- •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 II Robin Redbreast
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 situation they were used in.
Make sentences of your own.
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1. robin redbreast 2. to be in flower 3. humming – to hum 4. cheerful-looking 5. to speak with an accent 6. to disobey 7. to hit smb back 8. it’s time smb did smth 9. to feel sorry for smb 10. to look relieved 11. fatten up |
12. to make friends with smb 13. bare 14. locked up 15. to bury 16. lawn 17. fountain 18. couldn’t stop thinking about (doing) smth 19. to wonder 20. orchard |
21. make smb do smth 22. to dig - digging 23. rough (voice) 24. to whistle 25. to land 26. to hop 27. to realize 28. to nod 29. temper 30. spade |
Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.
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1. When Mary woke up in the morning there was Mrs. Medlock cleaning out the fireplace in her room. |
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2. The room was full of toys, books and bright pictures.
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3. Martha was not at all like the servants Mary had had in India.
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4. Martha was going to be Mary’s servant.
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5. Mary could easily get dressed herself.
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6. Mary was very hungry, so she ate a large breakfast.
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7. Martha told Mary about the locked garden.
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8. Mary went out into the gardens and saw the fountain playing and the flower-beds in bloom. |
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9. The bird’s unpleasant voice gave Mary an unpleasant feeling.
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10. Ben Weatherstuff told Mary where the door to the secret garden was.
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Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.
When spring comes all the fruit trees _____________ and the smell is wonderful.
I could easily understand that he was a foreigner because he _______________.
I _____________ my dog when it fell ill and was taken to a vet.
As soon as I learnt the results of my state examinations I ___________.
We hope that here at the University you will ______________ a lot of new people.
In winter all trees and bushes are ______________ but the fur tress are not.
My teacher of English ______________ learn a lot of useful things and that helped me at the state examination.
A person with a horrible ____________ is not pleasant to deal with.
Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.
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to put smth into the ground and to cover it with earth smth with a help of which water is sent up into the air a tool used for digging not to do what you are told a garden with fruit trees an action one performs with a spade to understand a small brown European bird closed having uneven surface; not gentle. |
Answer the following questions.
Why didn’t the room look like a child’s room?
What did Mary see out of the window?
How did Martha look like?
What couldn’t Mary do herself? Why?
Why did Mary get interested in Dickon?
What did she learn from Martha about one of the gardens?
What did Mary see in the gardens?
What did Mary see on the top of one of the trees?
What did Mary realize while talking to Ben?
Did the gardener tell Mary anything about the door to the secret garden?
Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.
She spoke with a strong Yorkshire accent.
There are twelve children in our house.
Dickon made friends with a pony.
In the garden Mary met a man, who was digging in the corner.
He lives there among the rose-trees.
Retell the text using new words and word combinations.