1. Pooh always liked something to eat at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs.
2. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in the open air.
3. ‘It all comes,’ said Pooh, ‘of not having front doors big enough.’
4. ‘I’m afraid no meals,’ said Christopher Robin, ‘because of getting thin quicker.’
5. Прочитайте и переведите текст.
Winnie was walking through the forest one day, singing proudly to himself, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank was a large hole.
‘Aha!’ he said. ‘If I know anything about anything, that hole means Rabbit,’ he said, ‘and Rabbit means Company,’ he said, ‘and Company means Food and Listening-to-Me-Singing and such like.’
So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out:
‘Is anybody at home?’
There was a sudden noise from inside the hole, and then silence.
‘What I said was, “Is anybody at home?”’ called out Pooh very loudly.
‘No!’ said a voice; and then added, ‘You needn’t shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time.’
‘Bother!’ said Pooh. ‘Isn’t there anybody here at all?’
‘Nobody.’
Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, and he thought to himself, ‘Somebody must be there, because somebody said “Nobody”.’ So he put his head back in the hole, and said: ‘Hallo, Rabbit, isn’t that you?’
‘No,’ said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time.
‘But isn’t that Rabbit’s voice?’
‘I don’t think so,’ said Rabbit.
‘Oh!’ said Pooh.
He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put it back, and said:
‘Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?’
‘He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his.’
‘But this is Me!’ said Bear, very much surprised.
‘What sort of Me?’
‘Pooh Bear.’
‘Are you sure?’ said Rabbit, still more surprised.
‘Quite, quite sure,’ said Pooh.
‘Oh, well, then, come in.’
So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at last he got in.
‘You were quite right,’ said Rabbit, looking at him all over. ‘It is you. Glad to see you.’
‘Who did you think it was?’
‘Well, I wasn’t sure. You know how it is in the Forest. You can’t have anybody coming into your house. You have to be careful. What about a mouthful of something?’
Pooh always liked something to eat at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, ‘Honey or condensed milk with your bread?’ he was so excited that he said, ‘Both,’ and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, ‘But don’t bother about the bread, please.’ And for a long time after that he said nothing… until at last he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must be going on.
‘Must you?’ said Rabbit politely.
‘Well,’ said Pooh, ‘I could stay a little longer if it – if you –’ and he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder.
‘As a matter of fact,’ said Rabbit, ‘I was going out myself directly.’
‘Oh well, then, I’ll be going on. Good-bye.’
‘Well, good-bye, if you’re sure you won’t have any more.’
‘Is there any more?’ asked Pooh quickly.
Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, ‘No, there wasn’t.’
‘I thought not,’ said Pooh, nodding to himself. ‘Well, good-bye. I must be going on.’
So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in the open air… and then his ears… and then his front paws… and then his shoulders … and then –
‘Oh, help!’ said Pooh. ‘I’d better go back.’
‘Oh, bother!’ said Pooh. ‘I shall have to go on.’
‘I can’t do either!’ said Pooh. ‘Oh, help and bother!’
Now, by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round to Pooh, and looked at him.
‘Hallo, are you stuck?’ he asked.
‘N-no,’ said Pooh carelessly. ‘Just resting and thinking and singing to myself.’
‘Here, give us a paw.’
Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and pulled…
‘Ow!’ cried Pooh. ‘You’re hurting!’
‘The fact is,’ said Rabbit, ‘you’re stuck.’
‘It all comes,’ said Pooh crossly, ‘of not having front doors big enough.’
‘It all comes,’ said Rabbit sternly, ‘of eating too much. I thought at the time,’ said Rabbit, ‘only I didn’t like to say anything,’ said Rabbit, ‘that one of us was eating too much,’ said Rabbit, ‘and I knew it wasn’t me,’ he said. ‘Well, well, I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin.’
Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, ‘Silly old Bear,’ in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again.
‘I have just began to think,’ said Bear, sniffing slightly, ‘that Rabbit will never use his front door again. And I hate that,’ he said.
‘So do I,’ said Rabbit.
‘Use his front door again?’ said Christopher Robin. ‘Of course he’ll use his front door again.’
‘Good,’ said Rabbit.
‘There’s only one thing to do,’ said Christopher Robin. ‘We’ll wait for you to get thin again.’
‘How long does getting thin take?’ asked Pooh anxiously.
‘About a week, I should think.’
‘But I can’t stay here for a week!’
‘You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It’s getting you out which is so difficult.’
‘We’ll read to you,’ said Rabbit cheerfully. ‘And I hope it won’t snow,’ he added. ‘And I say, old fellow, you’re taking up a good deal of room in my house – do you mind if I use your back legs as a towel-horse? Because, I mean, there they are – doing nothing – and it would be very convenient just to hang the towels on them.’
‘A week!’ said Pooh gloomily. ‘What about meals?’
‘I’m afraid no meals,’ said Christopher Robin, ‘because of getting thin quicker. But we will read to you.’
Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn’t because he was so tightly stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:
‘Then would you read a Sustaining Book to help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?’ So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end… and in between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the end of the week Christopher Robin said, ‘Now!’
So he took hold of Pooh’s front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin, and all Rabbit’s friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and they all pulled together…
And for a long time Pooh only said ‘Ow!…’
And ‘Oh!…’
And then, all of a sudden, he said ‘Pop!’ just as if a cork were coming out of bottle.
And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit’s friends and relations went head-over-heels backwards… and on the top of them came Winnie-the-Pooh – free!
So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk through the forest, singing proudly to himself. But Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly and said to himself, ‘Silly old Bear!’
Bother! – Ничего себе!; Тьфу ты! и т.п.
You can’t have anybody coming into your house. – Нельзя впускать в дом кого угодно.
so as not to seem – чтобы не показаться
he must be going on – ему уже нужно уходить
as a matter of fact – по правде говоря
directly – зд. прямо сейчас
I can’t do either! – У меня не выходит ни то, ни другое!
you’re taking up a good deal of room – ты занимаешь довольно много места
wedged = stuck
as if – как будто
went …backwards – покатились назад
1. Найдите в тексте антонимы к следующим словам::
the North – …; cheerfully – …; lovingly – …; push – …; front – …; hate – …; get in – … .
2. Найдите в тексте слова и выражения по теме «Кухня», «Пища».
3. Ответьте на вопросы.
1. Why did Pooh decide to visit Rabbit?
2. How did Rabbit receive his guest?
3. What trouble did Pooh get into after his visit? Who managed to define what happened to the Bear?
4. What was the solution suggested by Christopher Robin?
5. In what ways did Pooh’s friends help him? Who joined them in a week?
5. Докажите следующие утверждения.
1. Rabbit was hospitable but careful and practical at the same time.
2. Pooh tried to be polite with Rabbit.
3. Christopher Robin loved his Bear very much.
6. Составьте диалоги на основе текста.
a) Pooh and Rabbit; b) Rabbit, Pooh and Christopher Robin.
7. Перескажите текст.
Pre-reading task
1. Переведите с английского на русский..
Donkey, by oneself, to come along, to gaze (at something), instead, solemnly, to slide away, copse, slope, heather, stream, steep, require, wistfully, parlour, to remind of something, to nail, to frisk, to wipe (one’s mouth).
2. Ответьте на вопросы.
What do you usually do when you find something (a thing or money)? What will you do if you loose something yourself?
3. Составьте краткие диалоги с данными ниже фразами.
a) I’m sorry about that. b) Are you sure? c) You’re a real friend. d) Where did you get it? e) I don’t mind. f) Just a moment.
4. Переведите предложения с английского на русский..
1. When Winnie-the-Pooh came along, Eeyore was very glad to stop thinking for a little, in order to say ‘How do you do?’ in a gloomy manner to him.
2. Owl lived at The Chestnuts, and old residence of great charm, which was grander than anybody else’s, or seemed so to Bear, because it had both a knocker and a bell-pull.
3. Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he came back to where he started, and he explained that the person who wrote this notice was Christopher Robin.
4. Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and when he saw them again, he felt that he had seen something like it, somewhere else, sometime before.
5. Прочитайте и переведите текст.
THE Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest and thought about things. Sometimes he thought something sadly to himself, and sometimes he didn’t quite know what he was thinking about. So when Winnie-the-Pooh came along, Eeyore was very glad to stop thinking for a little, in order to say ‘How do you do?’ in a gloomy manner to him.
‘And how are you?’ said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
‘Not very how,’ he said.
‘Dear, dear,’ said Pooh, ‘I’m sorry about that. Let’s have a look at you.’ So Eeyore stood there, gazing sadly at the ground, and Winnie-the-Pooh walked all round him once.
‘Why, what’s happened to your tail?’ he said in surprise.
‘What has happened to it?’ said Eeyore.
‘It isn’t there!’
‘Are you sure?’
‘Well, either a tail is there or it isn’t there. You can’t make a mistake about it. And yours isn’t there!’
‘Then what is?’
‘Nothing.’
‘Let’s have a look,’ said Eeyore, and he turned slowly round to the place where his tail was a little while ago, and then, finding that he couldn’t catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, ‘I believe you’re right.’
‘Of course I’m right,’ said Pooh.
‘It explains everything,’ said Eeyore gloomily. ‘No wonder.’
‘You must have left it somewhere,’ said Winnie-the-Pooh.
‘Somebody must have taken it,’ said Eeyore.
Pooh felt that he must say something helpful about it, but didn’t quite know what. So he decided to do something helpful instead.
‘Eeyore,’ he said solemnly, ‘I, Winnie-the-Pooh, will find your tail for you.’
‘Thank you, Pooh,’ answered Eeyore. ‘You’re a real friend,’ said he. ‘Not like Some,’ he said.
So Winnie-the-Pooh went off to find Eeyore’s tail.
It was a fine spring morning in the forest. Little soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in front of the sun and then sliding away suddenly. Through them and between them the sun shone bravely, and a copse seemed so old now beside the new green leaves on the beeches. Through copse and spinney marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood where Owl lived.
‘And if anyone knows anything about anything,’ said Bear to himself, ‘it’s Owl who knows something about something,’ he said, ‘or my name’s not Winnie-the-Pooh,’ he said.
Owl lived at The Chestnuts, and old residence of great charm, which was grander than anybody else’s, or seemed so to Bear, because it had both a knocker and a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said:
PLES RING IF ANRNSER IS REQIRD.
Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said:
PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID.
These notices were written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could write.
Winnie-the-Pooh read the two notices very carefully, first from left to right, and afterwards, just in case, from right to left. Then, to make quite sure, he knocked and pulled the knocker, and he pulled and knocked the bell-rope, and he called out in a very loud voice, ‘Owl! I require an answer! It’s Bear speaking.’ And the door opened, and Owl looked out.
‘Hallo, Pooh,’ he said. ‘How’s things?’
‘Terrible and Sad,’ said Pooh, ‘because Eeyore, who is a friend of mine, has lost his tail. And he’s very sad about it. So could you very kindly tell me how to find it for him?’
‘Well,’ said Owl, ‘the customary procedure in such cases is...’
‘What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?’ said Pooh. ‘For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words are difficult for me.’
‘It means the Thing to Do.’
‘Well, if it means that, I don’t mind,’ said Pooh humbly.
‘The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then – ’
‘Just a moment,’ said Pooh, holding up his paw. ‘What do we do to this – what you said? You sneezed just before you wanted to tell me.’
‘I didn’t sneeze.’
‘Yes, you did, Owl.’
‘Excuse me, Pooh, I didn’t. You can’t sneeze without knowing it. What I said was, “First Issue a Reward”.’
‘You’re doing it again,’ said Pooh sadly.
‘A Reward!’ said Owl very loudly. ‘We write a notice to say that we will give a large something to anybody who finds Eeyore’s tail.’
‘I see, I see,’ said Pooh, nodding his head. ‘Talking about large somethings,’ he went on dreamily, ‘I generally have a small something about this time in the morning,’ and he looked wistfully at the cupboard in the corner of Owl’s parlour; ‘just a mouthful of condensed milk, with perhaps a lick of honey – ’
‘Well, then,’ said Owl, ‘we write out this notice, and we hang it all over the Forest.’
‘A lick of honey,’ murmured Bear to himself, ‘or – or not.’ And he gave a deep sigh, and tried very hard to listen to Owl.
But Owl went on and on, using longer and longer words, until at last he came back to where he started, and he explained that the person who wrote this notice was Christopher Robin.
‘It was he who wrote the ones on my front door for me. Did you see them, Pooh?’
‘No, not at all,’ he said now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.
‘Didn’t you see them?’ said Owl, a little surprised. ‘Come and look at them now.’
So they went outside. And Pooh looked at the knocker and the notice below it, and he looked at the bell-rope and the notice below it, and when he saw them again, he felt that he had seen something like it, somewhere else, sometime before.
‘Handsome bell-rope, isn’t it?’ said Owl.
Pooh nodded.
‘It reminds me of something,’ he said, ‘but I can’t think what. Where did you get it?’
‘I just came across it in the Forest. It was on a bush, and I thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my hand, and nobody seemed to want it, so I took it home, and –’
‘Owl,’ said Pooh solemnly, ‘you made a mistake. Somebody wanted it.’
‘Who?’
‘Eeyore. My dear friend Eeyore. He was – he was fond of it.’
‘Fond of it?’
‘Attached to it,’ said Winnie-the-Pooh sadly.
So with these words he unhooked it, and carried it back to Eeyore, and Christopher Robin nailed it on its right place again. After that Eeyore frisked about the forest, waving his tail so happily that Winnie-the-Pooh came over all funny, and had to hurry home for a little snack of something to sustain him.