Marry Poppins Ass 8

Ass. 8

Pre-reading Tasks

Translate the sentences in writing

1. If it doesn’t rain I think Jane and Michael might call for me at the office today – if you are agreeable.

2. Why did that wretched Mrs. Jackson ask her to tea on the second Thursday of the month when she knew that was the very day Mrs. Banks had to go the Dentist’s.

3. Every now and then she would look into the shop window just to make sure the hat was still there and that the pink roses on it had not turned into common flowers like marigolds.

4. Jane was holding tight to herself for fear she would break in two with delight.

5. There were fussy and chatty grey doves like Grandmothers; and brown, rough-voiced pigeons like Uncles; and greeny, cackling no-I’ve-no-money-today pigeons like Fathers. And the silly, anxious, soft blue doves were like Mothers.

6. They left her then, walking one on either side of Mary Poppins.

7. He knew quite well what happened, but it was the proper thing to ask Jane because the story was really hers.

Read chapter 7 “The Bird Woman”. Prepare a good reading and translate the passage beginning with “Feed the birds. Tuppence a Bag!...” on p. 68 and ending with “… of the Bird Woman’s hat”.

Vocabulary Tasks

I. Here are some phrases from the text. Explain their meaning in English. Reproduce the context in which they are used in the text. Learn them. Write down sentences of your own with these phrases.

1. to have a treat p. 66

2. to feel excited p. 66

3. to make sure p. 66

4. to be no good doing sth. p. 68

5. to mistake sb. (sth) for sb. (sth.) p. 68

6. to pay out sb. p. 68

7. to wave one’s hand to sb. p. 69

8. to tidy up sth. p. 69

II. Write out from the text words and phrases relating to the description of the birds and the Bird Woman

III. Give English equivalents to the following Russian words and word-combinations.

Нанести удар кому-либо, с волнением, тот самый день, несносная миссис Джексон, иметь значение, наилучшее удовольствие, изысканный, из-за страха, наконец-то, прохожие, все птицы похожи, дразнить, очередь Майкла, толпиться, обиженный, отплатить Мэри Поппинс, сердито, ярость, ползать, сидеть на яйцах.

Reading-Comprehension Tasks

I. What is meant by the following sentences.

1. It was not only the Tea that mattered.

2. There she is!

3. Feed the birds! Tuppence a bag.

4. You ought to be in a pie.

II. Discuss in class

1. What was the occasion on which the children and Mary Poppins left the house on that day?

2. Using the words and phrases you’ve written out describe the Bird Woman and the birds.

3. Speak about the emotional state of the children and Mary Poppins.

4. What was the story that Jane thought of?

III. Dramatize the episode “ At St. Paul’s Cathedral” (pp. 66-68)

IV. Write a brief summary of the chapter.