10th form "History Jokes" Grammar

1. His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying ____ a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby boy.

2. He dropped his tools and ran to the boy. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a _____ boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.

3. Farmer Fleming saved the boy from what could ____ a slow and terrifying death.

4. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the ____ place.

5. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as a father of the boy farmer Fleming ____.

6. "I want to repay you", said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life". "No, I can't accept ____ for what I did", the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.

7. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes", the farmer replied ___.

8. "I'll make you a deal. Let me _____ take him and give him a good education."

9. "If a fellow is anything like his father, he ____ to a man you can be proud of".

10. And that he did. In time, farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and he went on ____ known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

11. Years afterwards, the nobleman's son was close to death ____ pheumonia. What saved him?

12. Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? ____, it was Sir Winston Churchill.