VIII. Give a good translation of the following passages in a written form:

1. ‘I have been thinking about you … we won’t tell Mrs. Lippett.’

2. ‘I’ve made the basketball team … a mean disposition I have.’

IX. Translate the sentences and comment on the notions in italics paying attention to their cultural meaning:

1. 24th September <…> Classes don't begin until Monday morning, and this is Saturday night.

2. Maybe you won't stay rich all your life; lots of very clever men get smashed up in Wall Street.

3. I’m feeling sorry for everybody who isn't a girl and who can’t come here; I am sure the college you attended when you were a boy couldn't have been so nice.

4. There are three other girls on the same floor of the tower – a Senior who wears spectacles and is always asking us please to be a little more quiet, and two Freshmen…

5. Sallie McBride helped me choose the things at the Senior auction.

6. The English instructor said that my last paper shows an unusual amount of originality.

7. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. <…> I HATED EVERY ONE OF THEM – the charitable ones most of all.

X. Explain the use of the words given in italics:

1. I must take care to be Very Respectful. But how can one be very respectful to a person who wishes to be called John Smith?

2. I love college and I love you for sending me – I’m very, very happy, and so excited every moment of the time that I can scarcely sleep.

3. It’s loads of fun practicing – out in the athletic field in the afternoon with the trees all red and yellow and the air full of the smell of burning leaves, and everybody laughing and shouting.

4. Do you care to know how I’ve furnished my room? It’s a symphony in brown and yellow.

5. But can't you guess that I have a special topic due Monday morning and a review in geometry and a very sneezy cold?

XI. Task:

1. Compare the addressing and closing lines of Jerusha’s letters you’ve read. What changes do you observe? What does it tell you about the girl who wrote them and her attitude towards the addressee?

2. How does Jerusha spend her first days at college? In what way do her actions and words characterize her? What new traits of her character can you observe here? Why does she change her name?

3. Dwell on the two supporting characters in the novel: Sallie McBride and Julia Rutledge Pendleton. How does the narrator describe them: directly or indirectly? What vocabulary does she use? What impression did you get of both the characters?

4. Find the bishop’s words in the text. How do they characterize the man? What feelings do they arise in Jerusha Abbott? What’s your opinion of the bishop’s speech?

Part III: November 15th – March 26th

I. Find the words and word combinations given below in the text:

1. dizzy

2. to appreciate

3. to dread

4. snappy

5. amicable

6. sticky

7. to rattle

8. to commence

9. to saunter

10. casually

II. Translate the words and word combinations given above and describe the situations in which they were used in your own words.