IV. Make up sentences of your own using the words and word combinations given in tasks I and V.

V. Find the following word combinations in the text and explain their meaning:

1. to scratch for oneself

2. to harp on/about

3. to bring into line

4. to give up smth

5. to give in to smth

VI. Paraphrase the following using the word combinations from task V:

1. Jake had been talking tediously about that matter for nearly an hour when Carrie finally burst out and stopped him.

2. No matter whether they want me in this club or not, I won’t stop applying for membership.

3. From this time on you’ll have to take care of yourself.

4. I yielded to the temptation and took the chocolate.

5. I failed to persuade him to agree to my participation in the project.

VII. Answer the following questions:

1. What kind of interior design do the girls have this year? How does Judy feel about it?

2. Why does Judy want to accept the scholarship? Does she refuse to get any money from her guardian? Why?

3. What does Judy think of men in general? How can a girl make them do what she wants?

4. What way of spending Daddy’s college money does she suggest?

5. Where is Judy planning to spend her Christmas holidays?

6. What subjects does Judy choose this year?

7. What social event do they have at college this year?

8. What guests do they have for the event?

9. What revelations does Judy make concerning her appearance?

10. What Christmas presents does Judy get from her guardian?

VIII. Give a good translation of the following passages in a written form:

1. ‘I suppose you feel… at the end.’

2. ‘At seven-thirty … he didn’t know.’

3. ‘One can’t help … interested in clothes.’

IX. Translate the sentences and comment on the notions in italics paying attention to their cultural meaning:

1. I’m engaged at odd moments with the Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley – it makes nice, light reading to pick up between times.

2. Don’t you think I'd make an admirable voter if I had my rights? I was twenty-one last week. This is an awfully wasteful country to throw away such an honest, educated, conscientious, intelligent citizen as I would be.

3. However – our guests came Friday afternoon in time for tea in the senior corridor, and then dashed down to the hotel for dinner. <…> At seven-thirty they came back for the President's reception and dance.

X. Explain the use of the words given in italics:

1. Julia, with an unlimited allowance, arrived two days early and was attacked with a fever for settling.

2. Good night, Daddy dear, and don't be annoyed because your chick is wanting to scratch for herself. She’s growing up into an awfully energetic little hen – with a very determined cluck and lots of beautiful feathers (all due to you).

3. I never knew a man so obstinate, and stubborn and unreasonable, and tenacious, and bull-doggish, and unable-to-see-other-people’s-point-of-view, as you.

4. Strangers indeed! You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

5. I have strong suspicions now as to which one of the John Grier Trustees used to give the Christmas tree and the Sunday ice-cream. He was nameless, but by his works I know him.