II.Replace the following words with their synonyms from the given list.

To start crying, calmly, to have a habit of doing smth, to wander, for heavens’ sake, to turn around, to stop breathing, to happen, a cracker, to be especially gallant, to overcome smth, sadly, unusual, to jerk in astonishment, to have luxurious clothes on.

III.Give the three forms of the following verbs, translate and transcribe them.

To tie, to feel, to know, to tell, to bear, to hold, to sit, to come, to hurry, to wear, to hear, to bang, to sack, to clutch, to give, to speak, to smooth, to see, to daze, to stand, to lie, to lay, to behave, to lead, to bring, to teach, to show, to think, to make, to grow, to snatch, to write, to take, to choose, to spring, to fall, to catch, to kneel, to keep, to shake, to blow, to draw, to shoot, to bend, to slip, to find, to behead, to munch, to eat, to sleep, to fret, to lose, to burst, to roam, to stick.

IV.Translate, transcribe and pronounce the following words, use them in the sentences of your own.

A top-hat, prosperous, hedge, blade, polka, Highland Fling, Sailor’s Hornpipe, Scepter, Busby, Ermine cloak, Lady-in-Waiting, Courtier, quill.

V. Write out all the words denoting movements in a dance and use them in the sentences of your own.

VI. Explain the use of tenses in the following phrases.

1. Well, shall I sit at the window and tell you what is happening outside?

2. He has come out of the Lane and is hurrying down the Lane.

3. And I heard Daddy say if Robertson Ay does what the doctor told him to he’ll sack him.

4. Do tell me!

5. “Have you known her long?” enquired Michael gently, hoping that if he was particularly polite he would hear something more about that cow.

6. … and when her child had gone to sleep at night she would go into a corner of the field and chew the cud and think her own quiet thoughts.

7. Upon this the King was sitting, busily making a new set of Laws.

8. The Secretary counted the Laws he had written down in the red note-book.

9. I’ve been dancing now for seven days now.

10. At last she realized that she was missing her star.

VII.State the meaning of the modal verbs in the following sentences.

1. I can’t hear.

2. I wish I could see.

3. … all the things a really well brought up calf should know.

4. … the Red Calf had to take its breakfast … all by itself…

5. I must go and see the King about it!

6. I always thought dancing improper, but it can’t be since I myself am dancing.

7. It would not come off.

8. It might have an effect.

9. At least a mile, I should think.

10. … was glad to be able to eat her breakfast…

VIII. Reproduce the following sentences in reported speech.

Use the words from Appendix 2

1. “What does it feel like?” Michael wanted to know. “Like guns going off inside my head,” said Jane.

2. Shall I tell you a story out of one of the books?

3. Well, shall I sit at the window and tell you what is happening outside?

4. I know that cow. She is a great friend of my Mother and I’ll thank you to speak politely of her.

5. The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.

6. People were good or they were bad – there was nothing in between.

7. What an extraordinary thing! I always thought dancing improper, but it can’t be since I myself am dancing. For I am a model cow.

8. I’ve been dancing now for seven days now. And I’ve had no sleep. And very little to eat… So I’ve come to ask your advice.

9. Don’t you see that there’s a fallen star caught on her horn?

10. You don’t suppose that only one star ever fell out of the sky! Billions fall every night, I’m told. But they fall in different places, of course. You can’t expect two stars to drop in the same field in one lifetime.