Short srories about PINOCCHIO Home reading 7-сынып

Chapters 6-10

GEPPETTO SELLS HIS COAT AND BUYS
A SCHOOL-BOOK FOR PINOCCHIO
Clothes - одежда
Paper- бумага
Coat- пальто
Sell – sold- продать
Read and answer the question “Why couldn’t Pinocchio go to school?”
Next morning Geppetto made new feet for Pinocchio. The puppet was very happy; he began to jump and dance round the room.
“I want to show you that I’m a good boy,” he said to his father. “Tomorrow I’ll go to school!”
“Good boy!” said Geppetto.
“But I must have some clothes.”
Geppetto had no money. So he made Pinocchio nice clothes out of paper.
“I look like a gentleman now,” said Pinocchio.
“Yes, you do,” answered Geppetto. “But you know this: it is not good clothes but clean clothes that make the gentleman.”
“Papa,” said the puppet, “I can’t go to school, I have no school-book.”
“And I have no money,” answered Geppetto. “I can’t buy you a school-book. But wait a little, I’ll be back in a minute.”
Geppetto put on his old coat and ran out of the house. Soon he came back without the coat. But in his hand there was a school-book for Pinocchio.
“Where is your coat, Papa?” asked the puppet. “It’s a very cold day.”
“I sold it, because it was too warm for me,” answered Geppetto. Pinocchio saw that his father was very kind. So he jumped up and kissed the old man again and again.

PINOCCHIO GOES TO THE THEATRE
Buy – bought - покупать
Theatre - театр
Ticket - билет
Read and answer the question “Why did Pinocchio want to go to school?”
Next morning Pinocchio went out of the house with the school-book under his arms. He wanted to go to school.
“At school today I’ll learn to read,” he thought. “Tomorrow I’ll learn to write. And after then I’ll learn how to count. When I know how to read, write and count, I’ll begin to work. I’ll soon have a lot of money. With my first money I’ll buy a beautiful new coat for my Papa. He was so kind to me, he sold his coat and bought a school-book for me. I’ll be kind to him, too.”
Suddenly Pinocchio heard music at the end of the street. He stopped and listened.
He didn’t know what to do. “Shall I go to school, or shall I go and listen to the music?” he thought. “Today I’ll listen to the music and tomorrow I’ll go to school,” said the lazy boy. He came up to a big wooden house. There was a big placard near the door. There were many people there. A man read the placard to the people: “GREAT PUPPET THEATRE”.
Pinocchio wanted to go to the puppet theatre but he had no money. How could he get money for a ticket? He wanted to see the show very much. He thought and thought. At last he knew what to do. He sold his school-book to one of the boys in the street and bought a ticket.
Pinocchio liked Harlequin and Punchinello very much. He laughed all the time. Suddenly Harlequin stopped and looked at Pinocchio.
“Is that Pinocchio?” he said to Punchinello.
“Yes, it is Pinocchio,” cried Punchinello.
“It is Pinocchio! It is Pinocchio!” cried all the puppets. “It is our brother Pinocchio!”

THE MASTER OF THE THEATRE WANTS TO BURN PINOCCHIO
Beard - борода
Ink - чернила
Plate - тарелка
Whip – хлыст, кнут
Noise - шум
Read and answer the question “Why did the Master of the theatre want to burn Pinocchio?”
At that moment the showman came in. He was a very big man. His beard was as black as ink. His mouth was big and round like a ball. His eyes were like two big red plates. He had a big whip in his hand. The puppets were very frightened.
“What is all this noise?” he cried.
“Please, please, sir!” said Pinocchio. “I’m sorry! It wasn’t me…”
“Stop talking! We’ll talk to you after the show,” said the showman.
After the show he said to Harlequin and Punchinello: “Bring that puppet into the kitchen. I’ll put him on the fire and make a good dinner.”
The puppets brought Pinocchio to the kitchen.
“Papa, oh, Papa, come, oh, come, and save your Pinocchio!” he cried. “I don’t want to burn. I’ don’t want to burn in the fire!”


PINOCCHIO SAVES HIS FRIEND HARLEQUIN
Poor - бедный
Soldier - солдат
Throw - бросать
Read and answer the question “How did Pinocchio save Harlequin?”
The showman with the black beard wasn’t a bad man. When he heard poor Pinocchio’s cries: “I don’t want to burn, I don’t want to burn!” he was very sorry for him.
“Don’t cry!” he said to Pinocchio. “Where are your papa and your mama?”
“Papa is at home; but I have no Mamma,” said Pinocchio.
“You poor little thing, you poor little thing!” said the showman. “But I have no food, I can’t make my dinner. What shall I do? I’ll burn one of the puppets of my theatre. Come here, soldiers.”
The door opened and two wooden soldiers came in.
The showman said to them: “Take Harlequin and throw him on the fire.”
Oh, that poor Harlequin! He was so frightened. He fell with his face to the ground. Pinocchio saw this and began to cry. The showman looked at Pinocchio and said: “Stop crying! What do you want now?”
“Don’t burn poor Harlequin, dear sir!”
“But I want to make my dinner.”
“Then,” cried Pinocchio, “throw me on the fire!”
All the puppets heard Pinocchio’s words and began to cry. The wooden soldiers cried, too.
At first the showman said nothing. Then suddenly he said to Pinocchio: “You are good boy! Come here and kiss me!”
Pinocchio ran up to him and kissed him on the nose.
“Thank you, thank you very much!” said Pinocchio.
Harlequin jumped up from the floor and began to dance. Then the puppets saw this, they all began to dance. And they danced and danced all night.

THE SHOWMAN MAKES PINOCCHIO A PRESENT
OF FIVE GOLD PIECES FOR GEPPETTO
Piece – кусок
Lame – хромой
Blind - слепой
Read and answer the question “Whom did Pinocchio show the present for Geppetto?”
The next day the showman asked Pinocchio: “What is your father’s name?”
“Geppetto.”
“Has he much money?”
“Oh, no, he is very poor. He sold his coat to buy a school-book for me.”
“Poor old man,” said the showman. “I’m sorry for him. Here are five gold pieces. Go and give them to him.”
Pinocchio thanked the showman many, many times. Then he kissed the puppets and the soldiers, and ran into the street.
On the way home he meet a fox who was lame and a cat who was blind.
“Good afternoon, Pinocchio!” said the fox.
“You know my name, but I don’t know you,” said Pinocchio.
“I know your father well.”
“Where did you see him?”
“I saw him yesterday at the door of his house.”
“And how was he?”
“He had no coat on and he was cold.”
“Poor Papa! Soon he won’t be cold.”
“Why not?”“Because I have a lot of money now.”“A lot of money – you?” said the fox, and he began to laugh. The cat began to laugh, too.
“Don’t laugh,” cried Pinocchio. “Look at these five gold pieces.”
And he showed them money.