Ex.7. Find some more interesting, new information about Columbus.

Share it with your classmates.

DIOGENES1

If I were not Alexander

I would wish to be Diogenes.

Alexander of Macedon

Ex.1. Read the story attentively and quickly.

Try to explain why the king was very much surprised.

Diogenes and Alexander the Great

There lived a wise man in ancient Greece whose name was Diogenes. Men came from all parts of the land to see him and talk to him.

Diogenes was a strange man. He said that no man needed much, and so he did not live in a house but slept in a barrel, which he rolled about from place to place. He spent his days sitting in the sun and saying wise things to those who were around him.

When Alexander the Great came to that town he went to see the wise man. He found Diogenes outside the town lying on the ground by his barrel. He was enjoying the sun.

When he saw the king he sat up and looked at Alexander. Alexander greeted him and said:

"Diogenes, I have heard a great deal about you. Is there anything I can do for you?" "Yes," said Diogenes, "you can step aside a little so as not to keep the sunshine from me."

The king was very much surprised. But this answer did not make him angry. He turned to his officers with the following words: "Say what you like, but if I were not Alexander, I should like to be Diogenes."

Ex.2. Read the text again and see if you can find some facts to prove that

	1)Diogenes was a strange man;
	2)the king was determined to help the wise man;
	3)the king sympathized with Diogenes.
	…

Ex.3. If YOU put the words in the correct order you’ll get a very wise quotation:

«less, we, speak, have, and, two, more, one, only, and, ears, hear, tongue, may, in, we, that, order».

Diogenes

Ex.4. What does the quotation suggest to YOU?

(На какие мысли наводит тебя эта цитата?)

Ex.5. Think of how to complete the following quotation:

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: “As much”, said he? “as the … are to the … “.

Diogenes

Ex.6. Have you ever heard about Diogenes before?

What else can you tell us about that wise man?

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Ex.1. WHO are you reading about?

In a museum in Holland one can see a pair of wooden shoes with funny little figures of animals drawn on them.

Those drawings helped to discover the great painter.

One day at school, instead of listening to the teacher, he was drawing pigs and chickens on the wooden shoes of the pupil sitting next to him. Seeing this, the teacher got angry with him and said he would tell his mother.

In the afternoon he was sitting on the top of a hill quite near his house, watching the traffic in the streets. When he saw his teacher coming towards his father's house, he was sure that the teacher had come to speak to his parents. His father called him and the boy saw his teacher with one of the wooden shoes in his hand. All eyes were turned on him as he came near. To his great surprise, his mother spoke to him kindly, saying, "Do you really want to be a painter, my child?" The boy could not believe his ears; his heart was full of happiness.

His teacher told him that he liked his excellent drawings and wanted him to study painting with a famous artist in the town.

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