- •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:
Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
“We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now.” - So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time.
Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder… - Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said…
The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time… - “Josy-phine! Josy-phine!” and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
Beth was too bashful to go to school. - There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed…
If anybody had asked Amy what the greatest trial of her life was, she would have answered at once, "My nose." - Everything was good, well made, and little worn, but Amy's artistic eyes were much afflicted, especially this winter, when her school dress was a dull purple with yellow dots and no trimming.
“Once upon a time, there were four girls…” - "Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a romance!" cried Meg.
Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
“I wish it was Christmas or New Year’s all the time”
“There never was such a cross family!”
“If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right…”
“We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.”
“I saw something I liked this morning, and I meant to tell it at dinner, but I forgot...”
Speak on the following:
Why did Jo wish it were Christmas all the time?
Describe the mood of each of the girls.
Who broke a momentary lull?
What was Meg’s chief trouble?
Why did she find it harder to bear than the others did?
Why did Aunt March want to adopt Jo?
Why did her parents refuse to let her adopt their daughter?
What way did Beth treat her infirm dolls?
What was Beth’s great passion?
What was Amy’s great problem?
Comment on the episode in the fish shop.
What story did the mother tell her daughters?
Reread the description of the girls in the chapter and present each of them Make up the situation round the following sentences:
“Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on…”
“Don't use such dreadful expressions…”
“We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.”
“I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I'll tell you about it…”
“Have you sons in the army?”
“Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a romance!”
Translate the following passage into English. Compare it with the original.
- Ох, до чего тяжело взваливать на себя бремя забот, - сетовала Мег наутро после бала.
Неделя каникул пролетела, и возвращаться к обязанностям, которые и раньше-то казались постылыми, было совсем нелегко.
Хорошо бы, Рождество и Новый год никогда не кончались! Вот было бы здорово! - ответила Джо и уныло зевнула.
Наверное, тогда праздники приелись бы, но как приятно, когда на столе стоят цветы, и ходишь в гости, и возвращаешься домой в карете. А если и не ходишь в гости, то отдыхаешь в свое удовольствие или читаешь книгу, и думать не думаешь о каких-то обязанностях. А ведь есть люди, которые так всегда живут. Как я завидую девочкам, у которых все есть! Я люблю роскошь, - сказала Мег, прикидывая в уме, какое из двух ее поношенных платьев сохранило более пристойный вид.
Ну, о роскоши нам лучше и не мечтать, это нам недоступно. Нечего ныть из-за этого! Нечего сетовать на судьбу, давайте лучше работать над своим характером. Именно так поступает наша Марми. Конечно, тетушка Марч - тяжелое испытание, но все равно следует научиться сносить ее выходки, и тогда наверняка она станет покладистой, как ягненок.
Джо помнила добродушного дядюшку Марча. Когда она бывала у них в гостях, он всегда развлекал ее. Они вместе строили из огромных словарей железные дороги и мосты, а потом он принимался объяснять ей значение причудливых картинок из какой-нибудь толстой книги на латыни. Когда они встречались на прогулке, дядюшка Марч всегда угощал Джо пряниками.
Библиотека покойного дядюшки Марча представляла собой полутемную пыльную комнату. С вершин книжных шкафов взирали гипсовые бюсты великих мира сего. Тут стояли мягкие кресла, глобусы, но Джо более всего интересовали книги. Стоило тетушке Марч прилечь отдохнуть или заняться гостями, как Джо спешила в это тихое убежище, казавшееся ей настоящим зачарованным царством.
Забравшись с ногами в глубокое мягкое кресло, Джо принималась читать. Она поглощала все подряд - стихи, романы, исторические труды, записки путешественников. Уставая от чтения, девочка принималась разглядывать иллюстрации. Словом, день ото дня страсть к книгам все больше завладевала ею.
Но, как часто случается на этом свете, подобные мгновения длились недолго. Джо бывало очень обидно, когда, дойдя до самого интересного места в романе, или наслаждаясь чудесными стихами, или сопереживая увлекательным приключениям какого-нибудь путешественника, она вдруг слышала пронзительный голос тетушки: «Джо-зе-фи-на! Джо-зе-фи-на!»
И ей приходилось, оставив чтение, стремглав бежать на зов, чтобы мотать шерсть, купать пуделя или читать тетке вслух «Эссе» некоего мистера Белшема, которое очень нравилось престарелой матроне, а Джо казалось верхом занудства.