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LISTENING COMPREHENSION AN ARAB AND HIS SONS

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1. True or False.
1. The old man had 4 sons and 18 horses.
2. He wanted to give his sons everything he owned.
3. He owned a lot of valuable things.
4. The Arab wanted his sons to divide everything according to his will.
5. He gave his second son one fourth of his horses.
6. The sons were very glad.
7. They asked a passer-by to help them.
8. He divided the horses wonderfully.

2. Answer the questions.
1. Why did the Arab call his sons?
2. What did he leave them?
3. Why were his sons in despair?
4. Why couldn’t his eldest son take one half of the horses?
5. Did the sons wanted to do what their father had told them?
6. Who helped them?
7. How did the old man manage to divide the horses?
8. How many horses did the old man get?
AN ARAB AND HIS SONS

Far to the East there lived in old days an Arab who had three sons, whom he
dearly loved. He had seventeen beautiful horses that he loved, too.
One day the old man became very ill. Feeling that the end was near, he
called his sons to give one - half of his horses to the eldest son, to the second son -
one third, and to the youngest - one-ninth.
The sons met to divide the horses but they didn't know how to divide them.
"How can I take one half of seventeen horses?" said the eldest son. "1 can't
divide a living horse in two. »
And how can I," asked the second, "take one third of seventeen horses? But
this is what my father wanted me to do".
"I also want to do what my father wanted us to. But what is one ninth of
seventeen horses?"
At that time an old man came riding on a horse. "May be he can tell us",
they said hopefully. They told him their story.
The man began to think. Several minutes passed before he spoke. At last he
said, "Take my horse and there will be eighteen".
They did so. The elder son took one half of the horses. Then the second son
called the horses, which he loved best, and the six animals came running to him.
And the youngest son took two horses. The sons said lo the man: "You divided the
horses wonderfully. Say what you want us to give you for it".
"I shall take all the horses that are left", said the old man and he rode away
with his own horse