READING COMPREHENSION - SIMPLE PAST VOCABULARY 1. Look for the folowing wards and expressions in the dictionary. Then, use them fo complete the sentences below, clothes pea mattress frightful eiderdown quit lightning tofind out prince plenty of shoes storm princess botlom thunder a)Lady Diana was the ‘of England, She was married to Charles. byl have ‘books. My library is quite bg )Ana toid Mary that her boyfriend was seeing someone else. She desperately wants aboutit djihe last night was horrible, The rain was strong and there was also and @)Did you waich The Exorcist? I's really 4) There isa big party tomorrow. | need to buy new and vould you ike some soup? It's cold today. h)The Lite Mermaid lives in the of the sea. i)- My back is king me! | think have to buy a new J} Oh! Thats true, You should also buy a new This one is very oldREADING COMPREHENSION The Princess on the Pea Hane Christian Andersen There was once a prince. He wanted a princess, but it had to be a true princess! So he journeyed all around the world to find one, but no matter where he went, something was wrong. There, were plenty of princesses, but whether or not they were true princesses he couldn't find out. There was always something that wasn't quite right. So he came home again and was very sad, for he wanted a true princess so very much. ‘One evening there was a terrible storm. The lightning flashed, the thunder boomed, and the rain poured down, It was really frightful! Then somebody knocked at the city gate, and the old king went out to open it. A princess was standing outside, but heavens, how she looked from the rain and the bad weather! Water poured off her hair and clothes and ran in at the toe of her shoe and out the heel, but she said she was a true princess. “Well, we'll soon find out!” thought the queen, but she didn’t say anything. She went into the| bedroom, took off all the bedding, and put a pea on the bottom of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the top of the pea and then put twenty eiderdown quilts on the top of the mattresses. There the princess was to sleep that night. In the morning, they asked her how she had slept. “Oh, just miserably!” said the princess. ‘I've hardly closed my eyes all night! Heaven knows! ‘what was in my bed! I've been lying on something so hard that I'm black and blue all over! It's simply dreadful!” Then they could tell that this was a true princess, because through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eiderdown quilts she had felt the pea. Only a true princess could have such a delicate skin. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a true princess, and the pea was put into the museum, where it can still be seen, if'no one has taken it! See, this was a true story!