Read Free 5th Grade Short Stories Online
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'TEA LEAVES'
At that place was a time when drinking tea was almost unknown in European countries; many people had never even heard of tea. This anecdote is about an one-time woman and her son, who lived earlier tea-drinking became popular in England.
He was a sea captain, and every fourth dimension he returned from a far-away land, he brought his mother a gift. He tried to bring something unusual, that she could show to her friends.
One time the immature human came back from India with a box of tea for his mother. She didn't know anything most tea, simply she was proud of her son, and she invited all her friends to come and endeavour what he had brought her. When her son came into the room, he saw cakes and fruit and jam on the table, and a big plate full of brown tea-leaves. His mother and her friends were sitting round the table, eating the leaves with butter and common salt. Though they all smiled, it was articulate that they didn't enjoy eating the leaves.
«Where is the tea, Mother?» the captain asked.
His female parent showed him the plate in the eye of the tabular array.
«We are having tea for lunch», she said.
«No, no, those are only the tea-leaves», said the captain. «Where is the water?»
«The h2o!» his mother said. «I threw the water away, of course!»
'ECONOMY WASTED TRIP'
An Englishman who was in France wanted to go dorsum to England past bounding main. Merely he had very little money. He had so little money that he could pay only for the ticket. Every bit he knew that the trip would terminal only two days, he decided not to swallow during these days.
Every bit he took a ticket and got on the ship the next morning time he tried not to hear the bong for breakfast. When dinner fourth dimension came, he was very hungry; but he didn't become to the dining-room. In the evening he was withal more hungry, merely when the waiter came to invite him to have supper, the Englishman said that he was sick.
The side by side twenty-four hour period the Englishman was half-dead and couldn't stand the hunger whatever longer.
«I shall become and swallow even if they kick me out into the body of water», said he to himself.
So he went to the ship dining-room and had his dinner.
In the evening he had supper merely was very much agape of his time to come because he didn't pay for the meals.
At last he addressed the waiter and said: «Bring me the pecker, please».
«What nib?» asked the waiter.
«For the supper and dinner I had in your dining-room».
«Don't trouble, Sir. You paid for your meals when you lot bought the ticket».
'A Expert LESSON'
One mean solar day a well-known singer was invited to the house of a rich lady to sing to her guests at a dinner-political party. Just instead of inviting the singer to dine with her guests, the lady ordered dinner for him in the servants' room. The vocalizer said nothing. He dined well and after dinner said to the servants: «Now, my good friends, I am going to sing to yous».
The servants were very much surprised but said they were awfully glad to take a chance to hear the great vocalizer. He sang a good many beautiful songs and the servants enjoyed listening to him.
After the lady sent one of her servants to bring the singer upwards to the drawing-room, where all her guests were waiting for him.
«But I cannot sing twice in i evening, Madam», said the singer to the lady when she met him at the door leading into the drawing-room.
«What do yous hateful?» asked the lady.
«I hateful I take already sung for about an 60 minutes to your servants, Madam», answered the vocalist, «it was a pity y'all were not at that place, for I e'er sing to the people with whom I dine». And with these words he left the house.
'A HOT SUMMER WEEK-END'
It was a week-end in summer and all the down trains were overcrowded. An onetime man was walking along the platform, looking for a vacant seat. Suddenly he saw 1 in a non-smoker. The sometime man got in. A small bag was lying on the seat and a well-dressed gentleman was sitting beside it.
«Is this seat vacant?» asked the old man. «No, it is occupied by a man who has gone to buy a newspaper. He will soon come».
«Well», said the old man, «I'll sit here until your man comes back». Ten minutes passed.
«In that location is only one minute left before the train starts. Your human being volition miss the train if he doesn't hurry», said the old human.
The train started.
«Your man has missed the train», said the one-time human, «but permit him not lose his bag».
With these words he took the bag and was almost to throw it out of the window.
The well-dressed gentleman jumped upwardly and cried out: «Don't! Information technology'southward my handbag».
'A FUNNY STORY'
A nervous homo, who lived in ane of suburbs of a big boondocks in England, was walking home from the railway station. The route was dark and lonely. All of a sudden he heard footsteps approaching him from behind and thought he was being followed. He walked apace. The footsteps continued to follow. The man started running. The footsteps notwithstanding followed him. The homo jumped over a wall and, running into an old cemetery, threw himself on the grass near 1 of the graves.
«If he comes here», he thought, «there will be no dubiety he wants to rob me».
The human behind was post-obit. He besides got over the wall and came up to the grave. The nervous homo stood up and asked:
«What exercise you want? Why are you following me?»
«I say», answered the other man, «do you always go dwelling house like this?
Or are you having some special sort of jumping, exercises tonight?
I am going to Mr. Robertson's and the man I at the railway station told me to follow you, equally you lived next door. Excuse my asking you lot, but will you lot have some more gymnastics or will you become straight abode?»
«A SAD STORY»
Three men were spending their holiday in New York. They were living in a hotel which had xl-five floors and their room was on the last floor.
Returning to the hotel late 1 night, they were told by the lift man: «I am very sad, simply the lifts in our hotel aren't running. They stop working at twelve o'clock. You lot must walk up to your room».
«We are yet young», one of the men said. «I suppose nosotros, can climb up to the xl-fifth floor». And then the men took off their coats and put them in the coat-room. As they were walking past the tenth floor i of the men said: «I am condign a fiddling tired. I accept an idea how to make the climb easier. I shall tell happy or funny stories the next 5 floors: then Bill volition sing songs the adjacent fifteen floors, and Tom will tell distressing stories the last fifteen floors».
They continued climbing, and before long all of them were feeling very tired. But they did not want to testify to each other that they were tired, and then the get-go man told happy stories, and jokes and the second sang happy songs. When they arrived at the thirtieth floor, the get-go man said: «Now, Tom, you can begin telling lamentable stories».
«Yep», Tom said, «I must tell you lot a very sad story. The key to our room is lying in my coat pocket, in the glaze-room!»
'A FISH BONE'
1 day, some Americans were having dinner at a hotel in London. When the fish was put on the tabular array, a young human being said: «Let'due south examine the fish advisedly. Perchance we'll detect a diamond in information technology». Everybody began to express joy, only an old human said quietly: «Yeah, I'1000 sure we have all heard such stories. Let me tell yous what happened to me once».
«When I was a boyfriend», he began, «I worked for a large visitor in New York: and I was sent to England to practice some work there. I was in love with a beautiful girl, and before I left for England, we decided that we would be married when I returned home.»
I stayed in England for 2 months. I sent letters or postcards to the daughter almost every day, simply subsequently the start two weeks I didn't receive whatever answers. But I didn't think anything was the matter, and before I left for home, I bought a beautiful diamond ring for her.
On the ship one forenoon, a telegram was brought to me. It was from a friend in New York, who told me that the girl had changed her listen and was going to exist married to another man. I was and then angry that I threw the diamond band into the sea. My friend came to the port to meet me, and he invited me to dinner. When nosotros were sitting down at the table and I was eating fish, I of a sudden felt something hard in my oral fissure. What exercise you remember it was?
«The diamond!» all the Americans cried.
«No», the old homo answered. «Information technology was a fish bone».
'THE KING AND THE CRITIC'
There was a king who thought that he could paint very well. His pictures were bad, simply the people to whom he showed them were afraid of the king. They all said that they liked his pictures very much.
One mean solar day the rex showed his pictures to a smashing painter who lived in his country and asked:
«I want to know what you recall of my pictures. Do you similar them? Am I a skilful painter or non?»
The painter looked at the king's pictures and said:
«My male monarch, I think that your pictures are bad, and that you lot will never exist a good painter.»
The rex got very angry and sent the painter to prison house.
After ii years the king wanted to see the painter over again.
«I was angry with you», he said, «because you lot did not similar my pictures. Now forget all almost it. You are a free human again and I am your friend.»
For many hours the king talked with the painter, and even asked him to dine. After dinner the king showed his pictures to the painter and asked: «Well, how do y'all similar them now?»
The painter did not answer anything. He turned to the soldier who was standing near him and said:
«Take me dorsum to prison house.»
"Most CONAN DOYLE"
In that location is probably no one among book-lovers who has not heard of Sherlock Holmes, the skilful and clever detective in the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes's method of analysing the most difficult problems was to notice the smallest facts, even if they seemed unimportant. His method never failed; the criminal always had to give up, and to become the prisoner of the great detective.
Conan Doyle once arrived in Paris, afterwards spending a month in the south of France. There was a long row of cabs outside the gate of the railway station. Conan Doyle got into the first cab and ordered the driver to take him to a adept hotel. The driver was silent all the way to the hotel, but when Conan Doyle paid him, he said, «Give thanks you, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle».
«How do you know who I am?» Conan Doyle asked in the greatest surprise.
«I accept never seen yous before», the man answered, «then I tin't pretend that I recognized you. Just I read in the newspapers that you were expected in Paris later your vacation in the s of French republic. The train yous arrived on came from the southward of French republic.
I could tell from your apparel, especially your hat, and also from the strange way you lot pronounce French words that you were English. These facts helped me to guess that you were probably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle».
«Fine work! Wonderful!» Conan Doyle cried. «Yous analysed the facts quite correctly. Information technology'due south a pity you aren't a detective!»
«Of course», the driver added, «your name is on both your travelling bags. I can't pretend that that fact didn't aid».
'THE GREATEST POET OF SCOTLAND'
Robert Burns (1759—1796) is Scotland's national poet and Jan 25 — the day of his birth — is always celebrated in his land and all over the globe, with nifty excitment. The celebrations are going on in every big metropolis and in a small village pub, in every remote cottage with workers and farmers dressed in kilts or in ordinary working apparel.
The honey for Burns is indeed a unique miracle. Most nations consider political or military men equally their national heroes. But Scotland, though she honours the memory of her ii keen national liberators, William Wallace and Robert Bruce, has adopted a poet every bit her true hero. Why is information technology and then? I remember considering Burns' poetry was very much consonant to people'south aspirations. Information technology was closely connected with the national struggle of the Scottish people for their liberation from English oppression. Burns considered his literary piece of work every bit his patriotic duty.
Burns wrote many poems in English, but his best verses are written in the dialect of his own country, Ay-shire. His all-time poems are The Jolly Beggars, Halloween, The Cotter'southward Saturday Night, Holy Willie's Prayer, To a Mouse, The 2 Dogs and others.
Burns travelled a lot nigh Scotland collecting pop folk songs. Many of his own lyrical poems were put to music. All in all he contributed 2000 songs to the Scots Musical Museum. Then Robert Burns is considered to be the creator of the Scottish song. His songs are memorable for extraordinary truthfulness passion and lovely melody. They reflect the people'south soul and national graphic symbol. The Poet's song Oh, My Love is Similar a Red Red Rose is one of the almost loved lyrical songs. Many of songs he devoted to his wife, the adult female who had been the great love of all his life and the in spirator of his numerous verses.
Burns' songs are the soul of music and it is non surprising that Beethoven, Schuman, Mendelssohn and others etch music to the poet's verses. Russian composers have as well set up many of Burns' verses to music. The best known cycle to Burns' songs have been successfully writ10 by Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Juri Levitin, Marking Milman, Victor Oransky and a number of other composers. All songs are based on Marshak's translations which are considered to be the all-time translations of Burns' poetry into Russian
OBSERVING NATURE
If people advisedly observe nature information technology can tell them many interesting and useful things.
Do you know that thanks to observing nature you can forecast weather condition? «How?» yous may ask.
Past watching birds and animals, insects and flowers. It is known that some insects go more troublesome earlier a change in the weather. Flies and mosquitoes, for example, begin to hum and seize with teeth earlier the pelting. Big blue-black beetles fly only on evenings earlier prissy weather.
You should know that the smell of flowers in the gardens and in the parks is very strong before it rains. Flowers have much sweet nectar earlier rain and the nectar is good food for insects. So if y'all see insects flying over flowers in large numbers you lot should know that it may rain soon.
Birds and animals also help to forecast weather. Birds fly lower than usual earlier information technology rains. If y'all happen to run into a bird hiding its head under its fly, it means that soon it volition become colder.
Even your cat tin tell you what the conditions will exist like. The cat washing backside the ears is telling yous about the coming rain. Wait at the heaven and it will tell you lot about the conditions. A ruby-red evening sky tells of good conditions the next day, to say nada about a picayune yellow or green sky. A greyness sunrise gives hope of a expert day also. If you want to forecast weather, you must know something about winds as well.
The Southward wind brings wet weather,
The North wind is wet and cold together,
The West air current always brings united states rain,
The East wind blows it back once more.
Study nature, detect it and you lot'll understand that it needs your love and protection.
'THE Blind MAN AND THE GREAT ARTIST'
Every mean solar day in one of the streets of Vienna y'all could run into a bullheaded man playing the violin. His canis familiaris sat near him with a cap in his mouth. People, who were passing them, dropped coins into the cap.
One day, when the weather was very common cold, the man was playing for a long time, but nobody wanted to requite him annihilation. The poor human thought that he would have to become to bed without supper. He was so tired and then weak that he stopped playing.
At that moment a immature man came uр to him and asked him why he stopped playing. The bullheaded human being said he had played for two hours but nobodyr had given him anything. «Give me your violin. I shall help you», said the human. And with these words he began to play. He played so well that people began to gather and presently there was a big crowd. Everybody was eager to listen to the fine music and to thank the boyfriend for the pleasance.
Before long the cap was full of money.
«I don't know how to thank you lot», said the blind man. «Who are you?»
«I am Paganini», was the respond.
"A STRANGE PICTURE"
A rich American went to Paris and bought a very foreign picture painted by a fashionable modern artist. The American thought the picture was very fine because he had paid a lot of money for it. But when he came to his hotel and wanted to hang the picture show up on the wall, he could non tell which was the top and which the bottom of the picture. The American turned the moving-picture show this way and that, but still could non make up one's mind which was the top and which was the lesser.
And so he idea of a plan. He hung the painting in the dining-room and invited the artist to dinner. When the creative person came, the American said goose egg to him about the picture.
When the artist began to consume his soup, he looked at the picture many times. When he began to eat his fish, he put on his spectacles and looked at the picture again. Earlier he began to consume his fruit, he got up and walked over to the picture show to await at it more closely. At last when they began to potable their coffee, he understood that the picture was upside down.
«Why, my friend», he said, «my picture is hung upside down».
«Oh, is it?» said the American. «Why didn't y'all tell me and so at in one case?»
«Well, you encounter, I was non sure myself at kickoff», said the artist.
"A SLAVE"
Murillo was a swell painter in Spain. He painted fellowtiful pictures and he had many students.
One time he came to his studio and plant a very beautiful flick there. He asked his students who had painted that picture but nobody answered. Then he asked his slave Sebastian if he had seen somebody in the studio the night earlier. The slave did not answer. When the night came and everybody went abroad Sebastian began to paint. He did not recall of the time. Suddenly he heard a noise behind him. When he turned round he saw Murillo and his students watch him quietly.
«Sebastian», cried Murillo, «you are a very good painter. How did you larn to pigment?»
«You gave lessons to your students, and I heard them», answered the slave. Murillo understood that the slave was a very gifted painter, so he gave him freedom and began to piece of work with his «slave» who was non a slave any longer.
'A Laconic Respond'
There was a fourth dimension when the people of Hellenic republic were not united but instead there were several states each of which had its ain ruler.
Some of the people in the southern part of the country were called Spartans and they were famous for their simple habits and their bravery.
The name of their land was Laconia, so they were sometimes chosen Lacons.
One of the foreign rules which the Spartans had was that they should speak briefly and never use more words than were needed.
A short answer is ofttimes called laconic that is such an answer every bit a Lacon would give.
In that location was in the Northern part of Hellenic republic a land chosen Republic of macedonia. This state was at 1 time ruled by a rex named Philip. Philip of Macedonia wanted to get master of all Hellenic republic. So he raised a great ground forces and made war upon the other states, until about all of them were forced to phone call him their king. Then he sent a letter to the Spartans in Laconia and said: «If I get downwards into your country, I will level your bully city to the ground.»
In a few days an answer was brought back to him. When he opened the letter he found only one discussion written there.
That word was «If».
'A BROKEN VASE'
The young human being was going to marry a beautiful girl.
One day the girl said to him that the next day she would celebrate her birthday and invited him to her birthday party. The fellow was eager to make her a present, and then he went to a gift shop. There he saw many cute things. Of all the things he especially liked the vases. But they were very expensive, and as he had very little money he had to leave the shop without buying anything.
Walking to the door he suddenly heard a dissonance: one of the vases brutal on the floor and bankrupt two pieces. A bright thought came to his heed. He came upwardly to the counter and asked the salesman to wrap up the broken vase he wanted to buy.
The salesman got a trivial surprised merely did what the young human had asked him to do.
The immature homo took the parcel and went straight to the girl'due south place. By the time he entered the room the guests had already gathered. Everybody was enjoying the political party.
Some of the people were dancing, others were talking, joking and laughing. Saying «Many happy returns of the day», the swain told the girl that he had bought a small present for her. With these words he began to unwrap the parcel.
Suddenly he got pale and said. «I am afraid, I take broken it. There were so many people in the bus…» Only when he unwrapped the parcel, he saw that the salesman had wrapped up each piece of the vase separately.
'A FUNNY STORY'
Once a man went to a shop and bought a pair of trousers. When he came home, he put the trousers on. And so he saw that they were besides long for him.
And then he went to his wife and said:
«Delight brand my trousers shorter, they are too long for me, I cannot put them on.»
But the married woman said: «I have no time now. I must wash the plates. It is late now, I shall exercise it tomorrow.»
The homo went to his daughter and asked her:
«Can you brand my trousers shorter? I cannot put them on.»
«No, I cannot,» said the daughter. «I must do my lessons at present. I shall do it tomorrow».
The man went to his sis, but she could not help him. She said: «I must make my wearing apparel now. I shall do information technology tomorrow».
So the homo went to bed and left his new trousers on a chair well-nigh his bed.
His wife washed all the plates, came into the room, took the trousers, made them shorter and put them dorsum on the chair. When his daughter did her lessons, she came into his room, took the trousers and made them shorter. Late in the evening his sis came too and made the trousers shorter.
The man got up at 7 o'clock in the morning. His wife told him, «I have made your trousers shorter; y'all tin can put them on». But when the man put them on, he saw that they were too short for him and he could non wear them.
'HIS Kickoff MONEY'
Somebody once asked Mark Twain whether he could recollect the starting time money he ever earned. «I remember quite well», the famous writer answered.
«It happened at school. Schoolboys in those days had very little respect for their teachers and even less for their desks. The boys used pens and pencils and even knives to depict stars and faces, or to write their names on their desks.
At final, the schoolhouse principal said: «The adjacent time everyone does such a thing, he will have to pay five dollars, or he will receive a beating in forepart of the whole school».
«Soon after that, I had to become to my begetter and ask him to give me five dollars. I was honest plenty to explain that I could concord to receive a beating instead, but he said: «No, I can't allow you lot to connect our proper name with such things. So I'll pay the five dollars. Only you must suffer for what you have done. I'll give y'all the chirapsia here, at habitation».
«So he shell me, and then gave me the v dollars to take to schoolhouse. Simply I decided that the chirapsia didn't injure and then much, and some other beating at school wouldn't be worse.
So I told them to give me a beating in front of the whole school, and I kept the five dollars. And that was the showtime money I ever earned».
'Ane MORE FUNNY STORY'
One of Marker Twain's hobbies was fishing. He went fishing whenever he had a take chances, even in the closed flavor, when line-fishing was non immune anywhere in lakes and rivers. Similar all fishermen, he sometimes invented stories about the number of fish he defenseless.
One hot twenty-four hour period during the closed flavour, Mark Twain was angling as usual, under a low bridge. A man who was walking across the bridge happened to notice Mark Twain and began to watch him. At last he asked: «Take you. caught many fish?»
«Non yet», Mark Twain answered. «I have only but begun. But yesterday I caught xxx great big fish hither».
«You were very lucky», the man said. «Do yous know who I am?»
«No», Mark Twain said. «I don't think I e'er happened to meet y'all before».
«I'm the fishing inspector in this place. Do you know that this is the closed season?»
Marker Twain thought quickly. He understood how foolish he had been. «Do you know who I am?» he asked aloud.
«No, of grade non», answered the inspector.» «I am the biggest liar on the Mississippi», Marking Twain told him.
"ROBIN HOOD AND THE GOLDEN Pointer"
Robin Hood was a legendary hero who was well known and loved past the poor people of England. He lived in a wood far from the towns, and when the poor were oppressed by the rich, he helped them by giving them food and shelter. The sheriffs tried to arrest him but they did not succeed in doing so.
In one case the sheriff of N. decided to organize a shooting contest in social club to catch him because he knew Robin Hood to exist a very good shot and was certain that he would take role in the competition by all means. The prize was a golden pointer.
On learning nearly the forthcoming contest Robin Hood gathered his men and discussed whether they should take part in information technology. Finally it was decided that although the chance of participating in the contest was great, they should all go, Robin Hood among them.
The solar day of the competition was fine and clear. The town was decorated with flags, and field for the contest was full of people. The sheriff looked for Robin Hood and his men everywhere. He knew that they were e'er dressed in green. To his disappointment, withal, he could not find everyone who looked like them. The contest was won by a fellow dressed in red, who had come up from a village with a whole company of young men.
Afterward receiving the prize the fellow left the boondocks, and nobody ever idea that information technology was Robin Hood. While leaving the town Robin Hood shot an arrow through the sheriff's open window. There was a paper attached to it with the following words: «Robin Hood cheers the sheriff for the Golden Arrow.»
Источник: Spoken English. Интенсивный курс английской разговорной речи
Год выпуска: 1991 Автор: Ханникова Л. Н.
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