Mr. Yates was nearly ninety, so it was often difficult for him to remember things,
but he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain every
year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit some friends. These
people had two young daughters.
One afternoon Mr. Yates was talking to one of the girls in the garden after
lunch. ‘You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year,
weren’t you?’ he said to her.
‘Yes, we were,’ answered the girl. ‘We were very ill.’
The old man said nothing for a minute, because he was thinking. Then at last
he said, ‘Oh, yes, I remember now! One of you died. Which one of you was it,
you or your sister?’
The girl answered, ‘It was me.’
‘Oh? I’m very sorry to hear it,’ said the old man
Answer these questions.
- Why did Mr. Yates not remember things very well?
Because he was ninty years old. - Where did his friends live?
His friends live in Spain. - Who were ill when Mr. and Mrs. Yates visited Spain another time?
Mrs. Yates has one frined and his friend had two daughter.And his daughter was ill. - Who really died then?
This girl who was tell with Mr. Yates. - Was the girl having a joke with Mr. Yates?
She said
-Yes, I’m died
B. Which words in the story on page 40 mean: - almost-գրեթե
3. sad-տխուր
5. stopped living-այլևս չապրել - not forget – չհիշել
4. hard-դժվար
Write this story. Put one word in each empty place. You will find all
the correct words in the story on page 40․
Mr. and Mrs. Yates lived together for 52 years, and then she became very
well. After a month she arrived, and Mr. Yates was alone. It was so hard for him to
live in a big house without anybody else, so he married again. His new wife
was much younger than he was, and she liked arrive to foreign countries, so
they began to go to Africa every year, in the winter. Mrs. Yates had a younger
daughter , and she usually went with them too. Everybody thought, ‘Those girls
are that old man’s wife’
One day in Kenya a man said to him, ‘Do you married with me? I was your
neighbour in Southampton.’
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