- •Introduction
- •Chapter 1 playing pilgrims tasks
- •Speak on the main characters you came across while reading the chapter according to the following scheme:
- •Reveal the atmosphere in the house through the family traditions and through the relations between the members of the family. Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Dwell upon the title of the chapter. “Playing Pilgrims”
- •Chapter 2 a merry christmas tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Chapter 3 the laurence boy tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Answer the questions
- •Reproduce the conversations:
- •Chapter 4 Burdens tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Reread the description of the girls in the chapter and present each of them Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 5 Being Neighbourly tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Translate the following passage. Comment on it. Pay attention to the connotation of the underlined words.
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions
- •Make up conversations on the following:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 7 amy’s valley of humiliation tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 8 jo meets apollyon tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type.
- •Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 9 meg goes to vanity fair tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the phrases.
- •Translate the following:
- •Translate the underlined passages.
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences and passages:
- •Chapter 10
- •Comment on the passage:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Comment on the sentences:
- •Comment on the type of stories the girls contributed to the magazine.
- •Chapter 11 experiments tasks
- •Speak on the following:
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 12 camp laurence tasks
- •Translate the following and comment on the sentences:
- •Pay your attention to the following comparisons (similies):
- •Using the words from task I try to make up the game described in the chapter. Find synonyms for: a specter.
- •Chapter 13 castles in the air tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 14 secrets tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 15 a telegram tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Give synonyms for “prediction”.
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •Into each life some rain must fall,
- •Chapter 16 letters tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences.
- •Speak on the following:
Chapter 8 jo meets apollyon tasks
Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 8 and translate them into your mother-language.
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bridle up
plume
rag money
turnover
bundle up
to put smb to rights
fidgety
crosspatch
fiddlestick
snap
repent
pant
wrong
cherish
a box on the ear
confounded skates
gruffly
fly about
overtures
penitent
repulse
rebuke
Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type.
Coaxingly, whine, pricked, subdue, clutched, wicked, be made up, flutelike, hateful, bustle, savage
Find in the text and translate the following passages:
They had a charming time, for THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE DIAMOND LAKE was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish. - "Has anyone taken my book?"
Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself; and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the garret, and finished her fight alone. - When the tea bell rang, Jo appeared, looking so grim and unapproachable that it took all Amy's courage to say meekly...
Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weak-ness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn't quite forgive yet. - Amy heard the clash of skates, and looked out with an impatient exclamation.
Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sister's troubles. - When Amy was comfortably asleep, the house quiet, and Mrs. March sitting by the bed, she called Jo to her and began to bind up the hurt hands.
"I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. - Amy stirred and sighed in her sleep, and as if eager to begin at once to mend her fault, Jo looked up with an expression on her face which it had never worn before.
Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
"Girls, where are you going?" asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity.
"You'll be sorry for this, Jo March, see if you ain't."
When they got home, they found Amy reading in the parlor.
"Please forgive me, Jo. I'm very, very sorry."
"I never shall forgive you," was Jo's stern answer, and from that moment she ignored Amy entirely.
"Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating. He is always kind and jolly, and will put me to rights, I know," said Jo to herself, and off she went.
"Keep near the shore. It isn't safe in the middle."
Jo heard, but Amy was struggling to her feet and did not catch a word. Jo glanced over her shoulder, and the little demon she was harboring said in her ear...
"No matter whether she heard or not, let her take care of herself."
"Laurie did it all. I only let her go. Mother, if she should die, it would be my fault."
"Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it. Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it."
"Poor Mother! What helped you then?"
"I let the sun go down on my anger. I wouldn't forgive her, and today, if it hadn't been for Laurie, it might have been too late! How could I be so wicked?" said Jo, half aloud, as she leaned over her sister softly stroking the wet hair scattered on the pillow.