- •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:
- •Useful links:
- •Автор-составитель: Хлызова Наталья Юрьевна
Discuss the following questions:
Why does the narrator dislike the rent house at Broadmere?
Why does the image of the house owner trouble him?
What makes the narrator break his marriage?
What is your opinion of the narrator’s behavior?
Why is the story narrated by an unseen guide?
Can the things influence our life?
What stylistic devices does the author use?
Comment on the statements from the story:
All my dealings are with agents.
Our affairs are certainly not written in air and water, but they do seem to be chronicled in scuffed baseboards, odors, and tastes in furniture and paintings, and the climates we step into in these rented places are as marked as the changes of weather on the beach.
Someone was enormously happy here, and we rent their happiness as we rent their beach and their catboat.
Someone had written there, in a small hand, “My father is a rat. I repeat. My father is a rat.”
He is in synthetic yarns.
She seemed to me monolithic, to possess some of the community’s biting teeth.
I had a hangover and felt painfully depraved, guilty, and unclean.
I must have raised my voice, because I could hear Mrs. Whiteside calling Mary-Lee indoors and shutting a window.
But my first, my gentle wife is not there to ask, “Why have they come back? What have they lost?”
Write a letter to the narrator of the story warning him about the narrator of the story of his actions.
«TRIALS OF A HOUSEKEEPER»
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Read the story.
Match the words to their definitions:
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tumbler
grievance
saucer
barrel
crockery
pitcher
quilt
chambermaid
genteel
brandish
a shallow dish, typically having a circular indentation in the center, on which a cup is placed;
plates, dishes, cups, and other similar items, esp. ones made of earthenware or china;
a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops around them;
a maid who cleans bedrooms and bathrooms, esp. in a hotel;
wave or flourish (something, esp. a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement;
a large container, typically earthenware, glass, or plastic, with a handle and a lip, used for holding and pouring liquids;
polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way;
a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, esp. unfair treatment;
a drinking glass with straight sides and no handle or stem;
a warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabric and kept in place by lines of stitching, typically applied in a decorative design.
Match the verbs with the nouns:
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to put up in their places
to administer
to make
to sweep
to wash
to scour
to attend
to accomplish
to spit
to set on
to break
to burn
to tear
to fix
to sew
clothes
breakfast
crockery
dinner
joint
supper
matter
carpet
cetera
saucer
knife
room
bed
meal
dish
floor