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Reading

Read the text and choose the right options to complete the sentences.

The Princess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a Prince who wanted to marry a princess, but a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were a lot of princesses, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that wasn’t as it should be. So he came back home and was sad. One evening a terrible storm came on. There was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down. Suddenly somebody knocked on the city gate, and the old King went to open it. It was a Princess standing in front of the gate. But, good gracious! She looked horrible because of the rain and the wind. The water ran down from her hair and clothes. And yet she said that she was a real princess. “Well, we’ll soon find that out”, thought the old Queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom. Then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty blankets on top of the mattresses. On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning they asked her “How did you sleep?” “Oh, very badly!” she said. “I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she could feel the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty blankets. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. So the Prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess. They put the pea in the museum, where you may still see it, if no one has stolen it. There, that is a true story.

1. The Prince wanted to marry a __________.

1. Rich princess b) true princess c) foreign princess

1. The Prince travelled a lot to find his future wife, but_____________.

1. There were no princesses in the countries he visited

2. He didn’t know how to check real princess

3. He liked all the princesses

1. The Prince was sad because __________.

1. He was tired of travelling

2. He came back home

3. He felt lonely

1. The Princess standing by the city gate was ______________.

1. All wet

2. Good and gracious

3. Sad

1. The old Queen decided to __________.

1. Make a soft bed for the princess

2. Check if she was a true princess

3. Help the Prince and Princess to make friends

1. The Queen put a pea ___________ the mattresses.

1. Between b) on top of c) under

1. The Princess ___________ at night.

1. Couldn’t sleep

2. Slept well

3. Counted the mattresses

1. The Princess __________.

1. Found the pea under the mattresses

2. Was uncomfortable to sleep on the bed with the pea under the mattresses

3. Thanked the Queen for the soft bed

1. The Prince and his family knew that she was a real princess because________.

1. She was black and blue all over her body.

2. She was horrible

3. She was unhappy after a sleep on 20 mattresses with a pea under them

1. The Prince’s family thought that the real princesses ________________.

1. Were very delicate and tender

2. Needed twenty mattresses on their bed

3. Had to lie on something hard

Listening

Listen to the text and mark the states True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS).

Tapescript

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, Missouri, the USA. As a boy he was often sick, bu grew to be healthy. He spent much of his time playing along the Mississippi River and in the woods nearby.

He used to spend summers on his uncle’s farm where he had a lot of friends. On the farm he also saw several disturbing incidents, including slave beatings and murder, which he later used as material for his novels.

Samuel’s father died in 1847, and he left school and became a printer’s assistant to help to support his family. He left his home in 1853 to continue his printing work in New York, Philadelphia and other places in USA. From 1857 until the Civil war started in 1861, he sailed a riverboat on the Mississippi River. After the war he worked as a reporter under the pseudonym of “Mark Twain” which was the boating phrase that indicated 2 fathoms of water. In 1864 he went to San Francisco and wrote for magazines and newspapers.

In 1866 he started travelling, visiting Hawaii, Europe and The Middle East, studying people, gathering material for his writing. In 1870 Samuel married Olivia Langdon. They had a son and 3 daughters. The family lived in Connecticut from 1871 until 1891. In 1872 he published his first book. In 1876 he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and in 1885 he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These books made his name world famous with children and teenagers.

He received honorary degrees from Yale in 1901 and from the University of Missouri in 1902, and he received another honorary degree from Oxford in 1907. On April 21, Samuel Clemens died of angina.

1. Mark Twain was the original name of the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer._______________

2. He was often ill in his childhood but he had no health problems in his adult life. _______________

3. His house was on the bank of the Mississippi River. _______________

4. His uncle was very cruel to his slaves. _______________

5. The impressions of his early days became the basis for many of the writer’s books. _______________

6. Samuel graduated from the local university. _______________

7. He was a professional printer and then reporter. _______________

8. He got his pen name as a writer after the person he admired. _______________

9. Mark Twain travelled to thirty countries. _______________

10. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer And Huckleberry Finn are among famous works of the world literature for children. __________________

Speaking

Talk about your favourite author, his best books and your favourite character.

Writing

You’ve got a letter from your friend about the plot of the book he/she read last month. Write him/her a letter about the plot of the book you are reading now. Write 50-60 words. Answer his/her questions:

-What’s the name of the main character?

-What happened at the beginning?

-What did the main character do then?

-What episode did you like best?