Chapter 7 Occupational Hazzards

I.Read, translate and transcribe the following words, give explanation of their meaning. Say in what situations these words and combinations are used.

Affection for smb.

To be keen to learn

Incredible zest for every kind of activity

A wicked problem

Idle hands

High-spirited push

To allow freedom of movement and a certain amount of talking in the classroom

Doubly frustrating conditions

To strain the atmosphere in the classroom

To envy smb. heartily

To have a phobia about smth

To be bewildered

To alter smth.

To be glad of an excuse

The first essential of smth.

Joyful and aimless abandon

To ride one’s own hobby-horse

To have smb.in one’s clutches

Heavily repressive methods

Smb’s celebrated lessons

To criticize smb/smth mercifully

2. Replace the following words with their synonyms from the given list.

Smb’s praised classes, to follow one’s favourite route, to use a possibility, to change smth, to harden the mood in the class, to wish to study, to be puzzled, to be afraid of smth, love for smb, to be jealous, very hard atmosphere, the main rule.

2. Give the three forms of the following verbs, translate and transcribe them.

Vanish, straggle, leave, relieve, breathe, deal, restrict, set, wheel, think, emphasize, exhort, weigh, send, barricade, fly, rise, hasten, leap, manhandle, cope, burn, echo, snigger, bear, light, teach, misgive, hear, fling.

2. Translate, transcribe and pronounce the following words, use them in the sentences of your own.

Unselfconscious, mischief, hazard, influenza, manoeuvre, width, consternation, trepidation, lunatic, siege, dilemma, flabbergasted, monomaniac, surveillance, vigilance, zealous, foe, dicta, psychological.

2. Explain the use of tenses in the following phrases.

1. Fond of them as she was as individuals, collectively they constituted an unwieldy, noisy and exhausting mass.

2. ,,, and the sound of forty-five desks, …would have been almost too much, even for Anna’s healthy young nerves.

3. For one dreadful Anna thought she must be referring to a dangerous lunatic who had escaped two days before from a local hospital…

4. She was weighing up the merits of sending her class home immediately against those of barricading the door…

5. The hubbub, she noticed with alarm, was becoming tremendous…

6. I’ll try and call in again before I leave.

7. The lowest group were having some difficulty in multiplying…

8. If it weren’t for backing up dear Florence I’d have told that young man what I thought of him!

2. State the form and the function of the infinitive in the following sentences.

1. It was impossible to watch them all…

2. She hated to leave the open air…

3. To Anna, who had been trained to allow freedom of movement and a certain amount of talking in the classroom…

4. Monitors were chosen to give out the apparatus required, and Anna was amused to notice that… she seemed to have appointed the four smallest children for this task…

5. She set herself to hear each child read at least twice a week…

6. There never seemed to be time, let alone space, to plan all these manoeuvres…

7. She was rather proud of her arrangements, but criticism was soon to come…

8. Don’t let anyone try to get you to alter them.

9. … she did her best to look happily responsive.