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5.Say if the statements are True or False

1.The author worked in a newspaper.

2.Tripp never asked more than a dollar.

3.The author had five dollars and it was easy for him to get them.

4.The author promised Tripp to tell a good story.

5.Tripp said that the author would have to pay 1 or 2 dollars for the story.

6.The journey to the city was an easy one for Ada.

7.Ada loved Dodd.

8.Ada didn't have money to go back home.

9.Ada lied Dodd she was going to spend a day with her friend.

10.The author bought the girl flowers.

6.Answer the questions

1.What kind of person was Tripp?

2.Why was he always borrowing money?

3.How much money did the narrator have? Where did he get it?

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4.What did Tripp promise to get the money?

5.Why did Ada come to the city?

6.Who was George? What were his plans in the city?

7.How much money did Tripp think the narrator will get for the story? How much money did he ask the narrator to spend? Why?

8.Why, according to Tripp, did the girl have to get back home the same day?

9.What did the narrator persuade the girl to do?

10.Why did Tripp finally get the money?

7. Find five mistakes in the summary

There was a man named Tripp working in a newspaper. He was always borrowing money because he was hungry. He was pale and miserable and very slim. He offered the author a story. The story was about a girl, who was going to get married but couldn’t forget her ex-boyfriend and went to the town to look for him. Tripp was sure that it was a good story and that the author would get ten dollars for it. But Tripp said that the author would have to pay for the girl’s room and for her way back. When the two men came to the hotel, the girl was happy. They persuaded her to get back home and to marry her boyfriend. The girl didn’t understand that Tripp was her ex-boyfriend. The author refused to pay Tripp a dollar for the story.

8.Make up character sketches of the Author, Tripp, Ada. Describe their:

-appearance

-typical traits of character

-behaviour

TO BUILD A FIRE by Jack London

The man walked down the trail on a cold, gray day. Pure white snow and ice covered the Earth for as far as he could see. This was his first winter in Alaska. He was wearing heavy clothes and fur boots. But he still felt cold and uncomfortable.

The man was on his way to a camp near Henderson Creek. His friends were already there. He expected to reach Henderson Creek by six o’clock that

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evening. It would be dark by then. His friends would have a fire and hot food ready for him.

A dog walked behind the man. It was a big gray animal, half dog and half wolf. The dog did not like the extreme cold. It knew the weather was too cold to travel.

The man continued to walk down the trail. He came to a frozen stream called Indian Creek. He began to walk on the snow-covered ice. It was a trail that would lead him straight to Henderson Creek and his friends.

As he walked, he looked carefully at the ice in front of him. Once, he stopped suddenly, and then walked around a part of the frozen stream. He saw that an underground spring flowed under the ice at that spot. It made the ice thin. If he stepped there, he might break through the ice into a pool of water. To get his boots wet in such cold weather might kill him. His feet would turn to ice quickly. He could freeze to death.

At about twelve o’clock, the man decided to stop to eat his lunch. He took off the glove on his right hand. He opened his jacket and shirt, and pulled out his bread and meat. This took less than twenty seconds. Yet, his fingers began to freeze.

He hit his hand against his leg several times until he felt a sharp pain. Then he quickly put his glove on his hand. He made a fire, beginning with small pieces of wood and adding larger ones. He sat on a snow-covered log and ate his lunch. He enjoyed the warm fire for a few minutes. Then he stood up and started walking on the frozen stream again.

A half hour later, it happened. At a place where the snow seemed very solid, the ice broke. The man’s feet sank into the water. It was not deep, but his legs got wet to the knees. The man was angry. The accident would delay his arrival at the camp. He would have to build a fire now to dry his clothes and boots.

He walked over to some small trees. They were covered with snow. In their branches were pieces of dry grass and wood left by flood waters earlier in the year. He put several large pieces of wood on the snow, under one of the trees. On top of the wood, he put some grass and dry branches. He pulled off his gloves, took out his matches, and lighted the fire. He fed the young flame with more wood. As the fire grew , he gave it larger pieces of wood.

He worked slowly and carefully. At sixty degrees below zero, a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire. While he was walking,

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his blood had kept all parts of his body warm. Now that he had stopped, cold was forcing his blood to withdraw deeper into his body. His wet feet had frozen. He could not feel his fingers. His nose was frozen, too. The skin all over his body felt cold.

Now, however, his fire was beginning to burn more strongly. He was safe. He sat under the tree and thought of the old men in Fairbanks.

Yet here he was. He had had an accident. He was alone. And he had saved himself. He had built a fire.

Those old men were weak, he thought. A real man could travel alone. If a man stayed calm, he would be all right. The man’s boots were covered with ice.

The strings on his boots were as hard as steel. He would have to cut them with his knife.

He leaned back against the tree to take out his knife. Suddenly, without warning, a heavy mass of snow dropped down. His movement had shaken the young tree only a tiny bit. But it was enough to cause the branches of the tree to drop their heavy load. The man was shocked. He sat and looked at the place where the fire had been.

The old men had been right, he thought. If he had another man with him, he would not be in any danger now. The other man could build the fire. Well, it was up to him to build the fire again. This time, he must not fail.

The man collected more wood. He reached into his pocket for the matches. But his fingers were frozen. He could not hold them. He began to hit his hands with all his force against his legs.

After a while, feeling came back to his fingers. The man reached again into his pocket for the matches. But the tremendous cold quickly drove the life out of his fingers. All the matches fell onto the snow. He tried to pick one up, but failed.

The man pulled on his glove and again beat his hand against his leg. Then he took the gloves off both hands and picked up all the matches. He gathered them together. Holding them with both hands, he scratched the matches along his leg. They immediately caught fire.

He held the blazing matches to a piece of wood. After a while, he became aware that he could smell his hands burning. Then he began to feel the pain. He opened his hands, and the blazing matches fell on to the snow. The flame went out in a puff of gray smoke.

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The man looked up. The dog was still watching him. The man got an idea. He would kill the dog and bury his hands inside its warm body. When the feeling came back to his fingers, he could build another fire. He called to the dog. The dog heard danger in the man’s voice. It backed away.

The man called again. This time the dog came closer. The man reached for his knife. But he had forgotten that he could not bend his fingers. He could not kill the dog, because he could not hold his knife.

The fear of death came over the man. He jumped up and began to run. The running began to make him feel better. Maybe running would make his feet warm. If he ran far enough, he would reach his friends at Henderson Creek. They would take care of him.

It felt strange to run and not feel his feet when they hit the ground. He fell several times. He decided to rest a while. As he lay in the snow, he noticed that he was not shaking. He could not feel his nose or fingers or feet. Yet, he was feeling quite warm and comfortable. He realized he was going to die.

Well, he decided, he might as well take it like a man. There were worse ways to die.

The man closed his eyes and floated into the most comfortable sleep he had ever known.

The dog sat facing him, waiting. Finally, the dog moved closer to the man and caught the smell of death. The animal threw back its head. It let out a long, soft cry to the cold stars in the black sky.

And then it tuned and ran toward Henderson Creek…where it knew there was food and a fire. https://englishstory.ru/jack-london-to-build-a-fire-in-english-adapted.html

1. Match the words with opposite meaning

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3. Replace the words and phrases in bold by the words from the box

10. As he lay in the snow, he noticed that he was not shaking.

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5.Say if the statements are true or false

1.A dog walking behind the man was a big grey animal, half dog and half wolf.

2.The man began to walk on the snow-covered trail that would lead him away from Henderson Creek and his friends.

3.He saw that an underground spring flowing under the ice made the ice thin.

4.To get his boots wet in such cold weather might kill him.

5.At about twelve o’clock, the man decided to stop to eat his lunch - he opened his jacket and shirt, and pulled out his bread and cheese.

6.The man’s feet sank into the water, because the ice broke.

7.He would have to build a fire now to dry his clothes and boots and to cook food.

8.He could not feel his fingers, nose and ears.

9.The strings on his boots were as hard as steel, because they were frozen.

10.The fire died out because of the dog.

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6.Answer the questions:

1.How many winters did the man stay in Alaska?

2.How was the man dressed? How did he feel?

3.Where were the man’s friends?

4.What kind of dog did the man have?

5.Was it easy for the man to make a fire?

6.Why couldn’t the man make one more fire?

7.What idea came to him about his dog?

8.What was wrong with the man’s feet?

9.How did he realize that he was going to die?

10.What had the old men told him about traveling alone? Were they right?

7. Put the statements of the summary in the correct order

It was very cold and the man’s feet were wet – that’s why he died. Suddenly the man’s feet sank into the water and got wet.

The man was going down the trail in the wood to the camp near Henderson Creek.

The man was accompanied by a dog which was half dog and half wolf. When the man was walking along the stream, he tried to be very careful. He made a fire, ate and started walking again.

But when the fire got bigger, a heavy mass of snow dropped down and killed the fire.

The man started making fire again to dry his clothes and boots. Then the man felt hungry and decided to stop and have a snack.

The man couldn’t make another fire because his fingers were frozen.

THE SCREAMING WOMAN by Ray Bradbury

My name is Margaret Leary and I’m ten years old. I haven’t any brothers or sisters, but I’ve got a nice father and mother but they don’t pay much attention to me. And anyway, we never thought, we would have anything to do with a murdered woman. Or almost, anyway.

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your back garden. And when it does happen, you don’t believe it. You just go on buttering your toast or baking a cake.

I’ll tell you how it happened. It was in the middle of July. It was hot and Mother said to me: “Margaret, you go to the shop and buy some ice-cream. It’s Saturday. Dad’s home for lunch, so we’ll have a treat.”

I ran across the bombed site behind our house. It was a place where kids played and there was broken glass and stuff.

On my way back from the shop with the ice-cream I was just walking along, when all of a sudden it happened.

I heard the Screaming Woman. I stopped and listened. It was coming from out of the ground. A woman was buried under the rocks and dirt and glass, and was screaming, all wild and horrible, for someone to dig her out.

I just stood there, afraid, and she kept screaming. Then I started to run. I fell down, got up again and ran some more.

I opened the door of our house and there was Mother, calm and not knowing what I knew, that there was a real live woman buried at the back of our house, just a hundred yards away, crying for help.

«Don’t just stand there with the ice-cream melting,» said Mother. «But, Mum» I said.

«Put it in the fridge,» she said.

«Listen, Mum, there’s a Screaming Woman…» «And wash your hands,» said Mother.

«She was screaming and screaming …Listen to me,» I said, loudly. «We’ve got to dig her out. She‘s buried under tons and tons of dirt and if we don’t dig her out, she’ll choke and die.»

«I’m certain she can wait until after lunch,» said Mother. «Mum, don’t you believe me?»

«Of course, dear. Now wash your hands and take this plate in to your father.» «I don’t even know who she is or how she got there,» I said. «But we’ve got to help her before it’s too late.»

«Good heavens.» said Mother. «Look at this ice-cream. What did you do, just stand in the sun and let it melt?«

I went into the dining-room.

To read the second part, please, follow the link: https://englishstory.ru/ray-bradbury-the-screaming-woman.html

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1.Give Russian equivalents to the following words

1.the bombed site

2.to dig

3.to scream

4.to bury

5.spade

6.to suffocate

7.not to feel like

8.free of charge

2.Use the words in the box to replace the words in bold

1.She‘s buried under tons and tons of dirt and if we don’t dig her out, she’ll suffocate and die.

2.I just stood there, afraid, and she continued screaming.

3.I ran back to the house and knocked on the door.

4.Sorry to have disturbed you.

5.«Stay with me a bit,» he persuaded.

6.All of those hours down under the ground in that box must have made her insane.

7.The screaming had stopped, it was so calm.

8.Her husband is a terrible beast.

3.Match the phrases

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