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Mr. Knott was a teacher. He taught in a big school in London. He lived a
long way from the school, so he was usually quite tired when he got home. At
nine o’clock one evening, when he was in bed, the telephone bell rang in the
hall of his small house, so he went downstairs, picked up the telephone and
said, ‘This is Whitebridge 3165. Who’s speaking, please?’
‘Watt,’ a man answered.
‘What’s your name, please?’ said Mr. Knott.
‘Watt’s my name,’ was the answer.
‘Yes, I asked you that. What’s your name?’ Mr. Knott said again.
‘I told you. Watt’s my name,’ said the other man. ‘Are you Jack Smith?’
‘No, I’m Knott,’ answered Mr. Knott.
‘Will you give me your name, please?’ said Mr. Watt.
‘Will Knott,’ answered Mr. Knott.
Both Mr. Watt and Mr. Will Knott put their telephones down angrily
and thought, ‘That was a rude, stupid man!’

  1. Why was Mr. Knott usually tired in the evenings?

He lived a
long way from the school, so he was usually quite tired when he got home.

  1. Who telephoned him?

Watt

C. Write this story. Put the or nothing in each empty place.
George and Dorothy go to the school by bus in the morning, but
they usually come home in the 5.15 train. George is Dorothy’s brother. He
doesn’t like school: when he is at the home, he listens to radio or plays
trumpet, and then he is happy. On the Monday morning he sometimes says,
‘I have a terrible pain in the stomach,’ and he does not go to the school with
Dorothy. His father and mother are already at the work, so they do not
know. They go to the work very early. Dorothy plays the tennis a lot. When
she leaves school, she wants to go into the army.

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