8. Supply the missing words.

1.) The ________ was shaped like a great golden ______ .

2.) The newspapers wrote about the performance in very __________ terms.

3.) I hope, at any rate, you are going to take up your _________ here.

4.) We passed ____________ condemning everything that we did not like.

5.) My father was a Rocket like myself, and of French __________ .

6.) Travel improves the ______ wonderfully, and does away with all one's ____________ .

7.) __________ is a thing of the past.

8.) He always took a __________ part in the local ___________ .

9.) I hate people who cry over ______ milk.

10.) I know I am destined to make a ______________ in the world.

11.) The King had promised to play the ______ .

12.) The Cracker nearly exploded with _________ .

13.) They have sent me away to _________ my health.

14.) We were to be let off in the Prince's _________ .

15.) He must have a truly romantic ________ .

16.) She was a Russian _________ , and had driven all the way from Finland in a ______ drawn by six __________ .

17.) A person who because he has corns himself, always … on other people's _____ .

18.) It is a beautiful _______ , and I possess it in a high degree.

19.) Really, when I begin to ________ on the importance of my position, I am almost _______ to tears.

9. A) Read the following extracts paying attention to the use of phrasal verbs. Look them up in a dictionary and translate the sentences into Russian.

1) For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red rose, White rose,” and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled. (69)

2) … but it made no matter, for, whatever he did, everybody cried out, “Charming!Charming!” (69)

3) The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight. (70)

4) So, at the end of the King’s garden a great stand had been set up, and as soon as the Royal Pyrotechnist had put everything in its proper place, the fireworks began to talk to each other. (70)

5) Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. (70)

6) “Order! order!” cried out a Cracker. (71)

7) “Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sleep. (71)

8) “How fortunate it is for the King’s son”, he remarked, “that he is to be married on the very day on which I am to be let off! Really, if it had not been arranged beforehand, it could not have turned out better for him but Princes are always lucky”. (72)

9) “Dear me!” said the little Squib, “I thought it was quite the other way, and that we were to be let off in the Prince’s honour”. (72)

10) When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so she threw into the air seven pink stars. (72)

11) The Prince and the Princess would never be happy again, their whole married life would be spoiled; and as for the King, I know he would not get over it. (73)

12) … and perhaps some day he may go out to walk with his nurse; and perhaps the nurse may go to sleep under a great elder-tree; and perhaps the little boy may fall into the deep river and be drowned. What terrible misfortune! Poor people, to lose their only son! It is really too dreadful! I shall never get over it!” (74-75)

13) … and he actually burst into real tears, which flowed down his stick like rain-drops, and nearly drowned two little beetles, who were just thinking of setting up house together, and were looking for a nice dry spot to live in. (75)

14) Then ten o’clock struck, and then eleven, and then twelve, and at the last stroke of midnight everyone came out on the terrace, and the King sent for the Royal Pyrotechnist. (76)

15) “Ahem! ahem!” said the Rocket angrily. He was very much annoyed that he could not get a word in. (78)

16) “A delightful voice, certainly,” continued the Frog; “I hope you will come over to the duck-pond. I am off to look for my daughters. (78)

17) Now, if you could plough the fields like the ox, or draw a cart like the horse, or look after the sheep like the collie-dog, that would be something. (80)

18) …. I hope, at any rate, that you are going to take up residence here”. (80)

19) Now I go in for domesticity, and look after my family. (81)

20) “This is magnificent,” cried the Rocket, “they are going to let me off in broad daylight, so that everyone can see me”. (82)

21) “We will go to sleep now,” they said, “and when we wake up the kettle will be boiled,” and they lay down on the grass, and shut their eyes. (82)

22) “Now I am going off!” he cried, and he made himself very stiff and straight. (82)

23) “Delightful!” he cried. “I shall go on like this for ever. What a success I am!” (82)

24) “I knew I should create a great sensation”, gasped the Rocket, and he went out. (83)

9. b) Study the contextual meanings of these phrasal verbs.

Make up examples of your own.

B. Comprehension Check

1. Answer the questions using the vocabulary of the tale:

1.) Why did everybody in the court look forward to seeing the Princess?

2.) How did the Kingdom celebrate the marriage and why did the author call it "a magnificent ceremony"?

3.) What was the last item on the programme that followed the ball?

4.) What were the fireworks talking about when the Rocket interrupted them?

5.) How did the Rocket speak and what did he say about his parents and himself?

6.) When and how did the fireworks begin?

7.) Why didn't the Rocket explode and why was the Rocket thrown into the ditch?

8.) What did the Rocket think of the Frog and what did he want to talk about?

9.) What did the Rocket say about himself to the Duck?

10.) Why did the Rocket understand the words "Bad Rocket" as "Grand Rocket" and "Old Stick" as "Gold Stick"?

11.) What happened to the Rocket in the end?

12.) The Catherine Wheel said: "Romance is a thing of the past." Do you agree with the utterance?