Fanny and Ethel worked in the same office, and, they were neighbours at home.
Fanny was rather a careless girl, and he often lost things. Then she usually went
to Ethel to borrow more from her.
Ethel was a kind girl, but she sometimes got tired of lending things to her
friend.
One Saturday afternoon Fanny knocked at Ethel’s front door, and when
Ethel came to open it, Fanny said to her, ‘Oh, hello, Ethel. Please lend me a bag.
I’ve lost mine. I’m going to the shops, and I feel very stupid when I haven’t got
anything in my hand when I go out in the street.’
Ethel laughed and answered, ‘Well, Fanny, go down to the end of the
garden. You’ll find a nice wheelbarrow in the shed there. Take that when you go
down to the shops. Then you’ll have something in both of your hands.’
A. Answer these questions.
1.Why did Fanny often lose things?
Fanny was a careless girl:].
2.Why did Ethel lend things to Fanny?
Because she was ashamed to go out without a bag
3.Why didn’t Fanny want to go to the shops without a bag?
He feels stupid when he goes out without a bag.
4.Why didn’t Ethel lend her a bag?
Because she is very messy and loses things very often, it’s true that Ethel is kind but she is tired of giving things to her friend.
5.What did she want Fanny to take to the shops?
He wanted to take Ethel’s bag to the store.
6.Did Fanny take it, do you think?
I think yes, Fanny took the bag because Ethel is very kind.
B. Which of these sentences are true? Write the correct ones down.
1.Ethel often borrowed things.
2. Fanny often borrowed things.
3.Ethel often lent things to Fanny.
4. Fanny often lent things to Ethel.
5.One day Ethel lost her bag.
6.One day Fanny lost her bag.
7. Fanny liked carrying something in her hand.
8. Fanny did not like carrying things.
9. There was a shed at the end of Ethel’s garden.
10. There was a shed at the end of Fanny’s garden.
C. Write this story, but do not put pictures: put words.
Ethel’s house is in a small on the street at the back,It has a small brigde. and there is a houses theren it. Ethel keeps her wheelbarrow . Ethel is a clever girl. She works in office. This is Ethel. She is at the open of her house, and she’s got a bag in her left caught? Because she is going to the garden.
