- •Introduction
- •Chapter 1 playing pilgrims tasks
- •Speak on the main characters you came across while reading the chapter according to the following scheme:
- •Reveal the atmosphere in the house through the family traditions and through the relations between the members of the family. Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Dwell upon the title of the chapter. “Playing Pilgrims”
- •Chapter 2 a merry christmas tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Chapter 3 the laurence boy tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Answer the questions
- •Reproduce the conversations:
- •Chapter 4 Burdens tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Reread the description of the girls in the chapter and present each of them Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 5 Being Neighbourly tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Translate the following passage. Comment on it. Pay attention to the connotation of the underlined words.
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions
- •Make up conversations on the following:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 7 amy’s valley of humiliation tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 8 jo meets apollyon tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type.
- •Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 9 meg goes to vanity fair tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the phrases.
- •Translate the following:
- •Translate the underlined passages.
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences and passages:
- •Chapter 10
- •Comment on the passage:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Comment on the sentences:
- •Comment on the type of stories the girls contributed to the magazine.
- •Chapter 11 experiments tasks
- •Speak on the following:
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 12 camp laurence tasks
- •Translate the following and comment on the sentences:
- •Pay your attention to the following comparisons (similies):
- •Using the words from task I try to make up the game described in the chapter. Find synonyms for: a specter.
- •Chapter 13 castles in the air tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 14 secrets tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 15 a telegram tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Give synonyms for “prediction”.
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •Into each life some rain must fall,
- •Chapter 16 letters tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences.
- •Speak on the following:
Chapter 1 playing pilgrims tasks
Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 1 and translate them into your mother-language.
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a bookworm
tiresome
to be longing to
to be shut up
to trot
to fret
to peck at
tranquility
frolic
remorse
to pat
to be drafted
to spare
by-and-by
pensive
lullaby
Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.
Explain the words in bold type.
Speech Patterns.
Find the following patterns in the text. Translate them.
- You don't have half such a hard time as I do …
- How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old
lady…
I used to be so frightened when it was my turn to sit in the chair with the crown on, and see you all come marching round to give the presents, with a kiss.
Don't you remember how we used to do on our birthdays?
- Do you remember how you used to play Pilgrims Progress…
It's no use!
Make up sentences of your own with the patterns.
Find in the text and translate the following passages:
As young readers like to know “how the people look”… - …What
the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out.
While making these maternal inquiries… - …Amy gave directions
to everyone…
They all drew to the fire… - …It was a cheerful, hopeful letter…
At nine they stopped work … - …The first sound in the morning
was her voice…
Speak on the main characters you came across while reading the chapter according to the following scheme:
The name of the main character
The appearance of the main character
Your impression of the personage
Read and translate the following passage and pay attention to the role of the description of the interior in the structure of the narration.
As young readers like to know “how people look”, we will take this
moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting
away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and
the fire crackled cheerfully within. It was a comfortable room, though
the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or
two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and
Christmas roses bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of
home peace pervaded it.
Look up the word interior in the dictionary. Study the other meanings of the word.
What is connotation?