1: A boy was playing football in the street. He played it so quickly that the ball flew straight into a house. After breaking the window the boy ran away quickly because a woman came to the window with the ball in her hands and shouted at him angrily. But the boy didn' t go home. He still wanted to get his ball back.
After an hour he came back and knocked at the door of the house. When the woman opened the door, the boy said,"Sorry, but my father comes to mend your window very sonn. Can I have my ball?"
"Well," said the woman."After your father comes to mend my window, I think I' ll let you have it."
Some minutes later a man came to the door with a bag.
"He is here now," said the boy to the woman."Would you like to give me my ball?" The woman gave him his ball and he ran quickly away.
After mending the window, the man gave a bill to her."It's five dollars please." said the man. "But aren't the father of the boy?" the woman asked in surprised.
"No," the man was surprised too, "Are you his mother?"
2: Peter is a good student at school.He is good at his lessons, but he is not clean. His face and hands are often dirty. He washes them only with water. He does't us soap.
One day, Peter goes to school, When he meets his teacher, he says"hello" to his teacher. His teacher looks at him and says,"Peter, I know what you ate for breakfast this moring."
"What?" Peter looks at his teacher and says.
"Eggs." Says his teacher, "Your face and mouth tell me that."
"No, you are wrong, sir." Peter says, "Not today or yesterday, but the day before yesterday.
3: Mrs .Smith had two children. Sandy was eight years old, and his sister Kitty was four. Sandy went to school, but Kitty did not. When Sandy was at home, he often played with Kitty while their mother was cooking or washing or cleaning, and he was usually very kind to his little sister. Mrs.Simth free to do her work quietly.
One Saturday moring, the two children were playing in the garden while their mother was cooking the lunch. Ther played happily, Suddenly Kitty began to cry and ran into the kitchen to her mother.
Mrs.Smith stoppde cooking and asked, "Why are you crying, Kitty?"
"Sandy broke my toy horse," Kitty answered, crying with a big mouth.
"How did he break it?" her mother asked.
Kitty stopped crying, but didn't answered for a moment. Then she said, "I hit him on the head with it." |
