Marry Poppins Ass 7

Ass.7

Pre-reading tasks

I. Translate in writing

1. She laughed at them, loud happy laughter, as she got to her feet and began to lead the way to a little hut made of palm-leaves.

2. They found themselves in a street with curiously shaped and very small houses.

3. Jane and Michael were surprised to see Mary Poppins bowing in the same way, till the daisies in her hat were brushing the earth.

4. The lamb does not leave the ewe, nor the young bird its nest, more unwillingly than we depart from your shining presence.

5. Surely you can spend a little time with us, if only so long as to let this young person (he nodded at Michael) try his strength against my great-great-great-grandson, Fleet-as-the-Wind.

6. He was just about to get into bed and, indeed, had one foot already in it, when he noticed the compass lying on the top of the chest of drawers.

7. The heavy burning thing that had been inside him all day melted and disappeared.

8. Michael sipped it, tasting every drop several times with his tongue, making it last as long as possible so that Mary Poppins should stay beside him.

9. But try as he would, he could not make the milk last for ever, and presently, with a sigh of regret, he handed her the empty cup and slipped down into the bed.

Read part of the chapter on pp. 57-64

Prepare a good reading and translate the passage beginning with “No, he didn’t care…” on p. 62 and ending with “…. Tremble in their hands”.

Vocabulary Tasks

I. Learn the following word-combinations, explain their meaning in English and reproduce the context in which they are used.

1. to find oneself p. 57

2. to make up for sth. p. 57

3. to share one’s dinner p. 58

4. to be about to do sth. p. 58?, 62

5. to get round the world p. 58

6. to wear out sth. p. 58

7. to try one’s strength against sb. p. 60

8. to shrug one’s shoulders p. 61

9. to assure oneself p. 61

10. to serve sb. right p. 62

II. Give English equivalents to the following Russian words and phrases.

Согреваться, замедляться, ожидать с нетерпением, удержать, вертеться, увешанный маленькими колокольчиками, склоняться низко, умолять, отказаться от приглашения, увы, изысканная речь, быстрый как ветер, хлопнуть в ладоши, ты-пятна, перегнать, вождь, фальшиво, нарочное непослушание, полон мести, вздох сожаления, ему было все равно.

Reading-Comprehension Tasks8

I. Explain what is meant by the following sentences and comment on them.

1. To make up for this the wore a great many beads.

2. Jane and Michael were about to go but Mary Poppins held them back.

3. The palm-trees were no longer there.

4. Where are your manners?

5. A little Indian boy ran towards them.

6. Michael looked at Mary Poppins as if he would like to kill her.

7. It would serve them right.

8. How lucky he was to be alive.

II. Who said the following and to whom they were speaking

1. Come in, come in and share our dinner.

2. I believe we’re in China.

3. Where are your manners?

4. I beseech you, lead thither to its graceless hearth these other honourable travellers.

5. Permit us to remove our unworthy persons from you without further ceremony.

6. Touched you last!

7. I’ll get you!

8. Running round and round that garden seat as if you’d gone mad!

III. Discuss in class.

1. What did the Negroes look like?

2. What did the Mandarin look like? What was curious about him?

3. What did the Indian Chief look like? What did he suggest?

4. How did it happen that Michael got rid of that heavy burning thing inside him.

5. Whose was the compass?

IV. Render the conversations between Mary Poppins and the Negroes, the Mandarin, the Indian in indirect speech.

V. Dramatize the conversation between Mary Poppins and Michael at bedtime (pp. 63-64)

VI. Write a brief summary of the chapter.