Mr Jones's shop sold food. Mr Jones and a young man worked there.

The young man's name was George.

A man came into the shop on Monday. He was a funny man. Mr Jones
was in the office. It was behind the shop. The funny man looked
at George and said, "I want a small table, please."
George said, "We don't sell tables in this shop. We sell food."
The man smiled and answered, "A small, brown table." He took a
picture out of his bag and showed it to George. It was a picture
of a small, brown table.
George put his mouth near the man's ear and said, "We do not have
tables in this shop! Food! Not tables!"
The man smiled and answered, "That's good. Thank you." Then he
sat down on a chair and waited.
George was not happy. He went into the office and spoke to Mr
Jones. Then he and Mr Jones came out again.
Mr Jones was angry. He looked at the man and said, "What do you
want?"
The man smiled and answered, "I want a loaf of brown bread,
please. Haven't you got any bread in your shop?"
Mr Jones said, "Yes, we have." He looked at George, and then he
went and got a loaf of brown bread from a big box and gave it to
the man.
Gladys was at school in a small, quiet town in England. She
was sixteen years old, and her father and mother were
poor, and their house was very small.
Maisie was Gladys's friend. She went to that school as well.
Gladys said, "Maisie, I'm going to find a very rich man
and I'm going to marry him. Then I'm going to have a
beautiful house and a large garden, and a lot of clothes,
and a lot of money."
Maisie smiled and said, "Where are you going to find a very
rich man, Gladys? There aren't any in our town."
But Gladys was a very pretty girl. Her eyes were blue, and her
hair was black and soft. She went to London, and then she
went to America. She found a tall, very rich man there, and
she married him. She was twenty-two years old then.
Then she and her husband went to England. They went to
Gladys's old house, and Maisie came there.
Gladys said, "I've married a very rich man, Maisie, and I've got
a beautiful house and a large garden and four gardeners.
And I've bought a lot of clothes and I have money as well.
My husband's got a plane too, and he flies it!"
Maisie said, "A lot of people have got planes and fly them,
Gladys."
"In their house?" Gladys asked.

Alan Smith's father bought him a small shop, and Alan

sold milk, butter, cheese, eggs and other tilings in it.
His shop was in a small town, and it was open on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs• day, Friday and
 Saturday, and on Sunday morning, but it was shut on
Sunday afternoon and on Monday.
Alan went to some farms on Monday and bought their
best butter and cheese and eggs from the farmers,
but he bought his milk in the town. A truck brought it
to his shop in the morning. Alan and his wife
worked in the shop, and they sold a lot of their
food, because it was good and clean.
A fat woman came into the shop on Saturday. She
bought some eggs and some butter, and then she said
to Alan's wife, "Your eggs and your butter are dear
today. Why are Saturday and Sunday dearer than
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?"
Alan's wife was unhappy. She looked at the fat woman,
and then she looked at Alan, but she did not give
an answer. Then Alan smiled and said, "Our food is
not dearer on Saturday and Sunday! It is cheaper on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!"
UNIT 3
Exercise 1
Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then
write the questions and the answers:
1 Was Alan's shop open on Monday?
a) No, it wasn't. b) Yes, it was.

2 Was Alan's shop shut on Saturday?

a) No, it wasn't. b) Yes, it was.

3 Was Alan's shop open or shut on Sunday

 morning?
a) It was open. b) It was shut.

4 Who sold Alan cheese?

a) His father did.b) The farmers did.

5 Who brought Alan's butter to his shop?

a) A man in a truck did. b) Alan did.
6 Who brought milk to Alan's shop?
a) A man in a truck did. b) Alan did
7 Why did a lot of people buy food from Alan?
a) Because he and his wife worked in the s
b) Because the food was clean and good.
8 Who answered the fat woman's question?
a) Alan did. b) Alan's wife did.
9 Was the answer an angry one, or a nice one?
a) It was a nice one. b) It was an
angry one.
10 Was the food in the shop dearer on Friday
or on Saturday?
a) It was dearer on Friday. b) It was dearer
on Saturday.
Exercise 2
Write this story. Choose the right words each time:
(Alan/Alan's father) bought a shop for (him/his father).
He (did not sell any/sold) food in it, and it was open
 (every day/5.5 days) of the week. Alan (bought/sold)
tilings on Monday. The farmers (bought/sold) him food
(and/but not) milk on their farms. (He brought
them/They sold him) the best butter and cheese and
eggs.
UNIT 3
The (food/milk) came to Alan's shop in a truck. Alan's
wife (did not work/worked) with him. (Alan and his
wife were/Alan's food was) good and clean. A fat
woman came into the shop. Alan's wife was
unhappy because she (asked a question/was fat).
(Alan's wife/Alan) answered the question. The food
in the shop was (cheaper/dearer) on Saturday and
Sunday.

1 "Have you got . . . milk?" "We haven't got . . .

milk now, but we're going to
have , . . bottles this afternoon."
Mr and Mrs Brown had two daughters and two sons.
Both the daughters married, and then both the sons
married too. Soon Mr and Mrs Brown had a
granddaughter, and then they had two grandsons.
They were very happy.
Then one of their daughters had another baby, and she
tele• phoned her mother, "Please come and help with
your new granddaughter." Mrs Brown went quickly,
but Mr Brown stayed at home, because he was
nearer his job there. But he said, "I'll come on Friday
evening, and I'll stay till Monday morning."
On Friday evening, after work, Mr Brown got into a
train. He was very happy. "I'm going to see my new
granddaughter now," he said.
There were three empty places in the train. There was an
old man beside one empty place, and Mr Brown went
to him and said nicely, "Are you a grandfather?"
"Yes," the man answered, "I have three
granddaughters."
Mr Brown went to the second empty place. There was a
nice woman beside that. Mr Brown said to her, "Are
you a grandmother?"
The woman answered, "Yes, I have two granddaughters
and two grandsons."
Mr Brown went to the third empty place. There was a
man beside that, and Mr Brown said to him, "And are
you a grandfather?"
"No, I'm not," the man answered.
Mr Brown smiled happily and said, "That's good." He sat
down in the empty place and said to the man
kindly, "Now I'll tell you about my granddaughters
and grandsons."
 UNIT 4

Exercise 1
Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then
write the questions and the answers:
1 Did Mr and Mrs Brown have any children?
a) Yes, they had four. b) Yes, they had two.
2 Did their children marry?
a) No, they did not. b) Yes, all
of them did. c) Yes, two of them did.
3 How many granddaughters did Mr and Mrs
Brown have?
a) One. b) Two.
4 Did they have any grandsons?
a) No, they did not. b) Yes, they had two.
5 Who went and helped their daughter with her
new baby?
a) Mr Brown did. b) Mrs Brown did.
6 Did Mr Brown go with his wife?
a) No, he did not. b) Yes, he did.
7 Why?
a) Because he was ill.
b) Because he had a job near his home.
8 When did Mr Brown go to his daughter's
house?
a) On Friday evening. b) On Monday
morning.
9 How did he go?
a) In a train. b) In his car.
10 What did he do all the time in the train?
a) He talked about his granddaughters and
grandsons.
 b) He listened to stories about other people's
grand• daughters and grandsons.

Exercise 2
Write this story. Choose the right words each time:
Mr and Mrs Brown (did not have any/had two)
daughters, (and/but) they (did not have any/had
two) sons. Mr and Mrs Brown's children (did not
have any/had some) children too. Mrs
UNIT 4

Brown (did not help/helped) one of her

(daughters/sons) with (her/his) new baby. She
went to her (daughter's/son's) house
(with/without) her husband, because his job was
(near/not near) the (daughter's/son's) house. Mr
Brown (did not work/worked) on Saturday and
Sunday, so he (did not go/went) to stay with his
(daughter/son) then. He went in a train, and (did
not sit/sat) be• side another
(grandfather/grandmother), because he only
wanted to talk about (her/his) granddaughters
and grandsons.

Joe was the son of a farmer. His father's farm was

 poor, and Joe worked on it for a long time, but
then his father died, and Joe said, "I needn't stay
here now. I'll sell this farm and buy one in a
better place. Then I'll soon be rich."
He bought a farm in the east of the country, but then
Ms new neighbours said to him, "The weather's
often very bad here. The wind's very strong, and
it breaks windows and doors. You must build a
room under the ground, and then you and your
family can go down there, and you'll be safe
from the wind." So Joe built a room under the
ground. It was a lot of work,
because the ground was hard.
But after that, the weather was good for a very long
time. There was no wind, and Joe spoke angrily.
He said, "Why did I listen to my neighbours? I
didn't have to make that room under the ground.
The wind never blows strongly here."
But then one day there was a very strong wind, and
Joe and his family had to go down into their room
under the ground. They were there for a long time.
Then the wind stopped, and they came up. All the
windows and doors in their house were broken.
Joe was not angry about his work now. He smiled
happily and said, "Ah! I'm glad I built that
room!"
UNIT 5

Exercise 1
Look at these questions. Find the right answers.
Then write the questions and the answers:
1 What was Joe's father?
a) He was a farmer. b) He was a teacher.
2 Was his father rich?
a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.
3 Why did Joe leave his father's farm?
a) Because the wind was very strong there.
b) Because he wanted a farm in a better
place.
4 Why did he need a room under the ground?
a) Because the doors and windows of his farm
were broken. b) Because there were very
strong winds in that place.
5 Did the wind often blow strongly after that?
a) No, it did not. b) Yes, it did.

6 Was Joe happy about that?

a) No, he was not. b) Yes, he was.
7 Why did he go down into the room under
the ground one day?
a) Because the weather was very cold. b)
 Because there was a very strong wind.
8 Who went with him?
a) His family did. b) His new neighbours
did.
9 What did the wind do?
a) It broke the windows and doors of Joe's
house. b) It went down into the room
under the ground.
10 Was Joe sad then?
a) No, he was happy. b) Yes, he was.
 UNIT 5

Exercise 2
Write this story. Choose the right words each time:
Joe worked on his (father's/son's) farm. It was a (poor/rich) farm, because it was in
a (bad/good) place. Then Joe bought (another/the) farm, and he (bought/made)
a room under the ground, because his (father/neighbours) said, "The
(weather/wind) can (be/blow) very (good/strongly) here, and you will not be
safe in your house then." But the (weather was/wind did) not (blow/good) for a
long time, and Joe was (angry/happy), because he (did not need/needed) his
room under the ground, Then (the wind stopped/there was a very strong wind),
and it broke the doors and windows of Joe's (house/room under the ground). He
was (happy/sad) after that.