Тексты для чтения с заданиями

1. Children liked to spend time at Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s house.

1) Why did the children often come to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s house? (reading for detail)

Word Building

any + where = anywhere — где-либо

every + thing = everything — всё

every + where = everywhere — ?

One day at Mrs Piggle-Wiggle’s house two little girls were mak­ing cookies; one little boy was making pudding; a little girl was putting away all of Mrs Piggle-Wiggle’s clean clothes; two boys were painting the dog house; three little girls were washing Mrs Piggle- Wiggle’s old pirate stockings; and everywhere there were pirates: they were playing in the back yard, shouting, running into and out of the house and taking cookies. Mrs Piggle-Wiggle was sitting in the room. She was sewing dolls clothes. She was wearing a crown on her head and Kitty Wheeling was standing near her throne(it was a chair). She was making Mrs Piggle-Wiggle’s hair beautiful.

2) Find the answers to the following questions, (reading for specific information)

1. How many children were there at Mrs Piggle-Wiggle’s house?

2. How many children were playing in the house?

3. What were the children doing inside the house?

4. Were the children running in the yard?

5. Who was sitting on the chair?

6. What were the children doing outside the house?

2 . Rosemont School from the book Ellen Tebbits by B. Clearly had an open house.

1) Which event did the fourth-graders take part in? Find out from the story,(reading for the main idea)

a) an exhibition b) folk dances c) a play

A. It was the evening of the open house in Rosemont School. Ellen came into the school at night with her mother and father. She took them to the fourth-grade room.

B. “What for?” asked Ellen, looking at Otis’s costume.

“How can I know?” said Otis. “Come on.”

C. Then Otis came into the room in his costume. He was wearing a blue jacket and long red stockings. “Hey,” he said. “Mrs. Miller wants you.”

D. Then Ellen showed her parents her desk. While she was showing her arithmetic workbook, Linda and Austin came into the room.

They were both wearing purple skirts and white blouses. They looked happy and important when they took a box from Mrs. Miller’s desk and went out of the room.

E. Ellen followed Otis to the classroom. The children and the towns-people were running around in a game of tag. The rats in their brown costumes were jumping over the chairs. Mrs. Miller clapped her hands from time to time, but they were not listening to her.

2) Put the paragraphs in the correct order. The first and the last paragraphs are already in their places, (reading for detail)

1. A 2. ____ 3._____ 4. _____ 5. E

3) L earning to translate. What do the following words from paragraph E mean? Choose.

tag 1) ярлык, этикетка, бирка; 2) конец, заключительная часть, эпилог; 3) санки, пятнашки

clap 1) хлопать, аплодировать; 2) похлопать (по плечу)

4) Match the two parts of the sentences according to the story.

The Perfect tree by Debra W. Hingley

Finally, that day came to buy the perfect Christmas tree. I got into my car to find the Christmas tree. (1) __________ I began to think what stories the trees might tell. I got out of my car and began to walk around, but I wasn’t choosing that perfect tree. I saw a man near me, he was looking at a branch¹ on a tree and laughing. The branch was longer than the others. I stopped to listen to what he was saying, “Look at this tree! It is only good for the fire.” I looked at the tree and said, “But did you think that maybe that branch was special? A bird might sit on it .’ The man looked at me, small tears² were in his eyes. He smiled and said, “You know you are right, it is the perfect Christmas tree. It will be nice to see my daughter’s smile when she runs to the tree on Christmas morning. (2) __________ ” I smiled and went on my way. Then I saw a mother with her children. (3) ___________ They were laughing at the strange³ little tree, too. I stopped and asked them , “What is funny about this little tree?” One of the boys answered with a laugh, “Two trees have wrapped around each other.” I looked at his mother and said, “Maybe one of the trees was very small, and the other tree had to help his brother.” The little boys were looking at the tree. Their mother then turned to me and said, “This tree is beautiful. It is just like my sons. (4) __________ When one falls⁴ down, the other catches him .” And she bought that tree. During the Christmas holiday, when we are decorating our trees, think about all the stories that these trees may tell because they are all perfect in nature’s eyes.

l a branch [brɑːntʃ] — ветвь

2 a tear [tiə] — слеза

3 strange [streɪ ndʒ] — странный, незнакомый

4 to fall [fɔːl] — падать

1) Choose the best answers to the following questions, (reading for detail)

1. When did the author see the man?

A. While she was sitting in the car.

B. While she was walking around.

C. While she was choosing a tree.

2. What was the man doing when the author saw him?

A. He was laughing at the tree branch.

B. He was buying a tree.

C. He was going away with the tree.

3. Why “were small tears in his eyes”?

A. He was thinking about his daughter.

B. He couldn’t buy the tree.

C. He was afraid of the woman.

4. Why were the boys laughing at the tree?

A. It was very small.

B. There were two trees in one.

C. They didn’t know how to decorate it.

5. Why did the boys’ mother buy the tree?

A. There were no other trees.

B. It was the smallest.

C. The tree was like her sons.

2) Look at all the highlighted words and find out what they refer to.