2b Work in pairs. Answer the questions. 1 Are you for or against advertisements? Why? 2 Do you support the letter or the senior citizens of the mahalla?
man in Utah discovered $45,000 (£28,000) stuffed into tins and boxes in the attic of the new home he had just bought – and gave the money back to the previous owner's six children. Мужчина из Юты обнаружил 45 000 долларов, набитых в жестянки и коробки, на чердаке в своём только что купленном доме – и вернул деньги шестерым детям предыдущего владельца.
Josh Ferrin was exploring the house he had just bought when he made the discovery. Джош Феррин осматривал только что купленный дом, когда сделал открытие.
"I freaked out, locked it my car, and called my wife to tell her she wouldn't believe what I had found," said Mr Ferrin, who works as an artist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. "Я чуть не сошёл с ума, запер их в машине, и позвал жену, чтобы сказать ей, что она не поверит, что я нашёл", – рассказал Феррин, который работает художником в "Новостях Дезерета" в Солт Лейк Сити.
Along with his wife and children, they spread out thousands of notes on a table, separating the bundles one by one. Сейчас он с женой и детьми, которые раскладывают тысячи банкнот на столе, отделяя одну пачку купюр от другой.
They stopped counting at $40,000. Они остановились, насчитав 40 000 долларов.
Despite being tempted to keep the money to help him pay for mounting bills and broken down car, Mr Ferrin sought out the children of the home's previous owner, who had died, and gave them the money. Вопреки сблазну оставить деньги, чтобы оплатить растущие счета и ремонт автомобиля, Феррин разыскал детей бывшего владельца дома, оставившего после смерти деньги.
"I'm not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind. "Я не идеален, я хотел бы сказать, что никогда не сомневался (в правильности решения отдать деньги), но это не так.
We knew we had to give it back, but it doesn't mean I didn't think about our car in need of repairs, how we would love to adopt a child and aren't able to do that right now, or fix up our outdated house that we just bought," he said. Мы знали, что должны отдать их, но это не значит, что я не думал о нашем нуждающемся в ремонте автомобиле, о том, что мы хотели усыновить ребенка, но не в состоянии сделать это прямо сейчас, или о том, как подправить наш несовременный только что купленный дом", – рассказал он.
"But the money wasn't ours to keep and I don't believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children." Но эти деньги не наши, чтобы мы могли оставить их, и я уверен, что вы не так часто имеете возможность сделать что–то действительно достойное уважения, что–то совершенно нелепое для кого–то ещё, и это тот урок, который я надеюсь преподать своим детям.
A certain man had a donkey, which had carried the corn-sacks to the mill loyally for many a long year; but his strength was going, and he was growing more and more unfit for work. Then his master began to wonder if it was worth his while keeping this old donkey much longer.
The donkey, seeing that no good wind was blowing, ran away and set out on the road to Bremen. "There," he thought, "I can surely be town-musician."
When he had walked some distance, he found a dog lying on the road, gasping like one who had run till he was tired. "What are you gasping so for, you big fellow?" asked the donkey.
"Ah," replied the dog, "as I am old, and daily grow weaker, and no longer can hunt, my master wanted to kill me, so I ran away, but now how am I to earn my bread?"
"I tell you what," said the donkey, "I am going to Bremen, and shall be a town-musician there; go with me and work also as a musician. I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum."
The dog agreed, and on they went. Before long they came to a cat, sitting on the path, with a face like three rainy days! "Now then, old fluff and claws, what gone all wrong with you?" asked the donkey.
"Who can be merry when his neck is in danger?" answered the cat. "Because I am now getting old, and my teeth are worn to stumps, and I prefer to sit by the fire and spin, rather than hunt about after mice, my mistress wanted to drown me, so I ran away. But now good advice is scarce. Where am I to go?"
"Go with us to Bremen. You understand night-music, you can be a town-musician."
The cat thought well of it, and went with them. After this the three runaways came to a farm-yard, where the cockerel was sitting upon the gate, cock-a-doodle-doing with all his might. "Your cock-a-doodle-do goes through and through my skull" said the donkey. "What is the matter?"
' Guests are coming for Sunday and the housewife has no pity,' said the cockerel, ' And has told the cook that she intends to eat me in the soup to-morrow, and this evening I am to have my head cut off. Now I am cock-a-doodle-doing at full pitch while I can."
"Ah you red-headed bird" said the donkey, "you had better come away with us. We are going to Bremen; you can find something better than death everywhere: you have a good voice, and if we make music together it must have some quality!"
The cockerel agreed to this plan, and all four went on together. They could not, however, reach the city of Bremen in one day, and in the evening they came to a forest where they meant to pass the night. The donkey and the dog laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cockerel settled themselves in the branches; but the cockerel flew right to the top, where he was most safe. Before he went to sleep, he called out to his companions that there must be a house not far off, for he saw a light. The donkey said, "If so, we had better get up and go on, for the shelter here is bad." The dog thought that a few bones with some meat on would do him good too!
So they moved further on, and soon saw the light shine brighter and grow larger, until they came to a well-lit robber's house. The donkey, as the biggest, went to the window and looked in. "What do you see, my grey-horse?" asked the cockerel. "What do I see?" answered the donkey; "a table covered with good things to eat and drink, and robbers sitting at it enjoying themselves." "That would be the sort of thing for us," said the cockerel. "Yes, yes; ah, how I wish we were there!" said the donkey.
Then the animals put their heads together and schemed how to best win an invitation to come inside and join the robbers at the table.
"Come, come my friends,," said the donkey, "We are musicians, so let us sing for our supper."
And so they began to perform their music together: the donkey brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cockerel cock-a-doodle-doed; then they burst through the window into the room, so that the glass clattered! At this horrible din, the robbers sprang up, thinking no otherwise than that a ghost had come in, and fled in a great fright out into the forest. The four companions now sat down at the table, well content with what was left, and ate as if they were going to fast for a month.
As soon as the four musicians had done, they put out the light, and each found a sleeping-place according to his nature and to what suited him. The donkey laid himself down upon some straw in the yard, the dog behind the door, the cat upon the hearth near the warm ashes, and the cockrel perched himself upon a beam of the roof; and being tired from their long walk, they soon went to sleep.
When it was past midnight, and the robbers saw from afar that the light was no longer burning in their house, and all appeared quiet, the captain said, "We ought not to have let ourselves be frightened out of our wits;" and ordered one of them to go and examine the house.
Мужчина из Юты обнаружил 45 000 долларов, набитых в жестянки и коробки, на чердаке в своём только что купленном доме – и вернул деньги шестерым детям предыдущего владельца.
Josh Ferrin was exploring the house he had just bought when he made the discovery.
Джош Феррин осматривал только что купленный дом, когда сделал открытие.
"I freaked out, locked it my car, and called my wife to tell her she wouldn't believe what I had found," said Mr Ferrin, who works as an artist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City.
"Я чуть не сошёл с ума, запер их в машине, и позвал жену, чтобы сказать ей, что она не поверит, что я нашёл", – рассказал Феррин, который работает художником в "Новостях Дезерета" в Солт Лейк Сити.
Along with his wife and children, they spread out thousands of notes on a table, separating the bundles one by one.
Сейчас он с женой и детьми, которые раскладывают тысячи банкнот на столе, отделяя одну пачку купюр от другой.
They stopped counting at $40,000.
Они остановились, насчитав 40 000 долларов.
Despite being tempted to keep the money to help him pay for mounting bills and broken down car, Mr Ferrin sought out the children of the home's previous owner, who had died, and gave them the money.
Вопреки сблазну оставить деньги, чтобы оплатить растущие счета и ремонт автомобиля, Феррин разыскал детей бывшего владельца дома, оставившего после смерти деньги.
"I'm not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind.
"Я не идеален, я хотел бы сказать, что никогда не сомневался (в правильности решения отдать деньги), но это не так.
We knew we had to give it back, but it doesn't mean I didn't think about our car in need of repairs, how we would love to adopt a child and aren't able to do that right now, or fix up our outdated house that we just bought," he said.
Мы знали, что должны отдать их, но это не значит, что я не думал о нашем нуждающемся в ремонте автомобиле, о том, что мы хотели усыновить ребенка, но не в состоянии сделать это прямо сейчас, или о том, как подправить наш несовременный только что купленный дом", – рассказал он.
"But the money wasn't ours to keep and I don't believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children."
Но эти деньги не наши, чтобы мы могли оставить их, и я уверен, что вы не так часто имеете возможность сделать что–то действительно достойное уважения, что–то совершенно нелепое для кого–то ещё, и это тот урок, который я надеюсь преподать своим детям.
The donkey, seeing that no good wind was blowing, ran away and set out on the road to Bremen. "There," he thought, "I can surely be town-musician."
When he had walked some distance, he found a dog lying on the road, gasping like one who had run till he was tired. "What are you gasping so for, you big fellow?" asked the donkey.
"Ah," replied the dog, "as I am old, and daily grow weaker, and no longer can hunt, my master wanted to kill me, so I ran away, but now how am I to earn my bread?"
"I tell you what," said the donkey, "I am going to Bremen, and shall be a town-musician there; go with me and work also as a musician. I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum."
The dog agreed, and on they went. Before long they came to a cat, sitting on the path, with a face like three rainy days! "Now then, old fluff and claws, what gone all wrong with you?" asked the donkey.
"Who can be merry when his neck is in danger?" answered the cat. "Because I am now getting old, and my teeth are worn to stumps, and I prefer to sit by the fire and spin, rather than hunt about after mice, my mistress wanted to drown me, so I ran away. But now good advice is scarce. Where am I to go?"
"Go with us to Bremen. You understand night-music, you can be a town-musician."
The cat thought well of it, and went with them. After this the three runaways came to a farm-yard, where the cockerel was sitting upon the gate, cock-a-doodle-doing with all his might. "Your cock-a-doodle-do goes through and through my skull" said the donkey. "What is the matter?"
' Guests are coming for Sunday and the housewife has no pity,' said the cockerel, ' And has told the cook that she intends to eat me in the soup to-morrow, and this evening I am to have my head cut off. Now I am cock-a-doodle-doing at full pitch while I can."
"Ah you red-headed bird" said the donkey, "you had better come away with us. We are going to Bremen; you can find something better than death everywhere: you have a good voice, and if we make music together it must have some quality!"
The cockerel agreed to this plan, and all four went on together. They could not, however, reach the city of Bremen in one day, and in the evening they came to a forest where they meant to pass the night. The donkey and the dog laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cockerel settled themselves in the branches; but the cockerel flew right to the top, where he was most safe. Before he went to sleep, he called out to his companions that there must be a house not far off, for he saw a light. The donkey said, "If so, we had better get up and go on, for the shelter here is bad." The dog thought that a few bones with some meat on would do him good too!
So they moved further on, and soon saw the light shine brighter and grow larger, until they came to a well-lit robber's house. The donkey, as the biggest, went to the window and looked in. "What do you see, my grey-horse?" asked the cockerel. "What do I see?" answered the donkey; "a table covered with good things to eat and drink, and robbers sitting at it enjoying themselves." "That would be the sort of thing for us," said the cockerel. "Yes, yes; ah, how I wish we were there!" said the donkey.
Then the animals put their heads together and schemed how to best win an invitation to come inside and join the robbers at the table.
"Come, come my friends,," said the donkey, "We are musicians, so let us sing for our supper."
And so they began to perform their music together: the donkey brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cockerel cock-a-doodle-doed; then they burst through the window into the room, so that the glass clattered! At this horrible din, the robbers sprang up, thinking no otherwise than that a ghost had come in, and fled in a great fright out into the forest. The four companions now sat down at the table, well content with what was left, and ate as if they were going to fast for a month.
As soon as the four musicians had done, they put out the light, and each found a sleeping-place according to his nature and to what suited him. The donkey laid himself down upon some straw in the yard, the dog behind the door, the cat upon the hearth near the warm ashes, and the cockrel perched himself upon a beam of the roof; and being tired from their long walk, they soon went to sleep.
When it was past midnight, and the robbers saw from afar that the light was no longer burning in their house, and all appeared quiet, the captain said, "We ought not to have let ourselves be frightened out of our wits;" and ordered one of them to go and examine the house.