Proverb

East or west – home is best

Riddles

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What is neither inside or outside? (foundation)

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What is neither in the house, nor out of the house? Yet a house cannot do without it (a window, a door)

Read and translate the text:

The beginning of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

by Frank Baum

(начало сказки «Волшебник страны Оз» Фрэнка Баума)

Dorothy livedin the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar…

Notes:

in the midst of the great Kansas prairies

посреди великих канзасских прерий

for the lumber to build it had

to be carried by wagon many miles.

так как лес для строительства приходилось

возить на повозке за много миль

rusty looking cooking stove

ржавая печка

a cupboard for the dishes

буфет для посуды

garret чердак

at all совсем

cellar подвал, подпол

MY WORKING DAY VOCABULARY

wake up
get up
usually sometimes rarely
7 o’clock
do one’s morning exercises
in a great hurry.
get dressed get undressed
wash (oneself) with soap
clean one’s teeth
toothbrush toothpaste
comb my hair
shave with a razor
have breakfast lunch
have dinner supper
the latest news on the radio
I leave home for
go by bus
to be late for the lessons
a few
traffic jam
canteen dining-hall
noon midnight
after the lessons
walk home
a part-time job for a living
grant scholarship
very tired
it takes me two hours to do smth
do my lessons (homework).
have a rest
watch TV surf the net
take a shower take a bath
set the alarm-clock
go sleep fall asleep
at once