Check your knowledge – 1

Ex.1 Match the words with their English equivalents.

to work hard for one’s board	быть хозяином положения
to hear from smb	изобретательность, находчивость
ingenuity	получать известия от кого-л.
to feel homesick	тосковать по дому
to come from a rich family	отрабатывать своё проживание и стол
to have the upper hand	происходить из богатой семьи
to take the trouble of (doing smth)	прозвище
to stamp smb as queer	утруждать себя чем-л.
pet name	показаться странным

Ex.2 Explain the given phrases in English using the context of the chapter.

a properly assorted family	to know much by absorbtion
to pretend to oneself	to keep track of one’s progress
to work hard for one’s board	to eat into one’s soul

Ex.3 Make up a list of words and phrases – quotatins from the text of the novel and your one ones – reveling Judy’s character.

Present a dialogue or a scene from Judy’s everyday life in order to show the qualities you suppose her to possess.

Ex.4 Say what you know about

Wall Street	Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Angelo	George Eliot
Maurice Maeterlinck	“Little Women”
Punic wars	“Vanity Fair”
“Mother Goose”	Matthew Arnold
“David Copperfield”	Benvenuto Cellini
“Ivanhoe”	“Wuthering Heights”
Rudyard Kipling	Henry James

Lesson 6 (pp.64 - 74). June 9th– September 15th

Ex.1 a) Find these words and phrases in the text; read and translate into Russian the sentences in which they are used.

a heavenly spot	new-fashioned ideas
mahogany	not to do smth for the world
to come to know smth	blasphemous
coincidence	ostensibly
to be the cream of	to settle down to smth
a hay wagon	It grieves me to tell you that...
(to have got) oceans of smth	to hold one’s breath

b) Give your variant of translation of the following sentences:

1. Where did Judy spend her holidays? Describe what sort of a place it was.

2. The picture really doesn't do it justice - those things that look like feather dusters are maple trees, and the prickly ones that border the drive are murmuring pines and hemlocks.

3. I have never been so entertaining in my life; everything I say appears to be funny.

4. The room marked with a cross is not where the murder was committed, but the one that I occupy.

5. Oh, Daddy, I'm so excited! I can't wait till daylight to explore.

6. You should hear the frogs sing and the little pigs squeal and you should see the new moon!

7. Since she discovered that I know him, I have risen very much in her opinion.

8. I haven't had time yet to begin my immortal novel; the farm keeps me too busy.

9. A nice sleepy sermon with everybody drowsily waving palm-leaf fans, and the only sound, aside from the minister, the buzzing of locusts in the trees outside.

10. He seems to have been an adventurous little soul - and brave and truthful. I'm sorry to think he is a Pendleton; he was meant for something better.

Ex.2 Listen to the tape (the beginning of Judy’s letter to Daddy-Long-Legs written on July 12^th - pp.66-67) and say if the statements below are true or false. Correct the false statements.

1. Judy knows for sure how her guardian’s secretary has come to know about Lock Willow.

2. The farm, where Judy is going to spend her summer vacations now belongs to Mr. Jervis Pendleton.

3. Mrs. Semple used to be Jervis Pendleton’s nurse.

4. Mrs. Semple still calls Mr. Pendleton 'Master Jervie' and talks about what a naughty little boy he used to be.

5. Judy considers Lock Willow a most wonderful place.

6. Knowing a member of the Pendleton family is the best introduction one can have at Lock Willow.

7. Judy’s daily business at Lock Willow is hunting the eggs.

8. Judy thinks one must be mad to live in a city when there is an opportunity to live on a farm.

Ex.3 a) Find these sentences in the text and translate them into Russian.

I haven't a doubt but that you throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading them.

And I've been studying physiology all the year without ever hearing of sublingual glands.

b) Read and translate the sentences. Mind the ways the structure “without+gerund” is used. Observe the adverbial modifier of manner and the adverbial modifier of attendant circumstances.

1. I was surprised that she left the party without saying goodbye to anyone.

2. One can’t act on the stage without feeling his hero.

3. I ran ten kilometres without stopping.

4. You can’t have good result without having worked hard.

5. Without being told he knew that something important was about to happen.

6. The thief climbed through the window without being seen.

7. He left the room without anybody seeing him.

8. He will never come to you place without being invited.

9. Can you translate this article without using a dictionary?

10. He wants to work without being disturbed.

11. Without being told he knew that the disease was incurable.

12. Without raising his head, he muttered something inaudible.

13. He listened to English songs without understanding them.

14. Without waiting for her reply he turned away and went into the house.

15. He was very useful to her without knowing it.

16. I was annoyed because the decision was made without anybody asking me.

17. How nice it is to go on a holiday without having to worry about money!

18. How can they say such things about him without having seen him?

c) Make 4-5 sentences of your own using the structure “without+gerund”.

d) Make up about 10 Russian sentences which should be translated into English with the structure “without+gerund”.

Ex.4 Discuss the following points:

1. Where did Judy spend her holidays? Describe what sort of a place it was.

2. “Did you ever hear of such a funny coincidence?” Do you think it was mere coincidence that the farm belonged to Mr. Jervis Pendleton? What is your opinion of the fact?

3. Speak about the way Judy was spending time on the farm.

4. “I told them so - and they are horribly troubled.” For what reason, do you think, Judy told the Semples what she was thinking about? Did she do it out of innocence, simplicity, or some sort of mischief?..

5. What is Judy’s attitude to Jervie Pendleton like?