Put the lines in the limerick in the right order.
a) Once he said, “Do not fail [feɪl] b) If it happens to hail [heɪl] c) Whose hat was exceedingly [ɪk’si:dɪŋli] wide;
d) To come under my hat at Deeside!”
e) There was an Old Man of Deeside.
Learn to read this tongue twister as fast as you can.
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said, “My butter’s bitter [‘bɪtə],
If I put it in my batter [‘bætə],
It will make my batter bitter.
If I buy some better butter,
It will make my batter better.”
So she bought some better butter.
And it made her batter better.
Read the text and say why the English Roses felt sorry for Binah.
The English Roses
Part 5
The girls and the fairy godmother suddenly appeared in Binah’s kitchen. Binah was in the kitchen too. She was cleaning the floor.
Her father came into the kitchen and said, “It’s getting late, Binah. When you finish cleaning the floore, start cooking dinner.”
Binah smiled [smaɪld] and said “OK, Papa.” She did everything: cooked dinner and washed and ironed [‘aɪənd] the clothes.
The English Roses couldn’t believe it.
“She is like Cinderella [ǀsɪndə’relə],” said Amy.
“Where is her mother?” asked Nicole.
“She doesn’t have a mother,” answered the fairy godmother. “She lives alone [ə’ləʊn] with her father and he works all day, so when she comes home from school, she cleans the house and washes the clothes and cook the dinner.”
“Well, what happened to her mother?” asked Grace.
“She died a very long time ago. Poor thing,” said the fairy.
“And as you know, Binah has no friends, so she spends all her time on her own. Well, come along then, girls. Would you like to see what her bedroom looks like?”
What the girls saw was a big surprise [sə’praɪz]: a simple room with a narrow bed. A desk, a shelf with books. There was, of course, one doll. But only [‘əʊnli] one. Can you believe it?
There was one picture on the desk. It was a beautiful photograph of Binah’s mother.
“It must be terrible not to have a mother. She must be very lonely,” said Charlotte. (тут опечатка в учебнике в имени девочки)
“What do you say?” asked fairy godmother. “Do you want to change places with Binah?”
There was a very long pause [pɔ:z].
(to be continued)
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