Unit 6. (2nd June – 10th September)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

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

Humiliate, arbitrary, peremptory, omnipotent, dormer, crotch, congregation, faction, twilight, descend, wade, brook, ginger, chaperon, immaculate, pamper, nuisance, spry, distracted, pliable, sizzling, nautical, promptitude, courteous.

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 dispose of,

In compliance with,

To dart up and down,

To dash out,

To draw a veil over,

To turn out,

To move in,

To talk about,

To be engaged with.

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

1. peremptory	a. walk through water or another liquid or soft substance
2. omnipotent	b. an older woman who, on social occasions, took care of a young woman who was not married
3. dormer	c. move or fall downward
4. congregation	d. insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way
5. descend	e. having unlimited power; able to do anything
6. wade	f. a group of people assembled for religious worship
7. chaperone	g. a window that projects vertically from a sloping roof
8. nuisance	h. a person, thing, or circumstance causing inconvenience or annoyance

Exercise 4. Choose from the list an appropriate word and insert it into the gap.

Twilight, humiliate, nautical, spry, immaculate, pampered, distracted.

1. You'll … me in front of the whole school!

2. They … their only son a bit too much.

3. They returned at ….

4. He continued to look … and active well into his eighties.

5. The kitchen was kept in … condition.

6. Charlotte seemed too … to give him much attention

7. Our conversation these past two days has been … and piratical.

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

1. The McBrides have asked me to spend the summer at …

2. It’s the impersonality of your commands that …

3. I’ve been writing and writing this summer; four short stories finished and …

4. Sir: I address you from the second crotch in the willow tree …

5. I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me …

6. The whole house is being cleaned and…

7. Such a lot of adventures we’re having! We’ve explored the country …

8. Then while she was dressing, he told Carrie to pack up a lunch, and he told me to …

Exercise 6. Choose from the list an appropriate expression to replace the words in brackets. Make any necessary changes of the form of the verb.

To care for, to be dreadful, to stay up, to draw a veil over, to hear of, at first.

1. However – we will … (avoid discussing or calling attention to) that and begin again.

2. We don’t … (like or be willing to do or have something) innovations in religion in this neighborhood.

3. They were very suspicious … (at the beginning).

4. It’s the silliest thing I ever … (know of the existence of), not to know your name.

5. Master Jervie read them – he brought in the mail, so I couldn’t help his knowing – and he said they … (extremely bad).

6. We … (not go to bed) for the sunset and built a fire and cooked our supper.

Exercise 7. These conversational expressions appear in the text. In what situations could you use these phrases?

But if you must have news, here it is: …,

Not at all,

As you please,

Such a lot of adventures we’re having!

I do miss it,

It’s a fine chance for me to learn (something)!

Exercise 8. Say it in Ukrainian.

1. Just to live in the same house with Sallie’s mother is an education. She’s the most interesting, entertaining, companionable, charming woman in the world; she knows everything. Think how many summers I’ve spent with Mrs. Lippett and how I’ll appreciate the contrast.

2. I’m so awfully lonely. You are the only person I have to care for, and you are so shadowy. You are the only person I have to care for, and you are so shadowy. You’re just an imaginary man that I’ve made up – and probably the real you isn’t a bit like my imaginary you.

3. Judy is becoming so philosophical of late, that she wishes to discourse largely of the world in general, instead of descending to the trivial details of daily life.

4. The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. It’s true, you know. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being pliable.

Reading Comprehension

Attention check

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Who invited Judy to spend summer vacation at the camp?

2. When did she write her first letter to Daddy from Lock Willow Farm?

3. What place in the house did Judy use as a workroom?

4. Who was going to visit Lock Willow Farm? How did the Semples and Jerusha prepare the house before the arrival of a significant guest?

5. What Jerusha and Master Jervie’s adventure do you remember? Could you describe it?

6. How many stories and poems did Judy write this summer? Where did she send them?

Discussion

1. Discuss the events of the extract you have read:

1. Why did Judy want to spend one more vacation with Sallie’s family? What was the main reason?

2. Pay attention to the style of the letter of the 9^th of June? What did Judy try to show Daddy writing such a letter?

3. Travelling means to know world around you better. What author inspired Judy to travel around the world?

4. Why did Judy begin to notice a lack of a social intercourse while she was on Lock Willow Farm?

5. What adventures did Judy have with Master Jervie on Lock Willow Farm?

Character description:

Find the passage in which Jerusha described Master Jervie when he came to Lock Willow Farm. Translate it into Ukrainian.