4. Compose 10 sentences with the words and word-combinations from the vocabulary of the chapter.

5. Give the literary translation of the following extracts:

And John threw his foot from him and roared with laughter as he thought of Aunt Flossie. “She liked my trick, too”, said Barbara complacently. “I took off both my socks and she said I was so sweet she would like to eat me. Isn’t it funny – when I say I’d like to eat something I really mean it. Biscuits and Rusks and the knobs of beds and so on. But Grown-ups never mean what they say, it seems to me. She couldn’t have really wanted to eat me, could she?” “No. It’s only the idiotic way they have of talking,” said John. “I don’t believe I’ll ever understand Grown-ups. They all seem so stupid. And even Jane and Michael are stupid sometimes.”

Mrs. Banks was patting her children gently, first one and then the other, and murmuring words that were meant to be reassuring. Suddenly John stopped crying. He had very good manners, and he was fond of his Mother and remembered what was due to her. It was not her fault, poor woman, that she always said the wrong thing. It was just, he reflected, that she did not understand. So, to show her that he forgave her, he turned over on his back, and very dolefully, sniffing back his tears, he picked up his right foot in both hands and ran his toes along his open mouth.

6. Translate into English:

1. Мама ласковым жестом успокоила ребёнка, после чего он заснул крепким сном до самого утра.

2. Если вы не хотите получить выговор от своего начальника, немедленно возвращайтесь к работе.

3. Он был её идеалом, её мечтой. Она понимала, что никогда не будет рядом с ним, так как он был в полной недосягаемости для неё.

4. В такой великолепный теплый день так и хочется подремать на солнышке. Но я боюсь опоздать на встречу.

5. «Ваша наглость не имеет пределов!» - сказал учитель, слегка наморщив лоб.

6. «Если ты сам себя не похвалишь, то и никто этого не сделает», - напевала она вполголоса.

7. От страха задеть свою больную (aching) лодыжку он отскочил в сторону от шкафа.

8. Он успокаивал её таким мягким, вкрадчивым голосом, что она в ту же секунду забыла о своих бедах.

9. «Ты можешь любого заговорить до смерти. Я от тебя устала. Оставь меня в покое!» - сказала она, метнув на неё быстрый взгляд.

10. Солнечный лучик сверкал на витрине магазина и приводил всех прохожих в хорошее настроение.

7. Agree or disagree with the following sentences and give the full answer:

1. Down in the kitchen Mrs. Poppins was reading “Cosmopolitan” with her sunny spectacles perched on her nose.

2. “Good old lady”, said the sunlight approvingly and moved up over her cheeks and into her mouth with a severe movement.

3. It was the Peacock who lived on the top of the chimney.

4. “You’d talk the leg off a chair, you would. Better than any dove and that’s the lie!”

5. The Starling cocked his head on one side and looked down at her from his perch on the window-frame.

6. “Goodness, I thought you’d never begin – you kept me sleeping all night”.

7. “Good evening!” said Robertson Ay, meaningly, but the Starling was too busy eating to notice the rebuke.

8. “Why do you bother to do that?” said Mary Poppins in her soft, amused voice seemed always to be full of laughter.

9. “Did you notice that Aunt Flossie nearly went mad with anger when I did it 5 years ago?”

10. “I don’t believe I’ll ever understand children! They all seem so stupid. And even Jane and Michael are stupid all the time”.

11. There never was a human being that remembered after the age of one, except Robertson Ay.

12. “I don’t want hair if it makes me forget all the things I like best!”

13. It was not her fault, poor woman, that she always said the wrong thing.

14. John had a large woolly bear hugged close in his arms.