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Самый старший; близнецы; накрывает стол к завтраку; что мне делать? как холодно сегодня! я должен надеть пальто; каждый день кроме воскресенья; наверху; детская; они ждали няню; кто-то другой; калитка; пойдем посмотрим! лестничная площадка; гостиная; прихожая; женщина последовала за ней; перила; с большим удивлением; я останусь у вас; сняла шляпу; кусок мыла; зубная щетка; ночная рубашка; пара сапог; подушки и одеяла.
8. Who said the following words? Under what circumstances?
1. One more word from you, and I’ll call the Policeman.
2. What shall I do without a nurse?
3. Let’s go and see who it is.
4. I’ll stay till the Wind changes.
5. They are very good children.
6. Why, there is nothing in the bag!
7. Write into the newspapers and say that you want a very good nurse.
8. That is not Daddy. It is somebody else.
9. How did you come? Did the Wind blow you here?
10. How cold it is today! I must put on two overcoats.
9. Act out the following conversations.
1. Mrs. Banks and Mr. Banks, about a nurse.
2. Michael and Jane, at the window, when they saw Mary Poppins.
3. Mrs. Banks and Mary Poppins.
4. Mary Poppins and the children.
10. Answer the following questions.
1. How many people did the family consist of? Who were these people?
2. What did Mrs. Brill and Ellen do for the family?
3. What did Mr. Banks advise his wife to do in order to find a nurse?
4. Where did Mr. Banks work? Did he go to the City every day?
5. What was the weather like that morning? How do we know that it was very cold?
6. When Mr. Banks went to the City, the children went upstairs to the Nursery, didn’t they? What did they do in the Nursery?
7. Why did Michael and Jane stand at the window in the evening? Whom were they waiting for?
8. Who came up to the gate of the garden when the chil-dren were looking out of the window? Why was the woman hoding her hat with one hand?
9. What curious thing happened when the woman opened the gate of the garden?
10. Why did the children go out of the Nursery to the land-ing?
11. Whom did the children see when the door of the draw-ing-room opened? Describe the visitor.
12. What did Mrs. Banks say to the woman about the chil-dren? Did the woman answer? What did she do?
13. What greatly surprised the children when the woman followed Mrs. Banks upstairs?
14. What did Jane ask Mary Poppins when Mrs. Banks left the Nursery?
15. What surprised Jane and Michael when Mary Poppins opened her bag?
16. What did Mary Poppins take out of her bag?
2. LAUGHING GAS
Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins got off the Bus. “Are you sure your Uncle is at home?” said Jane.
Mary Poppins sniffed.
“My Uncle has asked me to bring you to tea today,” she said. “Do you think he is not at home?”
“Why is your Uncle called Mr. Wigg?” asked Michael. “Is it because he has a wig[16 - he has a wig – у него парик] on his head?”
“He has no wig,” said Mary Poppins. “And he is called Mr. Wigg because his name is Mr. Wigg. And if you ask any more questions, we will go Back Home.”
Mary Poppins put her hat straight[17 - put her hat straight [streıt] – поправила шляпу] before a shop window. She liked to look at herself in shop windows[18 - She liked to look at herself in shop windows – Она любила смотреться в витрины магазинов]. Today she was wearing a blue coat with silver buttons and a blue hat. She thought that she looked very smart.
“Come along[19 - Come along – Пошли],” she said. They turned the corner and went up to Number Three, Robertson Road. Mary Poppins rang the door bell.
The door opened, and they saw a very thin lady.
“Is he at home?” said Michael.
“How do you do, Mrs. Wigg,” said Jane politely.
“Mrs. Wigg!” said the thin lady angrily. Her voice was even thinner than she herself. “How can you call me Mrs. Wigg? No, thank you! I am Miss Persimmon[20 - Persimmon [pə'sımən] – Персиммон] and I am proud of it! Mrs. Wigg, indeed! Go upstairs and to the first door on the landing.” And she went away along the corridor.
Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins went upstairs. Mary Poppins knocked at the door.
“Come in! Come in! And welcome[21 - welcome ['welkəm] – добро пожаловать]!” said a loud and merry voice from the room.
Mary Poppins opened the door, and they went in. They saw a large room. There was a bright fire in the fireplace, 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.
“I am very glad to see you,” said a voice. Jane and Michael looked round the room, but saw nobody. Then they saw that Mary Poppins was looking at the ceiling. They looked at the ceiling, too, and to their surprise[22 - to their surprise [sə'praız] – к своему удивлению] they saw a round, fat man, who was hanging in the air.
Mr. Wigg smiled at the children. “My dear,” he said to Mary Poppins, “it is my Birthday today.”
“Oh,” said Mary Poppins.
Mr. Wigg looked at the children again.
“I see you are surprised,” he said. “I think I must explain to you why I am here. You see, I am a very merry man and like to laugh very much. Everything seems funny to me. And I can laugh at everything that I see.”
And Mr. Wigg began to shake with laughter[23 - began to shake with laughter ['lɑ:ftə] – начал трястись от смеха].
“Uncle Albert!” said Mary Poppins, and Mr. Wigg stopped laughing.
“Oh, I am sorry, my dear,” he said to Mary Poppins. “I won’t laugh – if I can.” He turned to the children. “You see,” he said, “when my birthday comes on Friday, it always happens to me.”
“But why —” began Jane.
“But how —” began Michael.
“If my birthday comes on Friday and I laugh on that day, I become filled with Laughing Gas[24 - I become filled with Laughing Gas ['lɑ:fıŋ'ɡæs] – наполняюсь смешливым газом]. The Laughing Gas is very light, and when it fills me[25 - when it fills me – когда он наполняет меня] I simply cannot stand on the ground. As soon as[26 - As soon as – Как только] I begin laughing, or even smiling, I fly up like a balloon. And I can get down only if I think about something serious.” Mr. Wigg began laughing again, but then he looked at Mary Poppins and stopped.
“It is strange, of course,” he said, “but very pleasant. Does it ever happen to you?[27 - Does it ever happen to you? – С вами это когда-нибудь случается?] ” he asked Jane and Michael.
Jane and Michael shook their heads.
“One day,” said Mr. Wigg, “I went to the Circus and I laughed so much that I flew up to the ceiling and could not get down until midnight, and then, of course, at twelve o’clock I suddenly fell down. Because, you see, it was already Saturday and not my birthday. It’s strange, isn’t it? And funny, isn’t it? And now it is Friday again and my birthday, and you two and Mary have come to visit me, and it is very nice. Oh, don’t make me laugh[28 - don’t make me laugh – не заставляйте меня смеяться], please, don’t make me laugh —”
And Mr. Wigg began laughing and shaking under the ceiling again, and could not stop.
He looked so funny, that Jane and Michael began laughing, too. They wanted to be polite and tried not to laugh, but they could do nothing. They laughed more and more, and soon they fell down and were rolling and rolling on the floor, and could not stop laughing.
“Really!” said Mary Poppins. “Really, such behaviour!”
“I can’t help it[29 - I can’t help it – Я ничего не могу поделать], I can’t help it,” cried Michael, and he was still rolling on the floor. “It is so funny. Oh, Jane, isn’t it funny?”
Then a very strange thing happened. Jane and Michael became very light and flew up in the air! The next moment they were hanging under the ceiling near Mr. Wigg.
“Hello!” 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!
It’s really very, very nice of you.” And all the three of them began laughing again.
“I say,” said Mr. Wigg to the children when they stopped laughing, “there are no chairs here, but I think you can sit on the air. Look at me, I am sitting.”
And indeed, Mr. Wigg was sitting on the air. Jane and Michael tried to sit down, too, and found that they also could sit on the air and that it was very comfortable.
Mr. Wigg looked down at Mary Poppins. “I see you don’t like it, my dear,” he said. “I am very sorry. But you see that I can’t help it.”
Mary Poppins looked very serious. “Well, I must say,” she said, “I have never seen such a sight[30 - I have never seen such a sight [saıt] – Я никогда не видела такого зрелища]. And at your age[31 - at your age – в вашем возрасте], Uncle —”
“Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins, come up here!” said Michael. “Think of something funny and come up here.”
“Come, Mary Poppins, come up here,” said Jane. “Please come up here! Think of something funny!”
“Oh, she can do it even if she does not think of funny things,” said Mr. Wigg.
“Well, it is all very silly,” said Mary Poppins. “But I see that you cannot come down.”
And to the great surprise of Jane and Michael, she put her hands down at her sides and without a laugh, without even a smile, she flew up through the air and sat down near Jane.
“That’s right, Mary,” said Mr. Wigg. “Now we can have tea. Oh! I didn’t think of it! We are here and the table is down there on the floor. Quick! We must think of something serious. Something sad, very sad, and then we shall get down.”
They began thinking. They thought and thought, but could not think of anything serious.
“Mary,” said Mr. Wigg, “can’t you do something? We want our tea.”
Jane and Michael could not believe their eyes. The table, with the cups, and bread and butter, and biscuits and chocolates and cake, flew up through the air and stopped near them. Now they were sitting round the table!
“Good girl!” said Mr. Wigg. He smiled. “Usually people begin with bread and butter,” he said to Jane and Michael. “But it is my birthday today. Let’s begin with the Cake!”
And he cut a large piece of cake for everybody.
And they had very nice tea with cake, biscuits and chocolates, and talked and laughed all the time.
“IT IS TIME TO GO HOME.” It was Mary Poppins’s voice. It was the first sad thought[32 - It was the first sad thought – Это была первая грустная мысль] of the afternoon, and suddenly the Laughing Gas went out of them, and they came down on the floor.
“Well, it’s a pity that it is time for you to go home,” said Mr. Wigg. “It was a very pleasant afternoon, wasn’t it?”
“Yes, very pleasant,” said Michael sadly.
“Very, very pleasant,” said Jane and kissed Mr. Wigg’s cheek. “We shall never forget it.”
EXERCISES
1. Practice the pronunciation of the following words.
2. Agree or disagree.
1. Mary Poppins put her hat straight before a shop window.
2. Today she was wearing a brown coat with black buttons and a grey hat.
3. The door opened, and they saw a very fat lady.
4. Jane, Michael and Mary Poppins went upstairs.
5. 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.
