Снежная королева / The Snow Queen - стр. 4
1.2. Answer the questions.
1. What is the looking-glass?
2. What happened to the looking-glass?
3. What were the names of the boy and the girl?
4. Were the children brother and sister?
5. Which flowers did the parents grow in their boxes?
6. Who told the children about the Snow Queen?
7. When did the pieces of looking glass got into the boys, eye and heart?
8. What was the boy going to do at the big square?
9. Who drove the large white sledge?
10. When did the boy meet the Snow Queen for the first time?
1.3. Insert the right prepositions (about, after, at, for, in, into, on, to, with).
1. Everyone spread the news all ______ the miracle looking glass.
2. It was very amusing _________ him.
3. And _____________ that, he didn’t notice the cold anymore.
4. Everything good and pretty that was reflected _________ it became bad and ugly.
5. They would heat copper pennies _____________ the stove.
6. Kay and Gerda were sitting looking _____________ a picture book.
7. She nodded towards the window and beckoned _____________ her hand.
8. It broke _____________ millions of tiny pieces.
9. There isn’t enough room ___________ everybody to have a little garden.
10. Now we are going to hear all _____________ it.
1.4. Complete the sentences using the words below.
millions • high • bees • excellent • wicked • window • boxes • wonderful • swallows • stricking
1. Those are white _______ swarming.
2. It was _____________ fun.
3. It broke into _____________ of tiny pieces.
4. Once there was a __________ troll.
5. You could get from one ____________ to the other in one step.
6. The pea plants hung down over the _____________.
7. They freeze into ___________ patterns.
8. The ____________ built their nests.
9. The clock in the great church tower was _____________ five.
10. They flew _____________ among the dark clouds.
1.5. True or false?
1. The troll broke the magic looking-glass.
2. Kay got pieces of the looking-glass in his eye and in his heart.
3. Gerda lived far away from Kay.
4. Gerda saw the Snow Queen first.
5. Kay tied his sledge to the Snow Queen’s.
6. The children’s parents had a garden where they grew roses.
7. The Snow Queen kissed Kay twice.
8. The wicked troll kept a school.
9. The children weren’t allowed to play under the roses.
10. The glass made Kay tease everyone but Gerda.
Story the Third
The Flower Garden of the Old Woman who knew Magic
But how fared little Gerda when Kay didn’t came back? Nobody knew where he was, nobody could tell. The boys could only say they had seen him tie his little sledge to another large one which had driven down the street and out at the town gate. Many tears were shed. Then they said he was dead, drowned in the river. Dark indeed and long were those winter days.