The Creature in the Shop

My name is Dr Frederick Treves. I am a doctor at the London Hospital. One day in 1884, I saw a picture in the window of a shop and looked at the picture. At first I was interested, then I was angry, then afraid. It was a terrible picture. There was a man in the picture, but he did not look like you and me. He looked like an elephant.

I read the text under the picture:

Come in and see the Elephant Man. Two pence.

I opened the door and went into the shop.

There was a man in the shop. He was a dirty man with a cigarette in his mouth. "What do you want?" he asked.

"I'd like to see the elephant man, please," I said.

The man looked at me. He was angry. "Well, you can't," he said. "The shop's closing now. You can come back tomorrow."

Vocabulary:

afraid = ängstlich

dirty =  not clean

1. Questions on the text.

a) What job does Dr Frederick Treves have?

b) In which town does he work?

c) There was a picture in the shop window. What was in the picture?

c) What did the man in the shop look like? Was he friendly?

2. Find the words in the text for ...

a) a house where you have to go when you are ill

b) a big grey animal that lives in Africa

c) the part of your face with which you can speak

3. Give a definition of the following words:

a) doctor

b) shop

4. Fill in the verbs in their correct form.

a) Last week Dr Frederick Treves ________ (to be) in Birmingham. He ________ (to have) a lot of work to do there.

b) What are you doing?  -  I ________ (to read) a book about elephants.

c) If the weather is nice, we ________ (to visit) the Elephant Man tomorrow.

5. Dr Frederick Treves macht einen Krankenbesuch. Übersetze seine Fragen an den Patienten:

a) Wie heißen Sie?

b) Sind Sie in diesem Krankenhaus glücklich?

c) Was machen Sie gerade im Moment?

d) Mögen Sie London?