There Is Something Very Nice Inside Your Drum

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Lesson 3

Text A

        There Is Something Very Nice Inside Your Drum
    It was Jimmy's birthday, and he was five years old. He got quite a lotnice birthday presents from his family, and onethem was a beautiful big drum.
    "Who gave him that thing?" Jimmy's father said when he saw it.
    "His grandfather did," answered Jimmy's mother.
    "Oh," said his father.
    Of course , Jimmy liked his drum very much. He made a terrible noise witb it, but his mother did not mind. His father was working during the day, and Jimmy wasbed when he got homethe evening, so he did not hear the noise.
    But onethe neighbours did not like the noise at all , so one morning a few days later, she took a sharp knife and wentJimmy's house while he was hitting his drum. She saidhim, "Hullo, Jimmy. Do you know, there's something very nice inside your drum. Here's a knife. Open the drum and let's find it. "

　
 
Text B

MaySee a Hat, please?

MR Ross: Maysee a hat , please?
SALESMAN: What size do you take?
MR Ross: I'm sorry.don't know.
SALESMAN: I'll measure you. . . You take size 6. What colour hat would you like?
MR Ross: Brown, please.
SALESMAN: Here are some nice brown hats.Try this hat on.It's a very good one.
MR ROss: Yes,like this one.It goes very well with my coat. How muchit?
SALESMAN: It's $ 9.95 ( nine dollars and ninety-five cents ). Do you want meput ita
 box?

　
 
QuestionsText B
7. Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story  your partner.

   The policethe big city were looking for a thief. At last they caught him. But while they were taking photographshim - from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat - he suddenly attacked the policemen and ran off. They triedcatch him, but he got away.
  Then a week later the telephone rangthe police-station, and somebody said, "You are looking for Bill Cross, aren't you?"
    "Yes. "
    "Well, he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago. "
    Waterbridge was a small town about 00 miles from the city. The city police at ence sent four different photographsthe thiefthe policeWaterbridge.
    Less than twelve hours later they got a telephone call from the policeWaterbridge. "We have caught the fourth this evening, we think. "

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