Look up the pronunciation and learn the following words:. 5. Reproduce the situations in which the above suggested word-combinations are used.

senior, coward, bruise, mahogany, wastebasket, experience, Christmas, wrist, doubt, genius, superior, companionable.

 

4. a) Find the following word combinations. Look them up in a dictionary, learn their pronunciation and give the Russian equivalents.

b) Write out the sentences they are used in. 4

 

1. to get acquainted

2. a pet name

3. to attend college

4. to be homesick

5. in the Middle Ages

6. to look smth up in an encyclopedia ( a dictionary)

7. to flunk an exam

8. to make an effort (the slightest effort)

9. to hurt smb’s feelings

10. to bring smb up (to be brought up on a book)

11. to hear from smb

12. to bore smb, to be bored with

13. to be (very much) obliged to smb

14. get acquainted

15. a pet name

16. to attend college

17. be homesick

18. in the Middle Ages

 

5. Reproduce the situations in which the above suggested word-combinations are used.

 

State which of the following sentences are right and which are wrong. Correct the wrong ones.

· Mr. Smith wished Judy a merry Christmas.

· Judy bought a dictionary of synonyms to enlarge her vocabulary.

· Judy was going to give silk stockings to Julia Pendleton.

· Julia belonged to the Virginia Montgomerys.

 

7. Develop the situation:

The freshman’s lot is…

 

8. Explain or comment on the following:

1. At least homesickness is one disease that I’ve escaped.

2. She (Julia) believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination.

3. You can’t know how I feared appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses.

4. Some of the girls sell their textbooks when they’re through with them, but I intend to keep mine.

5. On her father’s side they date back further than Adam.

6. The Freshman’s lot is not a happy one.

 

 

Step 2

 

9. a) Find the following word combinations. Look them up in a dictionary, learn their pronunciation and give the Russian equivalents.

b) Write out the sentences they are used in. 4

 

1. to look smth up in an encyclopedia ( a dictionary)

2. to flunk an exam

3. to make an effort (the slightest effort)

4. to hurt smb’s feelings

5. to bring smb up (to be brought up on a book)

6. to hear from smb

7. to bore smb, to be bored with

8. to be (very much) obliged to smb

9. to bother smb with smth

10. to catch up with smb

11. to look forward to smth (doing smth)

12. to enlarge one’s vocabulary

13. to put up with smth

14.  to drop in (on smb)

15.  to have the courage to do smth

16.  to be (to get smb) in a good humo(u)r

17.  to do smth from a sense of duty

18.  to pass an exam

 

10. Reproduce the situations in which the above suggested word-combinations are used.

 

11. Translate the following passage into Russian: 4

“Did you ever see…don’t count”

 

12. a) Write out all that is said about Jerusha Abbot – her impressions of college, progress in studies, attitude to the other girls / to Mr. Smith / to the John Grier Home, her disposition.    4

b) Underline key-phrases in the passages that you write out. Translate and transcribe unfamiliar words.

 

13. a) Read the letters for the second time and get ready to answer the following questions using your own plans and the suggested word-combinations. Chose additional vocabulary items that you will need to answer the questions. Use as many word-combinations from exercises 4 and 8, as possible.

 

1. What private pet names did Jerusha give to the kind gentleman who had sent her to college? Why did she think of him as a sort of a family?

to be respectful, to pick smth out, personality, to belong to smb, insulting, to mind

 

2. What were Jerusha’s first impressions of college? Describe the girls who lived on the same floor with her?

bewildering, to get lost, to feel confused, to be excited, to attend college, infirmary, a senior, to wear spectacles, a freshman, red hair, a turn-up nose, to come from, to room together, a single, to room with smb, a founding, advantage, room-mates, to have a chance, to be homesick, disease, amusing, flunking, to be bored at smth, to make the slightest effort

 

3. What was the trouble with college? What mistakes did Judy make that made everybody laugh at her?

artsist, the Middle Ages, archangel, to sound like smb, confusing, to keep still, to look smth up in the encyclopedia, to mention smth, bright

 

4. Did Judy like to recall the John Grier Home? Why was she afraid to tell the girls about the asylum?

to criticize, to hurt smb’s feelings, impertinent, to be brought up, coward, dreadful, to turn one’s back on smth, smb

 

5. Why was Judy so happy to get new dresses?

to be obliged, dizzying experience, to own smth, a waste of money, to be dressed in, to appreciate smth, to start to high school, to fear smth, to wear cast-off clothes

 

6. How often did Judy write to Daddy-Long-Legs? What questions did she ask him?

to hear from smb, to pepper smb with letters, to bore smb, waste-basket, to bother smb with smth, bald, a theorem [‘θIRrRm] in geometry, to look like, gray hair

 

7. What unbreakable rule did Judy have? In what way was she getting rid of her ignorance?

no matter, blank, an abyss of ignorance, to realize smth, to be married, used to, to catch up with smb, to look forward to, to disturb, to be brought up on a book, to stamp smb as strange, allowance

 

8. What awful news did Judy have to tell Daddy-Long-Legs?

to get smb in a good humour, to commence, a great hono(u)r, to vault a bar, icicle, to flunk smth, to be disappointed, not to care a bit, to forgive smb, to hear from smb, to be free from conditions

 

9.  What did Judy accuse Daddy-Long-Legs of? Why did she write that horrid letter?

not to show the slightest interest in smth, from a sense of duty, waste basket, to pass an exam, to feel lonely, sore-throaty, infirmary, to get wellm to forgive smb, bandage, to arouse smb’s sympathy, impertinent, ungrateful, to be badly brought up

 

10.  What made Judy happy and cheerful again?

to be bored with, to be filled with, rosebuds, message, worth doing smth, to be alone

 

11.  How did Judy get acquainted with Mr. Pendleton? Describe him.

to walk smb around, a great experience, to hurt smb’s feelings, to belong among smb, pompous, benevolent, superior, on business, to care for smb, to remind smb of smb, companionable, to have the jolliest time, to be furios with smb

 

12.  Where was Judy going to spend her summer vacation?

on a farm, to mind smb, to be entirely grown up

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