Elementary Stories for Reproduction

B.
Opposites.
Write these sentences. Put one word in each empty place.
1. The Irishman in this story was not . . . : he was old.
2. The Irishman did not speak . . . . He spoke quickly.
3. The sun is not . . . than the moon: it is farther away.
4. The sun isn’t . . . . It is very hot.
5. The Irishman said, ‘The Irish aren’t stupid: they’re . . . .’
C. Write this story. Put one of these words in each empty place.
at in on
Pat lived . . . a farm . . . a small village . . . Ireland. He always got up very
early . . . the morning to work . . . the fields or to milk the cows. He always
had breakfast . . . the kitchen . . . 7 a.m. after that. It was still dark then . . .
winter. His wife cooked the breakfast . . . a big stove. She did not buy much
… the shops, but sometimes she went to the town . . . foot or . . . the bus to
get a few things. She was born . . . that town, so she always stopped . . .
several houses, knocked . . . their doors and talked to her old friends.

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Dave’s class at school were studying English history, and one day their teacher
said to them, ‘Well, boys, on Friday we’re all going to get on a bus and go to
Conway. There’s a beautiful castle there, and we’re going to visit it.’ The boys
were very happy when they heard this.
‘Now, has anybody got any questions?’ the teacher asked.
‘How old is the castle, sir?’ Dave asked.
‘It’s about seven hundred years old, Dave,’ the teacher answered.
‘What’s the name of the castle, sir?’ another boy asked.
‘Conway Castle,’ the teacher said.
On Friday the boys came to school at 9 o’clock and got into the bus. They
visited Conway Castle, and then they came back and went home.
‘Well,’ Dave’s mother said to him when he got home, ‘Did you like the
castle, Dave?’
‘Not very much,’ Dave answered. ‘The stupid people built it too near the
railway.’
Words outside the 1000:
castle, railway

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