Summary

Jack makes a kite. Jack and Jill try to fly the kite but it falls onto the grass. They try it again. This time the kite falls into an apple tree. An apple falls on the head of a police officer. Later the kite disappears in a cloud. Helen can find the kite and give it back to Jack and Jill.

Exercise 11. Read and say what things you like and dislike:

Things I like: I like surfing the Internet, playing computer games, watching films, reading books, playing football, going out with my friends, swimming in the sea and doing sports.

Things I dislike: I dislike staying with animals. I really dislike listening to hip-hop or rap. And I hate envious ['enviəs] people (завистливые люди).

Exercise 12. Read and translate into Russian:

Playing Tag (Chase, Tip) – Игра в пятнашки

Tag, also tip (коснуться), tick (стукнуть), it, chasey ("догонялки") and many other names, is a game with one or more players trying to touch other players.

In the USA, the game is called "Tag" because one player chases (дого­няя­ет) and "tags" ( касается) another player. In the UK (= United King­dom) and Ireland, the game is called "Chase" or "Tip".

Exercise 13. Learn the following counting-out rhyme (считалка):

With this counting-out rhyme you can select (выбрать) a person to be "it" (быть "вόдой"):

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,

Catch a tiger by the toe.

If he hollers (кричит), let him go (отпусти его),

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Eeny, meeny, miny moe,

Catch a tiger by the toe.

If he hollers make him pay (заставь его платить),

Fifty dollars every day.

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You can replace (заменить) "tiger" with "chicken", "monkey", "spider" and so on (и так далее).

Sometimes you can add (добавить) two lines more:

My mother told me to pick the very best one,

And that is Y-O-U!

Exercise 14. Irregular verbs (Неправильные глаголы)

Infinitive – неопределённая форма	Past Simple – простое про­шедшее время	Past Participle – причастие прош. времени	Перевод
fall	fell	fallen	падать
find	found	found	находить
fly	flew	flown	летать
hold	held	held	держать
meet	met	met	встречать
ride	rode	ridden	ехать (верхом)
run	ran	run	бежать
tell	told	told	рассказывать
think	thought	thought	думать

Exercise 15. Write the summary using the Past Simple:

Summary

Jack (make) a kite. Jack and Jill (try*) to fly the kite in the park but it (fall) onto the grass.

They (try*) it again. It (be) not easy. Jack (run) with the kite and Jill (hold) its tail. The second time the kite (fly) for a short while and (fall) into an apple tree. An apple (fall) on the head of a police officer.

The police officer (want*) to help Jack and Jill but they (do) everything themselves (сами).

Later the kite (disappear*) in a cloud. Jack and Jill (be) sad.

But Helen (can) find the kite and (give) it back to Jack and Jill.

Proverb: It's easier said than done – Легче сказать, чем сделать.

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