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Unit 3 A taste of English Humour Workbook □thief □professor □potatoes □carrots □mushrooms □midnight □shirt □trousers □spread □quiet 2 Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions. 1. Where did Peter get the potatoes? Peter was given the potatoes by a friend. 2. Why didn’t Peter want to get up when the thief was in his house? He thought the thief might have a knife and he did not want to make him angry. 3. Why couldn’t the thief take away the potatoes? 4. How did Peter stop the man stealing the potatoes？ 5. Why was the thief angry? He thought the husband had stolen his shirt so he could no longer steal the potatoes. 6. What do you think Peter did next? Student’s own answer. Listening text Long ago, there lived a poor couple, Peter and his wife. One day a friend gave them some potatoes and they put them on the floor. At midnight, a thief broke into their house. It was very dark. The wife heard a noise and whispered, : “Peter... Peter... Wake up. There is a thief in our house.” Peter was a clever man. Thinking that the thief might have a knife, he did not want to make the thief angry. So he said, “Be quiet! It must be mice. There is no thief.” So his wife went back to sleep. The thief found the potatoes on the floor. Having no bag to carry them, He took off his shirt and spread it on the floor. As he was picking up the potatoes to put them on his shirt, Peter quietly took the shirt away and hid it under the bed. He didn’t want to lose his potatoes. The thief did not know his shirt had gone so he put the potatoes on what he thought was his “shirt”. However, when he tried to pick them up he could not do so. As he was looking up for his shirt, Peter’s wife woke up again and shouted: “Peter. There IS a thief in our house.” Peter became very angry. He shouted, “I’ve told you there is no thief in our house.” Talking on Page 55 Sample dialogue: BAI PIN: We enjoy this kind of humour because