Chapter IV

1. You should really show me where the door is today.

2. The robin kept singing and twittering, as if he was excited too.

3. She was inside the secret garden!

4. It was a lovely, mysterious-looking place.

5. Are they all completely dead?

6. Even if the roses are dead, there are other things that are alive.

7. And now look at the colour in your face!

8. What do you want a spade for?

9. Perhaps I could make a little garden and plant some seeds in it!

10. We can ask him to go and buy the spade and fork and some seeds at the same time.

1. excitement

2. to sail

3. to chatter

4. knob

5. to be covered by

6. mysterious-looking

7. shoots

8. weeds

9. to plant

10. seed

11. fork

12. climbing roses

13. bridge

14. still

15. to lift

1. Martha didn’t enjoy her visit home and had nothing to tell Mary about it.

2. When a strong wind lifted the ivy from the wall Mary saw there a round knob.

3. Mary put the key into the keyhole but it didn’t fit.

4. When Mary entered the secret garden she saw a lot of thick climbing roses on the walls.

5. Mary hoped that not all the roses in the garden were dead.

6. Mary could see some green shoots coming out from the earth.

7. Mary decided not to dig out any weeds from the ground.

8. Martha was delighted to see Mary’s bright red cheeks and bright eyes.

9. Mary told Martha she wanted to make a little garden of her own.

10. Martha and Mary wrote a letter to Ben Weatherstaff asking to buy some seeds and tools.

1. knob

2. shoots

3. seed

4. fork

5. bridge

6. still

7. to chatter

8. to plant

9. to sail

10. excitement

parts of plants which appear in spring

a tool used to work in the garden

a hard small part of a plant that you put into the earth

a round metal part of the door to open it

to travel by ship

quiet

to talk a lot

an action of putting smth into the earth to grow

a construction to cross a river

a feeling of being happy, interested or hopeful