Form 4

Audition

APPLESEED JOHN

A Legend

Words

money  - деньги

to save – сохранять

a core [               ]- сердцевина(яблока)

slowly [               ]- медленно

to plant  - сажать

grow – grew – расти

a seed – семя

1.

John was a poor man. He didn’t have a family. John wanted to do people some good, but he had little money. Every day he worked hard to get some more money. With the money he bought red, yellow and green apples. When he ate them, he saved all the cores. Then he put them into a bag. Every day he took the bag, walked into the country and planted cores. He bought more apples and planted cores again, again and again. He knew that trees grew very slowly, but he planted cores.

People called him “Appleseed John”. One day the old man died. Today in that country you can see many, many apple trees. If you ask people why there are so many trees there, people usually tell this legend.

2.    True (T)       False (F)

1. John had a wife and two children.

2. John wanted people to be happy.

3. John saved vegetables to plant.

4. There are a lot of apple trees now in that country.

3.   Ask 5 questions to the text

1._________________________________________       

2._________________________________________

3._________________________________________                                  

4._________________________________________                                  

5._________________________________________

4. Match the halves of sentences 

1. John walked into the country           A.   to get money

2. He was “Appleseed John”               B.  because he planted a lot of

                                                                  apple trees

3. He worked much                             C.  to plant cores

 5. Cross out an odd word 

1.  people, man, trees, good, cores

2. had, planted, into, bought, grew

3. red, green, apples, yellow, brown