Just So Stories for Little Children / Просто сказки. Книга для чтения на английском языке

We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl[40 - to shiver – дрожать, трепетать; to scowl – хму-риться; to grunt —ворчать; to growl at – брюзжать, жаловаться на что-то/кого-то]

At our bath and our boots and our toys;

And there ought to be a corner for me

(And I know there is one for you)

When we get the hump —

Cameelious hump —

The hump that is black and blue!

The cure for this ill is not to sit still,

Or frowst with a book by the fire;

But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,

And dig till you gently perspire[41 - to perspire – потеть];

And then you will find that the sun and the wind,

And the Djinn of the Garden too,

Have lifted the hump —

The horrible hump —

The hump that is black and blue!

I get it as well as you-oo-oo —

If I haven’t enough to do-oo-oo!

We all get hump —

Cameelious hump —

Kiddies and grown-ups too!

Questions and tasks

1.

В What animals came to the Camel? What did they offer to the Camel and what was the answer?

2. Why were the animals very angry after the

Man had talked to them?

3. Retell the story from the moment the Djinn appeared in it.

4. What did the Djinn do for making the Camel work?

5. What �advantages’ did the hump on the back give to the Camel?

6.

Retell the story.

How the Rhinoceros[42 - Rhinoceros – носорог]Gt His Skin

Once upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour[43 - splendour – блеск, великолепие, роскошь. По-добные слова, оканчивающиеся на -our в британском варианте английского языка, в американской орфо-графии пишутся без буквы u и оканчиваются на -or: splendour (GB) – splendor (US), labour (GB) – labor (US), armour (GB) – armor (US), colour (GB) – color (US) и др.

]. And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch.