IV. Translate into English using the active vocabulary:

1. В комнате было темно. Он на ощупь нашел выключатель на стене.

2. Как бы он ни старался выпытать у нее новости, она молчала, закусив губу.

3. Мне бы хотелось быть такой загорелой!

4. Убедитесь, что почва влажная, прежде чем сеять семена.

5. Не торопитесь. Вы все успеете.

V. Find the English equivalents of:

положить голову на руль

он помог ей надеть пальто

не торопиться

восход

пусковая установка

образцы

именинник

сойти с обочины

запонки

подоконник

передавать пакетик с чипсами друг другу

VI. Pick out all the phrasal verbs and work out their meanings.

VII. Combine the following to make collocations:

chair braids exchange birthday

small cap number party

khaki sticks wicker kinky

shirt telephone coffee baseball

VIII. Transcribe the following words and pronounce them:

glucose, apparatus, wrist, Styrofoam, to contribute, khaki.

IX. In the text find the words that have the following meanings:

a friendly remark made in order to be polite;

a small board with a clip at the top for holding papers, used by smb. who wants to write while standing or moving around;

flat leather shoes that you can put on your foot without fastening them;

to cover smth. with a white mass of small bubbles that is produced by mixing soap with water.

X. Think of the situations in which you would use the following:

1. ‘How is he?’

‘Stable. Doctor will be in again shortly.’

2. ‘We’ll know more after the tests are in.’

‘Oh, no.’

‘Sometimes you see this.’

3. ‘I don’t know anything about it.’

‘Don’t hand me that.’

XI. Pick up the words that belong to medical terminology and use them in a story of your own.

XII. Insert the correct preposition if necessary:

1. He kept wiping his hands _____ the front of the apron.

2. The cake would be ready _____ Monday morning, _____ plenty _____ time _____ the party Monday afternoon.

3. _____ Monday morning, the boy was walking to school.

4. He pressed his fingers here and there _____ the body.

5. He ran _____ circles _____ the grass.

XIII. Insert the correct modal verb and comment on its meaning:

1. He was wondering if he _______ finish the rest or continue on to school.

2. He _______ not answer when the other boy asked what it felt like to be hit by a car.

3. ‘I was saying maybe she’d want to go home and get a little rest. After the doctor comes.’ – ‘She _______ do that.’

4. He drove the streets faster than he _______ .

5. You _______ call this coma?

6. She _______ rest. She _______ eat.

7. I _______ find the elevator.

8. There’s a chance everything _______ change when I’m gone.

XIV. Insert the correct article if necessary:

1. At _____ intersection, without looking _____ birthday boy stepped off _____ curb, and was promptly knocked down by _____ car.

2. He was wondering if he should finish _____ rest or continue on to _____ school.

3. She turned on _____ lights and put on water for _____ tea.

4. After _____ time she said, ‘Maybe I’ll do it.’

5. She went past _____ nurses station and down to _____ end of _____ corridor, where she turned and saw _____ little waiting room, _____ family in there.

XV. Give your own preface of the story (5-7 sentences).

XVI. Relate the events of the story as if you were:

the mother;

the baker;

the doctor.

XVII. Correct the false statement using the conversational formulas of disagreement:

1. The doctor came in. He looked exhausted and thinner than ever.

2. She stood at the window with her hands on the hips.

3. He has just come from somewhere with an audience. They gave him a special certificate.

4. While the water ran into tub, the man had some tea.

5. The baker listened thoughtfully when the mother told him Scotty would be nine years old.

XVIII. Pass your judgement on the general atmosphere and the mood of the story. Is it cheerful? gloomy? tense? Does it quite answer the situation described in the story? If you find that the mood of the story corresponds to the situation, prove it by examples. If you don’t, explain the reasons.

XIX. Comment on the father’s words: ’It had been a good life till now. There had been work, fatherhood, family.’ What is your idea of a good life?

XX. Analyze the role of minor details in the story.

XXI. Comment on the contrast between the boy’s condition and the doctor’s appearance.

XXII. Which aphorism reflects the idea of the story best of all (if any)? Justify your point of view. Translate them into Russian.

1. Things seem to be terribly durable6, when people are dying.

2. You can survive everything, but death.

3. Having a baby is no laughing matter. This means not to mind your heart now and forever walk outside your body.

4. The purpose of medicine is to make people die as young as possible.

5. Hope is often a delayed disappointment.

6. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

XXIII. Make up a monologue of the mother praying God.

XXIV. Suggest a picture to illustrate the story. Do not draw the picture but say in 25-30 words what should be in it.

Same Time, Same Place

by H.E.Bates

I. Expressions under study: много

to keep up appearances presumptuous

daffodil resurgence

create like fury to cost the earth

carnation barely audible

scarlet tipple

sepia perceptibly

to confess tipsy

chrysanthemum subdued light

all in good time turquoise

affluent to squabble

to discard diffidence

minute to plead for sth

in no time to become of age

II. Study the words and word combinations above mentioned. Use them in the situations from the story. Make up sentences of your own to illustrate their usage.

III. Give corresponding words or word combinations from the active vocabulary:

a tall yellow spring flower with a central tube-shaped part;

to reach the age when you are legally considered to be a responsible adult;

to ask for something very much, in a sincere and emotional way;

extremely small;

to quarrel continuously about something unimportant;

shyness and unwillingness to make people notice you or talk about you;

slightly drunk;

showing disrespect as a result of being too confident;

a white, pink or red flower that smells sweet and is often worn as a decoration at formal ceremonies;

having plenty of money, so that you can afford to buy expensive things, live in a nice house etc;

a garden plant with large brightly coloured flowers;

to get rid of something because it is useless;

a dark reddish brown colour;

used to tell someone to be patient because something they are waiting for will certainly happen eventually, and probably quite soon;

very quickly or soon, especially in a way that is surprising;

to continue to wear good clothes and behave as though you have plenty of money even though you no longer do;

bright red;

to admit something you feel embarrassed about;

the appearance again and growth of a belief or activity, especially one that is harmful or undesirable;

to cost a lot of money;

difficult to hear;

alcoholic drink;

get very angry, make a terrible fuss;

less bright than usual (of light or colours);

a valuable greenish-blue stone or a jewel that is made from this.