FORM 10
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
The Hot Dog
In its home country of
Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt,
a German city.
Frankfurters were first sold
in the United States in the 1860s. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund
sausages”. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short
legs. “Dachshund sausage” seemed like a good name for the frankfurter.
Dachshund sausages first
became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were
sold by men who kept them warm in hot-water tanks. As the man walked up and
down the rows of people, they yelled, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your
hot dachshund sausages!” People got the sausages on buns, a special bread.
One day in 1906 a newspaper
cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. When he saw the men with
the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the
newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund inside- not a dachshund
sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn’t know how to spell dachshund. Under the
cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation,
and so was the new name. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see
sellers walking around with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and down the rows
they yell, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
Circle
the correct letter A, B, C or D.
1. The special bread
used for a hot dog is a…
А) sausage
a.
Bun
b.
Dachshund
c.
Frankfurter.
2. Another
word for to shout is to…
A.
name
B.
draw
C.
yell
D.
whisper.
3. A line
of people or of objects is a…
a.
Row
b.
Game
c.
Cartoon
d.
Angle.
4. When
something is a cause of excitement it is…
A. an
idea
B. a
sensation
C. a hot
dog
D. a
game.
5. Large
containers for water or other liquids, spmetimes made of metal, are called…
a.
Tanks
b.
Sellers
c.
Cartoonists
d.
Buns.
6. A
funny drawing is a…
a.
Cartoonist
b.
Frankfurter
c.
Cartoon
d.
Graph.
7. In
Germany a hot dog is called…
a. A hot
dog
b. A
dachshund sausage
c. A frankfurter
d. Pasta.
8. A
dachshund is a dog from
a. America
b. New
York
c. Germany
d. Dorgan.
9. A
professional who usually draws funny pictures with funny stories is…
a. a
writer
b. an
author
c. a
cartoonist
d. a
painter.
10. A
dachshund is…
a. A
sausage
b. A hot
dog
c. A dog
d. A frankfurter.
