- •1.1 Study these words if they are new to you:
- •1.2 Read these questions before you hear the recording. Then listen to the recording once and answer the questions.
- •1.3 Listen to the recording a second time and say whether these statements are true or false. Use the following conversational formulas of:
- •1.4 In the class ask one another about the episodes you didn't understand.
- •1.5 Answer the following questions:
- •1.6 Study the following sentences and try to guess under what circumstances they might have been said:
- •1.7 Complete the sentences:
- •1.8 Suggest solutions, contradict or give advice to someone who tells you that:
- •1.9 Exchange your opinions on the following problems. Make use of the words given in 1.8
- •1.10 Explain the meaning of these proverbs; speak of your personal experiences proving that:
- •1.11 Suppose you find yourself in the following situations:
- •1.12 Choose a partner and act out one of the situations below:
- •1.13 Write a letter to your friend (or parents) describing your impressions of the city shortly after your arrival.
- •Part 2.
- •Intensive reading
- •2.1 Points to consider
- •2.2 Read the text
- •2.3 Answer the following questions:
- •2.9 To make sure that you understand the story answer these detailed questions:
- •2.10 Transcribe, mark the stress and read the following words and word combinations:
- •2.11 Explain the meaning of these words and word combinations to your groupmates. When speaking use:
- •2.12 Match the synonyms in the right and left columns:
- •2.13 Find in the text synonyms for the following:
- •2.14 A) Study the difference between the verbs. If necessary use an explanatory dictionary.
- •2.25 Look at this sentence:
- •2.26 Express the same idea in other words substituting for the italicized words and expressions:
- •2.27 Review the following structures:
- •2.28 Study these sentences and say under what circumstances they might have been said.
- •2.29 Complete the sentences given below:
- •2.30 Say whether these statements are true or false When giving your arguments use sentences of unreal condition like this:
- •2.35 Make up the summary of the text.
- •2.36 Get into groups of 2 or 3 and discuss the text. Use conversational formulas and the expressions given below:
- •2.37 Imagine you are a detective following a man (it might be Sonny) that aroused your suspicion. Write a short description of the physical layout of the place/town. These words may help you:
2.3 Answer the following questions:
1. Where and when is the scene laid?
2. What and who are the characters?
3. What happened to Sonny?
2.4 Make up an outline of the text.
2.5 Formulate in short what the text is about.
Scanning (studying attentively, running the eyes over every [art of what you are reading)
2.6 Read the text again and find the sentences proving that:
a) Sonny's brother loved him and was anxious about his future;
b) the living conditions and the social environment were partly the reason for Sonny's tragedy;
c) many other children were facing the same dangers that nearly ruined Sonny's life.
2.7 Fill in these lines arranging the information from the story:
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Problems
Reasons
Solutions
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2.8 Comment on the following sentences:
1. Some escaped the trap, most didn't. Those who got out always left something of themselves behind, as some animals amputate a leg and leave it in the trap.
2. The playground is most popular with the children who don't play at jacks, or skip rope, or roller skates, or swing, and they can be found in it after dark.
3. The moment Sonny and I started into the house I had the feeling that I was simply bringing him back into the danger he had almost died trying to escape.
4. Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
5. I was trying to remember everything I had heard about dope addiction and I couldn't help watching Sonny for signs.
2.9 To make sure that you understand the story answer these detailed questions:
1. What did the teacher read in the newspaper?
2. How did he feel when he learned the news?
3. Why couldn't he believe it?
4. When Sonny was in prison he constantly kept in touch with him, didn't he? If not, why?
5. What made him write Sonny a letter?
6. How did he feel when he saw Sonny after all that time?
7. What places did they pass on their way home?
8. Why did Sonny have the driver go past the Central Park?
9. What did each of them think about on their way home?
10. Where did Sonny's brother live?
11. Sonny was very talkative at dinner, wasn't he?
12. Everyone enjoyed the evening genuinely, didn't they?
13. Why was Sonny's brother filled with icy dread?
14. What was he trying to find out about Sonny?
15. What were the relations between the two brothers in the past and present?
Related Activities
Word study
2.10 Transcribe, mark the stress and read the following words and word combinations:
avenue housing project to coax
menace dope addiction to smother
malice hotel to vanish
genuine freight anxious
2.11 Explain the meaning of these words and word combinations to your groupmates. When speaking use:
this word means... "to dominate" means...
"an apartment" is...
Apartment, housing project, downtown, uptown, hedge, lawn, playground, subway car, badly- kept, to dominate the landscape, to jut out.