The Hot Dog
In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city.
Frankfurters were first sold in the United States in the 1860s. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausages”. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. “Dachshund sausage” seemed like a good name for the frankfurter.
Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot-water tanks. As the man walked up and down the rows of people, they yelled, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your hot dachshund sausages!” People got the sausages on buns, a special bread.
One day in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund inside- not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn’t know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation, and so was the new name. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking around with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and down the rows they yell, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
Circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.
1. The special bread used for a hot dog is a…
1. a) sausage
b) Bun
c) Dachshund
d)Frankfurter.
2. Another word for to shout is to…
A name
B draw
C yell
D whisper.
3. A line of people or of objects is a…
a. Row
b. Game
c. Cartoon
d. Angle.
4. When something is a cause of excitement it is…
a. an idea
b. a sensation
c. a hot dog
d. a game.
5. Large containers for water or other liquids, sometimes made of metal, are called…
a. Tanks
b. Sellers
c. Cartoonists
d. Buns.
6. A funny drawing is a…
a. Cartoonist
b. Frankfurter
c. Cartoon
d. Graph.
7. In Germany a hot dog is called…
a. A hot dog
b. A dachshund sausage
c. A frankfurter
d. Pasta.
8. A dachshund is a dog from
a. America
b. New York
c. Germany
d. Dorgan.
9. A professional who usually draws funny pictures with funny stories is…
a. a writer
b. an author
c. a cartoonist
d. a painter.
10. A dachshund is…
a. A sausage
b. A hot dog
c. A dog
d. A frankfurter.
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Exercise 1
Match the words in column A with the words in column B: (соединить)
| A the Internet |
| B with friends |
| C text messages |
| D online |
| E window shopping |
Exercise 2
Complete the sentences with the correct past form of the verb in brackets (закончи предложения, выбрав правильный вариант).
- Jane ………. (watch) TV while I ………. (water) the plants.
A was watching, had watered; B was watching, was watering; C would watch, would water
- James ……… (paint) the house for hours before he ………. (take) a break.
A painted, took B had painted, was taking C had been painting, took
- Who ………. (you/talk) to on the phone when I ………. (come) in?
A were you talking, came; B you talked, came; C had been you talking, had come
- We ……….. (wander) around the town when we ………. (meet) Mary.
A wandered, were meeting B were wandering, had met C were wandering, met
- Owen ………. (type) his essay when the computer ………. (crash).
A typed, had been crashing; B was typing, crashed; C had typed, crashed
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American flag’s history.
The United States flag is far more than the red, white and blue cloth of which it is made. As a living symbol of America it stands for the past, present and future of this country. It symbolizes American people, American land and American way of life. The flag represents the men and women who built America. It reminds us of the native Americans who inhabited the continent for thousands of years, of Pilgrims finding a place to worship their God, of pioneers building homes in a new land, of Washington leading a young nation, of Lincoln holding that nation together, of Martin Luther King Junior’s dream of justice and equality for all, and of the men and women of all races and beliefs who fought and died for this country.
The flag of the United States of America has 13 stripes-7 red and 6 white-and 50 white stars on a blue field. The stripes remind us of the 13 original colonies gained and united by Americans. The stars represent the 50 American states.
The flag of today evolved out of many earlier flags raised in days gone by. For several centuries after European explorers first sailed to North America, the flags of Spain, Holland, France, England and Sweden flew over different parts of the continent. An English flag known as the Red Ensign waved over American colonies from 1707 until the beginning of the Revolutionary War. It was the merchant flag of England.
Today Americans celebrate June 14 as Flag Day. The 50-th star – for Hawaii – was added on July 4, 1960.