English tales

~ Kenneth Grahame

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1.Is Mole а water or ground animal?

2.What does he eat?

3.Does he live near the fields?

4.Does he live near the village or far from it?

5.Does he like to swim?

STEP2

Find 'Uncle Rat's House in the picture at page 126-127 and answer the questions:

1.Is.Uncle Rat а ground or water animal?

2.Has Uncle Rat got а boat?

3.Does he like to fish and swim?

4.Does he like to eat fish?

5.Is his house near the wood?

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STEP3

Find Мг. Toad's House in the picture at page

126-127 and answer such questions:

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1.Does Mr. Toad live in the wood?

2.What is the пате of Mr. Toad's house?

3.How сап Uncle Rat and Mole соте to Toad-Hall?

4.Сап Mr. Toad drive а car?

5.Does he swim well?

STEP4

Find the building of Prison in the picture and help Mr. Toad to соте home. Connect sentences correctly опе Ьу опе looking at the picture:

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STEP5

Find Badger's House in the picture and say some sentences about it. The next words and word combinations will help уои. Соте оп!

Thick Wood

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Hills around

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Kenneth Grahame

Old Hollowy Trees

Dark, cloudy sky

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PAMELA L. TRAVERS

(1899-1996)

Памела Траверс - журналистка, поэтесса, теа­

тральный критик. Сказочная повесть о няне-вол­

шебнице «Магу Poppins » вышла в 1934 году и сра­ зу завоевала популярность как в Англии, так и в других странах мира. Писательница продолжила писать сказки о чудесной няне. Всего п. Траверс на­

писала о ней пять книг. Глава «The Day Out» - од­

на из первых глав первой книги «МARY POPPINS».

МЭРИ ПОППИНС (after Pamela Travers)

The family of Мг. Banks lived in Number Seventeen Cherry Тгее Lane.

There were four children in the family:

Jane who was the eldest, Michael who сате next and John and ВагЬага who were twins. Mrs. Banks needed а nurse for her children. Магу Poppins was their nurse.

She was ап old-fashioned woman with shiny black hair, small Ыие eyes. She was thin with large feet and hands.

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Every second Thursday was her day out. She was free from 1till 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

Tha t day was the second Thursday. And she put оп her white gloves and took her umbrella with а beautiful handle in the form о! а parrot's head. Mary always took her umbrella. It was not raining that day. The weather was cold.

She went to the Match Man who had two professions: if it

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~ Pamela L. Travers

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was wet he sold matches; if it was fine he was оп his knees аН day, making pictures in coloured chalks оп the side-walks.

Оп that day it was fine but cold.

The Match Man drew beautiful pictures and invited Mary Poppins to look at them.

One picture was very nice. It was the country- аН trees and grass and а little bit of bluesea in the distance. The Match Man was holding Mary's hands and drew her out of the street into the very middle

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of the picture. And they found themselves right inside the picture. They were nicely dressed, they had changed! They moved оп together and found а green table for Afternoon-Tea. There was а pile of rasp- berry-jam-cakes and hot tea оп the table.

They drank tea with pleasure and then went to the Merry-go-Round. They had nice time together. It was nearly dark when they сате back. They knew the mistery of the picture and smiled at one another...

(From Once Upon а Time... English Fairy Tale.- М.: Progress Publishers, 1975.- Р.

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