Grammar

Ex.19. Find in the text “Mr. Rochester’s Visitors” all the sentences in the Passive Voice and read them.

Ex.20. Determine the Degrees of comparison of the adjectives from the text:

pretty, more elegant, the tallest, larger, showy, taller.

Ex.21. Find in the text more adjectives and give their degrees of comparison.

Ex.22. Fill in prepositions: in, on, of, with, for, at. Some prepositions can be used more than once.

Mr. Eshton, the magistrate … the district, is gentleman-like: his hair is quite white, his eyebrows and whiskers still dark. I wish to think only … the work I have … my hands. And he, holding my hand and looking down … my face, admired me … eyes that revealed a heart full … eager to overflow. I had no sympathy … for their appearance. … a moment they stood grouped together … the other extremity … the gallery.

Ex.23. Ask all types of questions to the sentence:

Mr.Motshill opened doors first by kicking with the toe and then pushing with the shoulder.

Ex.24. Use the Passive Voice in the sentences below:

1) Last Friday Tom the cat scratched Nick’s hands very badly. 2) Mother usually embraces and kisses Nelly when she gets excellent marks at school. 3) We shall need more helping hands to complete the job on time. 4) The doctor can treat Peter’s broken hand. 5) Children must wash their hands before each of the meals.

Ex.25. Write the missing letters in the words.

Sh..l ..r, w…t, f..e..m, .r.p.t, th…, e…w, ..d.x, n..l.

Ex.26. Simplify the sentences below preserving the original meaning:

1. It was a mild, quiet spring day – one of those at the end of March and beginning of April.

2. But the three most distinguished – partly, perhaps, because the tallest figures of the company – were the Dowger Lady Ingram and her daughters Blanche and Mary.

Ex.27. Retell the text “Mr. Rochester’s Visitors”.

Ex.28. Say what it means:

• to turn somebody round one’s finger;

• to carry fire in one hand and water in the other.

Ex.29. Guess:

• What kind of teeth cannot bite?

• Without it you couldn’t say a word.

Ex.30. Explain the proverbs:

1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

2. Clothes do not make the man.

Believe it or not

• Of course, there never lived a more unhappy young woman than the woman from Frankfurt in Germany who had two tongues but could not speak a word.

• Joseph de Mai was born with two hearts. He lived in the nineteenth century in Naples.

Section VI Word Guide

Ex.1. Read and the word combinations and set expressions with the names of body parts:

To be in two minds – колебаться, находиться в нерешительности

To take the words out of somebody’s mouth – предвосхитить чьи-либо слова

Old hand – опытный человек

To go in one ear and out the other – в одно ухо вошло, в другое вышло

Something slipped my mind – забыть

Two heads are better than one – две головы лучше чем одна

To catch the eye – попасться на глаза

My heart isn’t in it – сердце не лежит к чему-либо

To have a leg to stand on – иметь основание, почву

To put your feet up – расслабиться

To do something with your eyes shut – легко с чем-либо справиться

To rack one’s brain – ломать голову

Within a hair’s breadth – на волосок от чего-либо

Something is written all over one’s face – у него на лице все написано

To keep up appearances – делать вид, что ничего не случилось

To keep one’s chin up – не падать духом

Ex.2. The idioms given in the exercise are all connected with parts of body. Fill the gaps in the sentences with words denoting parts of body. Translate the idioms into Russian. Compose your situations to justify their use.

E.x. The driver that overtook us needs his head examined.

1) They were in two … whether to get married.

2) I was just going to say that – you took the words out of my … .

3) Ask someone who’s been working here for years – one of the old … .

4) Anything you say to them goes in one … and out the other.

5) I’m sorry I haven’t made that phone call, it slipped my … .

6) If there’s a problem to solve, two … are better than one.

7) I tried to catch the waiter’s … but he didn’t look my way.

8) I used to enjoy keeping fit but no my … isn’t in it.

9) What he did was quite unjustified – he hasn’t got a … to stand on.

10) When you’ve finished this work you’ll be able to put your … up.

11) Windsurfing looks so easy – I could do it with my … shut.

12) I’ve racked my … but I can’t remember his name.

13) She was within a …’s breadth of winning.

14) You could see he was guilty. It was written all over his …. .