Текст для читання "Johnny is Ill Again"

Text 4. Johnny is Ill Again

After a month of school, the pain returned and grew sharper and sharper from day to day. This time it was the result of his studies. When Johnny's eyes had become a little better, he could not help straining them to see what the teacher was writing on the blackboard. Nor could he keep from looking into the book to see the pictures. And this was the result of it all - many days of staying in bed and as many nights of sharp pain.

One night, when the pain grew sharper than he could stand, he called out to his mother: "It began again, Mother!" and he tried to thrust his head deep into the pillow. "Maybe you are only imagining it," she said softly.

"Imagining it," he echoed. "I tell you that I am not imagining it," he shouted. She put a wet handkerchief in his forehead and waited till he was better. "You must try to go to sleep, Johnny," she said, "for I have to get up to prepare Archie's breakfast before he goes to work."

"You don't care about me," the boy murmured.

But his mother kept on putting a wet handkerchief on his forehead till he fell asleep.

Then she sat down beside him and dozed off ready to help him again if the pain was sharp. When it was half past five, she rose and began to prepare tea for Archie, who usually got up at six o'clock. She lighted the fire, put the kettle on it and sat down to wait till it was ready [5].

Tasks

I. Make up five questions to text.

1. General.

2. Special.

3. Special to the subject.

4. Alternative.

5. Disjunctive (Tag).

II. Are the following statements true or false? (Put T or F).

1. Johnny was the youngest child in the family.

2. The pain came back from time to time.

3. Because of studying, the boy had to strain his eyes.

4. The boy pretended to have a sharp pain in his head.

5. Mrs. Casside spent the whole night at the bed of her son.

6. Archie was the only member of the family who worked 8 hours a day.

7. Johnny felt pity for his eyes and didn't look into the book for pictures.

8. The mother couldn't feed her son in a proper way.

1. In 2 hours after Archie had got up, the mother awakened Johnny to go to school.

2. The woman had also a daughter, who was married and lived with them with her husband.

III. Put the sentences in the order they are in the text.

I. When Archie left for work, the woman went to wake up Johnny.

2. The pain came once at night and Johnny couldn't bare it.

3. The woman put a wet handkerchief on the child's forehead to lessen the pain.

4. The boy called his mother who didn't leave him even for a minute.

5. At dawn, when the boy was sleeping, the mother left him to prepare breakfast for her elder son.