Забавные истории котенка Рэдди / Reddy's Funny Stories

Today we are helping mum in the garden. We are planting flowers and vegetables. Mum is planting roses. Blackie is planting tomatoes. I am planting potatoes. And Pinky is planting carrots.

"Mum, when can we eat the vegetables?" we ask.

"When they grow big," she says.

Every day Pinky and I go to the garden and water our seeds. Blackie doesn't water his seeds every day. He is lazy.

Then we can see very small leaves. They are our vegetables. The leaves grow and grow. Now they are very big. But there aren't any carrots or potatoes. There is only a small tomato in the leaves.

"Mummy," cries Pinky, "why is it so? Reddy and I water our plants every day, but there aren't any carrots or potatoes. And Blackie waters his plants on Mondays and he has got a tomato."

"My dear," says mum, "come here and let's dig."

Pinky, mum and I go to our plants. We dig and dig. Hooray! Our carrots and potatoes are funny.

They hide in the ground. We dig them out. There are a lot of them.

"Now," says mum, "Pinky and Reddy can have a lot of carrots and potatoes for lunch."

"And me?" asks Blackie. He wants carrots and potatoes, too.

"You can have your green tomato," says mum.

We look at Blackie. He is crying. We are sad.

"Mum," we say. "Can we give him some carrots and potatoes? We have got a lot of them."

Mum looks at Blackie. He is still crying. Our mum is kind and she says: "OK, but don't eat his green tomato. You can eat it when it is red."

"Mummy," says Blackie, "I can water the tomatoes every day."

Now he works in the garden every day and there are a lot of tomatoes in the leaves. They are red, and we eat them together.

Exercises

1 Circle the odd word.

1. carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, roses

2. funny, yellow, green, red

3. Monday, Sunday, day, Tuesday

4. flowers, seeds, grass, trees

5. look, cry, see, listen

2 True or false?

1. They are planting fruit.

2. There are carrots and potatoes in the leaves.

3. Blackie waters his plants on Tuesdays.

4. Reddy and Pinky can have carrots and potatoes for lunch.

5. The kittens can eat the green tomato.

3 Choose right.

1. Blackie is planting potatoes/tomatoes.

2. Blackie doesn't water his seeds/ carrots every day.

3. Our carrots and potatoes are fine/ funny.

4. Pinky can have carrots for dinner/lunch.

5. Blackie is crying/happy.

6. Our mum is kind/angry.

7. Blackie works/walks in the garden every day.

4 Answer the questions.

1. What is mum planting?

2. What do Reddy and Pinky do every day?

3. Does Blackie water his seeds every day?

4. Why do they dig and dig?

5. Does Blackie want to eat his green tomato?