- •Unit one
- •I will teach you in my verse
- •I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
- •Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
- •Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
- •Is a paling stout and spiky?
- •It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
- •Islington and Isle of Wight,
- •I like them all!
- •Unit two
- •I'm Joe Linn, I come from San Francisco. I'm leaving for Peking.
- •I'm going to learn Chinese. I know some words already
- •I hope you like Peking.
- •Unit three
- •It’s cuz we're concentrating
- •Is reality’s accordion. Unexpectedly
- •I thought this was
- •I took drama
- •Into my own hands and alongside
- •I told you not to do it and you did it again!
- •Unit four
- •Violently engaged. But it was the artists
- •I looked left toward the little bridge,
- •Incredibly enough, being led
- •In servizio sulla Linea Mediterraneo - Nord America sailing 1968
- •Unit five
- •It was “about breeding.”. Breeding yes, I flashed the thought of all the deaths
- •In the birdcage
- •In the face of “what counts
- •It’s pennies”. In o-eight
- •Unit six
- •In the feminist fable
- •Into activist or choose to manifest
- •In smokey loops
- •Unit seven
- •Is That Why They Call Them Flower Children?
- •In a high school senior play, shouting
- •In broken English and rapid Greek about tanks
- •Into citizens, just now, in the streets of Prague.
- •I was running
- •In the gutters
- •I still see blue sky and sea under sun and wind
- •Is a little dock, still a black rock beach, footprints
- •Unit eight
- •In search of Athena and Apollo’s
- •In different, steaming jungles in Vietnam.
- •Unit nine
- •Voice spilling. He will not
- •Voices soften thick air and as they sing every
- •If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
- •Unit ten
- •In rural Turkey?
- •I feel sure that was the afternoon
- •Unit eleven
- •In Athens the Greek music
- •I squint myself into your eight and ten year old eyes to conger
- •Into a monster. Other answers are better buried.
- •Sideducking Your Question
- •Family Game
- •Irresistible
- •Is a room whose boundaries invite me to compose
- •Is a room
- •Answering Machine
- •Into the room where only
- •The Business of a Clean Sweep
- •The Night House
- •Into half truths. Simply an issue of light.
- •In her house in the middle
- •University Weather
- •Clinic Wait
- •Is in an exam.
- •The Baroness of Ballard
- •In hers. He says
- •Is dying but she is hanging-on.
- •Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden in Germany
- •I forget where we were headed but it rained.
- •It was dark, a musty smell and the guide’s voice
- •Passages in the Bad-Hotel Zum Hirsh
- •Milltown Maltbay, Cookery School
- •Fourth Day at the Literary Seminar
- •In pink overstuffed
- •You Hated to Practice
- •Our Teacher Says Music is Her Mission
- •In a room that is the color of ice. First Rehearsal of the Opera, "Andrea Chénier"
- •Emanuel Ax, Hunger & Taste
- •Barometric Pressure
- •Its little ledges of blue slow motion
- •Inflaming the cheek after the slap.
- •The Question of the Color of the Walls
- •In splats of blistering gold & refresh ourselves in grapefruit.
- •Eau de California
- •The Perfumer
- •Afterimage of the Bird of Passage
- •The Most Important Thing to Save When the House is Burning Down
- •I needed that.
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You did it again.
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What did I do?
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I told you not to do it and you did it again!
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-I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
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You broke it.
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What did I break?
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You took it.
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-What did I take?
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You lost it.
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What did I lose?
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-You chose it.
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What did I choose?
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- I told you not to do it and you did it again!
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-You wore it.
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-What did I wear?
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- You tore it?
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What did I tear?
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- I told you not to do it and you did it again!
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-I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
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Exercise 8. Repeat for clarity of articulation. Add the lists below to continue the dialog; use more store names and adjectives to describe your favourite cuisine:
- I need salad, Pete! I need salad, Pete!
-There’s a little grocery store right across the street!
- I need lamb chop, Pete! I need lamb chop, Pete!
-There’s a little butcher store right across the street!
- I need pastry, Pete! I need pastry, Pete!
-There’s a little butcher store right across the street!
- I need flowers, Pete! I need flowers, Pete!
-There’s a little florist shop right across the street!
a) a lemon, an apple, grapes, a plum, a water-melon, an egg….
b) a frying-pan, a tea-pot, a sause-pan, sugar-basin, a fork, a spoon, a cup, a plate, a stove, a bucket, a knife, an oven, a towel…
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Exercise 9. You have lost your shoe (glove, cap, sweater). Ask your friend (sister) to help you. Mind the usage of possessive pronouns. Repeat for clarity of articulation:
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Where is mine? Is this mine?
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No, that’s hers.
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Where is mine? Is this mine?
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No that’s his.
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Where are mine? Are this mine?
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No, those are theirs.
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Where are mine? Where are mine?
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Yours are there on the chair on the chair.
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Where?
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On the chair.
Exercise 10. Describe the house where you live. Tell about your “folks”. Give Russian equivalents for the colloquial phrase “Are your folks home?”. Continue the story. Use the animals’ names in sentences of your own:
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I bought a dog for my cat.
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The cat did’t like the dog.
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I bought a bird for my cat.
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The cat did’t like the bird.
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I bought a house for the dog.
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The dog did’t like the house.
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I bought a cage for my bird.
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The bird did’t like the cage.
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The cat did’t like the dog.
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Nobody liked the bird.
Exercise 11. Read, translate, and transcribe the poem by C. Levin. Write down all the unknown words into your dictionary. Comment on the text, define Grammar Tenses:
The Lighter Than Air Piano Drop
Duval, Washington
Twelve hours off a transatlantic flight catapulted into the altered world of our hometown joggled by jetlag we followed friends to the country.
Fired up rented generators tents and too few portable toilets transformed Betty Nelson’s pasture into a rain and music drenched ritual where twenty thousand camped some even paid most danced naked in mud at noon after The Grateful Dead and dozens more bands arrived on the stage hopping eighteen hours a day for three days above campfires and lanterns and ember ends of lit joints moving hand to hand generating magic passing the instant end of the free-spirit ‘68 summer at the earth oozing event organized to answer the musical question “What sound does a piano make when it’s dropped from a helicopter?”