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The Princess and the Pea (Hans Christian Andersen)
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He traveled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came
home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
I. Choose the right answer.
1. The prince wanted to marry a) a real prince,
b) a real princess, c) a beautiful girl.
2. The prince came home said, because a) he couldn’t find any princesses.
b) he wanted to marry a real princess very much.
c) he was ugly and the girls didn’t want to marry him.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.
Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed- room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
Decide if the sentences below are true (T) or false (F).
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The weather was beautiful. T/F There was a terrible storm. T/F The princess wasn’t wet. T/F
The old queen wanted to check if the princess was real. T/F The old queen put a pea on the bottom of the bedstead. T/F
On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
There, that is a true story.
Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
The princess slept ……….
The princess felt she was lying on something ……….
The prince and the old queen believed that the princess was a ……… princess.
The prince ……… the princess.
The pea was put in the ……….
hard real museum married badly
In the text find the past simple forms of the verbs.
a)
1. to be –
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2. go – 3. come – 4. run down – 5. say – 6. take off – 7. know – 8. have – 9. put – 10. want – 11. travel – 12. pour down –
b) Which of the verbs are regular? How do we recognize the regular verbs?
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Make sentences of the words given below. Next, write questions to them.
Yesterday I ……… (put) the book on a shelf.
He ………. (take off) his jacket yesterday.
You ………. (say) that you ………….. (to be) hungry.
They ……… (know) a lot about history of their country.
She ………. (to be) happy when she passed all the exams.
They ………. (come) back home late yesterday.
We ……… (go) to the cinema last weekend.
I ……… (have) a lot of toys when I was 5 years old.
Make questions of the words given below.
1. put/the book/where/you/did/ yesterday/.
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2. yesterday/have/you/did/a good time/?
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3. she/go/to the theatre/did/last Sunday/?
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4. say/they/what/did/?
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5. why/you/take off/your sweater/did/?
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