- •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:
Translate the following:
My patience, how blue we are!
Then you’d dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and come home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.
Mrs. March was herself again directly.
Tender assurances of help.
Laurie tore by the window on his own fleet horse, riding as if for his life.
Hospital stores are not always good.
Mr. Laurence has commissions for me in Washington.
No one ever knew what freak Jo might take into her head.
Jo assumed an indifferent air, which did not deceive anyone a particle.
“No I won’t!” returned Jo stoutly, feeling much relieved that her prank was not entirely condemned.
I knew Aunt March would croak. гадание
If I had a spire of hair worth selling.
Give synonyms for “prediction”.
Translate the following passage. Comment on it. Pay attention to the underlined phrases. What poem (familiar to you) is it associated with?
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlet here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter. As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, "Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."
Recollect the poem.
The Rainy Day
(by H.W. Longfellow)
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the breast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! And cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
Translate the following passage into English. Compare it with the original.
- Все-таки нет месяца хуже ноября, — сказала Мег, глядя в окно.
Сад был покрыт инеем, а день выдался на редкость пасмурным и неуютным.
И угораздило меня родиться именно в ноябре, — отозвалась Джо.
Ну и что? Ведь если в ноябре произойдет что-нибудь хорошее, мы, наоборот, будем считать его самым лучшим месяцем, - сказала Бет; она старалась во всем находить положительные стороны и не делала исключения даже для промозгло го ноября.
Ты права, Бет. Но в том-то и беда, что в нашем доме давно не происходит ничего хорошего, - мрачно проговорила Мег. - Работаем, работаем, и все тут. Никаких перемен и даже радостей на нашу долю не достается.
Ну, ты и мрачна сегодня! - воскликнула Джо. - Впрочем, чего удивляться! Ты ведь видишь, как другие твои сверстницы спокойно себе развлекаются и ни о чем не заботятся. А на твою долю остается только работа. Как бы мне хотелось тебе помочь! Но я пока могу устраивать только судьбы своих героев.
Вот если бы я могла и тебе устроить все по своему усмотрению! Ты у нас красива и добра. Поэтому я заставила бы какую-нибудь богатую родственницу завещать тебе состояние. Превратившись в богатую невесту, ты бы покинула родные края, где многие тебя видели в бедности, и обосновалась бы за границей. Правда, потом вернулась бы. Но ты бы уже
носила звонкий титул и потрясла бы всех роскошью и элегантностью.
- В настоящее время на такое наследство рассчитывать не приходится, - грустно ответила Мег. - Молодой человек из бедной семьи еще может надеяться, что самостоятельно сколотит состояние. А бедным девушкам только и остается, что отыскать богатого жениха. Нет, мы живем в очень несправедливом мире.