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- •Its voice thundered / and its eyes / flashed fury.
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- •I tell you, it just isn't fair.
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- •I've made a list
- •I've done those other
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- •In front of you —
- •In the cool green grass
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- •It's so hard to wait!
- •Is the pudding done?
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- •In the middle of the wall
- •I'm extremely fond of shadows
- •It is really surprising
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- •I might love the people upstairs wondrous
- •If instead of above us, they just lived under us.
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3.1 ROLEPLAY.
Some of the episodes of the story are very funny, others are not. Choose several of those to dramatize in class. The options can be as follows:
A. The King and Queen discussing their daughter's future;
B. The King and Queen talking to the Evil Enchanter;
C. The Princess storming the Enchanter's castle single-handedly.
3.2. Spirits high and higher.
Discuss the spirit of the story. How would you best describe it?
3.3. Project work: unusual place names.
Study a piece of interesting information. Think of native place names. Are any of them strange, weird or funny? Follow the in- . structions given at the end of the material and prepare to report in class.
(1) The-list of unusual American place names is endless. In the 1800s, when the United States was still a very young country, many names were needed for the new settlements, but often settlers used the same name for several different towns. Sometimes the townspeople showed a sense of humor in the names they selected. WhenOdd, West Virginia, was chosen, someone had suggested using an odd or unusual name. Wyoming settlers picked Bill as their town's name for the first name of most of its male citizens. In an Indiana township, a settler dressed as Santa Claus happened into the December town meeting. The town has been called Santa Claus, Indiana, ever since.
The railroad named dozens of towns when the West was being settled. Many of the stations had few inhabitants, so the railroad took the liberty of picking names for them. For instance, in Wisconsin in 1870, a railroad crew was supposed to put up a sign. As it was forty-seven degrees below zero, and one of the crew members remarked it was the "chilliest" place he'd ever been. So the men named the place Chili, Wisconsin. In Louisiana, a place was named by a member of the railroad surveying party who said that the area had more frogs than he had ever seen. So, Frogmore appeared.
Interesting stories are often behind unique place names. In Nevada, settlers claimed that visitor Mark Twain, on seeing steam rise from a local geyser, asked, "What is a steamboat doing out in this desert?" The location was dubbed Steamboat, Nevada, at that moment.
(2) Every country has places with unusual names. The study of place names is called toponymy, from two Greek words, topos (place) and onyma (name). To learn about native toponymy, check a map, an atlas, or an encyclopedia to find a list of towns with unusual names. Use available resources to ask about the town's history and how it was named.
PETER BOTTOMSLY'S GHOST
I. PRE-READING
1.1. SHARE your reminiscences about something really weird and macabre you either witnessed or were a part of. Did you manage to keep your cool?
1.2. DISCUSS, different things, notions or rituals, which are traditionally considered very, very scary.
1.3. SHARE your knowledge about various spooky customs that became part of some holiday celebration.
II. Reading
2.1. Understanding the title.
The title of the story, written by Harvey Watson, suggests clearly it's going to be about some spooky things. What do you think the ghost will do?