- •Easy reading
- •Предисловие
- •How to analyze the text
- •Comprehension Quiz
- •Means of communicating ideas
- •Choose the phrases you like more so as to make a structure of any text analysis. Prepare two variants: one long (300-350 words), another short (100-150 words). Unit 1
- •The story of an hour
- •1. Learn the meaning of the following words and reproduce the situations in which they are used:
- •2. Substitute the italicized words with synonyms:
- •8. Summarize the story in 15-20 sentences.
- •9. Imagine you are Mr. Mallard. Write a passage (150 words) describing his view of the situation. Unit 2
- •The hero of drummond street
- •6. Explain the meaning of the following expressions. Make up sentences using them:
- •7. Discussion:
- •8. Summarize the story in 15-20 sentences.
- •9. Write a passage (150 words) describing the whole story as if you were a) the Drooler or b) the reporter. Unit 3
- •Discussion.
- •Three is a lucky number
- •The crime in this text is murder, but there are unfortunately many others, consult the dictionary and match crimes to their definitions, translate the words on the left.
- •Discussion
- •Unit 5
- •A shocking accident
- •V. Answer the following questions.
- •VI. Read the following sentences and answer the questions that follow.
- •VII. Discussion.
- •VIII. Imagine that Jerome keeps a diary. Write his entries for these three days:
- •Unit 6
- •Tipsy and the board of health
- •1. Learn the meaning of the following words and reproduce the situations in which they are used:
- •2. Find synonyms for the following words. Make up your own sentences using these words or their synonyms.
- •3. Fill in the gaps with the necessary prepositions:
- •9. Summarize the story in 15-20 sentences.
- •Unit 7
- •Hills like white elephants
- •IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.
- •V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences. Choose the expressions that are slang. What does the author use them for?
- •VII. Put 10 questions to the contents of the story. Work them out so that they can serve as a plan for further coherent retelling of the story. The first one is made up for you.
- •VIII. Render the contents of the story as if told by: a) Jig; b) her partner; c) the woman from the bar. Resort to the questions you’ve made up.
- •IX. Discussion.
- •Unit 8
- •The absence of emily
- •Consult the text or a good dictionary and insert the prepositions if necessary.
- •Discussion
- •In written form summaries the story in 20 sentences so as your summary to be a short text, remember to use conjunctions to make it pleasant to read. Be prepared to present your summary in class.
- •Unit 9
- •Ten indians
- •IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.
- •V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences. Choose the expressions that are slang. What does the author use them for?
- •VI. There are words in English that are pronounced in a similar way but differ a lot in their meanings. Study the meanings of “beech” and “beach” and fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •VIII. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right:
- •Unit 10
- •Campbell’s crossing
- •IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.
- •V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions or adverbs where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences.
- •VI. Find the notions defined below in the text. Fill in the gaps in the sentences that follow with these notions.
- •VII. Replace the words underlined with an expression from the text based on the word(s) in brackets. Make any necessary grammatical changes.
- •XI. Put 10 questions to the contents of the story. Work them out so that they can serve as a plan for further coherent retelling of the story. The first one is made up for you.
- •X. Render the contents of the story as if told by: a) Flora; b) Angus; c) an Inverlochie’s dweller. Resort to the questions you’ve made up.
- •XI. Discussion.
- •Unit 11
- •The garden party
- •Discussion.
- •Unit 12
- •Miracles do happen
- •IV. Fill in the sentences with the words or their derivatives from the previous exercises.
- •V. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary. All the expressions are taken from the text. Translate the sentences.
- •VI. Replace the words underlined with an expression from the text based on the word(s) in brackets. Make any necessary grammatical changes.
- •VII. Supply the missing words. In each case the first letter of the missing word is given. All these expressions are taken from the text.
- •XI. Put 10 questions to the contents of the story. Work them out so that they can serve as a plan for further coherent retelling of the story. The first one is made up for you.
- •X. Render the contents of the story as if told by: a) Else; b) Michael; c) Hermann. Resort to the questions you’ve made up.
- •XI. Discussion.
- •Unit 13
- •The metro
- •Comment on the following ideas, agree or disagree, give your own opinion, mind to support it with arguments.
- •Reading comprehension quiz.
- •The metro
- •Translate the following words and word combinations; insert them into the sentences below:
- •Below you will find some more words from this text and their synonyms which were mixed, match each word with the correct synonym. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •Even when words are synonymous it doesn’t always mean that they are interchangeable; in the sentences below choose one word in italics that fits the sentence best.
- •Reading Comprehension Quiz
- •Write an essay (300-400 words) on the following topic: One never knows what might happen next.
Translate the following words and word combinations; recall the situations they were used in the text: a health farm, to take the matter to a court of law, adj. purple, a hut, a spade, a witness, to come forward, to afford, to be in sight, n. pl. looks, life insurance, n. writing.
Consult the text or a good dictionary and insert the prepositions if necessary.
Eric asked me to marry …him, but my parents married me … a wealthy landowner.
The dialect of the common people of a region, differing … various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country.
The police are appealing for witnesses … the accident.
Studios are rushing … monster movies to take advantage of our new-found enthusiasm for them.
They can’t just walk away … the deal: we have been planning the merger with Bell for months.
Blake clicked his fingers at a passing waiter, who hurried … to them.
I was only average academically, but was good … sports.
I was determined to hold to my point of view, to remain secure… position without breaking or giving way.
Are you seriously jealous … Erica?
I didn’t want to be part of their game ... the other hand I didn’t have much choice if I wanted to study at that school.
Paraphrase words in italics, try to choose a synonym in each case, change the structure of the sentence if necessary, but mind to keep the sense unchanged.
The next house is almost exactly the same, and that belongs to Emily's sister Millicent.
She is very strong-minded and likes to control everyone around her, including Emily.
She doesn't claim to be very clever.
But Millicent had been watching me closely.
You look as white as a sheet. You seem frightened.
That's nothing to do with you, Millicent.
I went for a walk through the woods.
I was still breathing hard as I walked back to the supermarket.
I do have an aunt in Chicago.
She pointed at a small, rather fat woman.
But then you changed your mind.
This ground is very hard.
Millicent was responsible for the false 'Emily'.
I would be ashamed!
None of my clothes will fit me.
SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
The text is full of dialogues, turn them into indirect speech using verbs given below, and mind that they not only mean ‘speaking’, but denote some of the emotions as well. You are not to use all the verbs.
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To denote
To insist
To remind
To warn
To boast
To ponder
To instruct
To reply
To exclaim
To stammer
To yell
To whine
To contemplate
To infer
To warn
To report
Discussion
Remember the task at the beginning of the text, look through your list of facts and decide which of them go well with Albert’s plan and which seem quiet strange.
What was the origin of this plan to send Emily to a health farm and play a trick to Millicent? Did Albert love Emily or did he want to earn some fortune through this marriage? Quote the text to prove your point of view.
Did Albert plan it all from the very beginning to the very end? Or was it rather a play of chance that Emily had decided to lose weight and Millicent started to watch Albert closely when he had an idea of how to earn on Millicent’s curiosity? Remember to quote the text to support your point of view.
What kind of people do you imagine after reading the first descriptions of sisters? Continue their descriptions in 6 more sentences of your own.
Give your own explanation to the fact that despite having the same houses and land sisters had such a different income.
What were the relations between sisters? Use the text to prove your ideas.
What was Millicent’s attitude to Albert? What was Emily’s attitude to him? Why did Emily want to be better than his first wife? Did Albert somehow show Emily that his first wife was better or she felt so due to her weight?
The first wife of Albert left him quiet a lot, why didn’t he invest that money into Emily’s estate? Did he spend them all long before his second marriage? What was Albert’s way of earning a living?
Could you continue the story of Albert and Emily after they receive money from Millicent? Explain your choice.
Remember the structure of a typical crime story. Do you think this text complies with it? Is there a criminal and a victim?
What is the main idea of this text?
WRITING ACTIVITIES