A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

Mike and Nick were schoolboys. They lived in the country. The boys went to school together and they liked to play and spend their leisure time together.

One day Mike сamе to Nick's house and said, "Nick, you have so many good books. I see this is an interesting book in your library which I haven't read.

Can you lend me this book to read? I'll bring it back next week".

Nick did not want to lend books to other people, and he said, "Why do you want to take my book home? You can read it here, in my house. I want you to come again and read here".

Mike saw what kind of a friend he had, but he did not say anything. He wanted to teach him a lesson.

The next week Nick came to Mike and said, "Mike, you have a good garden knife.

I want to work in my garden tomorrow. Can you give it to me for two days?"

Mike answered, "Why do you want to take my garden knife home? You can work with it in my garden".

Answer the questions:

1) Who were Mike and Nick?

2) Where did they live?.

3) What did they do together?

4) Who came to Nick's house one day?

5) What did Mike see there?

6) What did he ask?

7) What was the answer?

8) What.did Mike understand?

9) What did he decide to do?

10) What did Nick ask Mike to give him?

11) What did Mike answer?

Work in groups.

1) Make up a plan of a story.

2) Fill in the chart about the boys.

	Mike	Nick
Place to come	Nick’s house
He asked (what?)
The result	didn’t give
Decision	to teach him a lesson	not to do such things

If you have a friend you would help him.

3) Retell the story in a written form.

4) Make up 5 questions to the text.

5) Retell the story orally.

Word List:

former school-mates	колишні однокласники
bosom friend	найщиріший друг, нерозлийвода
pretty	симпатична, вродлива
curly hair	курчаве волосся
turned-up nose	кирпатий ніс
plump	пухкий
to cut the long story short	коротше кажучи
inner beauty	внутрішня краса
well bred	добре вихована
jolly	веселий
to cope	справлятися
to go in for sports	займатися спортом
coach	тренер
gifted	обдарований
soul	душа
to be in a habit of helping	мати звичку допомагати
duty	обов'язок
to do the shopping	робити
to keep	тримати
sunny soul by nature	веселий за вдачею
imagination	уява
to quarrel	сваритися, лаятися
to make up	замиритися
composition	твір
wise	мудрий
quarrel	сварка