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Reading for form 7. Semester I.

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THE MAN WHO DIDN'T WASH HIS DISHES (after Phyllis Krasilovsky)

There once was a man who lived alone in a little house in a small town. He always cooked his own dinner, cleaned the house by himself and made his own bed.

One night he came home feeling very hungry, so he made a big dinner. He ate too much and was very tired after finishing. He decided to leave the dishes till the next night.

But the next night he was TWICE' as hungry, so he cooked TWICE as big of a dinner, and it took TWICE as long to eat it, and he was TWICE as tired as he had been the day before. As the days passed by, he got hungrier and more tired, and there were so MANY dirty dishes that he started to pile them on the table.

As soon as the table was full he started to put them on his bookshelves. As soon as THEY were full, started piling them on the floor for several days and soon he couldn't get into his house!

One night he looked in his cupboard and found out that there wasn't any clean dish there. Soon he used up all his ashtrays³ and clean flowerpots, and his sweets dishes, and drank water from vases. He used up EVERYTHING, even the pots he cooked his food in, and the frying pan, and the kettle, and he didn't know what to do! He was SO unhappy. His whole house was full of dirty dishes, and dirty flowerpots, and dirty ashtrays, and dirty sweets dishes, and dirty pots, and a dirty soap dish, and a dirty frying pan, and a dirty kettle. He couldn't find his books or his clock, or even his BED any more! He couldn't sit down to think because even his chairs were piled with dishes, and he couldn't find the sink so he could wash them!

But THE RAIN STARTED! And the man got an idea. He drove his big lorry around to the side of his house and piled all the dishes, and all the vases, and all the ashtrays, and pots, and a frying pan, and a kettle on it and drove the truck out into the rain.

The rain fell ON EVERYTHING and soon the dishes were clean again. THE RAIN WASHED THEM! Then the man carried everything back into the house again. He put the dishes into the cupboard, the frying pan and the pots on the pot shelves, the ash trays on the tables, the flowerpots back where he found them, the vases where the vases go, the kettle on the gas cooker, and the soap dish in the bathroom. He was so tired after carrying everything back and putting it away that he decided, "I'd better always wash my dishes just as soon as I have finished my dinner." The next night when he came home, he cooked his dinner, finished to eat it, washed the dishes and put them right away. He did this every night after that, too. HE IS VERY HAPPY NOW. He can find his chairs, and he can find his clock, and he can find his BED. It is easy for him to get into his house, too, because there are no more dishes piled on the floor or anywhere! 

1.     The man lived with his family in a little house in a small town.

1.     His wife always cooked for him a dinner, cleaned the house and made his bed.

A man had many dirty dishes because he had not hot water

 First it was the table full with dirty dishes and after the bookshelves.

Soon he couldn't get out his house

He used up all his ashtrays, flowerpots, sweets dishes, vases, the pots, the frying pan and even the kettle. 

He could easily find his books, his clock, his bed between dirty dishes .

The man got an idea when it rained.

 He put all his dirty dishes into the big car to wash in the rain.

 The dishes were clean again after the rain.

He put all his clean dishes in their places

In the end the man decided - it would be better to wash the dishes on time