- •От авторов
- •Contents
- •About the author
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •6. Put in the missing prepositions.
- •7. Match one of the following adjectives to each description.
- •8. Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the story.
- •9. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •10. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •11. Read the beginning of the essay and finish it in your own way.
- •12. Respond to the statements.
- •13. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •Pictures
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •Sun and Moon
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •11. Comment on the following words of the author.
- •Life of Ma Parker
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Consult your dictionary and give all possible derivatives from the following words.
- •6. Find words opposite in meaning to the following ones from the story. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •7. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •13. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. Marriage a la Mode
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •9. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •10. Respond to the statements.
- •11. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •12. Use your imagination and restore William’s letter to Isabel.
- •Miss Brill
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check.
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Put in the missing prepositions.
- •Her First Ball
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Consult your dictionary and give all possible derivatives from the following words.
- •7. Put in the missing prepositions.
- •9. Find in the story the sentences with the words or expressions given below, translate them into Russian and ask your fellow students to translate them back into English.
- •10. Match one of the following adjectives to each description.
- •15. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •16. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •17. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. The Lady's Maid
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Match the words on the left with the words or phrases of similar meaning on the right.
- •7. Match the words on the left with their opposites on the right.
- •8. Put in the missing prepositions.
- •1.Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word or word combination from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Find in the story one or more synonyms to the following words. Reproduce the situations they are used in .
- •7. Find sentences with the following adjectives and adverbs in the story. Read and translate the sentences.
- •8. Discussion points.
- •9. Comment on the following words of the author.
- •10. Respond to the statements.
- •Samuel Johnson (1709–84), English author, lexicographer.
- •Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •12. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •13. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. The Tiredness of Rosabel
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •11. Respond to the statements.
- •12. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •13. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •14. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. T he Little Girl
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Differentiate between the following lexical units. Think of your own sentences to bring out the difference.
- •7. Put in the missing prepositions.
- •12. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •13. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •14. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. Pension Seguin
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check.
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Think of a synonym, or a near synonym, and an antonym for the following adjectives. Sometimes several words are possible.
- •7. Conversation-building expressions. There are some common expressions that help to modify or organize what we are saying.
- •13. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •14. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. Late at Night
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •14. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons
- •15. Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.
- •16. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it. Sixpence
- •1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
- •2. Comprehension Check
- •2. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
- •3. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
- •4. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •5. Differentiate between the following.
- •6. Put the correct preposition or combination of prepositions into each gap.
- •14. Challenge the following statements. Give your reasons.
1. Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.
Perfunctory, pew, tattoo, yawn, couch, wander, sew, wrap, shawl, laboriously, venetian, hiccough.
2. Comprehension Check
What feelings did Kezia harbor towards her father?
Why did the girl start stuttering when she spoke to her father?
What word did Kezia choose to characterize her father?
What surprise did the girl prepare for her father?
Was it a success?
What was the father’s reaction?
Who did the little girl compare her father with? Did she envy the Macdonalds’ children?
What kind of nightmares did the girl have?
How did she manage to avoid the nightmare the night when her mother was in hospital?
3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
1.an unusually large person |
properly |
2.to search or examine thoroughly |
to give smth up |
3.to go where smb/or smth is and bring them/it back |
to be upset |
4.to be owned by smb |
to ransack |
5.a dream that is very frightening or unpleasant |
to fetch smth/smb |
6.to cut or tear smth into small pieces |
to belong to smb |
7.to stop doing or having smth |
a nightmare |
8.to prevent smth bad from happening |
to shred into |
9.the easing of a burden or distress, such as pain, anxiety, or 10.oppression |
a relief |
11.in a way that is correct and/or appropriate |
to avoid |
12.to feel unhappy and disappointed because of smth unpleasant that has happened |
a giant |
4. Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.
He is a … of a man.
We all breathed a sigh of …… when he left.
Serve the fish on a bed of ………. lettuce.
The islands ……… to Spain.
He still has ………….. about the accident.
The name was changed to ………… confusion with another firm.
The inhabitants have to walk a mile …………….. water.
The house had been ………. by burglars.
They’d …………… hope for having children.
How much money do we need to do the job …….. ?
She was …… that he had left without saying goodbye.
5. Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.
Возвращение домой; пошевеливайся; заикаться; что случилось?; на грани самоубийства; татуировка; крепко спать; ты похожа на…; сидела дома с простудой; в доме был ужасный скандал; вышагивал туда-сюда; научить раз и навсегда; некому о нем позаботиться; я слышу, как оно бьется.
6. Differentiate between the following lexical units. Think of your own sentences to bring out the difference.
sense – feeling;
to make of / from / out of;
to find – to discover.
7. Put in the missing prepositions.
I looked … the apartment where I had spent most … my life. The window was open and sounds … the street mixed … the talk show … the radio that my mother always kept … It seemed that she had even turned the volume … to get his mind … the fact that I was leaving. She sat … her favorite chair, the one I had had to fix … least twice a year … as long as I remember. ‘Who would fix it now?’ I wondered absently.
The doorbell rang and my sister entered … waiting … someone to let her …
‘You sure picked a good day … going south,’ she yelled … her shoulder … me as she put the sack … groceries she was carrying … the table. ‘Arizona couldn’t be any hotter than New York today.’
Nobody replied. Thee heat and the occasion had made us quiet. Eleanor continued her monologue. ‘Where is Sara? When is she coming? She should be here … now. Did she talk … you this morning, Mama?’
The direct question forced Mama to look … my sister. … first she just nodded her head, but then added, ’She said she’d be here … now.’
8. Find in the story the sentences with the words or expressions given below, translate them into Russian and ask your fellow students to translate them back into English.
A figure to be feared; a perfunctory kiss; to look wretched about; his eyes narrowed; there was a hue and cry over the house; a stupefied manner; to play ‘tag’; tired out.
9. Expand on the following.
On Sunday Kezia went to church with her father.
Sunday afternoons were very much alike.
The girl prepared a birthday present for her father.
10. Comment on the following words of the author.
‘ There were different sorts of fathers’.
‘What a big heart you’ve got, father dear.’
11. Respond to the statements.
‘That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?’
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist.
‘Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!’
Lydia M. Child (1802-80), U.S. abolitionist, writer, editor.
‘What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.’
Mary Mapes Dodge (1838?-1905), U.S. writer, editor.
‘I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.’
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist.