Практический курс английского языка 3 курс - страница 8
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1. Make up and practise a short situation using the word combinations and phrases of Ex. 3.
2. Make up and act out a dialogue using the word combinations (p. 14).
3. Find in Text One equivalents for the following words and phrases and use them in sentences of your own:
to wander about a place; for about an hour; to stay somewhere for the night; to have a lot of time; an excellent chance; an attractive
plan; to build up a fire; a difficult task; to prove to be; to be as small as smth.; without stopping; ridiculous; to examine thoroughly; to
pull out; to make the gravy thicker; not to risk; tfivial things; not to be important
4. Note down from the text equivalents for the following words and phrases. Make up sentences using the phrases:
сказочный уголок; утопать в розах; настоящая сельская гостиница; сельские новости; причудливые комнаты; решетчатые
окна; шикарный ужин; по части стряпни; собирать хворост; беззаботность
5. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences:
1. to gossip over village politics. 2. to try a good slap-up supper. 3. Our light-heartedness was gone. 4. Then we struck. 5. We
should require the rest of the evening for scraping ourselves. 6. We overhauled both the hampers. 7. All the odds and ends and the
remnants. 8. Every little helped. 9. George stood for precedent. 10. He would rather be on the safe side and not try experiments
1. Answer the following questions and do the given tasks:
1. What do you know of Jerome KJerome and his place in English literature? 2. What does the passage under study present? (Is it a
piece of narration, a description, a portrayal or an account of events?) 3. In what key is the first part written? (Is it lyrical, dra matic,
humorous or unemotional?) 4. How does the author achieve the humorous effect in the second part? (Is it the humour of the sit uation
or the humour of words?) 5. Find in the passage sentences containing irony, exaggeration and contrast and comment on them. 6. In
what key is the second part written? 7. What can you say of J.K.Jerome's manner of writing? Summarize your observations.
2. Retell Text One: a) close to the text; b) in indirect speech; c) as if you were Harris or George.
3. Give a summary of Text One.
4. Make up and act out a dialogue between George and Harris cooking the stew.
VOCABULARY EXERCISES
1. Study the Vocabulary Notes and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the words and word combinations in bold type:
A. 1. Of an evening Barbara would have a good gossip with the neighbour over the garden fence. 2. Gossiping and lying go hand
in hand. ( proverb) 3. "I decided to have her up here, for a time at least, and let the gossips do their worst," said Beatrice. 4.
"Who's talking gossip now?" said cousin Rachel. 5. While playing under her mother's eye, she felt a wind-up toy. 6. It was
becoming stuffy in the compartment of the train. I wound the window down and got my pipe out. 7.1 braided her hair and wound it
round her head. 8. If one only could peel her, as one peels an onion, of pretence and insincerity. 9. I saw him with great clarity,
from the pleased smile to the peel of sunburn on the top of his bald head. 10. Carefully she broke all the twigs from the branch, so
that it became an almost straight stick, and as she walked, she peeled the bark from the wood until it was stripped clean. 1 1 .
Scrape your muddy shoes with this old knife. 12. "Hi!" cried Nick, scraping some snow from the sledge and flinging a snowball
which hit George full in the ear. 13. All the trivial sounds of the room re-echoed maddeningly about him— the scraping of chairs,
the coughing. 14. You've got to scrape up some courage, some daring. 15. The lane was so narrow that a donkey with panniers
could hardly have scrapped its way through. 16. It was so slippery that if he had not steadied me, I should have fallen. 17. The
fog came steadily over us in waves and it was extremely difficult to see where one was on the road. 18. She looked at me again