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UNIT TWO:

FICTION READING

Text 1

Read the text and make up dialogues based on it:
a)between the passenger and the steward;
b)between the passenger and his friend after the voyage.

A WEEK’S VOYAGE ROUND THE COAST

(From ”Three Men in a Boat”
by Jerome K.Jerome)

A young man went for a week voyage round the coast, and before
they started, the steward came to him to asked whether he would pay for
each meal as he had it, or for all the meals beforehand.
The steward recommended the latter course, as it would be so
much cheaper. He said he would have to pay two-pounds-five for the
whole week. He said for breakfast there would be fish. Lunch was at
one, and consisted of four courses. Dinner at six: soup, poultry, salad,
sweets, cheese, and dessert. And a light meat supper at ten.
The young man decided to pay two-pounds-five (he was a hearty
eater) and did so.
Lunch came. He didn't feel so hungry as he thought he should, and
so ate a bit of boiled beef, and some strawberries and cream. He thought
a good deal during the afternoon, and at one time it seemed to him that
he had been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks, and at other times
it seemed to him that he had lived on strawberries and cream for years.
At six, they came and told him that dinner was ready. The
announcement aroused no enthusiasm within him, but he felt that there
was some of that two-pounds-five to be worked off, and he held on to
ropes and things and went down. A pleasant smell of onions and hot
ham, mixed up with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of
the ladder. Then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:

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