Unit 15 chapter 19

1.Find the following word combinations in the text, write them out, translate into Russian, remember the situations where they occur.

-to be fair water-tight

-to give air

-to be a Roman relic of some sort

-to be apt to cloy

-to fish out smth

-to be opposed to the experiment

-to stick to a boat

-bronzed countenances

-to peg and quaff

2.Answere the following questions.

1) How many fights did Montmorency participate in?

2)Where could a person hire a boat in Oxford?

3) How did the Pride of the Thames look like?

4)How did the weather change?

5)What did the three occupy themselves with in the evenings?

6)How did it happen that the friends decide to give up their trip?

3.Translate into Russian in writing.

‘The river – with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets… - ..but gain no smail from her.’

4.Be ready to speak about.

1)Montmorency’s idea of Heaven.

2)’The Pride of the Thames’

3)The river in a bad weather.

4)Boring evenings.

5)The final supper.

5.Prepare a speech about different types of boats. Boating at your place and preferable routes.

6. Summarize all events of the chapter and speak about them.

Unit 16

Revision

1. Make up sketches of the main characters and be ready to speak about them in details.

2.Chose the most interesting chapter and make a proper adaptation of it ( no more than 30 sentences in writing).

3.Jerom K.Jerom and his sense of humor( speech based on the quotations from the story).

4.History in the book( a short speech about Prominent character of English history).

5.Thames and its pretty nooks( short speech about nature and towns descriptions grounded on the text).

Supplementary material

Jerome Klapka Jerome

(May 2, 1859 – June 14, 1927)

was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Walsall, at that time part of the county of Staffordshire, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London.Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

Jerome was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), a lay preacher who dabbled in architecture, and Marguerite Jones. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered, like his father's amended name, as Jerome Clapp Jerome, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). Due to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times.

The young Jerome wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of both his parents in 1872, when he was 13 years old, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and remained there for four years.