Exercise 1

Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 Was Joan's mother glad or sad when Joan married?

a) She was glad. b) She was sad.

2 Why?

a) Because she had to live in another country, so she was

not going to see her. b) Because she was only twentyone years old,

3 Did Joan's mother think that her daughter needed her?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

4 Who was Kate's grandmother?

a) Joan was. b) Joan's mother was.

5 Why did Joan write a lot about Kate?

a) Because she thought that she was the cleverest and

most beautiful child in the world. b) Because her mother wanted to know about her.

6 Did Joan's mother find the news about Kate interesting?

a) No, not very. b) Yes, she did.

7 Who did Joan's mother want to read about?

a) Joan. b) Kate.

8 What did Joan's mother do then?

a) She asked Joan a lot of questions in her letters.

b) She did not write to Joan again.

9 Did Joan write the things which her mother wanted then?

a) No, she did not. b) Yes, she did.

10 What did her mother write then?

a) That Joan had been a clever child. b) That she had never had a clever child.

Exercise 2

Write this story. Choose the right words each time:

(Joan/Joan's mother) married an army officer who worked

(abroad/with her husband). (Joan/Joan's mother) was sad, because

she wanted her (daughter/mother) to be near her, and because

she was afraid that life was going to be hard for Joan without

(her/strangers). Then (Joan/Joan's mother) became a

(baby/grandmother). Joan often wrote to her parents about (herself/

her baby). Joan's mother did not want to read about

(Joan/Kate). She wanted to read about her (daughter/letters). She

always asked a lot of questions about (Joan/the baby) in her letters,

(and/but) Joan (gave/never gave) her the answers which she

wanted, so after some time, Joan's mother wrote to Joan that

she was (a clever child/not clever).

Mr Anderson lives in a big city in America, and last year he

came to England to visit the small town which his father had

come from.

There was a big, square garden in this town, and one day,

while Mr Anderson was walking past, he stopped outside it

and looked in. There was beautiful grass in the middle of the

garden. It was green and short and soft.

A gardener was watering it, and Mr Anderson said to him,

"Good morning. Is this your garden?"

"No," answered the gardener, "it isn't mine, but I work here."

"How do people get such beautiful lawns?" Mr Anderson

asked. "Ours are never as good as this."

The gardener stopped his work and looked at Mr Anderson.

Then he said, "You come from America, don't you?"

Mr Anderson answered,

"Yes, but my father came from this town."

"Well," the gardener said, "it's easy to grow lawns like this."

He asked Mr Anderson to come in, and said,

"Let me tell you about it."

Mr Anderson went into the garden. "My name's Anderson,"

he said to the gardener, "Joe Anderson. What's yours?"

"My name's Gray," the gardener answered, "Pete Gray.

Now about the lawns. First we sow our seeds; then when the

grass appears, we pull all the weeds out; after that, we cut the

grass every week, we water it every day when the weather is

very dry during the summer season, and we sometimes roll it."

"Oh," Mr Anderson answered, "that's very interesting, Pete.

And how long does it take before the lawn becomes like this?"

The gardener thought for a few moments and then

answered, "Oh, about four hundred years."