Six Stories for Reproduction - Elementary Level - Part I

 

Stories for Reproduction - Elementary Level - Part 1

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• Christmas Cards
• An Important telephone Call
• Nasreddin and his Ladder
• I Drink with my Friend
• I am not a Bear
• Mrs Brown's old grandfather

Christmas Cards

It was two weeks before Christmas, and Mrs Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband's friends, and put them on the table in the living-room. Then, when her husband came home from work, she said to him, 'Here are the Christmas cards for our friends, and here are some stamps, a pen and our book of addresses. Will you please write the cards while I am cooking the dinner?' Mr Smith did not say anything, but walked out of the living-room and went to his study. Mrs Smith was very angry with him, but did not say anything either. Then a minute later he came back with a box full of Christmas cards. All of them had addresses and stamps on them. 'These are from last year,' he said. 'I forgot to post them.'

1. When was Mrs Smith very busy ?
2. What did she do ?
3. Why did she buy the cards ?
4. Where did she put them ?
5. What did she say to her husband ?
6. What did Mr Smith say ?
7. What did he do ?
8. How did Mrs Smith feel ?
9. What did she say ?
10. What did Mr Smith do a minute later ? 
11. What did he say ?

An Important telephone Call

Mrs Jones was waiting for an important telephone call, but she had no bread in the house, so she left the baby at home and said to his five-year-old brother,'I am going to the shops, Jimmy, and I will be back in a few minutes.' While she was out, the telephone rang, and Jimmy answered. 'Hallo,' said a man, 'is your mother there?' 'No,' answered Jimmy. 'Well, when she comes back, say to her, "Mr Baker telephoned".' 'What?' 'Mr Baker. Write it down. B-A-K-E-R.' 'How do you make a B?' 'How do I make . . . ? Listen, little boy, is there anybody else with you? Any brothers or sisters?' 'My brother Billy is here.' 'Good, I want to talk to him, please.' 'All right.' Jimmy took the telephone to the baby's bed and gave it to Billy. When their mother came back, she asked, 'Did anyone telephone?' 'Yes,' said Jimmy, 'a man. But he only wanted to talk to Billy.' 

1. What was Mrs Jones waiting for?
2. Why did she go out ?
3. What did she do with the baby?
4. When she went out ?
5. What did she say to Jimmy ?
6. How old was he ?
7. What happened while she was out ?
8. What did Jimmy do ?
9. What did the man say ?
10. What did Jimmy answer ?
11. What did the man say then ?
12. What did Jimmy say ?
13. What was the man's answer ?
14. What did Jimmy ask him then ?
15. What did the man say then ?
16. What did Jimmy answer ? 
17. What did the man say ?
18. What did Jimmy say ?
19. What did he do ?
20. What did Jimmy's mother do?
21. When she came home ?
22. What did Jimmy answer ?

Nasreddin and his Ladder

Nasreddin had an old shed. It had no windows, so it was very dark, and it was full of old things. One day Nasreddin went into this shed to get a ladder, but slipped on something and fell against a big garden fork. The fork hit him on the head and knocked him down. Then it fell on top of him and hit him hard on the left leg. The ends of the fork then went into his long beard. He fought with the fork fiercely, and at last threw it off him, jumped up and ran out of the shed. He was very angry. He had an old sword underhis bed, and he now ran and got this. Then he ran back to the shed, opened the door suddenly and shouted in a terrible voice, 'All right, come out and fight, you and all the other forks in the world! I'm not afraid of you!' 

1. What did Nasreddin have ?
2.  What was it like inside ?
3.  Why was it dark ? 
4. What happened one day ?
5.  Why did Nasreddin go into the shed ?
6.  What did he do inside the shed ? 
7. What did the fork do ?
8.  What did it do after that ?
9. What did the ends of the fork do ?
10. What did Nasreddin do ?
11. How did he feel ?
12. What did he have under his bed ?
13. What did he do now ?
14. What did he shout ?

I Drink with my friend

A man always went to the same bar at the same time every day and asked for two glasses of beer. He drank them and then asked for two more. One day the man behind the bar said to him, 'Why do you always ask for two glasses of beer? Why don't you get one big glass instead?' The man answered, 'Because I do not like to drink alone. I drink with my friend.' But a few days later the man came in and asked only for one beer. 'Oh,' said the barman, 'has your friend died?' 'Oh, no,' said the man. 'He is very well. This beer is for him. But I have stopped drinking beer. My doctor doesn't want me to drink any more because it is dangerous for me.

1. What did the man in this story do every day ? 
2. What did he ask for ? 
3. What did he do then ?
4. What did the man behind the bar say one day ?
5. What did the man answer ?
6. What happened a few days later ?
7. What did the man ask for this time ?
8. What did the barman ask ?
9. What did the man answer ?

I an not a bear

Old Mr Black loved shooting bears, but his eyes were not good any more. Several times he nearly shot people instead of bears, so his friends were always very careful when they went out shooting with him. One day a young friend of his wanted to have a joke, so he got a big piece of white paper and wrote on it in very big letters 'I AM NOT A BEAR'. Then he tied it to his back and went off. His friends saw it and laughed a lot. But it did not save him. After a few minutes Mr Black shot at him and knocked his hat off. The young man was frightened and angry. 'Didn't you see this piece of paper ?' he shouted to Mr Black. 'Yes, I did,' said Mr Black. Then he went nearer, looked carefully at the paper and said, 'Oh, I am very sorry. I did not see the word NOT.

1. What did Mr Black love ?
2. What was the matter with him ?
3. What happened several times ?
4. What did his friends do when they went out shooting with him ?
5. What did one of his young friends want to do one day ?
6. What did he do ?
7. What did he write on the piece of paper ?
8. What did he do then ?
9. What did his friends do ?
10. What happened then ?
11. Did the paper save the young man ?
12. How did he feel ?
13. What did he shout ?
14. What did Mr Black do ?
15. What did he say ?

Mrs Brown's old grandfather

Mrs Brown's old grandfather lived with her and her husband. Every morning he went for a walk in the park and came home at half past twelve for his lunch. But one morning a police car stopped outside Mrs Brown's house at twelve o'clock, and two policemen helped Mr Brown to get out One of them said to Mrs Brown, 'The poor old gentleman lost his way in the park and telephoned us for help, so we sent a car to bring him home.' Mrs Brown was very surprised, but she thanked the policemen and they left. 'But, Grandfather,' she then said, 'you have been to that park nearly every day for twenty years. How did you lose your way there?' The old man smiled, closed one eye and said, 'I didn'tquite lose my way. I just got tired and I didn't want to walk home!'

1. Who lived with Mr and Mrs Brown ?
2. What did he do every morning ?
3. When did he come home ?
4. What did he come home for ?
5. What happened one morning ?
6. At what time did it happen ?
7. What did the two policemen do ?
8. What did one of them say to Mrs Brown ?
9. How did Mrs Brown feel ?
10.  What did she do ?
11.  What did she say to her grandfather?
12. What did the old man say to Mrs Brown?