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Homework for Wednesday, 27.03.19: prepare homereading.

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

After Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there was a very beautiful doll’s house: it was red with white windows, and it had real muslin curtains and a front door. Two dolls called Lucinda and Jane lived there. Jane was the cook; but she never did any cooking, because the dinner was bought ready-made. There were two red lobsters, some ham, a fish, a pudding, some pears and oranges. They were not real, but they were very beautiful.

One morning Lucinda and Jane went out. There was no one in the nursery. Tom Thumb put his head out of the hole near the fireplace. Tom Thumb was a mouse. A minute later, Hunca Munca, his wife, put her head out, too.

The doll’s house was not far from the fireplace. Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca came into the house and went upstairs to the living room. Such a lovely dinner was on the table! There were spoons, and knives and forks, and two dolly-chairs — all so comfortable! Tom Thumb wanted to cut the ham, but it was very hard. “Give me some fish, Hunca Munca!” said Tom. Hunca Munca tried every spoon but the fish didn’t come off the plate.

Then Tom Thumb lost his temper.  He put the ham on the floor, and broke it with the shovel — bang, bang, smash, smash! The ham flew all into pieces, for under the paint there was nothing but plaster! Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca broke up the pudding, the lobsters, the pears and the oranges.

Then they went to the dolls’ bedroom. Tom Thumb took Jane’s clothes out of the chest of drawers and he threw them out of the window. With Tom Thumb’s help Hunca Munca brought a chair, a bookcase, a birdcage, and some other small things to the mouse hole. The bookcase and the birdcage didn’t go into it. Hunca Munca left them behind the house, and went to get a cradle. Suddenly the dolls came into the nursery. The mice ran back to their hole. Now Hunca Munca has got the cradle and some of Lucinda’s clothes.

So that is the story of the two Bad Mice, — but they were not so very, very naughty. Tom Thumb paid for everything he broke. He found a sixpence under the rug; and upon Christmas Eve, he and Hunca Munca put it into one of the stockings of Lucinda and Jane.

1.      Find and read:

—      about the doll’s house,

—      about the ready-made dinner,

—      what Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca saw in the living room,

—      how Tom paid for everything he broke.

2.      Say who did the following:

1)      ... never did any cooking.

2)      ... put his head out of the hole near the fireplace.

3)      ... went upstairs to the living room.

4)      ... tried to cut the ham but it was very hard.

5)      ... tried every spoon but the fish did not come off the plate.

6)      ... put the ham on the floor and broke it with a shovel.

7)      ... broke up the pudding, the lobsters, the pears and the oranges.

8)      ... took Jane’s clothes out of the chest of drawers and threw them out of the window.

9)      ... brought a cradle, a bookcase and a birdcage to the mouse hole.

10)     ... went to bring a cradle.

11)     ... ran back to the hole.

12)     ... found a sixpence under the rug.

13)     ... put the sixpence into one of the stockings of Lucinda and Jane.

3.      Answer the questions.

1)      Who lived in the doll’s house?

2)      Why didn’t Jane do any cooking?

3)      Why do you think the mice were naughty?

4)      Were Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca kind? Why do you think so?

5)      Are you naughty sometimes?