A story with a hidden ending.

1 Read the story. You will find the words that do not belong to the sentences. Write out the words. If you do the exercise correctly, the words that you have written out will give you the end of the story.

2 Give tour own headline of the text.

This is a my story about an old man and an old woman. They lived wife near a fine green wood. One summer day the old man went to the wood to pick up mushrooms. It was a hot day the man soon got tired and thirsty, wanted but there was no water in the wood. So he sat down under a tree to rest.

Everything to around him was so fresh and fine, but he was old and sad. He wanted to return the days when he was young and fine.

Suddenly he saw become a little spring near him. He was very glad as he was very thirsty. He began drinking the water. Soon he felt that young he became younger and younger and in a few minutes he was fine young man again.

He ran home so to tell his wife about the spring. When his wife much heard the story, she rang to the wood quickly, though she was very old.

It was very late but that the old woman didn't return she home. When he came drank

up to the spring too, he saw a little girl. She was very glad much to see him as she didn't know how to get water home. It was his wife.

The man thought: "…. "

The key:

"My wife wanted to become young so much that she drank too much water".

A story with a hidden ending

1 Read the story. You will find the words that do not belong to the sentences. Write out the words. If you do the exercise correctly, the words that you have written out will give you the end of the story.

2 Give tour own headline of the text.

An English tourist came to Paris. It was his first visit there. On the same day he please sent a telegram to his wife who was in London. In the telegram he told her the address of the hotel where he was send going to stay. He also told her me that he was quite well.

As he was in Paris for the first my time, he was very eager to see the places of interest. After dinner, he went for a walk and then decided to go to the theatre to see a new play. It was very late when the play was over. It was time to go home.

But at that moment he realized address that he couldn’t get to the hotel: he didn’t remember either the name of the hotel or the address. The Englishman at was at a loss because he didn’t know what to do. Suddenly once he remembered sending that morning a telegram to his wife.

So, late at night his wife got a very strange telegram: "

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The key: Please, send me my address at once.