Chapter VI a Meeting in the Night

1. Intone the following sentences.

That’s a picture of a thrush on her nest!
Now she wouldn’t be able to go to the garden in the morning!
No one ever told me he had a boy!
What a strange house this is!
Do you want me to go away?
That was why he locked to garden door and buried the key.
They could take me there in my wheelchair.
They have to please me.
It would be so much nicer if it was a secret.
Then it would always be a secret garden.

2. Study the following words and word combinations.

1. Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).

2. Translate them into Russian

3. Recall the situation they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

message to keep a secret excited to gasp gently ghost journey

to please smb angry to feel miserable used to do smth hidden nurse worried

cousin to unlock poor wheelchair to shine to stare proper

3. Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.

1. Mary understood that she couldn’t trust Dickon.
2. Mary woke up at night but soon fell asleep again.
3. The boy Mary found in one of the rooms was crying miserably.
4. The boy always went out into the gardens to play with sticks and stones.
5. Mr. Craven often visited his son and played a lot with him.
All the servants had to please Colin and do whatever he asked for.
Colin was sure he would grow up and become the owner of the house.
Colin agreed not to ask anyone to take him to the secret garden.
Mary didn’t stay with Colin for a long time and soon left.
When Mary left Colin was still crying.

4. Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.

1. If I don’t answer the mobile phone, send me a ________.

2. The old house was horrible and everyone thought there were ____________ who scared people.

3. My father’s brother has two children, thus I have two _________.

4. People who cannot walk use ___________ if they need to go somewhere.

5. When I was ill a __________ came to make injections.

6. At night millions of stars __________ in the darkness.

7. When I was a child I ____________ to like milk chocolate.

8. I couldn’t open the door so I had to call for help to ____________ it.

5. Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.

worried gently to gasp message ghost to stare proper poor journey excited

a piece of information that is sent to smb a spirit of a dead person in a careful way a trip from one place to another right, suitable or correct happy, interested, or hopeful having little or no money or property to breathe in suddenly, quickly especially if surprised unhappy because one is thinking about a problem to look at smth or smb for a long time steadily

6. Answer the following questions.

1. What did Dickon’s picture mean?

2. Why did Mary wake up at night?

3. Whom did Mary find in one of the room?

4. Were Mary and Colin related to each other?

5. What did Mary learn about Colin?

6. Was Colin also interested in the secret garden?

7. Why didn’t Mr. Craven come to see Colin every day?

8. Did Mary ask Colin not to open the garden?

9. What did the children decide to do?

10. Did Mary stay in Colin’s room until he fell asleep?

7. Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.

1. Dickon left a picture of a bird for Mary.

2. Mary heard somebody crying at night.

3. Colin wanted to open the garden.

4. Dr. Craven treated Colin’s back.

5. Mary sung for Colin and he fell asleep.

8. Retell the text using new words and word combinations.