3.What is missing?

The Selfish Giant (after 0. Wilde)

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children went to play in the Giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass and beautiful flowers and trees. The birds sat in the trees and sang so sweetly that the children stopped their games and listened to them. " How happy we are here! ” they cried to each other. One day the Giant came home and saw the children in the garden. “What are you doing here? ” he cried in an angry voice, and the children ran away. “My own garden is my own garden, ” said die Giant, " and I will allow nobody to play in it”. So he built a high wall round the garden. He was a very selfish Giant. Now the children could not play in the garden.

They tried to play on the road, but the road wasfull of hard stones, and they did not like it Theywalked round the high wall when their lessonswere over, and talked about the beautiful garden “How happy we were there, ” they said to each other. Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little flowers and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still Winter. The birds did not want to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. “I cannot understand why the Spring is so late, ” said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden. But the Spring never came, and the Summer never came. The Autumn gave fruit to every garden, but to the Giant’s garden she gave no fruit. “He is too selfish, ” she said. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind and the Snow danced about through the trees. One morning the Giant was lying in bed when he heard some lovely music. A little bird was singing outside his window. “I believe the Spring is here at last, ” saidthe Giant, and he jumped out of bed and lookedout. What did he see? He saw a wonderful sight. He saw children in his garden. Some children were creeping in through a little hole in the wall. Some children were sitting in the branches of the trees. In every tree that he could see there was a little child. The birds were flying about and singing, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. It was a lovely sight; only in one comer it was still Winter, and a little boy was standing in it. He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was walking about and crying bitterly. And the Giant’s heart melted as he looked out. “How selfish I am! ” he said. “Now I know why the Spring did not want to come here. I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden will be the children’s playground forever. ”

So he crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly, and went into the garden. But when the children saw him, they all ran away, and it became Winter again in the garden. Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant.

And the Giant came up behind him and took him in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree began to blossom at once, and the birds came and sang in it, and the little boy kissed the Giant. Then the other children came back, and with them came the Spring. “It is your garden now, little children, ” said the Giant, and he knocked down the wall.

Every afternoon, when school was over, the children came and played with the Giant.

1. Answer the questions

- Where did the children go to play every afternoon?

- What was there in the garden?

- How do you know that the Giant was selfish?

- How can you prove that the Giant was selfish?

- Why didn’t the birds want to sing in the Giant’s garden?

- What seasons didn’t come to the Giant’s garden? Why?

- What did the Giant do when he heard the song?

- Why was it still Winter in one corner of the garden?