8. Fill in the missing words.

1. The __ she wore must have cost close to a million (драгоценности). 2. Ann removed her __, her __, her __, her __, and her __ placed her jewels in the __ bag (серьги, кольца, браслет, брошь, ожерелье, кожаный). 3. I gave her a little Austrian __ on a __ __ that used to belong to my mother and she's going to __ it around her __ as a good luck charm (медальон, золотая цепочка, носить, шея). 4. Inside was an oval-shaped antique __ circled with __ (золотые часы, бриллианты). 5. The only __ of __ he had ever seen her wear was small __ that she always carried on a __ chain __ her throat (драгоценность, золотой крест, тонкий, вокруг). 6. She wore the __ ear __ Neal and her mother had given her for her twenty-first birthday (рубин, клипсы).

charm – амулет, брелок медальон – medallion, locket

oval-shaped – овальной формы золотой крест – golden cross

клипсы – studs

9. Read this story. What goods did Dasha’s mother buy for her daughter? At the stationer's*

My daughter is going to school this year. And we begin our preparations for such a great event. Yesterday I with my daughter Dasha went to the stationer's. We wanted to buy all pencils and pens, copy-books and albums she would need at school. And I needed something for work. It was very interesting to watch her in the shop – she wanted to buy everything. And the choice was rather rich. All goods were displayed on the racks so we could take them ourselves. There was a long discussion what to buy for her – a school bag or a satchel. Dasha wanted a school bag we preferred a satchel. But all arguments disappeared when she saw a satchel with her favourite cartoons' characters on the surface and a lot of departments and pockets inside it. She wanted nothing but that one. Of course, I bought it. Then we chose a sketch-book / album for drawing, ten lined / ruled copy-books and ten checked copy-books. For myself I took a thick checked exercise-book. After that we paid attention to all kinds of pens and pencils. For the daughter I took two graphite pens, neither very soft nor very hard, and a set of 24 coloured pencils / crayons for drawing. Then she asked me to buy a huge set of coloured felt-tip pens (As far as I remember there were 36 of them). And we both needed ballpoint pens. For her I took two pens with dark blue ink and for me a set of three pens with blue, black and red ink. A bit later I took from the rack a plastic transparent bag for Dasha's copy-books and a document file for my papers. Dasha chose a ruler, two funny erasers shaped like bears and a small triangle. I added a pencil sharpener, a glue stick, scissors, a set of cardboard and a set of coloured papers, a box of plasticine. Then I saw a counter with different markers and neon hi-litters. I chose transparent blue, yellow, orange and pink markers. But when we came up to the counter with colours and brushes I was struck. I had never seen such a variety of colours. There were jars of gouache, tubes of oil paints, boxes of watercolours, sticks of pastel, Indian ink, and a lot of different brushes. It was very difficult to choose something and a shop-assistant helped us to cope with it. Just at the last moment I remembered that I needed a box of drawing-pins, a box of paper-fasteners with a new stapler, correcting fluid and a roll of sticking tape. I had decided to buy a new electronic pocket calculator some other time. When I was going to the cash-desk I saw my daughter sitting on the floor making holes in her new copy-book with a hole punch with great interest. As a result during only one visit to a shop I spent more than 2500 roubles. And we must buy Dasha clothes for school, a tracksuit and a new pair of shoes and a pair of trainers more. To have a child of seven just before school is a great trouble and problem, but a great joy at the same time too.