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Me and My World

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46. A. Before you read the text, say if you know annihilation most Roald Dahl and his books. Does the name �Charlie and the Chocolate Factory� say anything to you?

B. Look at the title of the text, the pictures and the key phrases and endeavour to guess what the text is going to be about.

Key phrases:

• to spend adolescence with ane�s father
• to alive in a gypsy caravan
• to repair engines in a workshop
• to exist cheerful and full of fun
• to be an excellent storyteller

C. Read the text. Listen to it carefully, 15, and say if your guess was right.

Danny�s Story

(Afterward Roald Dahl)

When I was four months sometime, my mother died suddenly and my male parent was left to look after me all by himself.

I had no brothers or sisters with whom I could share toys or play together. So all my boyhood, from the age of four months on, there were just u.s. ii, my father and me. Nosotros lived in an quondam gypsy caravan¹ backside a filling station.² My father owned the filling station and the caravan and a small meadow backside, that was about all he endemic in the world and my male parent struggled to brand both ends meet. It was a very pocket-sized filling station on a small country route with fields and woody hills effectually it.

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While I was still a baby, my father washed me and fed me, changed my diapers,^ane pushed me in my pram to the medico and did all the millions of other things a female parent ordinarily does for her child. That is not an easy job for a human being, especially when he has to earn his living at the same time.

But my father didn�t mind. He was a cheerful man, I recollect that he gave me all the love he had felt for my mother when she was live. We were very close. During my early years, I never had a moment�s unhappiness, and here I am on my fifth birthday.

I was now a boisterous trivial boy as y'all tin can come across, with dirt and oil all over me, just that was because I spent all solar day in the workshop² helping my father with the cars. The workshop was a stone edifice. My father built that himself with loving care. �We are engineers, y'all and I,� he used to say firmly to me. �Nosotros earn our living by repairing engines³ and we tin�t practice skilful work in a bad workshop.� It was a fine workshop, big enough to take one motorcar comfortably.

The caravan was our house and our domicile. My father said it was at least one hundred and 50 years erstwhile. Many gypsy children, he said, had been born in it and had grown upward inside its wooden walls. In old times it had been pulled by a horse along winding country roads of England. Different people had knocked at its doors, different people had lived in it. But at present its best years were over. There was just one room in the caravan, and it wasn�t much bigger than a modern bathroom.

Although nosotros had electric lights in the workshop, we were not allowed to take them in the caravan as it was dangerous. So nosotros got our estrus and light in the same way as the gypsies had done years ago. There was a woods-burning stove⁴ that kept us warm in winter and there were candles in candlesticks. I think that the stew^v cooked by my begetter is the best thing I�ve ever tasted. One plateful was never enough.

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For article of furniture, we had two narrow beds, two chairs and a pocket-size table covered with a tablecloth and some bowls, plates, cups, forks and spoons on it. Those were all the home comforts we had. They were all nosotros needed and we never regretted that our caravan was far from a perfect home.

I really loved living in that gypsy caravan. I loved information technology particularly in the evenings when I was tucked upwardly in my bed and my father was telling stories. I was happy because I was sure that when I went to sleep, my begetter would withal exist there, very close to me, sitting in his chair by the burn down.

My male parent, without any doubt, was the about wonderful and exciting father any boy ever had. Here is a picture of him.

You lot may think, if you don�t know him well, that he was a stern and serious homo. He wasn�t. He was actually full of fun. What made him look so serious and sometimes gloomy¹ was the fact that he never smiled with his mouth. He did information technology all with his eyes. He had bright blue eyes, and when he idea of something funny, you could run across a golden light dancing in the heart of each eye. Just the mouth never moved. My male parent was non what you lot would call an educated man. I doubt he had read many books in his life. But he was an excellent storyteller. He promised to make up a bedtime story for me every time I asked him. He ever kept his promise. The best stories were turned into serials and went on many nights running.ⁱⁱ

47. Imagine that you lot are Danny and answer these questions.

1. Where did y'all spend your early on years?
2. How large is your family?
3. Did you have many friends in your adolescence?
4. What is your house like?
5. What is your father similar?
6. Where does your father work?
7. It is not comfortable to alive in a gypsy caravan, is information technology?
8. Why is your male parent and then gloomy and serious sometimes?

48. Decide which of the adjectives you can utilise to depict a) Danny; b) his father.

helpful, active, boisterous, serious, gloomy, cheerful, devoted, loving, caring,³ wonderful, heady, happy, friendly, quick

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49. A. Friction match the phrases in English and Russian, find and read out the sentences with them in the text.

one) to get to sleep all past himself to brand both ends meet with loving intendance not to listen something to tuck somebody (up) in without any doubt

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�. Express the same idea using the phrases in a higher place.

1. Ann never asked anybody to aid her.
2. The family unit didn�t have enough money.
3. It is very difficult to make little Tom get to bed.
4. When I was a piffling girl, my female parent ever covered me carefully with my blanket.
5. Jane gave the right respond very speedily. She was sure of it.
6. My female parent has nothing against my friends. We always play together in our flat.
7. My parents have e'er spoken to me in such a mode that I was certain they loved me and cared for me.

50. Find in the text and read out the sentences describing the post-obit:

1. the workshop
2. the caravan and its history
3. the furniture and other things they had in the caravan
4. the father�s duties when Danny was a babe
5. Danny�s early on years
6. the fashion the father looked
7. Danny�s evenings in the caravan with his father

51. Say who in the story:

1. lived in the caravan;
2. loved living in that location;
3. had lived in the caravan before;
4. cooked the stew in Danny�s family unit;
5. never was unhappy in his early on years;
6. repaired cars in the workshop.

52. Say truthful, imitation or non stated in the text.

1. Danny�s mother died when he was four years quondam.
2. In that location were two deep lakes most the caravan.
3. Danny�s father was a cheerful man.
4. Danny�s father looked serious.
5. Danny was very unhappy in his early on years.
6. Danny helped his father to build the workshop.
7. The gypsy caravan was most 50 years old.
8. The caravan was made of stone.
9. Danny�s father never smiled.

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