- •Chapter I Mary Comes to England
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter II Robin Redbreast
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter III Mary Finds the Key
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter IV
- •Inside the Secret Garden
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter V Dickon
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter VI a Meeting in the Night
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter VII Colin
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter VIII a Tantrum
- •Intone the following sentences.
- •Chapter IX
- •Intone the paragraph and learn it by heart.
- •Chapter X Colin Goes into the Secret Garden
- •Intone the paragraph and learn it by heart.
- •Chapter XI
- •I am Getting Stronger
- •Chapter XII Mr. Craven Comes Home
Chapter I Mary Comes to England
Intone the following sentences.
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Study the following words and word combinations.
Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).
Translate them into Russian.
Recall the situations they were used in.
Make sentences of your own.
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1. to die of cholera 2. to look after smb 3. to be selfish 4. plain-looking 5. to be disagreeable 6. to be going to do smth 7. hunchback 8. delightful |
9. housekeeper 10. to be interested in 11. messily 12. spoilt-looking 13. sharp eyes 14. gloomy 15. moor 16. crooked |
17. carriage 18. to feel curious 19. heather 20. gorse 21. pony 22. frightening 23. corridor 24. servant |
Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.
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1. Mary Lennox was a delightful pretty girl and lived with her parents in England. |
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2. The servant looked after Mary when she was born and she gave her whatever she wanted. |
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3. Mary was going to live with her uncle in England.
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4. A very nice woman, Mrs. Medlock, met Mary in London and took her up to Yorkshire. |
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5. The house Mary was going to live in was very cozy, nice, full of light and there where a lot of pictures on the walls. |
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6. Mr. Craven’s wife had been a sweet, pretty thing.
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7. Listening to Mrs. Medlock made Mary extremely happy and she was glad she was going to live in that house. |
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8. Mary didn’t help Mrs. Medlock to collect her things as she wasn’t used to, because the servants had always done everything for her. |
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9. Mary looked out of the window and she could see darkness stretching all around them, which was the sea. |
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10. When Mary entered her room the fire was burning in the room and there was dinner on the table. |
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Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.
When I finish this university I _____________ become a teacher.
Many small children nowadays _______________ computer games.
It is not pleasant when a child is always _____________.
When people are ___________ they don’t care about anybody, only about themselves.
In 19th century a lot of people ______________.
Sometimes I ______________ my younger sister.
When I read about something I ______________ , I try to find more information about it.
In 19th century rich people had ____________ to help them about the house.
Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.
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simple-looking someone who has a round back in a dirty and untidy way making a person sad and without hope an area of land not suitable for crops very nice making you feel afraid or nervous not straight, curved a person working for other people in a big house a small horse |
Answer the following questions.
What happened to Mary’s parents when she was nine years old?
Why did the servant always give Mary whatever she wanted?
Where did Mary stay after her parents had died?
Where was Mary going to live?
Who met Mary in London?
Did Mary like Mrs. Medlock?
What was the place Mary was going to like?
What interesting fact about Mr. Craven did Mary learn from Mrs. Medlock?
Why didn’t Mary help Mrs. Medlock to pack the things?
What did Mary see when she looked out of the window?
Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.
When Mary was born, a servant looked after her.
Mary was going to go back to England.
He lives in a great big old house in the country.
Mary was met by Mr. Craven’s housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock.
The house is six hundred years old; it’s on the edge of the moor.
Retell the text using new words and word combinations.