Assignment 1 (Chapters 1,2. Pp 2-7)

1. Read and listen to chapters 1 and 2 at

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B72XkxRIV0-RdXM1SWQ2bnNfVEk&usp=sharing

2. Find the following expressions in the text, translate them and reproduce the situations they are used in.

1. to be famous (for sth, with smb) – p. 2

2. work on the building – p. 2

3. under the ground – p.2

4. walk for hours - p. 2

5. a true story about smth/smb – p. 2

6. to turn to sb – p. 2

7. not to say a word to anyone – p. 4

8. to watch the opera from the box - – p. 4

9. to leave flowers for sb – p. 4

10. to tell sb stories - p. 4

11. to talk all through the (opera) - p. 4

12. an accident (syn. an incident) - p. 5

13. to be dead; a dead body; - p.5

14. to be mad (with/about smb/smth) – p. 5

15. to get angry (with smb. ) - p. 6

3. Give some examples of your own using the expressions from Exercise II (sentences or micro situations).

4. Translate from Russian into English.

1. В здании Парижской оперы семнадцать этажей, семь - под землёй и десять - над землей. 2. Мадам Жюри, швейцар театра, говорит, что призрак не любит, когда люди о нём разговаривают. 3. Не рассказывай мне сказки! 4. Прежде чем начать говорить, танцовщицы оглядывались. 5. Я пишу, чтобы попросить вас никогда не продавать билеты в ложу номер пять. 6. Мы не будем ничего делать с этим письмом. 7. Партию Маргариты сегодня вечером может исполнить молодая певица из Норвегии. 8. В здании парижской оперы нет призрака. Они все сошли с ума.

5. a) Find all the irregular verbs in the Past Simple. b) Find all the adjectives in comparative and superlative forms. Get ready for a quiz on the verb and adjective forms.

6. a) Match the following adjectives describing states of feeling with their definitions.

scared amused puzzled worried intrigued depressed nervous annoyed furious

showing that you think something is funny very angry very interested in something because it seems strange or mysterious frightened of something very unhappy worried or frightened about something, and unable to relax slightly angry unhappy because you keep thinking about a problem confused and unable to understand something

7. b) Make a list of all the characters whom the reader meets in Chapters 1-2 and their occupations. Which of the adjectives would you use to describe the characters’ states of feeling in various situations?

Model: I think Annie Sorelli was frightened and nervous when she ran into the dancer’s dressing-room.

8. State which of the following sentences are right and which are wrong. Correct the wrong ones.

1. The Paris Opera House has seven storeys under the ground.

2. All the dancers believed there was really a ghost in the Paris Opera House.

3. Madame Giry was an opera singer.

4. Joseph Buquet was found dead with a rope around his neck.

5. The directors of the opera House did not care about Buquet’s death.

6. Monseur Armand Moncharmin and Monseur Firmin Richard received a letter from a stranger signed O.G.

7. O.G. demanded that the directors sell him tickets to Box 5 at half-price.

8. La Carlotta was going to sing Margarita in Faust that night.

9. Fill in the gaps with the names of the characters.

1. _________ saw a ghost in the passage.

2. _________ sometime found flowers in Box 5.

3. _________ was found dead with a rope around his neck.

4. _________ was very angry about the letter.

5. _________ was a good friend, but a bad enemy.

6. _________ couldn’t sing in the Opera that night.

10. Find in the text some information about a) the ghost; b) Meg Giry and her mother; c) the new directors; d)La Carlotta e) Christine. Which of them are going to be the main characters of the story (in your opinion)?Invent a piossible story line with them.

11. Work in pairs: ask your partner questions on the text (all types of questions should be used). Then answer your partner’s questions about the text.

Retell chapters 1 and 2.