- •VII.Retell the story and express your opinion of the events that took place and the way the author manages to create the armosphere and show the feelings of his characters.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian for the following words and word combinations and illustrate their usage:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Think of the idea of the story. What is the author message to the reader?
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the Story.
- •II.Look up the words in the dictionary, memorize them and illustrate their usage:
- •IV.Comment on the title of the story.
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Look up the words in a dictionary, learn them and illustrate their usage by examples from the story:
- •III.Explain the meaning, use in sentences of your own:
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following words and word-combinations:
- •IV.Retell the story on Mr.Coolidge’s behalf.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations, learn them.
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the first part of the story.
- •II.Illustrate the meaning of the following words and word combinations by the examples from the story:
- •II.Make a plan of this part of the story.
- •IV.Describe the characters and the events they participated in:
- •V.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Answer the following questions.
- •V.Retell this part of the story, trying to touch on the questions given.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Explain themeaning of the following:
- •IV.Make a plan of the story.
- •V.Retell the story according to your plan. Make use of the above-given words and word combinations.
- •VI.Answer the following questions:
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Explain what is meant by:
- •IV.Answer the following questions:
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage and learn the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story on behalf of:
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage and learn the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story. Concentrate on the 3 phobias.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following:
- •II.Answer the following questions.
- •IV.Retell the story.
V.Retell the story.
“The Superintendent”
I.Read the story.
II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following words and word-combinations:
to keep an eye on smb
to cjange for the worse/better
to move out, up
to be content with
to face smth
urgent
to accept an invitation
to take (great) pains at doing smth
to refrain from
out of fact
to lay eyes on
conspicuous
to complain about, of
to lose one’s temper
to carry the burden on one’s shoulders
to interfere with
in a mess
to give smb one’s best regards
to be (un)conscious of
to scatter smth
to disguise, disguising
to excite smb’s curiosity
to add up to nothing
III.
Characterize Mr. Chester Coolidge. What was his occupation? Was it of great responsibility? What were his duties? What happened that day? was he efficient at work? What do you make oh him?
Describe Mrs. Coolidge. What kinf of woman was she? Was her marriage a happy one? What were Mr. and Mrs.Coolidge’s relations like?
Characterize the tenants:
Mrs. Bestwick and her husband;
Mrs. Negus and her husband;
What happened to the Bestwick’s? Why did they have to move out? Why was it so important for Mrs. Negus to get her things up into 9-E apartment? Was there any conflict between the women-tenants of 9-E and 1-A apartments?
Who was Katie Shay? Why did Mrs. Coolidge take her for her mistress? What was Katie’s hobby? Why do you think she didn’t allow the workman to feed those wild pigeons?
What unites all those separate episodes into a story? Why did Mr.Coolidge, the Superintendent, think that all the tenants who had their moving day and Katie Shay “added up to nothing”?
What is the idea of the story?
IV.Retell the story on Mr.Coolidge’s behalf.
“The Day the Big Fell into the Well”
I.Read the story.
II.Give the Russian, illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations, learn them.
fain, pen, shed, to upset, hardware, allowance, rapport, to disgust, to graduate from, misgiving, ingenuous, to impart, arduous, to go on a diet, to have smth at heart, to take pride in, freshman, sophoman, to clear one’s throat, cupidity, to frustrate, desperately, to ruin, to betray, pike, to expell, celebrity, to feel superrior to, corpulence, to have trouble in doing smth, to be perplexed, to overlook convention, to borrow money from, to get on with, to be brought up, to mulch, to prune, rite, trifling, in a raffle, on smb’s part, to make a living, easy-going, surreptitiously, pail, bucket, conjecture, venture, courageous, to take advantage of gasoline rationing, shartages, to device comfort from, to have faith in, malevolence, truce, meagre, reconciliation, ridiculous, garrulous, abyss, to do well, exhilarate, enduring, secure.
III.Answer the following questions:
How many members did the Nudd family consist of?
How did they usually spend their summer?
Who visited them often?
What was particular about the summer the pig fell into the well? What happened that day?
Why does the author compare the recital of the day with a sextet and the narrator with singers?
Why did with every passing year the story change?
What has happened in those years?
Why did the story, recalled and told so many times exhilarate the family and make them feel that all was well?