I (be) cold with horror. When I (walk) into that reading room, I (be) a healthy, happy young man. When I (leave), I (be) an old sick man, close to death…
Answer the questions:
1. What are the friends talking about at the moment?
2. What does the narrator understand every time he reads about the illness?
3. Where did the narrator go when he had a little health problem?
4. What did he begin to do when he finished reading about his illness?
5. How did he feel when he entered the reading room? How did he feel when he left?
7. «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» by Mark Twain
Vocabulary: crack – трещина; pour – лить; blame – обвинять; war-whoop – боевой клич; hind legs – задние лапы.
Tenses to use: Present Simple, Past Simple.
Tom (be) worried. Becky Thatcher (stop) going to school. Something bad (happen) to her, he (think). He (not/do) anything for days, nothing (interest) him. Aunt Polly (try) some medicines, but they (not/help).
Once she (hear) of a new medicine, Pain-killer. She (buy) a lot of it and (be) happy to see that Tom (get) better. But Aunt Polly (not/know) that it (not/be) the medicine that (help) the boy. It (be) Tom himself. He (decide) that it (be) time to wake up. When Aunt Polly (give) him Pain-killer, he secretly (pour) it out into the crack in the floor.
One day Tom (be) ready to give the crack his medicine when Peter the cat (come) asking for some.
«Don’t ask for the thing you (not/know), Peter,» (say) Tom, «you really (want) it?»
Peter (show) that yes, yes, very much.
«Make sure.»
Peter (make) sure.
«If you don’t like it, you mustn’t blame me.»
Peter (agree).
Tom (take) a tea spoon and (give) the cat some Pain-killer.
Peter (jump) two metres in the air, then (shout) something like a war-whoop and (start) to run round the room, hitting the chairs and upsetting the flower pots. Then he (stand) on his hind legs and (dance), shouting something that (show) a real happiness.
The moment the cat (jump) out of the window carrying some flower pots with him Aunt Polly (come) into the room. She (stand) still with shock.
«You (give) anything to him?» she (ask).
«No, Auntie.»
But the old lady (see) something under the bed. She (take) it out. Tom (have) nothing to say – it (be) a tea spoon.
«Now, sir, what you (do) for this poor animal?»
«You (be) good to me, Auntie,» Tom (answer), «and I (want) to do something good to Peter, too.»
Answer the questions:
1. Why was Tom worried?
2. How did Aunt Polly try to help him?
