- •Irkutsk
- •Content
- •«Goodbye, my brother»
- •Read the story.
- •Match the words to their definitions:
- •Give the synonyms of the words:
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Say if the statements are true or false. Provide evidence:
- •Replace Russian words by their English equivalents:
- •Insert prepositions or adverbs.
- •Perform the dialog. Express the feelings of the characters:
- •Match the words with opposite meaning:
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Fill in the blanks with the words given bellow that go with the meaning of the sentences in a proper grammar form:
- •Insert prepositions or adverbs if necessary:
- •Speak about the characters of the story:
- •Make a summary of the story.
- •Discuss the following questions:
- •Correct the mistakes if necessary:
- •Replace Russian words by their English equivalents. Ask 8-10 special questions to cover the contents.
- •Retell the story in the name of Roxanne Milbank.
- •Title the main parts of the story:
- •«The seaside houses»
- •Think of the idea of the story. What is the author message to the reader?
- •Put the parts of the story in a proper order:
- •Discuss the following questions:
- •Comment on the statements from the story:
- •Write a letter to the narrator of the story warning him about the narrator of the story of his actions.
- •Read the story.
- •Match the words to their definitions:
- •Match the verbs with the nouns:
- •Write down all domestic chores mentioned in the story.
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Read the following sentences and try to choose the best answer. Prove your idea.
- •Speak about the characters:
- •Who said that? Answer the questions:
- •Make a summary of the story.
- •«A call loan»
- •Give synonyms of the following words:
- •Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the vocabulary. Translate the sentences into Russian:
- •Find ten factual mistakes and correct them:
- •«My first car»
- •Give antonyms of the following words:
- •Insert prepositions or adverbs if necessary:
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Correct the mistake:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Say if the statements are true or false. Provide evidence:
- •Summarize the story.
- •Look through the text once again and explain the author’s ideas:
- •A dollar on the conscience
- •Customer, store, note, conscience, storekeeper, purse, coin, bundle, counter, bargain.
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Say if the sentences are true or false:
- •Act out the dialog. Analyze the situation:
- •Retell the story in the name of Mr. Levering.
- •Look through the text once again, and comment on the author’s expressions:
- •Put the extracts into the right order:
- •Discuss the following, giving your arguments for or against.
- •«The purple dress»
- •Give the derivatives where possible:
- •Cross out the word that doesn’t belong in the same group:
- •Read the text again, study the meanings of the following words and word combination and define their contextual meaning. Give your own sentences to illustrate it:
- •Choose the right answer:
- •Speak about the characters of the story:
- •Who said that? Answer the questions:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Make a summary of the story.
- •Put a proper preposition or an adverb if necessary:
- •Find 10 factual mistakes and correct them:
- •Comment on the sentences from the story:
- •«A flutter in eggs»
- •Choose the right answer:
- •Fill in an appropriate word:
- •Retell the story in the name of Lucille Arral.
- •Title the extracts from the story:
- •Summarize the story.
- •Find in the text the indications of the food. Put them down.
- •Put the parts of the story to the right order:
- •Say if the statements are true or false. Provide evidence:
- •Correct the mistakes:
- •Write a brief critical/complimentary assessment of the story. Cliché for retelling
- •References:
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- •Автор-составитель: Хлызова Наталья Юрьевна
Answer the questions:
Why does the author start the story with the dialog? What effect is it created?
What is the meaning of the word “vain” in the story?
What did the author mean by: “Mr. Levering had a wife and three pleasant children. They were the sunlight of his home?
What does the phrase “the book of his life” mean in the story?
What happened when the customer misunderstood the price of the material?
How did Mr. Levering react about his true character?
Why did the author use only the last name of the main character?
How well is the author succeeded in portraying the feeling of remorse?
Which of the characters do you find more sympathetic?
Say if the sentences are true or false:
Mr. Levering sold the customer the goods for the wrong price.
The customer refused to buy Mr. Levering’s goods.
The customer bought everything in his store.
Mr. Levering loved his wife and children.
The unearned dollar affected his relationship with his family.
Mr. Levering worked during the daytime.
Mr. Levering was afraid that his reputation would be ruined.
Mr. Levering felt guilty about cheating his customer.
Mr. Levering does not want to talk to his customer.
Mr. Levering does not intend to own up to his mistake.
Mr. Levering was very superstitious about money.
The unearned dollar made him feel bad about himself.
Act out the dialog. Analyze the situation:
"Oh pa!" exclaimed another child, speaking from a sudden thought, "you don't know what a time we had at school to-day."
"Ah! what was the cause?"
"Oh! you'll hardly believe it. But Eddy Jones stole a dollar from Maggy Enfield!"
"Stole a dollar!" ejaculated Mr. Levering. His voice was husky, and he felt a cold thrill passing along every nerve.
"Yes, pa! he stole a dollar! Oh, wasn't it dreadful?"
"Perhaps he was wrongly accused," suggested Mrs. Levering.
"Emma Wilson saw him do it, and they found the dollar in his pocket. Oh! he looked so pale, and it made me almost sick to hear him cry as if his heart would break."
"What did they do with him?" asked Mrs. Levering.
"They sent for his mother, and she took him home. Wasn't it dreadful?"
"It must have been dreadful for his poor mother," Mr. Levering ventured to remark.
"But more dreadful for him," said Mrs. Levering. "Will he ever forget his crime and disgrace? Will the pressure of that dollar on his conscience ever be removed? He may never do so wicked an act again; but the memory of this wrong deed cannot be wholly effaced from his mind."
Retell the story in the name of Mr. Levering.
Look through the text once again, and comment on the author’s expressions:
weight of that dollar;
unlucky dollar;
abstract the dollar;
disposition of the money;
he cast the money into the treasury.
Put the extracts into the right order:
"I'm very foolish," said he, mentally, as he walked homeward, after closing his store for the evening. "Very foolish to worry myself about a trifle like this. The goods were cheap enough at fifty-five, and she is quite as well contented with her bargain as if she had paid only fifty."
"Twenty yards at fifty-five cents! Just eleven dollars." The customer opened her purse as she thus spoke, and counted out the sum in glittering gold dollars. "That is right, I believe," and she pushed the money towards Mr. Levering, who, with a kind of automatic movement of his hand, drew forward the coin and swept it into his till.
In the community, Mr. Levering had the reputation of being a conscientious, high-minded man. He knew that he was thus estimated, and self-complacently appropriated the good opinion as clearly his due.
"What is the matter with you this evening, dear? Are you not well?" inquired Mrs. Levering, breaking in upon the thoughtful mood of her husband, as he sat in unwonted silence.
Earnest seeker after this world's goods, take warning by Mr. Levering, and beware how, in a moment of weak yielding, you get a dollar on your conscience. One of two evils must follow. It will give you pain and trouble, or make callous the spot where it rests. And the latter of these evils is that which is most to be deplored.
"That weight shall be off my conscience," said Mr. Levering to himself, as he began counting out the change due his customer; and, purposely, he gave her one dollar more than was justly hers in that transaction. The lady glanced her eyes over the money, and seemed slightly bewildered. Then, much to the storekeeper's relief, opened her purse and dropped it therein.