Translation

1. Translate the following passages: Ch.2 , the 5^th and the 6^th paragraphs beginning with “Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun…” down to “…reigns in stillness”. (p. 16)

2. Work with a partner. Translate the following phrases and describe the situations in which they are used:

“You are being smothered”, “a half-dressed ruffian”, “to have a ferocious dog at large”, “to spring round the room”, “crooked and insincere”, “dead beat and wretched”.

3. Work individually. Find the description of Montmorency in the text under analysis and translate the paragraph beginning with “Montmorency hailed this compromise…”.

4. Point out onomatopaeic lexical units in the text of the chapters and discuss possible variants of rendering them into your mother tongue.

5. Translate the following phrases:

1. Його практичне бачення цього питання виявилося дуже своєчасним нагадом (натяком).

2. Гарріса не можна настроїти на романтичний лад.

3. Ніколи в моєму житті я не зустрічав такого гурту !

4. Ми йдемо зовсім не в тому напрямі! Треба думати не про те, що нам потрібно, а тільки про те, без чого ми не зможемо обійтися.

5. Як багато людей завантажують свій човен безліччю непотрібних речей, які вони вважають важливими для задоволення й комфорту їх подорожі! Але насправді це тільки непотрібний мотлох.

6. Джордж був нікчемним дурисвітом, який явно не міг нічого знати про це питання.

Speaking

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

1. Harris’s nature: you can never rouse Harris, yearning for the unattainable, to get a drop of whisky, something brilliant in the drinking line.

2. Camping out in bad weather: to be puddly, to lug out a tent, to fix a tent, to tumble down, to give sth. a hoist, to get at sb., the thundering blazes, to be smothered, to struggle frantically, a half-dressed ruffian, a trampled wreck.

3. Description of Montmorency: to hail sth. with approval, to revel in sth., pious old ladies, to live at sb.’s expense, to be snatched up to the skies, by the scruff of his neck, to have a ferocious dog at large, to keep sb. pinned up.

4. Uncle Podger’s story: a commotion, to start the whole house, to hand up the picture, to spring round the room, to leave off looking for sth., to hinder sb., I never came across such a set in all my life, to have another go, to go clean through the plaster, to be precipitated against the wall, very crooked and insecure, dead beat and wretched.

5. Having a dip before breakfast: to determine sth., to have a dip before breakfast, a pair of drawers, to fancy sb., to stumble dismally off, to huddle oneself up in one’s arms, to hop, to strike out frantically for the shore, to give up all hope, to sprawl on the sand.

Unit 3. Chapter 4

Vocabulary

1. Work with a partner. Match the lexical units in A with the definitions in B. Recall the situations in which these words are used in Chapter IV.

A B

1. ooze a. to have a horrid and offensive smell

2. saturate b. to take sb.’s breath away

3. fragrance c. sweet or pleasing smell

4.to stink of sth. d. pass out, emit

5.to confine to sth. e. move restlessly, show signs of

impatience

6.ramshackle f. quick to show irritation; harsh

7.crusty g. almost collapsing; nearly at breaking-point

8.to fidget h. to keep or restrict within limits

9.to catch sth. right on the chest i. cause to take in as much as possible

10.to be harried about j. to be annoyed or treated improperly

2. Fill the gaps in the following sentences using the lexical units given below.

1. A solemn-looking man in the corner seemed to belong to ……

2. They fell into the suggestion with a readiness that had something … about it.

3. It seemed to me that George … too much on the getting-upset idea.

4. We got a big Gladstone for the clothes, and a couple of … for the … and the cooking utensils.

5. My tooth-brush is a thing that … me when I’m traveling and … .

6. What I had meant, of course, was, that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should … under my directions.

7. I could not find my tooth-brush, so I … the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created. h. Visitors said they had never noticed before how strong the air was, and weak-chested and … people used to … there for years afterwards.

Lexical units to be inserted: uncanny, hampers, harp, victuals, haunt, the undertaker class, throng, to make one’s life a misery, rummage, to potter about, consumptive.