- •East-ukrainian volodimir dahl national university
- •Unut 1 Mistaken Identity (by Mark Twain)
- •I Active Vocabulary.
- •II Read and translate the text.
- •III Find English equivalents.
- •IV Answer the questions.
- •V. Fill in the raps with the proper words.
- •VI Translate these sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •VII Make up sentences with the given words and word-combinations.
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •1) Words:
- •2) Word combinations:
- •3) Proper names:
- •II. Read and translate the text: Part I.
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following:
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Fill in the gaps with the proper words:
- •VI. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- •VII. Make up sentences with the given words and word combinations:
- •VIII. Retell the text using the key-words and phrases given in Exercise VII.
- •IX. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •X. Dramatize the following episodes.
- •XI. Characterize, using the words in brackets.
- •XII. Speak on the following topics, using the words and expressions given below.
- •The creative impulse
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •1) Words:
- •2) Word combinations:
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following:
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Fill in the gaps with the proper words:
- •VI. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- •VII. Make up sentences with the given words and word combinations:
- •VIII. Retell the text using the key-words and phrases given in Exercise VII.
- •IX. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •X. Find Ukrainian equivalents for the following.
- •XI. Find English equivalents for the following.
- •XII. Answer these questions.
- •XIII. Characterize, using the words in brackets.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III Find English equivalents.
- •IV Answer the questions.
- •V. Fill in the gaps with the proper words combinations.
- •VI Translate these sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •VII Make up sentences with the given words and word-combinations.
- •I. Active Vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •I. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •II. Complete the following sentences from the text.
- •IV. Find English equivalents for the following (See Text).
- •V. Give the situations in which the following are used (See Text).
- •Unut 5
- •The serenade (by g. Bernard Shaw)
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following.
- •IV. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •V. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •VI. Complete the following sentences from the text.
- •VII. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •VIII. Substitute words and word combinations from the text for the italicized parts.
- •IX. Retell the text from the name of:
- •X. Make up your own dialogue between Colonel Green and music teacher as to the playing Schubert's serenade on the horn. The serenade
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following (See Text).
- •IV. Answer the following questions, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •V. Complete the following sentences from the text.
- •VI. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •VII. Substitute words and word combinations from the text for the italicized parts.
- •VIII. Retell the text using the key words and phrases given in Exercise I and questions given in Exercise IV.
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following .
- •IV, Give the situations in which the following are used .
- •V. Correct the following statements.
- •VI. Discuss the following questions.
- •VII. Retell the text as each of the main characters. Use some of the words in brackets.
- •VIII. Dramatize the following scenes from the text.
- •Unut 7 on the way to freedom
- •By Harriet Beecher-Stowe)
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •IV, Correct the following statements.
- •V. Dramatize the following scenes from the text, using the words and expressions given below.
- •VI. Characterize, using the words in brackets.
- •Unut 8 a custom house incident (by Nigel Balchin)
- •I. Active vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Make up fifteen questions on the text, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •IV. Paraphrase the following sentences and parts of sentences from the text.
- •V. Substitute words and word combinations from the text for the italicized parts.
- •VII. Correct the following statements. Use the Subjunctive Mood wherever possible.
- •VIII. Discuss the following questions in class.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Find English equivalents for the following.
- •IV. Discuss the following questions.
- •V. Retell the text:
- •I, Active vocabulary.
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Make up fifteen questions on the text, using the active vocabulary of the lesson.
- •IV. Paraphrase the following passages from the text.
- •V. Substitute words and word combinations from the text for the italicized parts.
- •VI. Find English equivalents for the following.
- •VII. Correct the following statements, using modal verbs wherever possible.
- •VIII. Discuss the following questions.
- •X. Dramatize the following episodes.
- •XI. Describe (the appearance, character, clothes, way of life):
VIII. Discuss the following questions in class.
Do you agree with the author that he was specially chosen by Miss Bradley at Calais Maritime to get her through the customs? Was it a happy choice?
Do you think it was the first time Miss Bradley was doing that kind of thing?
What would you have done if you had found yourself in the author's place?
Why is the story called "A Custom House Incident"?
Have you read or heard of any similar incidents? Describe them.
IX. Retell the text: a) as it is, b) as Miss Bradley (the customs officer, the boy from the crew, a police inspector), c) give a brief summary of the text.
X. Dramatize the following episodes.
On the platform (Characters: Miss Bradley, the author, the porter.)
On board the Channel ferry (Characters: the author. Miss Bradley).
Getting through the customs (Characters: the customs inspector, Miss Bradley, the author).
The author talking to the boy from the crew before the departure of the Golden Arrow (Characters: the author, the boy).
XI. Characterize, using the words in brackets.
The author (intelligent, attractive, good manners, polite, good-natured, pleasant to deal with)
Miss Bradley (plain, shy, awkward, boring, to deceive, dishonest)
The custom house official (patient, exact, reliable, honest, ordinary, intelligent, experienced)
UNUT 9
THE LAST LEAF
(by O. Henry)
I. Active vocabulary.
to differ
to suit
suitable (unsuitable)
to pick out
to elect
to pick up
obvious (obviously)
fit (unfit)
to feel fit
to fit
to stand smth.
a strain
to strain
to suffer (from)
strength
force
a prescription
to prescribe smth. or smb.
to frighten
to be frightened
at present (at the present time)
for the present
somehow
to check
to control
to keep up with
to keep up
to keep smb. from doing smth.
anyhow
to achieve
an achievement
to be disappointed in (at)
disappointment
to one's disappointment
various
to vary
a variety
sincere (sincerely) to handle a note
to make a note of smth. to imagine
II. Read and translate the text.
At the top of an old brick house in New York two young painters Sue and Johnsy had their studio. They had met in a cheap restaurant and soon discovered that though their characters differed, their views on life and art were the same. Some time later they found a room that was suitable for a studio and began to live even more economically than before.
That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, went from place to place in the district where they lived, touching people here and there with his icy fingers. Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a kind old gentleman. It was hardly fair of him to pick out a little woman like Johnsy who was obviously unfit to stand the strain of the suffering, but he did, and she lay on her narrow bed, with no strength to move, looking at the next brick house.
After examining Johnsy one morning the doctor called Sue out of the room and gave her a prescription, saying: "I don't want to frighten you, but at present she has one chance in, let us say, ten, and that chance is for her to want to live. But your little lady has made up her mind that she isn't going to get well, and if a patient loses interest in life, it takes away 50 per cent from the power of medicine. If you could somehow get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in hats, I would promise you a one-in-five chance for her."
After the doctor had gone, Sue went out into the hall and cried. As soon as she could manage to check her tears, she walked gaily back into the room, whistling a merry tune. Johnsy lay with her eyes towards the window. Thinking that Johnsy was asleep, Sue stopped whistling. She arranged her drawing board and began working. Soon she heard a low sound, several time repeated. She went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy's eyes were wide open. She was looking out of the window and counting — counting backward. "Twelve," she said, and a little later, "eleven;" then "ten" and "nine", and then "eight" and "seven" almost together.
Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old grape-virfe climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold autumn winds had blown off its leaves until it was almost bare.
"What is it, dear?" asked Sue.
"Six," said Johnsy almost in a whisper. "They're falling faster now, I can hardly keep up with them. There goes another one. There are only five left now."
"Five what, darling? Tell me."
"Leaves. On the grape-vine. When the last one goes, I must go, too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?"
"How can the doctor have told me this nonsense?" Sue said, trying to control her voice. "He told me this morning your chances were ten to one. Anyhow, let me finish my drawing so that I can sell it and buy some port wine for you."
"You needn't buy any more wine," said Johnsy with her eyes still on the window. "There goes another. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too."
"Johnsy, dear," said Sue, bending over her. "I must go and call Behrman to be my model. Will you promise me to keep your eyes closed and not look at those leaves until I come back? I'll be back in a minute."
"Tell me when I may open my eyes," Johnsy said, "because I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I want to go sailing down like one of those poor tired leaves."
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor below them. He was past sixty and had been a painter for forty years, but he hadn't achieved anything in art. However, he wasn't disappointed, and hoped he would some day paint a masterpiece. Meantime he earned his living by doing various jobs, often serving as a model to those young painters who could not pay the price of a professional. He sincerely thought it his duty to protect the two girls upstairs.