Who Are My Neighbours?

"Ring" the bell rang loudly. Everybody packed their bags and get ready to go home. When the

teacher dismissed the children, they lined up in two rows and walked orderly to the canteen. 

Usually David's mother would fetch him home from school but today she was not there. David waited for 15 minutes before he walked home. 

When he reached home, he knocked on the door as he did not bring his keys. Surprisingly, no one answered the door. David thought his mother was in the toilet so he waited patiently for his mother. After a few minutes there was still no response. 

David knocked again but still no one answered the door. Just as he was about to go to the nearby coffee shop where his father worked to get the keys, he heard the friendly voice of his neighbour, John. 

David told him that no one was home and John's mother suggested that David stays in their house till his mother came back. David and John played happily till evening when David's mother came back. 

David thanked John and his family before he went back into his house. David's mother explained to David that she had a backache and she had to see a doctor. From this experience, David learnt an important lesson, "Neighbours are people who help each other."

1. Who met David at home?

a. David's mother	c. nobody
b. David's father	d. David's neighbour

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2. David and John played happily till evening when ……….

a. David's mother called	c. John's mother came back
b. David's father came back	d. David's mother came back

3. Who was David’s neighbour?

a. his grandmother	c. John
b. Jimmy	d. a stranger

4. David's mother explained to David that she had ……….

a. a stomachache	c. some work to do
b. a toothache	d. a backache

2. Writing

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

1. At the moment they ________________(to go) to the river for a swim.

2. We __________________(to drink) tea every morning.

3. __________you ____________(to eat) apples tomorrow?

4. He _______________(to read) newspapers tomorrow.

5. I ________________(to go) to the cinema when you met me.

Examination Card № 18

1. Reading

Read the text and answer the questions.

The Hitchhiker

As Andrea turned off the motorway onto the road to Brockbourne, the small village in which she lived, it was four o'clock in the afternoon, but already the sun was falling behind the hills. At this time in December, it would be completely dark by five o'clock. Andrea shivered. The interior of the car was not cold, but the trees bending in the harsh wind and the patches of yesterday's snow still heaped in the fields made her feel chilly inside. It was another ten miles to the cottage where she lived with her husband Michael, and the dim light and wintry weather made her feel a little lonely. She would have liked to listen to the radio, but it had been stolen from her car when it was parked outside her office in London about two weeks ago, and she had not got around to replacing it yet.

She was just coming out of the little village of Mickley when she saw the old lady, standing by the road, with a crude hand-written sign saying "Brockbourne" in her hand. Andrea was surprised. She had never seen an old lady hitchhiking before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady, waiting hopefully on a country road like this with little traffic. Normally, Andrea would never pick up a hitchhiker when she was alone, thinking it was too dangerous, but what was the harm in doing a favor for a little old lady like this? Andrea pulled up a little way down the road, and the lady, holding a big shopping bag, hurried over to climb in the door which Andrea had opened for her.

1. What season, month and time of the day is described in the story?

2. What happened with the radio in Andrea’s car?

3. Who did Andrea see when she was coming out of the village of Mickley?

4. Why did Andrea decide to do a favor for a little old lady?

5. Try to continue the given story.