Chapter 2.

While reading : Concentrate your attention on the following words and word combinations while reading the text, translate and remember them.

Recommended Vocabulary List

pull out (16) inclined (20) arrange (16) at one’s expense (21) hint (17) ferocious (21) to be up to (18)

on purpose (20) quarrelsome (20)

After you read:

A. Checking your understanding:

1. Translate the part of the chapter 2, pp. 20 - 21: «Montmorency hailed this compromise... then I began to think that may be they’d let him remain on earth a bit longer, after all»

2. Make up 7-10 questions to cover the contents of the chapter.

3. Make up a list of the chief events in the order of their occurrence in the chapter.

B. Working with language:

1. Write out from the text the sentences or clauses which include the following word combinations.

2. Choose a word from the recommended vocabulary list to match the following definitions:

- a person quickly made to argue, easily annoyed , with the result that they have a lot of arguments

- to say something in a very indirect way, especially something good or encouraging

- to take something suddenly and unexpectedly from a place where it is hidden or cannot be seen

- to do something fairly often or be fairly likely to do something, especially because you have a particular kind of character

- to plan and make preparations for something

3. Use some of the words and word combinations from the Recommended Vocabulary List in a situation of your own.

4. Give all possible synonyms to the word «wet»

C. Speaking:

Retell the story in detail, using the words and word combinations from the Recommended Vocabulary List.

Chapter 2. Working in class.

1.Imagine that you are a teacher marking this summary of the chapter. The pupil has made quite a few factual mistakes. Correct the mistakes.

We decided to start on the following Wednesday . George and I would take the tent from the Kingston, but Harris goes to sleep at an office from eight to five every other day... so he was going to meet us in a day. Harris and I were for camping out. We said it would be so convenient and cosy. But George was against it. He wanted to stay at hotels, because he was afraid to catch cold. As for Montmorency, he preferred romantic solitude to noisy gatherings. His idea of «life» was spending an evening by the seashore looking at the waving waters. So he gave to the suggestion of ‘camping out’ his approbation. So we were three to one, and we decided that we would sleep out.

2. Name advantages and disadvantages of camping out listed in the text. Add your own.

3. Arrange the following headlines in the proper order.

Meeting put off for tomorrow

Plans discussed

Montmorency, first impressions of

Pleasures of camping out on fine nights

Compromise decided on

Fears that Monmorency is too good for this world, fears then left out as groundless

The same, but on wet nights

4. Who and under what circumstances made the following statements.

1. Get off my head, can’t you?

2. I know what it is, old man; you’ve got a chill.

3. Here! What are you up to?

4. How about when it rained?

5. So glad, you’ve come, old fellow.