8. Answer the following questions:

1. Speak about Miss Lark and her wonderful house.

2. Speak about the relations between Miss Lark and her neighbours.

3. Speak about Miss Lark’s “little lump of sugar”. Mention his appearance, way of life and sacred dream.

4. Discuss the relations between Andrew and his hostess. Did he like her?

5. Andrew and his friend. Who was he? Prove that contrasts really attract each other.

6. Speak about an occasion which happened one afternoon. Andrew’s conversation with Mary Poppins. What was it about?

7. The returning of Andrew. What was it like? What conditions did he produce to Miss Lark?

8. What was Miss Lark’s decision? What can you say about her attitude towards an extraordinary situation?

9. How do you think, should we aim what we want notwithstanding different difficulties?

Chapter V

The dancing cow

1. Read chapter V “The dancing cow”.

2. Words and word combinations to be memorized:

1. to be in bed with earache

2. to bear smth

3. to occur

4. to say excitedly

5. to ask in a soft encouraging voice

6. in brooding, story-telling voice

7. prosperous

8. a buttercup

9. a dandelion

10. to be all primrose colour

11. to lead a very busy life

12. to be taken up in smth

13. a calf

14. to be well brought up

15. to chew the cud

16. to think one’s own quiet thoughts

17. to stalk smb

18. to make up out of one’s own head

19. thoroughly enjoying oneself

20. leaping and waltzing and stepping on tip-toe

21. peculiar

22. to grow very worried

23. to be nearly distracted

24. to pull the bell-rope

25. the flight of steps

26. to make a new set of laws

27. to look very pleased with oneself

28. to order one’s coach

29. to the Barber’s

30. to take up one’s sceptre

31. to have the eyesight

32. to have an appointment with smb

33. to have one’s hair cut

34. for goodness` sake

35. to add irritably

36. to make smb giddy

37. to say piteously

38. to scratch

39. to put one’s chin on one’s hand

40. to ponder

41. to spring to one’s feet

42. to pull smth on

43. to motion

44. to tug at smth

45. to be joined by one after another

46. to look in the Encyclopaedia

47. to rub one’s chin

48. to be anxious

49. infancy

50. to curtsey

51. to blow the whistle

52. to give a huge tremendous jump

53. to spin around

54. to slip down

55. to lose one’s appetite

56. to burst into tears (for some/no reason)

57. life-time

3. Find the words and word combinations & give the situations in which they are used: to be in bed with earache, to be well brought up, to make up out of one’s own head, to be nearly distracted, to have an appointment with smb, to tug at smth, to blow the whistle, to lose one’s appetite.

4. Compose short dialogues with the new words and word-combinations and perform them in class.

5. Give the literary translation of the following extracts:

The Red Cow – that’s the name she went by. And very important and prosperous she was, too (so my Mother said). She lived in the best field in the whole district – a large one full of buttercups the size of saucers and dandelions rather larger than brooms. The field was all primrose colour and gold with the buttercups and dandelions standing up in it like soldiers. Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place. She had lived there always – she often told my mother that she couldn’t remember the time she hadn’t lived in that field.

Then he blew the whistle. The Red Cow gave one huge tremendous jump and the earth fell away beneath her. She could see the figures of the King and the Courtiers grown smaller and smaller until they disappeared below. The stars were spinning around her like great golden plates and presently she felt the cold rays of the moon upon her. She shut her eyes as she went over it, and she felt the star slip down her horn.