4) A long letter with two "if".

5) A short answer.

45*. Do task 7 on page 118.

Lesson 26

46. Tell the story "A Laconic Answer" using the plan (exercise

44).

47. Do exercise 38a.

48. Read and retell the jokes.

Little Willy, aged six, was walking in the Zoo with his father. Suddenly he noticed a zebra.

"Daddy," he cried," are zebras yellow animals with black stripes¹ or black animals with yellow stripes?"

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At a college examination a professor asked: "Does the question embarrass¹ you?"

"Not at all, sir," replied the student, "not at all. It is quite clear. It is the answer that bores² me!"

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Student: But I don't think I deserve¹ an absolute zero². Professor: Neither do I, but it is the lowest mark that I am allowed to give³.

49. Read the text silently. After the text you will find 10 statements some of which do not correspond to its contents. Write down the numbers of those statements.

THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA

Europeans settled in Australia in 1788. Though long before the seventeenth century people thought there was a land in the southern ocean, nobody had seen it. So it was called Terra Australia Incognita — the Unknown South Land.

Dutch navigators first found the South Land. Janszoon entered the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1606. Hartog visited the