State the form and the function of the gerund in the following sentences.

… and lie exhausted for half an hour before facing Mrs. Flynn’s dry slab cake and thin tea.

Now she … was amused, and slightly alarmed to hear herself lapsing into imbecile speech…

… and to her own dislike of debasing her mother tongue…

Anna noticed the opportunities this exercise gave for shooting out the legs energetically and kicking one’s immediate neighbor.

… she wondered if she would ever manage to take a Rhythmic Work lesson without having to send for the First Aid Box…

Dropping her bouncing partner, she flew to Bobby Byng…

… Anna had cause to remember Joan Berry’s remark about the staff being “a rum lot – a very rum lot”.

Don’t give him the satisfaction of asking…

State the meaning of the modal verbs in the following sentences.

Now she was able to take stock of her progress…

I can see… several naughty little children, not a hundred miles from here…

She decided that she must keep an ear cocked for the treacheries that escaped her lips.

You must watch one or two of her lessons.

The boy who’s snoring can just stop it!

As far as Anna could judge…

There must be an end some time to Miss Enderby’s romantic tolerance.

Translate the sentences from English into Russian.

At the lessons a teacher must never debase his mother tongue and lapse into imbecile speech talking to children. Though the children seem to respond to such way of speaking they have a bad example.

I must assure you that this pupil is quite trustworthy. He is clear-speaking and will do well playing the part of the frog in the Christmas play.

Though this man is very nice and clever his attempts at lady killing appear ridiculous.

During the breaks children behave like a herd of stampeding elephants and it is necessary to keep a First Aid box nearby.

A lot of authors wish to show life in the raw and try to write stories with working-class background. But the problem is that they have never seen and have never been to such a society.

It is naturally for a working man to think of the rewards of his labours. But to count the gains before having started the work is another kettle of fish.

Clothes are an overriding passion of this woman. She spends such an amount of money on them that she can’t make ends meet.

A teacher can’t confess his ignorance in any field and tries to look particularly competent in any subject.

Though at the lectures she had taken notes laboriously but she didn’t know much and had to confess her ignorance.

Crashing cords of tinkling music irritated the children and after the Rhythmic Work lesson they felt exhausted and tottered home.

This teen has broken home, a drunken father and mother out of work. He often has to appear in Juvenile court and the Probation Officer is an often visitor in their family.

The majority of children are exuberant and you must keep an ear cocked for any malefactors at the lessons and especially at the breaks otherwise you will have to apply the First Aid box.