5. Put the sentences in the correct order:

1. By the middle of the second period, we were beating Dartmouth 0-0.

2. “So his not-so-great grandson would be sure to get in”.

3. “I’m Jennifer Cavilleri,” she said, “an American of Italian descent”.

4. In an instant, we were hugging and kissing.

5. Suddenly she popped out from behind a bush, her face swathed in a scarf, only her eyes showing.

6. Mostly old hockey faithfuls, the grads who’ve never mentally shed the pads.

7. I would like to have seen the expression on her face, but strategy forbade my looking back.

8. Dartmouth had the puck around our goal again, and again our goalie deflected their shot.

6. Say whether the following sentences are true or false:

1. Once, when she specifically jumped me with those musical types, I asked her what the order was, and she replied, smiling, “Random”.

2. There were two girls working there. One a tall swimmer-anyone type, the other a bespectacled mouse type. I opted for Minnie Four-Eyes.

3. I normally cut these types to ribbons, but just then I badly needed that goddamn film.

4. Fortunately I didn’t mention this, as I later discovered it was of her own design.

5. She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. "I like your jacket," she said.

6. I sat, trying to catch my breath, not looking up or even out onto the ice, where New Jersey outmanned us.

7. My eyes were riveted on our goal, now swarming with Grey bastards.

8. Wherever she was hiding, Jenny would hear the big enthusiasm for my presence.

9. It was Jackie Belt, our trainer and self-appointed spiritual guide.

10. How long had I lingered in that comfort while she was out there in the Oxford cold?

7. Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the first meeting of Olli and Jenny.

2. Describe Olli and Jenny.

3. Describe the hockey match.

4. What can you say about the real reason of Olli’s invitation to the café.

5. Do you believe that Olli could fall in love with Jenny so quickly?

6. Comment on Jenny’s reaction to Olli’s confession in love.

7. What can you say about Olli’s attitude to his richness? What about Jenny?

Chapters 3, 4

1. Learn the following words:

1. at a heated juncture – когда страсти накалились

2. to be at stake – быть на кону

3. to come scampering over – примчаться опрометью

4. to bellow and hoot – завыть, заулюлюкать

5. rooter - болельщик

6. to indulge in – предаваться чему-то, не отказывать себе

7. to hover around - слоняться

8. to dog smb – преследовать по пятам

9. to dampen – охладить, сдерживать

10. to launch into a sermon – удариться в проповедь

11. witticism – острота

12. to disparage – унизить

13. laudatory phrases – похвальба

14. to cream smb – живого места не оставить, разгромить

15. wonk – ботан, зануда

16. rival – соперник

17. to answer matter-of-factly – ответить сухо

18. edifice – сооружение

19. to cringe – сжиматься, съеживаться

20. back to business – в своем репертуаре

2. Translate and dwell on the sentences:

1. But of course, who could tell what he was thinking? Oliver Barrett III was a walking, sometimes talking Mount Rushmore. Stonyface.

2. The Novocain was wearing off a little, but I was somehow happy to feel pain.

3. At dinner, we had yet another in our continuing series of nonconversations, all of which commence with “How’ve you been?” and conclude with “Anything I can do?”

4. I don’t know why, but O.B. III has a way of disparaging me even while uttering laudatory phrases.

5. And there I got my first inkling of a cultural gap between us.