Jack and Beanstalk (Home Reading)

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 PRE-READING.

1. Match the words to their translation:

1)    magic beans 2)    beanstalk 3)    cow 4)    price 5)    climb 6)    castle 7)    giant 8)    golden hen 9)    harp 10) axe

a) лізти b) корова c) замок d) велетень e) чарівні боби f) сокира g) стовбур боба h) ціна i) золота курка j) арфа

READING

2. Read the tale and answer the questions:

1) Why did Jack take the cow to the market?

2) Who did Jack meet on his way to the market?

3) What price did the old man offer for the cow?

4) What did Jack’s mother do with the beans?

5) What did they see in the morning?

6) Who lived in the castle?

7) What things did Jack steal from the giant?

8) How did he escape?

 POST-READING

3. Put the sentences into the correct order:

1) A huge beanstalk grows up into the sky and Jack climbs it.

2) Jack climbs up again to get the giant’s magic harp.

3) Jack goes to the market and meets a strange old man.

4) The boy enters a castle of a giant and steals a golden hen.

5) Jack returns home with the beans and his mother throws them away.

6) The giant runs after Jack and the boy cuts the beanstalk with an axe.

7) The old man offers seven magic beans for Jack’s cow.

8) Jack and his mother become rich, but Jack gets bored soon.

4. Look through the text again and find who said these words:

-        That’s a nice cow!

-        How stupid! Oh you silly boy!

-        I’m going to climb it.

-        Come in, before my husband arrives home.

-        I smell the blood of an Englishman.

-        Master! Master! Help me!

5. Transform direct speech into indirect speech:

Remember: Present Indefinite – Past Indefinite

                     Future Indefinite – Future-in-the-Past

                     Present Continuous – Past Continuous

Example: “I’ll buy the cow”, - said the man.

                The man said that he would buy the cow.

1)    Jack’s mother said: “We need money to buy food”.

2)    The strange man said: “That is a nice cow”.

3)    Jack said: “I’m off to market to sell it”.

4)    The old man said: “I’ll give you a good price for her”.

5)    Jack said: “I’ll take the beans”.

6)    Jack said: “I’m going to climb the beanstalk”.

7)    The giant said: “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread”.

8)    The giant’s wife said: “You are imagining things”.

9)    She added: “There is no Englishman here”.