Sports Theme1. After Classes. Poem by Konstantin Ananin

To run off the rails. (Idiom)

- Sir, will you let Alex go?
- He has to do some work.
______________________- Oh,
But our game! Without him,
I’m sure, we won’t win!
Haven’t you seen Alex run
With a ball and throw it? None
Of us can replace him.
____________________- Yes?
- He is as wonderful as
Michael Jordan! Last night he threw
In twenty points, and we won! You
Saw it!
________- Yes.
______________- He ran as fast
As a cheetah.
_____________- I see. Must
I let him go?
____________- We’ll do
His work.
__________- Hem!
________________- We haven’t won two
Games.
________- Ah!
_____________- Alex was ill when
Our team played them, and…
- You’ve run off the rails because
Of your sports…
________________- There’s a good cause
To let him play today. Your
Consent is decisive, Sir!
- He’s thrown in ninety balls
This month.
____________- Oh!
_________________- And we all
Hope he’ll break the record…
- Yes. But his English is bad!