Mary Poppins / Мэри Поппинс. Книга для чтения на английском языке

There was a bright fire in the fireplace, and in the centre of the room there was a small table with flowers in a beautiful vase.

6. Jane and Michael looked round the room and saw a round fat man in the corner.

7. They wanted to be polite and tried not to laugh, but they could do nothing.

8. Then a very strange thing happened. Jane and Michael became very heavy and fell on the floor.

9. Mary Poppins put her hands down at her sides and, laughing merrily, she flew up through the air and sat down near Jane.

10. And they had very nice dinner with soup, meat and fruits, and talked and laughed all the time.

3. Put the following sentences in the right order.

1. The table, with the cups and bread and butter, and biscuits and chocolates and cake, flew up through the air and stopped near them.

2. It was the first sad thought of the afternoon, and suddenly the Laughing Gas went out of them, and they came down on the floor.

3. Mr. Wigg smiled at the children. “My dear,” he said to Mary Poppins, “it’s my Birthday today.

4. Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins went upstairs. Mary Poppins knocked at the door.

5. “It is time to go home.” It was Mary Poppins’s voice.

6. Jane and Michael became very light and flew up in the air.

7. He looked so funny, that Jane and Michael began laughing, too.

8. And they had very nice tea with cake, biscuits and chocolates, and talked and laughed all the time.

9. There was a bright п¬Ѓre in the п¬Ѓreplace, and in the centre of the room there was a very large table with four cups, bread and butter, biscuits, chocolates and a very large cake.

10. If my Birthday comes on Friday and I laugh on that day, I become п¬Ѓlled with Laughing Gas.

11. “Come in! Come in! And welcome!” said a loud and merry voice from the room.

12. “Hullo,” said Mr. Wigg. “It’s very nice of you. You saw that I could not come down to you, so you came up to me.”

4. Fill in the blanks with the following words:

bring, smart, thin, merry, serious, ceiling, hanging, air, surprise, laughed.

1. I can get down only if I think about something ______.

2. The next moment they were ________ under the ceiling near Mr. Wigg.

3. To the great ________ of Jane and Michael, she put her hands down at her sides and flew up through the air and sat down near Jane.

4. “My Uncle has asked me to ________ you to tea today,” she said.

5. The door opened, and they saw a very _____ lady.