did the girls treat Nancy to?

13)      Who took Nancy to her place?

14)      Who was angry with Nancy?

15)      What did Nancy cry about?

3.     Complete the following sentences using the correct article:

1)    There was __ apple-tree behind their house.

2)    The father went out into __ street and asked __ people about his daughter.

3)    Nancy wanted to see __ doll which she kept in __ wardrobe of __ mother’s room.

4)    Mr. Smith had __ very funny picture on __ wall.

5)    In __ picture one could see __ little dog in __ little shoe.

6)    __ father put __ table under __ big tree.

7)    My father wrote __ books for __ children.

Ch. XVI.  Nancy And A Good Girl

Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

to get acquainted with at last to be shocked

to remark to play hide-and-seek that’s why

One day the mother told us that her friend and her little daughter were going to come to our place. The daughter’s name was Winnie. She was a very good girl. The mother asked Nancy to be a good girl and to play with Winnie in the garden.

My little sister put on her new blue dress and blue socks and white shoes. She took all her toys into the garden. She took her big doll out of the box. She wanted to play with Winnie and to show her all her toys. She wanted to get acquainted with Winnie very much.

At last Winnie and her mother came. Nancy ran to the door and opened it. Winnie had a blue dress and blue socks on. My little sister was shocked and she didn’t greet Winnie. She only looked and looked at her blue socks. She was surprised that Winnie had blue socks on, too.

My mother and Winnie’s mother sat down on a bench in the garden and talked, and Winnie and my little sister went to play. My sister showed her all the toys and the big doll, too.

But Winnie didn’t look at the doll and didn’t speak with Nancy either. She didn’t want to play with Nancy’s toys, she didn’t want to run, and she didn’t want to play hide-and-seek. She wanted to read a book. She was six already and she went to school. That’s why she could read.

The children went into the house. Winnie took one of my books and began to read it. But my little sister didn’t go to school. She couldn’t read so she ran into the garden, picked apples, flowers, and when tea-time came, her hands were dirty and her face was dirty, and her dress was dirty, too.

My mother put a big cake on the table. She offered Winnie a piece of cake. Winnie thanked the mother and took a little piece of cake.

But my naughty sister took a very big piece of cake. She liked cakes very much.

After tea Winnie and her mother went home. When they went away my naughty little sister told the mother that she didn’t want to be a good girl because she liked cakes very much.

1.     Find the situations where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who wanted to come to Mary’s place one day?

2)          What was Winnie like?

3)          What did Nancy do to meet Winnie nicely?

4)          Why was Nancy surprised to see Winnie?

5)          Where did girls go to play?

6)          Did Winnie want to play with Nancy?

7)          What did Winnie want to do?

8)          Why couldn’t Nancy read books?

9)          How did Nancy spend the time?

10)      What did she look like some time later?

11)      What did the mother offer Winnie?

12)      What piece of cake did Winnie take?

13)      Nancy took a very little piece of cake too, didn’t she?

14)      Did Nancy want to be a good girl? Why not?

3.     Compare Nancy and Winnie.

Ch. XVII.  Nancy Is Five

Find the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:

короткая перемена заканчиваться узнавать

отвечать по телефону передать сообщение

When my little sister was five, she went to school. She went to school every day.

The lessons began at nine o’clock. At eleven o’clock the children had a short break. Then they had two more lessons. At one o’clock in the afternoon the children had dinner at school. Some children went home for dinner, but my little sister didn’t go home for dinner as our house was not near the school.

After dinner we played in the yard and had two more lessons. The lessons were over at four o’clock and the mother came to take my sister home.

Nancy learned many things at school. She learned to read, to write and to count. She could spell her name very well now.

She learned many things about animals. She learned about animals that gave us milk and about animals that gave us wool.

One evening when she put her school-books and her pens into her bag, she put her doll into the bag, too. When the first lesson began, she put the doll on the desk.

The teacher told her to put the doll away as she was a big girl. But my naughty little sister said that the doll was five years old and she had to go to school.

My little sister learned not only to read and to write. She also learned how to answer the telephone. When the mother was not at home she took the message for her.

One day the mother was not at home when the telephone bell rang. It was Nancy’s teacher. She asked Nancy to tell her mother that Nancy had to leave her doll at home. But Nancy told the mother nothing about the teacher’s call.

The next day she took her doll to school again. The teacher wrote a letter to our mother and gave it to me.

The mother was very angry with Nancy and put her doll into a box and put the box into the wardrobe. And my sister didn’t get any cake for supper.

1.     Find the situations where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          When did Nancy go to school?

2)          When did her classes begin?

3)          What did Nancy learn at school?

4)          What things did she learn about animals?

5)          What did she put into her bag one day?

6)          The teacher didn’t allow Nancy to put the doll on the desk, did she?

7)          Why didn’t Nancy take the doll away?

8)          What else did Nancy learn to do?

9)          Who rang their home up one day?

10)      Who spoke with the teacher?

11)      What did the teacher ask Nancy to do?

12)      Did Nancy give the teacher’s message to the mother?

13)      Why did the teacher give a note to Mary?

14)      The mother was angry with Nancy, wasn’t she?

15)      How did she punish Nancy?

3.     Speak on the school everyday routine.

Ch. XVIII.  Nancy Learns To Knit

What is the Russian for?

to knit (3 forms) to offer (3 forms) Cocoa to make presents

a scarf birthday to present smb with smth a holiday

When my little sister was five a nice woman and her husband came to live near our house. The woman’s name was Mrs. Jones. But my little sister called her Mrs. Cocoa Jones.

Do you know why she called her so?

In summer, when we had over school vacation, Nancy went to Mrs. Jones every morning at eleven o’clock to drink cocoa. Mrs. Jones had no children, and she didn’t like to drink her cocoa alone. She liked to talk to my little sister. They were good friends. That’s why my sister called her Mrs. Cocoa Jones.

Mrs. Cocoa Jones liked to knit. She knitted in the morning and in the afternoon, and she knitted at the tea-time when her friends came to see her. She talked and knitted. She knitted many nice things for my sister and me and our dolls, too.

One day she offered to teach Nancy knitting. My sister didn’t want to learn knitting, but she wanted to present her friends with knitted things. That’s why she agreed to learn knitting.

Mrs. Jones gave my little sister some wool and two needles and showed her how to knit. But Nancy didn’t like to sit in one place, she liked to run and to play.

 Mrs. Jones’ husband was very nice, too. He liked to talk to my little sister as she was very funny. Once he told Nancy that the next month he would have his birthday and Nancy decided to knit a present for him.

She wanted to knit a long scarf for him. She took yellow, green, red and blue wool and knitted a scarf. Her scarf was yellow and green, red and blue but it was not long. It was short because my little sister could not knit very well. She didn’t want to show us her scarf, so she knitted it in the shed and in the garden under the apple-tree.

Nancy presented Mr. Jones with that scarf on his birthday. Mr. Jones thanked Nancy and promised to put it on only on holidays as it was very beautiful.

1.     Find the situations where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Who came to live near their house when Nancy was five?

2)          Why did Nancy call Mrs. Jones Mrs. Cocoa Jones?

3)          What did Mrs. Cocoa Jones like to do very much?

4)          When did she knit?

5)          What did she offer to do one day?

6)          Why did Nancy agree to learn knitting?

7)          What did Mrs. Jones give Nancy?

8)          Who else liked to talk to Nancy?

9)          What did Mr. Jones tell Nancy one day?

10)      What did Nancy decide to present Mr. Jones with?

11)      What was her scarf like?

12)      Where did Nancy knit the scarf?

13)      Did Mr. Jones like the scarf?

14)      When did he promise to put it on?

3.     Complete the following sentences using different words:

When I had my ___ last month my mother ___ me with a beautiful dress. I liked __ very much and put it __ immediately. I thought I looked ___ fine in it and that’s ___ I didn’t want to ___ it off. I ___ my mother ___ the present. We were both happy ___ it.

Ch. XIX. Poor Charlie

What is the Russian for?

to help smb about the house to sweep the floor (3 forms) a broom to buy (3 forms)

to bend over (3 forms) a vacuum cleaner bits of paper

My little sister often helped Mrs. Jones about the house. Mrs. Jones worked very much and had a very clean house. She was glad when my sister came to help her. Mrs. Jones swept the floor with a big broom, and she bought a little red broom for my sister, too. But sometimes Mrs. Jones’ back hurt her when she bent over.

One day Mr. Jones bought a vacuum cleaner. It swept the floor very well but it made very much noise, and my little sister didn’t like it.

She didn’t go to see Mrs. Jones for a week. One day Mrs. Jones came to see my sister. She told Nancy that poor Charlie wanted to eat very much. Nancy was surprised to hear it because she didn’t know who Charlie was. Mrs. Jones explained that Charlie was the name of the vacuum cleaner. Nancy wanted to see how Charlie ate and she ran to Mrs. Jones’ house.

She saw the vacuum cleaner on the floor in the room. Mrs. Jones put bits of paper on the floor and Charlie “ate” them all up. Then my little sister put bits of paper on the floor, too. They jumped into Charlie’s “mouth”. It was so funny.

 Now my little sister was not afraid when the vacuum cleaner made much noise.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          Whom did Nancy help about the house?

2)          What did Mrs. Jones sweep the floor with?

3)          What did she buy for Nancy?

4)          What did Mrs. Jones feel sometimes when she bent over?

5)          Who bought a vacuum cleaner to help Mrs. Jones?

6)          How long didn’t Nancy go to Mrs. Jones? Why?

7)          Mrs. Jones came to Nancy one day, didn’t she?

8)          What did she tell Nancy?

9)          Was Nancy interested in her words?

10)      What did Mrs. Jones put on the floor?

11)      What did Charlie do with them?

12)      Did Nancy like the game? Prove it.

3.     Complete the following sentences using different words:

It is no easy ___ to keep house. Mary always helps ___ mother ___ the house. She washes __, ___ flowers and __ the carpets with a ___ cleaner. Their vacuum cleaner is __ the latest __. But if __ mother is very __, Mary ___ about the house everything __. She has clever ___.

Ch. XX.  School Vacation

What is the English for?

каникулы различный слон лев

поехать в деревню отвезти кого-либо к морю бросать (3 формы)

My little sister liked school but she liked vacation more than school. On the first day of our vacation she asked our mother and father to take her to different places every day of the vacation.

On Monday the father took my sister to the Zoo. She saw all the animals there. She saw big elephants and funny monkeys, brown bears and white bears, tigers and a big lion. When my little sister came home from the Zoo she talked only about the animals at the Zoo.

On Tuesday my mother, my sister and I went to the country. We went to a lake. It was very beautiful near the lake. There were a lot of green trees and red and blue flowers there. We picked some flowers. Suddenly we saw a big white goose. My little sister was afraid of the goose. We came home very late. My little sister told our father about the country, about the lake and the flowers and the big white goose.

On Wednesday the mother took us to the sea. The day was fine. The sea was blue and the sky was blue. We saw many little boats and two sailboats. We picked up little stones in the water, and we played near the sea. When we were going home, my little sister slept on the train.

On Thursday the father took Nancy to the park. The park was a very good place to play in. Many children came to the park every day. My sister played with a ball and had three rides on a roundabout. There was a big lake in the park. A boy came with a dog to the lake. The boy threw a stick into the water and the dog swam to it, took it into its mouth and brought it back to the boy. My sister and my father watched the boy and the dog.

On Friday my mother took us to the theatre. When we came home my sister went to Mrs. Cocoa Jones and told her all about the theatre. Nancy wanted to go to her friend the shoe-mender and to tell him about the theatre, too, but my mother said it was too late.      

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)          What did Nancy like more than school?

2)          What did Nancy ask her parents about on the first day of the vacation?

3)          Where did the father take the girl on the first day of the vacation?

4)          What animals did Nancy see there?

5)          Where did the girls go the next day?

6)          The lake was beautiful, wasn’t it? Prove it.

7)          What frightened Nancy near the lake?

8)          Where did the mother take Nancy on Wednesday?

9)          What was the weather like on that day?

10)      Why was Nancy very tired on that day?

11)      When did the father take Nancy to the park?

12)      What did Nancy do in the park?

13)      Whom did they see in the park?

14)      Where did the mother take the girls on Friday?

15)      Whom did Nancy speak about the theatre with?

16)      Why didn’t the mother let Nancy go to the shoe-mender?

3.  Complete the following sentences:

1)          My little sister liked her...

2)          She wanted to go to different places...

3)          All the evening she spoke about...

4)          On Tuesday the mother...

5)          There were...

6)          Suddenly Nancy saw…

7)          We came home…

8)          In the water we picked…

9)          On Thursday we went…

10)      We had three rides on…

11)      The dog swam in the lake and…

12)      Nancy was eager to tell the shoe-mender about the theatre but the mother…

Ch. XXI. Nancy Is Ill

Find the English equivalents for:

ложка быть больным оставаться дома

закончиться пора (сделать что-то)

On Saturday we all went to the circus. We liked to see the clowns. They were very funny. We also liked the monkeys. The monkeys had their dinner. They sat at little tables. They ate with little spoons. They drank milk from a bottle. We also saw a big elephant and a baby elephant.

On Sunday morning my sister fell ill. The doctor came with his bag and gave my sister some medicine. He also gave her a little bottle of medicine for her doll.

But Nancy was a big girl already and she didn’t play with her doll. During her vacation she visited the Zoo, the circus, the theatre, went to the country, to the sea, to the park.

The doctor was angry with Nancy’s parents. He told Nancy to stay at home and to play with her doll.

So my sister didn’t go to different places every day any more. She stayed at home and played with her doll in the garden. But when her vacation was over and it was time to go to school my mother put her doll into the box again.

1.     Reproduce the situations (sentences) where the above vocabulary is used.

2.     Answer the following questions:

1)    Where did the parents take the girls on Saturday?

2)    Who did the girls like most of all? Why?

3)    What happened to Nancy on Sunday?

4)    Who came to see Nancy?

5)    Why didn’t Nancy take the bottle of medicine for her doll?

6)    Why was the doctor angry with Nancy’s parents?

7)    What did he order Nancy to do?

8)    Did Nancy go to different places every day?

9)    What did the mother do with the doll when the vacation was over?

3.     Prove that Nancy was a big girl already.

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