Task 1. Circle T if the sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false

1. All Saints Day is the day before Halloween. T F

2. Halloween is older than Christianity. T F

3. Halloween came from Europe. T F

4. A jack-o '- lantern is a pumpkin. T F

5. On Halloween, children say "Trick"! T F

6. On Halloween, people give jack-o'- lanterns. T F

Task 2. Replace the underlined words in the sentences with the words below.

1. On All Saints Day, Christians remember the holy people.

2. To frighten the ghosts, people dressed like devils.

3. Children wear something to cover their faces.

4. Children want to look like all the bones that make the body.

5. The jack-o'-lantern is to scare the people with no bodies that come back after they die.

6. When people give nothing, the children do something to make them look stupid.

Different kinds of bread

All bread starts from a simple recipe: you mix flour and water and cook it. From this simple beginning come hundreds of different kinds of bread. There are flat breads from the Middle East and Asia and small thin sticks from Italy. The typical French loaf is long, thin, soft and white inside; German loaf is dark and heavy and square.

Bread can be cooked in several ways: often it is bakes in an oven, but in India and South Africa bread is fried, and there’s at least one bread that’s boiled before it’s bakes.

Bread can also include things other than flour, for instance, onions, sausages, potatoes or fruit.

In some countries bread is an important part of everyday food. When people sit down for a meal, there is always bread on the table. They say that if there is no bread, there is no food. In countries where people eat a lot of bread words like “bread” and “dough” are sometimes used to talk about other important things. In English-speaking countries, for instance, “bread” and “dough” are both used to mean “money”. Some people talk about their jobs as their “bread and butter”, and the person in a family who brings home the money is called the “breadwinner”. If you’re very poor, you might say that you’re on the “bread-line” – a memory of the days when poor people waited in a line to be given bread.

Task 1.Read and choose the correct answer.

1. All bread starts from a simple recipe:

a) mix sugar and butter;

b) mix flour and sugar;

c) mix flour and water;

d) mix butter and water.

2. … loaf is dark and heavy and square.

a) English;

b) French;

c) Indian;

d) German.

3. In India and South Africa bread is…

a) fried;

b) boiled;

c) baked;

d) stewed.

4. In some countries … is an important part of everyday food.

a) flour;

b) bread;

c) onions;

d) salt.

Task 2. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

5. The typical French loaf is long, thin, soft and black inside.

6. Bread can be cooked in several ways: often it is bakes in an oven.

7. Bread cannot also include things other than flour, for instance, onions, sausages, potatoes or fruit.

8. They say that if there is bread, there is no food.

9. In English-speaking countries, for instance, “bread” and “dough” are both used to mean “money”.

10. The person in a family who brings home the money is called the “breadwinner”.

11. Nowadays poor people waited in a line to be given bread.

William Caxton

William Caxton is the first English printer. He was born in Kent in 1422. His father was a farmer. William did not want to become a farmer like his father. So his father sent him to London. He worked in an office which traded with different countries. William liked to read new books which were printed in Europe.

When William Caxton was thirty, after his master's death he started his own business in Belgium. In 1471 he left his business and began to translate French books into English. He became interested in printing and at last he learnt it. William wanted to have his own press one day and he did.

In 1476 he brought his printing-press to London. Printing was something new at that time and most people thought that it was the work of the devil. Some of the people wanted to break his press. Caxton printed his first book in 1477. It was the first book printed in the English language. The book was Caxton's translation of the French 'Tales of Troy'.

William Caxton printed about eighty books. He translated thirty-one books from French, Caxton died in 1491.

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