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Lesson 24

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Lesson 24


Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises

A.Numbers: Dinner Menu

PALACE RESTAURANT

DINNER MENU



Vegetables baked potato peas and carrots tomatoes creamed onions green beans



Score:____

B.Difficult Sentences

1.And when he had burned up all of his fences, the house, now without any protection against the wind, was colder than ever.

2.That's like giving all your food to a cat to keep the mice out of your food.



Part Ⅱ What's For Dinner?



Exercises:

1.a.Fish. b.Veal chops. c. Roast beef.

2.a.Because he had fish for lunch and he wanted something else for dinner.

b. Because he wanted to eat some fish but Pat didn't prepare any.

c. Because he didn't eat any fish at lunch time.

3.a. Fried fish.

b. Roast beef, veal chops, etc.

c. Tomatoes, beans, etc.

4.a.Because they were not on the menu.

b.Because they were sold out.

c.Because they were on yesterday's menu.

5. a. Fresh fish. b.Potatoes and peas. c. Roast beff.



Part Ⅲ A Short Story- A Man And His Oven



Exercises:

Ⅰ.

1.The man's family was?

a.very big. b.not very big. c.very small.

2.The man burned up?to Keep the oven going.

a.the firewood, the fences and the oven.

b. the fences, the ceiling and the house.

c. the boards, the fuel and the coal.

3. He burned up so many things in order to ?

a.keep his oven going.

b.protect his house against the wind.

c.keep his big family warm.

4.His neigh bour advised his to ?

a.have his oven rebuilt.

b.pull down his ceiling.

c. tear down his house.

5.The man thought his neigh bour?

a. had lost his mind.

b.had turned a deaf ear to him.

c.was jealous of his house and his large oven.

Ⅱ. Open question

What have you learned from this story?





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