All the while[29], the elders watched and waited. They mocked no longer now. And never saw they the Piper in his pied coat again. The Mayor sent his men to look for the Piper and bring the children back but none could find the lost children.
EXERCISES
1) True or false?
1. Newtown was full of rats.
2. The Mayor and the town council desided to hunt rats.
3. The Piper was tall and thin.
4. Piper’s clothes was all black.
5. The Mayor promised to pay Piper twenty pounds.
6. The Piper led children to the forest.
2) Fill in the gaps using words in brackets.
1. Even beer in the barrels… (to be) not safe from them.
2. The Mayor and the town council… (to be) desperate.
3. They were… (to sit) one day in the town hall… (to try) to figure up what to do.
4. His clothes… (to be painted) in all colours of the rainbow.
5. The Piper… (to lay) his pipe to his lips and started… (to play) it.
6. In and out among the oak trees… (to be heard) the laughter of the children.
3) Write down a plural form:
Example: dog – dogs
cat – ____________________
mouse – ____________________
rat – ____________________
horse – ____________________
pig – ____________________
chicken – ____________________
bird – ____________________
goose – ____________________
fish – ____________________
4) Translate the following sentences:
1. На свою беду он узнал, что обещания надо выполнять.
2. У дудочника был пронзительный взгляд и пёстрая куртка.
3. Всё то время, что дети были в доме, она пряталась в кладовой.
4. Мэр разрешил провести дудочника внутрь.
5. Вокруг амбара росли дубы и широко раскинувшиеся буки.
6. В порту живёт много бродяг.
7. Эта дудка стоит десять фунтов.
5) Retell the fairy-tale.
Princess of Canterbury
There lived formerly in the County of Cumberland a nobleman who had three sons, two of whom were clever, but the third one a natural fool, named Jack, who was a shepherd. The King of Canterbury had a beautiful daughter, who was also very clever. The King proclaimed that whoever[30] should answer three questions put to him by the princess should marry her, and take the crown when her father dies. Soon news of it reached the ears of[31] the nobleman’s sons, and the two clever ones desided to have a trial[32]. They didn’t want their idiot brother to go with them, but they could not get rid of him. They had not gone far, before Jack shrieked with laughter, saying ‘I’ve found an egg.’ ‘Put it in your pocket,’ said the brothers. A little while afterwards, again he laughted because he found a crooked hazel stick, which he also put in his pocket; and a third time he again laughed because he found a nut. That also was put with his other treasures.
When they arrived at the palace, they were immediately shown into a room where the princess and her suite[33] were sitting. Jack, who never stood on ceremony, cried, ‘What a troop[34] of fair ladies we’ve got here!’
‘Yes,’ said the princess, ‘we are fair ladies, for we carry fire in our bosoms[35].’
‘Do you?’ said Jack. ‘Then roast me an egg,’ pulling out[36] the egg from his pocket.
‘How will you get it out again?’ said the princess.
‘With a crooked stick,’ replied Jack, producing[37] the hazel.
‘Where did that come from?’ said the princess.
‘From a nut,’ answered Jack, pulling out the nut from his pocket. ‘I’ve answered the three questions, and now I’ll have the lady.’ ‘No, no,’ said the king, ‘not so fast. You have still a test to go through. You must come here in a week’s time and watch for one whole night with the princess, my daughter. If you can manage to keep awake the whole night long you shall marry her next day.’
‘But if I can’t?’ said Jack.
‘Then off goes your head,’ said the king. ‘But you need not try unless you like.’
Well, Jack went back home for a week, and thought over[38] whether he should try to win the princess. At last he made up his mind. ‘Well,’ said Jack, ‘I’ll have a try; so now for the king’s daughter, or a headless shepherd!’
He took his bottle and bag and went to the court. In his way he had to cross a river and he saw several pretty fish swimming there, so he caught some and put them into his pocket. When he reached the palace he knocked at the gate loudly with his crook. He was immediately led to the hall where the king’s daughter sat ready to see her lovers. He was placed in a luxurious[39] chair, and rich wines and spices were set before him, and all sorts of delicate meats. Jack, unused to such feast, ate and drank, so that he was nearly dozing[40] before midnight.
‘Oh, shepherd,’ said the lady, ‘I have caught you napping[41]!’
‘No, my lady, I was fishing.’
‘Fishing,’ said the princess in the astonishment: ‘But, shepherd, there is no fish-pond in the hall.’
‘I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just caught one.’
‘Oh!’ said she, ‘let me see it.’
The shepherd pulled the fish out of his pocket and showed it her, and she said it was the finest she ever saw.
About half an hour afterwards, she said, ‘Shepherd, do you think you could get me one more?’
He replied, ‘I may, when I have baited[42] my hook’; and after a little while he brought out another, which was finer than the first, and the princess was so delighted that she gave him leave to go to sleep, and promised to excuse him to her father.
In the morning the princess told the king, to his great astonishment, that Jack must not be beheaded, for he had been fishing in the hall all night; but when he heard how Jack had caught such beautiful fish out of his pocket, he asked him to catch one in his own. Jack readily undertook the task, and told to the king to lie down. Than Jack pretended to fish in his pocket, having another fish concealed[43] ready in his hand, and pricking[44] him with a needle, he held up the fish, and showed it to the king.
His majesty was surprised, and the princess and Jack were married the same day, and lived for many years in happiness and prosperity[45].
EXERCISES
1) True or false?
1. A nobleman had two sons.
2. On his way to princess Jack found an egg, a stick and a nut.
3. After answering the three questions Jack was married to the princess immediately.
4. Jack said that he was hunting in his pocket.
5. Jack was a shepherd.
6. Jack pulled three fish out of his pocket.
2) Fill in the gaps using words in brackets.
1. The nobleman… (to have) three sons, two of whom… (to be) clever, but the third one… (to be) a fool.
2. ‘Where… (to do) that come from?’… (to say) the princess.
3. He… (to take) his bottle and bag and… (to go) to the court.
4. In his way he had… (to cross) a river and he… (to see) several pretty fish swimming there.
5. Jack… (to catch) some and… (to put) them into his pocket.
6. He was immediately… (to lead) to the hall where the king’s daughter… (to sit) ready to see her lovers.
7. The shepherd… (to pull) the fish out of his pocket and… (to show) it her, and she… (to say) it… (to be) the finest she ever… (to see).
3) Translate the following sentences:
1. У аристократа было три сына: два умных, а третий – дурак.
2. Джек снова засмеялся, когда нашёл изогнутую ореховую палочку.
3. Что за отряд хорошеньких дам у нас тут?
4. Дошли слухи, что кто угодно может попробовать сразиться за женитьбу на принцессе.
5. Джек вытащил из кармана и предъявил принцессе яйцо, изогнутую ореховую палочку и орех.
6. Тот, кто сможет продержаться без сна целую ночь, женится на принцессе.
7. Джек насадил приманку на крючок и поймал рыбку у себя в кармане и в кармане у короля.
4) Match the synonyms. Sometimes there can be more than one synonym to each word:
doze ____________________
tell
hide ____________________
shriek ____________________
say ____________________
show ____________________
nap ____________________
cry ____________________
conceal ____________________
sleep ____________________
produce ____________________
5) Retell the fairy-tale.
Three Feathers
Once upon a time there was a girl who was married to a husband that she never saw. And the way this was, was that he was only at home at night, and would never have any light in the house. The girl thought that was funny, and all her friends told her there must be something wrong with her husband, some great deformity[46] that made him want not to be seen.
Well, one night when he came home she suddenly lit a candle and saw him. He was handsome enough to make all the women of the world fall in love with him. But scarcely[47] had she seen him when he began to change into a bird, and then he said: ‘Now you have seen me, you shall see me no more, unless you are willing to serve seven years and a day for me, so that I may become a man once more.’ Then he told her to take three feathers from under his side, and whatever she wished through them would come to pass[48]. Then he left her at a great house to be laundry-maid[49] for seven years and a day.