THE ZEBRA QUESTION
BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN
I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with habits?
Are you noisy with ?... times?
Or are you quiet with :... times?
Are you happy with ... days?
Or are you sad with S... days?
Are you neat with some ways?
Or are you sloppy with some '... ways?
And on and on and on and on
And on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra
About stripes
Again
Задание_1 Read the joke and fill in the gaps with a or the
1 One day a horse walked into a bar and ordered drink."Can I have a bottle of beer, please?"said the horse."Er sure," said a barman.He gave a bottle of beer to horse...The horse drank beer and gave the bottle back to the barman."How much is that?"he asked."That's, er, twenty pounds," said the barman...The horse gave him twenty pound note."We don't get many talking horses in here," said the barman."I'm not surprised if beer is twenty pounds a bottle," said the horse.
задание_2 Read the questionnaire.Choose the correct words.
Top tips for learning English
Do you
1 study English at the language school?
2 watch or listen to the news I. English?
3 work for a British or American company?
4 go and see films in English at the cinema?
5 have an English dictionary?
6 practise English a lot outside class?
7 have an English grammar book?
8 ... .always look at Language Summaries in a back of a Students Book?
9 ,... use a face 2 face CD-ROM?
10 think English is a really interesting language to learn?
Её автор: Ирина Пивоварова
Это книга о том как Павлика обзывали в новом дворе тефтеля, а он хотел доказать что он не такой как они его обзывали, то есть тефтеля. Один раз он услышал разговор двух дядяк, как один хотел украсть женщину. А он хотел её Ну потом выиснилось что это он не так понял разговор. А эти дяди оказались не приступниками, а... первый был фотограф второй художник.
Когда все узнали то что Павлик хотел женщину, стали его хвалить и перестали обзывать тефтелей.