10th Grade

From time to time we can see strange lights in the night’s dark sky. Lights, which have different shapes, measures and colours.

As for ufos, according to the people who have seen them, they appears in the sky just like a red-turning ball, but, by day, look like as the photo above.

One story tells about a man, who was driving in a lonely route, saw a strange thing that was discending from the sky, landing in the middle of the route and was coming to him.

Then this man tried to avoid it and parked on one side. He was amazed, he could see a big- grey -round space ship, resting on the other side from his car.

Suddenly, a door opened in the front side and a short green alien got out of it and came nearer to the car. The man kept astonished looking at it and, after that, he remembered nothing.

When he woke up, he was in another place driving his car, couldn’t realize what had happened at that time when it approached. He was bewilder and didn’t know where he was driving to. Then, he felt something in his chest. When he opened his shirt, saw a strange mark, which, afterwards, unexpectedly desappeared. Nobody believed him.

Reading Comprehension

Answer the questions:

A. according to the people, how are the ufos?.

B. what was the man doing?.

C. what did he see?.

D. what was it doing?.

E. who descended from it?.

F. what did it do?.

G. did he remember anything?.

H. what happened when the man woke up?.

I. how did he feel?.

J. did anybody believe his story?. 

Directions: Read the text and practice the pronunciation.

The Tale of the Three Brothers

There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. In time, the brothers reached a river, too treacherous to past. But being learned in the magical arts, the three brothers simply waved their wands and made a bridge. Before they could cross however, they found their path blocked by a hooded figure, it was Death, and he felt cheated, cheated because travelers would normally drown in the river. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers on their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him.
The oldest, asked for a more powerful wand than any in existence. So, Death fashioned him one from an Elder Tree that stood nearby. The second brother decided that he wanted to humiliate Death even further, and asked for the power to recall loved ones from the grave. So Death plucked a stone from the river, and offered it to him. Finally, Death turned to the third brother. A humble man, he asked for something that would allow him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And so it was that Death reluctantly handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.
The first brother travelled to a distant village, where with the Elder Wand in hand, he killed a wizard with whom he had once quarreled. Drunk, with the power that the Elder Wand had given him, he bragged of his invincibility. But that night, another wizard stole the wand, and slit the brother's throat for good measure. And so Death took the first brother for his own.
The second brother journeyed to his home, where he took the stone and turned it thrice in hand. To his delight, the girl he had once hoped to marry before her untimely death appeared before him. Yet soon she turned sad and cold for she did not belong in the mortal world. Driven mad with hopeless longing, the second brother hung himself so as to join her. And so Death took the second brother.

As for the third brother, Death searched for many years but was never able to find him. Only when he attained a great age did the youngest brother shed the Cloak of Invisibility, and give it to his son. He then greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, departing this life, as equals. 

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