When Alan was young, he played a lot of footbal, and he was very good at it, but then he went and worked in a town, and there was no team for him there, so he stopped playing.
Then he began to get rather fat, so he thought, ‘I’ve stopped playing football, and now I’m getting fat. What am I going to do?’ He thought about it for a few days, and then he said to himself, ‘I know, I’ll play tennis.
He had a few lessons, and then played for a few months.
He met a nice girl at the tennis club one day, and they played a game of tennis against another young man and woman. Alan played very badly, and was angry with himself. ‘Ive never played as badly as this before,’ he said to the girl.
‘Oh’ she said ‘you have played before, have you ?’
Please answer these questions below.
1. What did Alan play when he was young?
2. Whay did he stop playing ?
3. What happened to him then ?
4. What did he think ?
5. What did he say to himself a few days later ?
6. What did he do about it ?
7. What happened then ?
8. Why was Alan angry with himself ?