- •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 3 the laurence boy tasks
Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 3 and translate them into your mother-language
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garret
hasty
take out
colt
blithe
forlorn
lace
trip
frill
at one’s ease
pinch
to peg away
lock
grind
tongs
skylark
ringlet
to sprain one's ankle
scorched
wrench
bundle
stable
frizzle
scrub
petulant
to wait on
shorn sheep
motto
mishap
to be at one’s wits’ end
snood
to rumple
twitch
auburn
Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last… - "How do you learn all the proper ways? I never can. Isn't that music gay?"
Down they went, feeling a trifle timid… - Unfortunately, another bashful person had chosen the same refuge, for, as the curtain fell behind her, she found herself face to face with the `Laurence boy'.
Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise… - … and boys were almost unknown creatures to them.
Jo led the way… - I turned my foot a little, that's all, "and limped upstairs to put her things on.
Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
"Such fun! Only see! A regular note of invitation from Mrs. Gardiner for tomorrow night!" cried Meg, waving the precious paper and then proceeding to read it with girlish delight.
"Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully," began Meg, whose gloves were a tender point with her.
"What a queer smell! It's like burned feathers," observed Amy, smoothing her own pretty curls with a superior air.
I'll lift my eyebrows if any thing is wrong, and nod if you are all right.
"How is your cat, Miss March?" asked the boy, trying to look sober while his black eyes shone with fun.
"How nicely you do it! Let me see... you said, `Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers', didn't you?"
There's a long hall out there, and we can dance grandly, and no one will see us.
“I've sprained my ankle”.
"Tell about the party! Tell about the party!"
Answer the questions
Where did Jo like to spend her leisure hours?
What did the girls get one day?
Did Jo feel at ease at the party?
Whom did he meet in her recess?
What happened to Meg?
What way did the girls get home?
Was Jo right saying that fine young ladies at the party hadn’t enjoyed themselves more than they had, in spite of their burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers?
What Jo and Meg could tell their younger sisters about the party?
Speak on Jo’s attitude to clothes. Compare it with Meg’s opinion.
Describe in detail the preparations for the party. What do you usually get ready for going out?
Describe Laurie’s appearance.
Explain the expression “a great want of manners”