9. Are you a careful reader?

1. How old was Colonel Green? 2. Linda Fitznightingale lived in New York. (True or False?) 3. Which musical instrument could Linda play? 4. What did the envelope for Linda’s letter look like? 5. Who was General Johnston?

10. Answer the questions and do the following tasks:

1. What do you know about the author of the story?

2. Say what you learnt about Colonel Green – age, social status, interests, personal qualities.

3. What is the author’s attitude towards Colonel Green and Porcharlester, in your opinion?

4. Do you feel sorry for Porcharlester? Which of the characters – Colonel Green or Porcharlester – is the biggest deceiver, do you think? Which of them did you like better?

5. Why didn’t Colonel Green forward Linda’s letter to Porcharlester? Did he really think that it “would only pain him uselessly”?

6. Give a detailed description

a) of Colonel Green’s first experience with the French horn;

b) of Colonel Green’s performing the serenade.

Keep the original wording of the story!

7. Prepare Linda’s letter to be read aloud in class. Read it carefully and with great feeling. Translate it into Russian.

8. Comment on the proverb “All is fair in love and war”. Do you agree with it? Which of the situations described in the story does it apply to?

SKIN

by R. Dahl

1. Transcribe and practise reading the given words, learn their Russian equivalents.

aghast, Asiatic, canary, catalogue, centipede, chateau, couch, easel, fatigue, impasto, monsieur, patron, plaque, protrusion, quiver, robust, routine, spontaneity, tattoo (tattooist)

2. Vocabulary

1) to get at sth; 2) to spot sth/sb; 3) to savour sth; 4) it is a privilege to do sth; 5) to be entitled to sth; 6) in any event; 7) to call for sth (e.g. a celebration); 8) there’s nothing to sth; 9) to supersede sth; 10) to visualise sth; 11) (to put sb/to be) in a trance; 12) to surge (forward); 13) on the spot.

3. Find in the story the English for:

1) шаркать; 2) поднятый воротник; 3) витрины; 4) книги в великолепных переплетах; 5) отдаленное воспоминание; 6) позировать для картины;

7) разворачивать сверток/пакет; 8) платить наличными; 9) штопор; 10) вытащить пробку из бутылки; 11) ходить по воздуху; 12) они осушили еще одну бутылку; 13) окунать кончик иглы в чернила; 14) игла протыкает кожу; 15) сесть задом наперед; 16) он наносил мазки быстрыми, короткими ударами; 17) в отчаянии 18) пробудить воспоминания; 19) смешаться с толпой; 20) поглаживать переносицу; 21) костюмы и рубашки, сшитые по вашим индивидуальным меркам; 22) серьезная операция по пересадке кожи; 23) у бедного старика буквально слюни потекли.

Make up 1 sentence with any of the items for oral translation in class.

4. Find words and phrases in the story with the following meanings:

1) a strong feeling you get when you want something very much, especially something that you know you may not be able to have; 2) waste; 3) showing that you are in an unhappy mood, and do not want to talk; 4) showing the effects of alcohol

5) to get angry all of a sudden; 6) a terrible idea; 7) to promise; 8) slightly drunk;

9) to prepare yourself for a difficult situation or action; 10) confused because you cannot understand something; 11) to agree; 12) in a frame.