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Unit 1
Pre-reading tasks:
I. Pronounce the following words correctly and give the transcription:
chimneys, moonlight, different, catch, caught, presently, pieces,
shadows, lovely, count, wonderful, stairs.
II. Read the text and pay attention to the active vocabulary given after
the text:
Hide – and – Seek
(after D.Bisset)
Once upon a time the dark was playing hide-and seek with the
moon.
Sometimes it hid behind houses or chimneys and sat very still
while the moonlight went round to find it.
Sometimes it would walk about, hiding behind a pussy cat or a
little dog crossing the road. It was very clever at hiding from the
moon.
But when the sun rose that was different.
"Just you wait!" said the moon. "When the sun shines where will
you hide then?"
"I'll hide behind the children going to school," said the dark, "and
be their shadows."
"That's all very well", said the moon, "but when the children go
into
school
then
where will you hide? Really, my dear, you had
better go and hide round the other side of the world or the sun will be
sure to catch you."
"No, it won't!" said the dark. "You wait and see."
Well, presently the sun rose and most of the dark went and hid
round at the other side of the world and made it night there, but some
little bits of dark stayed to play with the sun.
They had a lovely time and some pieces were people's shadows and
some were pussy cats' shadows and dogs' shadows and cow's
shadows and some were little birds' shadows, but the sun nearly al-
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