X. Translate from Russian into English.

1. У нашей директрисы просто мания использовать картинки на уроках. Наличие картинок она считает первым и обязательным условием ее хваленых уроков.

2. Я собираюсь изменить все методы прежнего учителя. Я считаю их тяжкими и репрессивными.

3. -Когда школьный инспектор изменял расстановку парт в классе, дети были рады поводу походить по классу и побездельничать.

4. -Наш директор создает вдвойне тяжелые условия для новичков: она нещадно критикует их работу. Не завидую тем, кто попадает к ней в лапы.

5. -В детстве люди полны душевных порывов, они добры, хотят учиться и жаждут любой деятельности. Поэтому лучше не накалять атмосферу в классе и позволять детям немного двигаться и разговаривать.

6. -Безделье – страшная беда для детей. Они всегда рады поводу повалять дурака, будучи без присмотра.

7. -У каждого школьного инспектора свой конек: один помешан на документах, другой считает, что учебные планы – главная составляющая работы учителя, у третьего мания по поводу поведения и манер.

8. -После первого открытого занятия молодые учителя часто озадаченны. Им кажется, что коллеги безбожно критикуют их и чувствуют себя вдвойне подавленными.

9. -Привязанность к детям – главное условие работы в школе.

XI.Give the literary translation of the extract: p.46. “The one great, wicked problem….” Up to “could manage them more easily.”

XII.Agree or disagree with the following statements. Use the words and expressions from Appendix 1. Prove your opinion with the words from the text.

1. Anna hated to see idle pupils and gave them as much work as possible.

2. All the advisors who came to Anna’s class approved her work.

3. All the teachers waited for the advisors because they could give valuable instructions concerning teaching methods.

4. Anna was not the only one teacher who was criticized by the advisers.

2. Make up dialogues between:

• Two teachers discussing the advisors’ visits;

• Two advisors discussing the mistakes of the teachers.

Use the phrases from Appendix 3.

XIV.Retell the text as if you were:

• Ann;

• One of the teachers;

• One of the advisors.

Chapter 8 An Everyday Young Man

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

Exuberant

To satisfy smb’s frugal soul

To be the offspring of two strong urges

An inborn love for bargain

A burning ambition

A petty ambition

Genteel

Comfortably-off

Cheese-paring efforts

Self-glorification

Digs

A widow of majestic appearance

To be compared with smth./smb favourably

To press food upon smb

To make a substitute for smb/smth

To smile indulgently

Snug

In an unobtrusive way

To work like beavers

A superhuman effort

To soil one’s hands

To slave for

Mass-pumping

To be a sad loss to smb/smth

To be rebellious against smb/smth

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

To replace smb, to work hard, flat, hard try, to treat smb. with food, to feel protest against smth, cosy, to make one’s hands dirty, to toil, economy, self-praising, a strong desire.

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

String, spend, wrap, throw, urge, know, show, begin, ensue, let, snort, subside, hear, come, see, think, falter, find, spoil, bring, keep, forestall, vanish, groom, leave, say, take, get, grow, retort, speak, feel, cut, choose, raise, rise, slam.

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

Benison, tawdry, thrift, assessment, sundial, launderette, self-righteous, extraordinary, pseudo-Chinese, solicitous, methodically, chaperon, forlornly, privet, loathsome.

2. Write out the words denoting;

• Christmas decorations;

• Dishes.

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

1. Even Mrs. Flynn had caught the infection and had made Christmas puddings from an “Economical Wartime Recipe” which satisfied her frugal soul and evolved a lot of shredded carrots.

2. She had been buying, for some time, only the soap powder, which offered free Christmas wrapping papers: “For,” as she remarked to Anna, “it’s just silly to spend money on something that will be thrown away; and yet one doesn’t like to look mean.”

3. Anna had been shocked one day by Mrs. Flynn’s bitter contempt for the family next door.

4. Anna guessed that she had been brought up in a household where the men’s comfort came first, and suspected that Tom made a very good substitute for the two sons who had recently married and left home.

5. I’ve put some logs on…

6. I shall be here if you need me.

7. Altogether she would have thought him very well settled in his job so that it was a shock when he said in the course of conversation…

8. But I’m liking it more as I go on.

9. After a superhuman effort my father managed to buy this market garden and I would love to work there too.