Unit 3: (Toward the end of the Christmas vacation – 9th June)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

a) Consult a dictionary and translate the following words from the extract. Practice their pronunciation paying attention to stresses.

Allowance, promptly, miserable, amicable, casserole, parlor, dubiously, bushel, sackcloth, muffin, languid, laundry, reminiscent, disgust, recitation, virtuous, blasphemous, hastily, predicament, exalted, benevolent, obligingly.

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 get through,

To sit cross legged,

To catch cold,

To let the cat out of the bag,

To have a ready pen,

To put up with smth,

To pay a social call,

To saunter out,

To be free from conditions.

Exercise 3. Check whether you know the meaning of these words. Match the words on the left with their synonyms on the right.

1. promptly	a. ungodly
2. languid	b. pitiful
3. dubiously	c. well-disposed
4. disgust	d. quickly
5. benevolent	e. hesitatingly
6. miserable	f. elevated
7. blasphemous	g. nausea
8. exalted	h. weak

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.

1. I … sort of lonely tonight.	a. to bring
2. I’ve been … physiology all the year without ever hearing of sublingual glands.	b. to meet
3. That was a shriek which … Sallie and Julia and (for a disgusted moment) the Senior from across the hall.	c. to feel
4. It rained so we couldn’t … golf, but had to go to gymnasium instead.	d. to be
5. She hopes that I am … well in deportment and studies.	e. to study
6. I wish you’d come for a little visit and let me … you about.	f. to play
7. You see I know you intimately, even if we haven’t ever ….	g. to do
8. I begin … like a girl instead of a foundling.	h. to walk

Exercise 5. Make these sentences complete, recalling the situations they are used in the extract.

1. I’m going to have a beautiful time in vacation; there’s another …

2. Do you want to know what I bought with my money? …

3. I must always like you the best of all, because …

4. She wanted to know what my mother’s maiden name was – did you …?

5. My English instructor stopped me on the way out from chapel last night, and said …

6. This is an extra letter in the middle of the month because…

7. You are probably the horridest one of all those horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, …

8. Now that I am sure you read my letters, I’ll make them more interesting, so they’ll …

9. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I …

10. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but …

11. Mr. Pendleton reminded me a little of you, Daddy, as …

Exercise 6. Fill in the blanks with the postpositions and prepositions: