Learn these words and word-combinations

blow (blew, blown)		дуть
get cold		холодать
hide (hid, hidden)		прятать
like		словно
bark		лаять
compartment		купе
opposite		напротив
hold (held)		держать в руках; проводить (собрание)
Would you like to		Не желаете ли…
leave (left) for		уезжать, покидать
spy		шпион
give (military secrets) away		выдавать (военные тайны)
catch (caught)		ловить

Remember

I often go to the stadium.			So do I.
I don’t know this man.			Neither do I.
She is very lazy.			So is he.
He is no fool.			Neither is she.

Give the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations

всё ещё, резать, тонкий, нож, вдали, возможно, мысль, удобный, выглянуть в окно, надеяться

Agree or disagree with these statements:

1. It is early morning now. 2. It is getting warmer and warmer. 3. Coke is hiding in a wood not far from Princeville Prison. 4. Coke knows that the police are quite near. 5. Coke is cold and hungry. 6. Baxter is waiting for his plane at London airport. 7. There is another man in the compartment. 8. The man wants to start a conversation with Coke. 9. Coke does not want to talk to his fellow-traveller.

Answer these questions:

1. Where is Coke now? 2. What is Coke doing in the field? 3. What can Coke hear in the distance? 4. Where is Baxter now? 5. What can Baxter see out of the window of his compartment? 6. Who else is there in the compartment? 7. What does the man sitting opposite Baxter want to talk to him about?

Translate into English:

1. Поторопись! Наш поезд скоро отходит. 2. Сегодня холодно. Идёт дождь. Дует холодный ветер, и становится холоднее. 3. Что ты прячешь в руке? 4. Напротив моего дома есть красивый парк. 5. Он часто ездит в Крым летом. И я тоже. 6. Я никогда не ложусь спать до полуночи. И я тоже. 7.Он сейчас занят. Он проводит собрание.

Speech Exercises:

1. Describe the weather on the night Coke is hiding in the field.

2. Describe a big railway station. Make use of the following words and word-combinations:

to travel by train, a booking-office, a timetable, to book tickets in advance, porter, a conductor, a ticket inspector, to arrive in/at, to see sm. off, to get aboard, a fast train, a through train, a carriage (a car), a sleeping carriage (a sleeper), a dining carriage (a diner), a smoking car (a smoker), a luggage van,

Chapter 4

SYNOPSIS: A young detective, Richard Baxter, arrested Coke four years ago. Coke escaped from prison because he wanted to find two men, Eric Masters and someone called ‘Hugo’. That was all Coke knew about the second man. He knew Masters when they were officers in the army. Baxter, the detective, left London on the same day Coke escaped. His job was to catch Coke again.

Baxter got on the train at 5 o’clock. An hour later, at 6, he was fast asleep in the warm train compartment. Coke was still in his hiding-place in a field, 100 miles away. The winter evening got darker and colder. The wind cut through Coke’s thin uniform like a knife. Coke was hungry and tired, and his arms and legs were so cold that he could hardly feel them. He knew he had to find food, warm clothing, and a warm place somewhere. ‘I have to make a move! I can’t just stay in this field and die of the cold!’ he thought. Coke got up and began to walk. ‘Where am I? Which direction am I walking in? Am I going back towards the prison?’ he asked himself. A few minutes later, the moon came out and Coke could see better. He stopped and looked around. Suddenly he saw a small light not far away. ‘What can it be?’ It can’t be a car. It isn’t moving! It must be a house!’ he said to himself and began to walk towards it. The light got larger. It was a house! He could see the form of the roof in the darkness. Ten minutes later he was outside the house. He stopped and listened. ‘Strange!’ he thought. ‘I can’t hear anything, not even a radio or a television, but there must be someone in there! There’s a light on!’ Just at that moment a thought struck him. ‘This is probably the only house around for miles! The police know I’m probably around here somewhere; and if they’re anywhere, they’re in that house, waiting for me!’ Coke did not move. The wind became colder. His feet and hands felt like ice in the snow. ‘I have to take the chance! I have to! This is the only place I can find warm clothes and food!’ he thought.