A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat.
‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’
With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the dog – decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning.
This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years… and they are still laughing.
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Jerome Jerome K.. Three Men in a Boat
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Chapter 1. We decide to go on holiday
Chapter 2. We start to make plans
Chapter 3. We decide what to take
Chapter 4. We pack
Chapter 5. We start our holiday
Chapter 6. On the river
Chapter 7. Harris gets angry
Chapter 8. George starts work
Chapter 9. Our first night on the boat
Chapter 10. Our first morning
Chapter 11. Hotels and tinned fruit
Chapter 12. Montmorency and the cat
Chapter 13. Harris and the swans
Chapter 14. Work, washing, and fishing
Chapter 15. On to Oxford
Chapter 16. The journey home
GLOSSARY
Three Men in a Boat. ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES. Before Reading
ACTIVITIES. While Reading
ACTIVITIES. After Reading
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY
THE OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY GRADING AND SAMPLE EXTRACTS
Отрывок из книги
There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were – ill, I mean, of course.
We were all feeling in poor health, and we were getting quite worried about it. Harris said that he felt really bad sometimes, and he did not know what he was doing. And then George said that he felt bad, too, and that he did not know what he was doing either. With me it was my heart. I knew it was my heart because I had read something in a magazine about the symptoms of a bad heart. I had all of them.
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I sat there for a time, cold with horror. Slowly, I began to turn over more pages. I came to a disease which was worse than the last one. I began to read about it and, as I expected, I had that disease too. Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book. I started with the letter ‘a’ and I read from ‘a’ to ‘z’. I found that there was only one disease which I did not have. This made me a little unhappy. Why didn’t I have that disease too?
When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man. When I left I was a very sick man, close to death …
