Farmer Jones wanted to buy some things at a store. The storekeeper had a lot of bicycles in the store and he wanted to sell one to the farmer. “Look here, farmer Jones,” he said. “I can sell you a very good bicycle and you can ride around your farm on it every day.”

“Oh, no,” said the farmer. “I don’t want a bicycle.  I think a cow is more useful and the price is just the same.”

“But just think,” said the storekeeper, “you can’t ride round the town on a cow. That’s foolish”

“Oh, I don’t know which is more foolish,” answered the farmer with a smile, “to ride on a cow or to milk a bicycle.”

Read the text, write out the unknown words and complete the tasks.

1.Write the sentences marked in blue in the present and past tenses.

Farmer Jones want to buy some things at a store. The storekeeper had a lot of bicycles in the store and he want to sell one to the farmer.

2.Write the past tense of the words marked in red.

sell-sold, ride-rode, think-thought, know-knew, smile-smiled

3.Write the nouns and verbs.

Farmer, store, storekeeper, bicycle, farm, town, cow, 

Wanted, know, ride, buy, sell, look, think