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 come over smb

2. to turn out to be smb/smth

3. to be in receipt of smth

4. to call on smb

5. to relieve one’s mind

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

1. James came to see us on Friday without any preliminary appointment.

2. Yesterday I experienced a queer sensation that I was not walking along the streets but was driven purely by the wind; it’s all due to my diet, I’m afraid.

3. It made me feel less obliged to him to know he could afford it quite easily.

4. We got your telegram and were happy to learn the news.

5. They all proved good friends at the moment of danger.

VII. Answer the following questions:

1. What happens to Judy to bring her into the infirmary?

2. What present does she get there? How does she treat it?

3. What use did the orphans of the John Grier Home find for toads?

4. What really requires character in a human’s life according to Judy?

5. How is Judy going to spend her summer vacations?

6. Who visits Julia on a sunny spring day? What impression does Judy get of the visitor?

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

1. ‘Oh, I’m fine … a Man, too!’

2. ‘We walked all over … and allowances low.’

3. ‘Your nominal authority … Hooray!’

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

1. We were kept in chapel twenty minutes later than usual to listen to a speech about womanly women.

2. This dormitory, owing to its age and ivy-covered walls, is full of centipedes.

3. Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, Esq. …..

4. Did you ever see this campus?

5. The Gothic building on your left is the gymnasium, and the Tudor Romanesque beside it is the new infirmary.

6. So we just ran away and had tea and muffins and marmalade and ice-cream and cake at a nice little table out on the balcony.

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

1. Please forget about that dreadful letter I sent you last week – I was feeling terribly lonely and miserable and sore-throaty the night I wrote.

2. How futile a thing is education!

3. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I’m not a genius.

4. It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

5. The grass is dotted with yellow dandelions and hundreds of girls in blue and white and pink dresses.

6. And with a very superior man – with Mr. Jervis Pendleton of the house of Julia; her uncle, in short (in long, perhaps I ought to say; he is as tall as you.)

XI. Task:

1. Dwell on the episode of Judy writing about her impressions of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte. What is her impression of it? Have you read it? What impression did it produce on you? What do you think of characters like Heathcliffe?

2. Look at the poem given to Judy and her mates to comment upon. Who is the author of this poem? What do you think of it? What philosophy can be hidden in it? What were Judy’s suggestions on the topic? Can you agree with them? Why was the poem placed in the novel? What is implied by it?

3. Read the letter written by Judy at her French class. What impression does it produce on you? Why was it given partly in English and partly in French? Why is Judy so unwilling to return to the John Grier Home? Do you approve of it?

4. Speak about Mr. Jervis Pendleton as Judy sees him. What does he look like? How does he behave? What is Judy’s impression of him?