Elementary Stories for Reproduction

A. Answer these questions.
1. When did Jimmy get the drum?
2. Whom did he get it from?
3. Why didn't his father hear it?
4. Why did the neighbour really want Jimmy to cut the drum open?
5. What did she say to Jimmy to make him cut it open?
B. Write these sentences. Put one of these in each empty place:
a lot
a lot of
many
much
‘How . . . did Jimmy’s drum cost?’
‘Oh, it didn’t cost . . . ; but his toy horse cost quite . . . .’
‘How . . . other birthday presents did he get?’
‘He got quite . . . nice things.’
‘Did he get . . . other toys?’
‘Oh, yes, he got quite . . . . And he got . . . chocolate, but not . . . sweets.’
‘Did he get . . . chocolate from his parents?’
‘No, he didn’t get any from them.’
C. Which of the answers to these questions are right? Write the correct
ones 
down:
1. Who gave Jimmy the drum?
a. His father.
b. His grandfather.
c. His mother.
2. Why did Jimmy’s father not stop him making a noise with the drum?
a. Because he didn’t mind.
b. Because he wasn’t at home then.
c. Because Jimmy only played it in the evening.
3. What did Jimmy’s neighbour really want him to do?
a. To spoil his drum.
b. To find something nice in his drum.
c. To make a noise on his drum with a knife.

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When Torn Howard was seventeen years old he was as tall as his father, so he
began to borrow Mr. Howard’s clothes when he wanted to go out with his
friends in the evening.
Mr. Howard did not like this, and he always got very angry when he found
his son wearing any of his things.
One evening when Tom came downstairs to go out, his father stopped him
in the hall. He looked at Tom’s clothes very carefully.
Then he said angrily, ‘Isn’t that one of my ties, Tom?’
‘Yes, Father, it is,’ answered Tom.
‘And that shirt’s mine too, isn’t it?’ his father continued.
‘Yes, that’s yours too,’ answered Tom.
‘And you’re wearing my belt!’ said Mr. Howard.
‘Yes, I am, Father,’ answered Tom. ‘You don’t want your trousers to fall
down, do you?’
Word outside the 1000:
tie (n.)

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