Elementary Stories for Reproduction

A. Answer these questions.
1. Who cooks in Tom's house?
2. What work does Tom do during meals?
3. What did Tom always do when he and Elizabeth first married?
4. What does he do now?
5. Why has he changed?
B. Which words in the story on page 30 mean:
1. arrived
3. into pieces
5. made
2. like very much
4. became husband and wife
C. Write this story, but do not put pictures: put words.
This
is near a big
. Hundreds of
people work in it. They bring
in,
it into small
,
it, and then put
it in tins. One woman worked here for ten years, and then she
a man from her
.
One day he
said to her, ‘Why do we never
a tin of meat from
your factory?’ She
and answered, ‘I see enough
of it while I’m working!’

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Mrs. Jenkins went to see her doctor one day, because her heart was giving her
trouble.
The doctor listened to her heart carefully and did a few other things. Then
he said, ‘Well, Mrs. Jenkins, stop smoking, and then you’ll soon be quite all right
again.’
‘But doctor,’ answered Mrs. Jenkins quickly, ‘I’ve never smoked. I don’t like
smoking.’
‘Oh, well,’ said the doctor, ‘then don’t drink any more alcohol.’
‘But I don’t drink alcohol,’ answered Mrs. Jenkins at once.
‘Stop drinking tea and coffee then,’ the doctor said to her.
‘I only drink water,’ answered Mrs. Jenkins. ‘I don’t like tea or coffee.’
The doctor thought for a few seconds and then said, ‘Well, . . . er . . . do you
like fried potatoes?’
‘Yes, I like them very much,’ answered Mrs. Jenkins.
‘All right, then stop eating those,’ said the doctor as he got up to say
goodbye to Mrs. Jenkins.
A. Answer these questions.
1. What was Mrs. Jenkins having trouble with?
2. Why did Mrs. Jenkins not smoke?
3. What did Mrs. Jenkins drink?
4. What did she like eating?
5. What did the doctor want her to do?
Word outside the 1000:
alcohol

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