Special education of the republic of uzbekistan

THE ONLY ONE SANDWICH

The train stopped at a small station. A passenger looked out of the window and saw a woman who was selling sandwiches. The gentleman wanted to buy a sandwich. The woman was standing rather far from the carriage. The gentleman did not want to go for the sandwich himself so he called a little boy who was talking on the platform near the carriage and asked him how much a sandwich cost. “Three pence, sir”, answered the boy. The gentleman gave him six pence and said: “Bring me a sandwich and with the other three pence buy one for yourself”. Some minutes later the boy returned. He was eating a sandwich. He gave the gentleman three pence change and said: “There was only one sandwich”.

MIDAS

Once there lived a king whose name was Midas. He was fond of gold. He loved gold more than anything else except his daughter. Whenever he saw pieces of gold he counted them.

One day when he was counting his gold a stranger entered the room and said: “Midas, what else do you like most of all in the world ?” “I like gold but of all” – Midas answered.

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  “Midas, what will make you happy?”
  
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  “Whatever I touch turns into the gold”
  
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  “You will have what you wish” – said the stranger.
  

Next morning when Midas woke up, the sun was rising. While he was dressing he noticed that everything that he touched turned into gold and that made him very happy. He went into the garden and everything he touched turned into gold. And the same thing happened at breakfast. His daughter watched him in silence. Midas took his coffee and it turned into gold. This frightened him, he became pale. “What’s wrong with you, father?” asked his daughter and ran up to him and took him by the hand. At the same moment she also turned into gold.

“What have I done?” – cried Midas – “It was madness to want more riches. Now I have lost my daughter.” That moment he heard the voice of the stranger – “Midas, which would you like to have now, your gold or your daughter?” – “Give me back my child” – exclaimed Midas. “I shall never want gold again” – “I shall go to the river to bring some water. Then I’ll pour the water over your daughter”. The stranger poured the water over the golden statue of his daughter. The girl opened her eyes and returned to life. Midas realized that gold was not the most important thing in the world.

A SAD STORY
Three men came to New York for a holiday. They came to a large hotel and took a room there. Their room was on the 45^th floor. In the evening the three men went to the theatre and came back to the hotel very late. “I’m very sorry”, said the hotel clerk, “but our lifts are not working.” If you don’t want to walk up to your rooms, you will have to sleep in the hall.

“No, no”, said one of the three men. “No, thank you. We do not want to sleep in the hall. We shall walk up to our rooms.” Then he turned to his two friends and said: “It is not easy to walk up to the 45^th floor, but I think I know how to make it easy. I shall tell you some jokes, then you Andy, will sing some songs, then, you, Peter, will tell us some interesting stories. That will pass the time.”

So they began to walk up to their rooms. Tom told them many jokes, Andy sang some songs. At last they came to the 34^th floor. They were very tired. “Well,” said Tom, “now it is your turn, Peter. Tell us a long and interesting story with a sad ending.” “I shall tell you a story,” said Peter. “It is not long, but it is sad enough: we left the key to our room in the hall.”