LITERATURE
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING (a fragment) by Astrid Lindgren PIPPI GOES TO SCHOOL 1. Put the letters in capitals into the correct order.
Pippi Longstocking is a nine-year-old girl. She doesn’t have a TOREMH and father and lives alone in a big SUOEH. Mr Nielsson is a small ENKYOM who lives with Pipi and is her only living MYFILA. 2. Act out the dialogue and answer.
Narrator: …Each morning Pippi gets up at eight o'clock. She grooms her horse and dresses Mr Nilsson in his little suit. Pippi also takes her morning exercises, then she sits down on the kitchen table and drinks a large cup of coffee and eats a piece of bread and cheese. School starts at 9 o’clock. Teacher: Welcome to school, little Pippi. I hope that you will enjoy yourself here and learn a great deal. Yes, and I hope to get some Christmas vacation. Pippi: That is the reason why I am here. Teacher: Okay. Please, tell me your whole name, I register you in school. "My name is Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrehnint Pippi: Efraim's Daughter Longstocking, daughter of Captain Efraim Longstocking. Pippi is really only a nickname, because Pippilotta is too long to say. Teacher: Indeed! Well, then we shall call you Pippi too. But now we test you a little and see what you know. Let us begin with arithmetic. Pippi, can you tell me what seven and five are?" Well, if you don't know that yourself, you needn't think that I can Pippi: tell you. Teacher: (gently) Pippi, we don't answer that way in school. I beg your pardon; I didn't know that. I won't do it again. Pippi: Teacher: No, let us hope not. And now I will tell you that seven and five are twelve. See that! You knew it yourself. Why do you ask me then? Pippi: Teacher: Children, please, go outside. I need to talk to Pippi alone. 3. Answer the questions:
1) Who is Mr. Nilsson? 2) What does Pippi do morning?
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3) What is Pippi’s whole name? 4) What is the main reason for Pippi to go to school?
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