II. Read the text and say why people like to travel? What is travelling for them? Where and how do they usually travel?

Free Trip to America — Nearly

Six boys,aged seven to nine nearly got a free trip to America,last Sunday. They got on to the 42,000-ton ship Oriana,one of the world's biggest passenger liners, by saying that their parents had their tickets and passports. As the ship sailed from Southampton on its way to the Caribbean and America, the boys laughed and waved goodbye to policemen on the dockside.

Unfortunately for them, the boys were discovered when they asked a sailor the way to the 'cafe'. The sailor took them to the Captain, who checked up on them and radioed for a police boat to take them back to Southampton.

Apparently this was not the first time the boys had experimented with foreign travel. They told police that a few weeks ago they went to France on the hovercraft, but were picked up by French police at Amiens and sent home.

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I.Read the text and answer the questions.

«Cough medicine»

Jim lived with his parents until he was eighteen years old, and then he got a job in the office of a big factory in another town, so he left home. He found a comfortable little flat which had two rooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom,and he lived there on his own.

At first he cleaned it himself, but he did not want to have to go on doing this, so he determined to find someone else to do it instead of him. He asked a lot of his fellow workers at the factory what they did about this, and at last one of the men said, «Oh, Mrs. Roper comes and cleans my flat regularly. She washes the dishes, irons my shirts and keeps the place neat and tidy and so on. I'll introduce you to her, if you like. She's a charming old lady. She does her best, but she hasn't got much energy.»

Well, you'd better ask her to come and see me, please,» Jim answered. So the next evening Mrs. Roper came to see him, and she agreed with pleasure to come to his flat every morning for an hour.

After she had been working for Jim for two weeks, he looked at the mirror in his bedroom and thought, «That mirror looks very dusty. Mrs. Roper's forgotten to clean it. I can write on it with my finger.» He wrote a message in the dust: «I'm coughing whenever I breathe because everything in this room is very dusty.»

He came home at 7 o'clock that evening, and when he had eaten his supper, he went into his bedroom and looked at the mirror. «That silly old woman still hasn't cleaned it!» he said to himself. «All it needs is a cloth!»

But then he bent down and saw a bottle in front of the mirror. «I didn't put that bottle there.» He thought. «Mrs. Roper must have left it.» He picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.

«She's written some words on it ,» he said to himself. He read the words. They were: «Cough medicine.»

Questions:

1.Name the main characters of the story?

2.Where did Jim get a job?

3.Why did Jim want a person to come and clean his flat?

4.Why wasn’t Jim happy with Mrs. Poper’s work?

5.How did Jim let Mrs. Poper know what he thougnt about her work?

6.What was Mrs. Poper’s answer to him?

II.Read the text and say if children like April Fool’s day. What are your favourite holidays? Why?

April Fools’ Day

Children throughout the English-speaking world look forward to April 1^st, April Fools’ Day. By tradition it is the day on which jokes are played. The children might decide to wake their parents with the news that the house is on fire, or that some other disaster has occurred. When they see the looks of alarm on their victims’ faces they shout, «April Fool!»

At school serious work is practically forgotten as the children try to pin notices on one another’s backs. The notices say things like «Kick Me», or «I’m A Fool». Teachers have to be particularly careful or they too might find themselves walking around with a silly sign on their backs.

On this day of national good humour, the television service joins in the fun. Last year they told the story of a building that had been built upside-down by mistake. They showed an example of modern architecture which actually did look better when it was turned the other way. Many people must have been fooled, and perhaps the architect himself was given food for thought.

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