Read the text about Jimmy once again. In the following statements (1-5) choose True or False. Warm and snug in bed, Jimmy has woken up. It’s early morning and he is listening very hard. Outside in the garden, he can hear the birds singing, while the sunlight begins to creep around the curtain into his room. Inside the house it is silent. Jimmy listens hard - no, he still can’t hear them. Then he hears his mum come past his bedroom and go downstairs to get breakfast, and it’s quiet again.
Jimmy tries to remember what happened the night before. He wanted to stay awake to see what happens at night. He thought if he stayed really still when everyone else was asleep he would be able to hear them. Of course, it was hard to stay completely still, not moving, not even to get cool on a hot night by sliding his leg across to a cold spot in the bed. Once his nose began to itch and he had to put his hand up to scratch it.
It all started the week before while his mother was trying to write her weekly shopping list. Jimmy was running around the kitchen and jumping up and down because he couldn’t wait to go out. His mum stopped writing and said, “Jimmy, sometimes you make more noise than an elephant. Couldn’t you be more like a mouse? You know what they say? “Quiet as a mouse”. What’ll happen when you go to school?”
Jimmy stopped jumping, “What do you mean, Mum?”“Well, at school you’ll have to learn to listen when the teacher is telling you something.” Jimmy was thoughtful. “How quiet is a mouse?”
“Well,” his mother said. “There are lots of mice in this old house but you can’t hear them because they don’t make any noise.”
For the next few days, Jimmy went all over the house listening. In the sitting room, he put his ear to the floor for the whole hour. Upstairs in his room, he looked into a big cupboard and waited and waited. He even banged on the floor with his shoe to see if it would make the mice run around, so he could hear them. Still nothing.
After his first day at school, Jimmy’s dad asked him how he had got on.
“Well, the teacher asked me if there was something wrong because I didn’t say anything all day.”
“Why was that, Jimmy?”
“I don’t know why - I was quiet as a mouse.”
. While listening in his bed Jimmy doesn’t move at all.
True
False
2. The action of the story is likely to be taking place in winter.
Ture
False
3. In the kitchen, Jimmy is playing on his own.
True
False
4. Jimmy heard mice only once.
True
False
5. On the first day of school, Jimmy was really quiet.
True
False
Progress Cheek 1 I variant 1.Complete the sentences in past perfect 1. When I came home, mother already (to cook) dinner. 2. When father returned from work, we already (to do) our homework. 3. When the teacher entered the classroom, the pupils already (10 open) their books. 4. Kate gave me the book which she (to buy) the day before 5. Nick showed the teacher the picture which he (to draw). 6. The boy gave the goats the grass which he (to bring) from the ficld 2. Write the sentences in the interrogative form and make general and who-questions. 1. Rose had written the letter by 7 о'clock yesterday. 2 Mrs Rogers had cooked the dinner by 6 о'clock last Sunday. 3. Jane and Ann had built the toy house by four o'clock yesterday. 3. Choose the right words to complete the sentences. 1) That day Jane felt so sad ahe could (ery/smile). 2) The puplls (ended/ finished) decorating the hall late in the afternoon. 3) Do you watch matehes of your favourite football (сrеw/teаm) on television? 4) We are playing basketball in the gyт, would you 1ike to joln (- /1in)? 5) No one liked the dish, we thought it was rather (Lasteful/tasteless). 6) In the I variant 1.Compleie the sentences in past рerfect
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