Elementary Stories for Reproduction

A. Answer these questions.
1. What was Tim’s excuse for not buying the meat?
2. What was his excuse for not cooking it?
3. What was his excuse for not cutting the bread?
4. What was his excuse for not getting the water?
5. What did he do when Jim asked him to eat?
B. Write this story. Put one of these in each empty place:
it was there was there were they were
Jim and Tim were friends, and . . . camping. . . . September . . . raining,
and . . . quite a lot of water on the roads, so Tim didn’t want to go and buy
the meat.
. . . cold outside the tent, and . . . no chairs to sit on, so Tim didn’t want
to go out and cook the meat.
. . . a lot of mud near the river, and . . . quite deep, so Tim didn’t want to
go and get the water.
. . . a knife in the tent, and . . . quite sharp, but Tim was too lazy to cut
the bread.
C. Which of these sentences are true? Write them down.
1. Jim did all the work in this story.
2. Tim did all the work in this story.
3. Tim did not buy the meat because he did not have any money.
4. Tim did not buy the meat because he was tired.
5. Jim cooked the meat because Tim was not good at cooking.
6. Jim cooked the meat because Tim was a lazy boy.
7. Tim got his clothes dirty when he went to get some water.
8. Tim did not get his clothes dirty because he did not go to get the water.
9. Tim was not too tired to eat.
10. Tim was too tired to eat.

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One morning a man was crossing a narrow bridge when he saw a fisherman on
the shady bank of the deep, smooth river under him, so he stopped to watch
him quietly.
After a few minutes, the fisherman pulled his line in. There was a big, fat
Fish at the end of it.
The fisherman took it off the hook and threw it back into the water. Then he
put his hook and line in again. After a few more minutes he caught another big
fish. Again he threw it back into the river. Then, the third time, he caught a small
fish. He put it into his basket and started to get ready to go. The man on the
bridge was very surprised, so he spoke to the fisherman. He said, ‘Why did you
throw those beautiful, big fish back into the water, and keep only that small
one?’
The fisherman looked up and answered, ‘Small frying-pan.’
Word outside the 1000:
frying-pan

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