Unit 2. (24th September – 19th December)
Vocabulary work
Exercise 1. a) Consult a dictionary and translate the following words from the extract. Practice their pronunciation paying attention to stresses.
Bewildering, queer, insult, infirmary, foundling, amiable, conjugation, ingenuity, upholstered, charitable, mahogany, exuberance, challis, indignant, bishop, chapel, obliterate, abandon.
b) Listen to your partners’ reading of the above exercise. Correct their mistakes.
Exercise 2. A suggested list of useful expressions. Learn them and recall the situations from the extract in which they are used. Use them in your own examples.
To pick out,
To make feel,
To take an interest in something / somebody,
To get smashed up,
To be divided into,
To feel sorry,
To come from,
To get acquainted with,
To pull through,
To look up,
To accuse somebody of,
To talk about,
To be excited,
To look like.
Exercise 3. Check whether you know the meaning of these words. Match the words on the left with their meanings on the right.
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feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment |
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destroy utterly; wipe out |
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generous in giving to those in need |
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give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking) |
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speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse |
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the quality of being clever, original, and inventive |
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the variation of the form of a verb in an inflected language such as Latin, by which are identified the voice, mood, tense, number, and person |
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a small building for Christian worship, typically one attached to an institution or private house |
Exercise 4. Look at these sentences. Pick out the missing words from the list on the right. Make sure you use the proper form of the verb.
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To dress |
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To stand |
3. And now I suppose you’ve been … very impatiently to hear what I am learning? |
To be |
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To go |
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To stay |
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To wait |
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To expect, to bother |
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To appreciate |
Exercise 5. Make these sentences complete, recalling the situations they are used in the extract.
I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me …
She (Julia) believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to …
She gets the last names out of the telephone book – you’ll find Abbott on the first page – and…
The aim of the John Grier Home …
I’m a foreigner in the world and …
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk …
Instead, I read just plain books – I have to, …
I look forward all day to evening, and then …
Exercise 6. Decide what a missing word in the middle circle is.
Exercise 7. Say it in Ukrainian.
It’s a fine thing to be educated – but nothing compared to the dizzying experience of owning six new dresses.
I have it planned exactly what you look like – very satisfactory – until I reach the top of your head, and then I am stuck.
I was perfectly sure to be put down in class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to the others.
It belongs to the kind of girl I’m not – sweet little blue-eyed thing, petted and spoiled by all the family, who romps her way through life without any cares.
But you have the upper hand, you know, for if I become too impertinent, you can always stop payment on your checks. That isn’t a very polite thing to say – but you can’t expect me to have any manners; a foundling asylum isn’t a young ladies’ finishing school.
Reading Comprehension
Attention check
1. Answer the following questions:
1. Has Jerusha ever travelled before in a train?
2. When did Jerusha write her first letter?
3. Who are her friends?
4. Thanks to whom does Jerusha have the unusual artistic ability?
5. What disease has Jerusha escaped?
6. What sport is Jerusha going to be fond of?
7. What does Jerusha look up in the encyclopedia?
8. What subjects are they learning at college this term?
9. Where did she find kid gloves?
10. Thanks to whom does Judy have the unusual artistic ability?
11. Who didn’t make the basketball team?
12. What do they usually have for desserts?
13. What books hasn’t Judy read yet?
14. What book did she buy and why?
2. What do these numbers refer to:
97, 18, 24, 9, 20, 6, 3, 10, 2, 7, 5, 1, 12?
Discussion
Discuss the events of the extract you have read:
Why did Jerusha want to write her first letter at once after arriving at college?
What was Mrs. Lippett’s advice to Jerusha?
How did Jerusha decide to call her Trustee? Why?
Describe Jerusha’s room. How has she furnished her room?
Why does she live alone? Did you live anywhere alone? Did you like it?
Why is Jerusha laughed at by her classmates? What did she decide to do to escape to be laughed at?
Where did Mrs. Lippett find the name for Jerusha?
Why does it important to have a good name? Why has Jerusha changed her name? Do you like your name? If not, what name would you like to have and why?
What is the aim of the John Grier Home? Why does Jerusha think so? What does Judy compare the asylum with?
Why did Judy say that she is a foreigner in the world? What is your opinion?
Do you think that Judy looks like other classmates? Is she as witty or experienced as others?
Why did a bishop’s service about poor attract Judy’s attention? What is your attitude towards poor and poverty? Could you predict whether Jerusha would be poor in future? What should Jerusha do to avoid poverty?
Why does Jerusha write so often to Daddy?
Is it true that owning some new clothes is dizzying experience (especially for women)? What do you feel when you get something new that you’ve dreamt about for a long time?
What does “the poor-box” mean? What does it contain?
How does Jerusha imagine what Daddy looks like?
Write the plan of the extract you’ve read.
Find out in the extract the description of Jerusha’s new dresses.
Write out the description of Daddy-Long-Legs’ appearance.