4a Read and put the parts in order. A) One day, the king asked his minister to go and see how much work the twotailors
did. The minister saw the two men moving but he could see no cloth! Hedecided not to
tell the king about it. But, he said that the material was wonderfuland the costume
looked nice.
B) The king was very happy. At last, a child cried out: “The king has noclothes!” Soon
everyone began to say the same thing and very soon all cried: The king is not wearing
anything!”
C) Once upon a time there was a king who was only interested in niceclothes. Once,
two clever but not kind men decided to teach him a lesson.
D) Finally, the king's new suit was ready. He could not see anything but hetoo did not
want to appear stupid. He said that the suit was good and thankedthe tailors. People
asked him to show the new costume. The king went down thestreet. The people could
only see the king but no one could see his costume. Butthey did not want to be stupid
and everybody started saying that the suit waswonderful.
E) They told the king that they were very good tailors and could sew abeautiful new suit
for him. It could be so fine that only stupid people could notsee it. The king was very
happy and asked the new tailors to begin their work.
1)C
2)E 3)A
4)D 5)B