Speaking

1. Make up a detailed plan of Chapter 1 with your partner.

2. Work in pairs. Ask your partner names of diseases mentioned in Chapter 1. Remember as many as you can.

3. Work in pairs. Translate the following active vocabulary units to each other and describe the situations in which they are used:

to feel seedy, to read up, to plunge into a distemper, in an unthinking moment, premonitory symptoms, devastating scourge, to be borne in upon sb., to sicken for sth., to plod conscientiously through…, invidious reservation, decrepit wreck, to do smb. a good turn, to put smth. down to smth., to gorge oneself with/on smth.; to be shaky on one’s pins, to put smth straight; to set one’s face against smth.; to be rough; to carry a motion.

4. Work with a partner. Discuss the following topics using the active vocabulary of the Chapter:

1. Three invalids: to feel seedy, fits of giddiness, to be out of order, a patent liver-pill circular, to detail the symptoms.

2. A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies: to be impelled to the conclusion, to suffer from a disease, the virulent form, to read up the treatment for some ailment, a touch of a disease, in an unthinking moment, to idly turn the leaves, to indolently study smth., to plunge into a distemper, to sicken for smth., to plod conscientiously, a sort of slight, invidious reservation, malignant stage, a decrepit wreck.

3. The story-teller visits a doctor: to be an old chum of smb., to do smb. a good turn by doing smth., to pass away, to clutch hold of one’s wrist, to butt smb., to write out a prescription, to be able to oblige smb., to hamper.

4. Cure for liver complaint in children: disinclination, no tongue can tell, a martyr to smth., to put smth. down to smth., remedy, efficacious, dispensary stuff.

5. “What we want is rest and complete change”: the overstrain upon smth., to restore the equilibrium, some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, a half-forgotten nook, a quaint-perched eyrie, humpy.

6. J. sets his face against the sea trip: to swagger, the idea implanted in one’s bosom, all rolled into one, a wan smile, beef tea, to turn somersaults, to close on smth, to get uppish, to gaze after smth. regretfully,to put smth. straight.

Unit 2. Chapter 2, Chapter 3

Vocabulary

1. Work with a partner. Match the lexical units in A with their definitions in B. Recall the situations in which these words are used in Chapters II – III.

A B

1. to yearn a. erect and fix

2. frugal b. have a strong emotional longing

3.to pitch c. be thrown violently down from a height

4. to rouse sb. d. take keen delight in sth.

5. to smother e. sparingly supplied, meagre

6. to revel in sth. f. make sb. excited, evoke feelings

7. to grovel for sth. g. suffocate, stifle

8. ferocious h. not straight or level; bent

9. commotion i. noisy confusion

10. to be precipitated j. stop

11. crooked k. fierce, cruel, savage

12. leave off l. crawl

2. Rephrase the italicized parts of the following sentences using the words and phrases given below. Work individually.

1. You can never put Harris into an excited state. There is no poetry about Harris – no wild crying for the moon.

2. Montmorency does not enjoy romantic solitude too much.

3. You find a place on the banks that is not quite so moist as other places you have seen, and you land and put up the tent, and two of you proceed to fix it.

4. You never saw such a fuss up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger made up his mind to do a job.

5. I always determine… that I’ll get up early every morning, and go and have a swim before breakfast.

6. I never came across such a company in all my life.

7. And then he would make another attempt, and, at the second blow, the nail would go clean through the plaster, and half the hammer after it, and Uncle Podger be thrown violently against the wall with force nearly sufficient to flatten his nose.

The lexical units to be inserted: undertake, lug out, revel in, have another go, commotion, have a dip, rouse, yearn for the unattainable, puddly, set, precipitate.

3. Work in pairs. Look at the phrases given below. You have five minutes to memorise them. Then close your books. Write down as many of the phrases as you can remember with a partner. Which pair remembered the most?

1) To pitch a tent, 2) frugal supper, 3) to rouse sb., 4) to be smothered, 5) to yearn for the unattainable, 6) a ruffian, 7) pious old ladies, 8) to have a ferocious dog at large, 9) to revel in sth., 10) to make out a list, 11) a commotion, 12) to spring round the room, 13) to grovel for sth., 14) to hinder sth., 15) never come across such a set in all one’s life, 16) to have a go, 17) crooked and insecure, 18) to be precipitated against the wall, 19) everybody dead beat and wretched, 20)to be on the wrong track, 21) to have a dip, 22) to huddle oneself up in one’s arms, 23) to plunge into the limpid river, 24) shilling shockers.