XVII. Give the retelling of the text as if you were:

• Ann

• Ann’s mother

• Ann’s father

• Mrs Flynn

• Ann’s teacher who has known her since childhood

Chapter 2 Morning at Elm Hill

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

To spend a wakeful night

To keep at bay

To keep one’s mind active

To impart knowledge

To receive criticism

Coherent

To elude smth

In a daze

To scrutinize one’s reflection in the mirror

The paraphernalia of the school life

Staff cloakroom

Extreme nervous tension

Strongly marked brows

To be dressed with taste and care

A square-cut sapphire

To be mysteriously reticent

To add a touch of glamour and pathos

Resentment towards a newcomer

Glove puppets

To get on

An ambitious woman

A manner-maniac

Punctilious courtesy

To border to the ridiculous

To create order of chaos

To fail only in one respect

To deny smth.strongly

Raw material

To try new methods upon smb.

To note results

A curtsy

A living evidence of one’s work and effort

To find smb/smth. tiresome

To be on the threshold of one’s career

To hesitate in the doorway

To thaw

Chill forebodings

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

To have only one drawback, to demand good manners too strictly, a woman making a career, refuse to admit something, to look at one’s reflection in the looking-glass with criticism, to have a white night, to be at the very beginning of one’s work, to be well-dressed, to see the progress, to keep thinking, to teach.

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

To slip, to spend, to keep, to sleep, to know, to teach, to impart, to stand, to twist, to swim, to drone, to tremble, to lay, to take, to tiptoe, to approach, to smell, to mix, to knock, to read, to wipe, to weep, to echo, to cut, to wave, to weave, to drop, to learn, to hope, to hop, to rise, to raise, to accompany, to tell, to dream, to begin.

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

Feather-bed, tumultuous, trembling, inwardly, curiosity, anxious, quadrangle, mown, capacious, stationery, lofty, label, woodwork, timidly, handkerchief, intelligence, mysteriously, apiece, apparatus, questionnaire, challenging, essential, defenseless.

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

1. She had spent a wakeful night in the narrow bed…

2. Would she be able to keep order? Would the children be ready to listen…?

3. She moved away from the cold radiator against which she had been pressing herself and approached the door again…

4. It was generally supposed…that her fiancé had been killed… during the last war.

5. … she was making a good job of it.

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

1. Would she be able to keep order?

2. … the great building, which she was to recognize all through her life…

3. Anna prepared to meet her headmistress.

4. … her attractive appearance did much to impress both children and their parents with her general capability.

5. … there were only four males to add to the ten females…

6. … raw material upon which new methods could be tried and new results noted.