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Lesson 25

I arrived at a railway station in London and asked a porter the way to my hotel, but he could not understand me. He understood me at last, but I could not understand his answer. My teacher never spoke English like that. The porter said that I soon learn English. Each man speaks a different language in England. They understand each other, but I do not understand them.

Lesson 26

The writer studies art and paints a lot of pictures. Many people do not really understand modern art. Paintings do not always have a meaning. They are sometimes pretty patterns. Y oung children not only appreciate modern paintings better than others but they notice more. The writer’s young sister went into his room yesterday and examined his new picture. He had hung it upside down and she noticed this immediately.

Lesson 27

The boys put up their tent in the middle of a field and cooked a meal. After their meal they told stories and sang songs but it began to rain so they crept into their tent. The boys woke up in the middle of the night. The tent was full of water so they rushed outside. A stream had formed in the field and flowed right under their tent.

Lesson 28

Jasper White believes in ancient myths. Car owners always park their cars outside his gate, so he has put up ‘No Parking’ signs but they have not paid any attention to them. Now he has put an ugly stone head over his gate. It is the head of Medusa, the Gorgon. He wants her to turn car owners to stone but she has not done so yet.

Lesson 29

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and (he) uses it as a taxi. It is a ‘Pilatus Porter’. It can not only carry seven passengers but also land anywhere. Captain Fawcett has taken passengers to many strange places in his plane. He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall. The journey was too dangerous.

Lesson 30

The writer sat by the river last Sunday. Some children were playing games nearby. One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a passing boat. The man in the boat neither saw the ball nor heard people shouting. The ball hit the man and the children ran away. However, the man was not angry and he threw the ball back to the bank.

Lesson 31

Frank Hawkins was telling the writer about his experience as a young man. Frank used to work in a small shop as a boy. He used to repair bicycles there. He bought his own shop in 1958 and he made spare parts for aeroplanes in his twenties. He employed a lot of people in a few years. His wife came into the room after a while. She wanted him to repair their grandson’s bicycle.

Lesson 32

A detective watched a well-dressed woman in a large store one Monday. She bought a few small articles and then she chose an expensive dress. The assistant wrapped it up for her and the woman took it with her. She did not pay for it, so the detective arrested her. The assistant was her daughter. She gave her mother a free dress once a week.

Lesson 33

The girl set out from the coast one afternoon and was caught in a storm. Her boat struck a rock, so she jumped into the sea. She swam eight miles that night. She reached the shore early next morning. She had seen a light high up on the cliffs and she climbed up. She found herself in hospital a day later.