Lesson 3, страница 7 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

Whatever Happened to Uncle Oscar? - страница 7.

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LESSON 3

Read the second part of the story and say where Uncle Oscar was.

Whatever Happened to Uncle Oscar?

(After George P. McCallum)

Part II

NEW WORDS

Mrs Leighton ['leitən]	— госпожа Лейтон
a manager ['mænədʒə]	— управляющий
papers ['peipəz]	— бумаги, документы
dead [ded]	— мёртвый
to miss [mis]	— скучать
Brazil [brə'zil]	— Бразилия
an envelope ['envələup]	— конверт
Brazilian [brə'ziliən]	— бразильский

At about ten-thirty, Aunt Agatha got a telephone call from the bank. "Where is your husband, Mrs Leighton?" asked the bank manager.

Aunt Agatha was very much surprised. "Isn't he in the bank?" she asked. "No, he isn't. Wherever he is, he is not certainly in his office," the bank manager answered. "Nobody has seen him yet. We are going to have a meeting in a quarter of an hour. But unfortunately we can't have it without your husband. He has all the papers."

"I don't know what to say," Aunt Agatha tried to be polite.

Well, that was it. No news from Uncle Oscar. Life went on. Elizabeth soon married and Julian got a good job as an engineer. Aunt Agatha took a job in the office and enjoyed it. She saw her children at weekends. They seldom spoke about Uncle Oscar. They thought he was dead. I think only one person missed him — me. We both had one hobby — collecting stamps. I often thought of my uncle and tried to guess where he could be.

Three years passed.

And then one October afternoon a letter came. It arrived from Brazil. I was sure I knew no one in Brazil.

I opened the envelope. There were some stamps inside. I counted them. There were about fifty stamps there, all Brazilian, nothing more. I turned the envelope over, but there was no return address. I took one of Uncle Oscar's albums ['ælbəmz] of stamps from the shelf and opened it. I wanted to put the new stamps in it. Suddenly my eyes fell on several empty places in the book. The most expensive stamps were gone. Then I understood everything. I smiled. I knew now where Uncle Oscar was. I was sure he missed me, he missed our talks about stamps and collections and he discovered a way to tell me where he was. That was his secret and it will be his secret. I will tell nobody.

1. Read the beginning of the sentence, then find and read its end in the text.

1) We are going to have ... .

2) Aunt Agatha took a job ... .

3) They seldom ... .

4) I often thought ... .

5) And then one October ... .

6) There were about ... .

7) Suddenly ... .

8) I knew now ... .

9) I will ... .

2. Use the sentences of Ex. 1 as a plan and retell the second part of the story.

3. Look through the first part of the story (Student's Book V, Lesson 3, Ex. 17) and say if you like Uncle Oscar and the members of his family.

4. Uncle Oscar lives in Brazil now, doesn't he? Why do you think Uncle Oscar ran away?

Решение.