IX. Translate from Russian into English.

1 Если вы торопитесь, просто заскочите ко мне поболтать на минутку.

2. Это очень веселый человек. Он всем улыбается и подмигивает.

3. Какой у вас цветущий вид!

4. На уроке физкультуры я всегда бежала впереди, а мои одноклассники тяжело и шумно ступая, бежали за мной.

5. Этот продавец ищет каждую возможность поболтать с покупательницами, или хотя бы подмигнуть им.

6. Не надо ходить за мной по пятам! Займись чем-нибудь!

7. Вы продаете пряники, а ведете себя так презрительно, будто вы спикер Парламента!

8. Вы смертельно обидите меня, если не заскочите ко мне поболтать и не попьете чаю.

9. Сосиски фестонами свисали с потолка в магазине в те годы, когда не было холодильников.

10. Не дыша, он с восхищением смотрел на старинную книгу.

X. Give the literary translation of the extract: p. 82. “The garden-gate clicked” – p. 83 “could give her the right answer...”

XI. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Use the words from Appendix 1.

1 Mary Poppins was very friendly with the Butcher and the Fishmonger.

2. The kids enjoyed shopping.

3. Mary Poppins went for Gingerbread to the nearest shop.

4. The curious shop was very clean and neat.

5. Mrs. Corry was very nice and polite to her daughters.

6. The twins were afraid of Mrs. Corry.

7. The kids always threw the stars from gingerbread away.

8. Mary Poppins took the kids’ stars to decorate her room.

XII. Answer the following questions.

1 What did Mary Poppins buy at the Butchers’ and at the Fishmongers’?

2. What characters did the salesmen have? Why was Mary Poppins angry with them?

3. Describe the appearance of Miss Fanny and Miss Annie and their mother.

4. Describe the strange shop where sweets were sold.

5. What did Mrs. Corry do to calm the babies down?

6. Where did the kids keep the stars?

7. What did Mary Poppins do with the stars?

8. What was Jane thinking about that night?

XIII Make up dialogues between:

• The children discussing the strange shop.

Use the phrases from Appendix 3.

XIV Give the retelling of the text as if you were:

• One of the kids;

• Mary Poppins.

Chapter 9

John and Barbara’s story

I.Read, translate and transcribe the following words, give explanation of their meaning. Say in what situations these words and combinations are used.

To perch spectacles on one’s nose

To look like a shop window

A perch

To flicker

A shaft of sunlight

To oblige smb

To say smth approvingly

A starling

To talk the leg off a chair

To cock one’s head on one side

To laugh heartily

To hop down

In a soft wheedling voice

An arrowroot biscuit

To swoop down

To pluck smth out

To nibble smth greedily

To say smth meaningly

A rebuke

To goble up smth

To go mad with delight

Complacency

To wrinkle up one’s forehead

To sober smb

To be outdone in courtesy

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

To calm smb.down, to get crazy with admiration, to eat smth up greedily, a reproach, to fly down, to do smb a favour, to look one’s best, a ray of Sun, to jump down, to put on glasses, to be less polite than smb. else, to grab smth out, in a flattering voice, to speak too much.

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

To go, to wear, to see, to think, to read, to sit, to stand, to pour, to flicker, to lie, to lay, to shut, to hold, to shine, to feel, to hear, to talk, to tell, to keep, to begin, to fly, to come, to mean, to run, to know, to throw, to eat, to say, to speak, to fold, to understand, to forget, to grow, to sit, to make, to leap, to shake, to draw, to spring, to weep, to croon, to forgive, to sing, to burst, to take, to meet, to spread.

IV. Write out all the words expressing manner of laughing and talking and use them in the sentences of your own.

V. Write out all the words denoting manners and sounds of crying and use them in the sentences of your own.

VI. Write out all the words expressing people’s admiration towards babies and use them in the sentences of your own.

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

1 Down in the kitchen Mrs. Brill was reading the paper with the spectacles perched on her nose.

2. …you’d talk the leg of a chair, you would.

3. Goodness, I thought you’d never stop – you kept me awake all night.

4. I took off both my socks and she said I was so sweet she would like to eat me.

5. Because they’ve grown older…

6. I know I shan’t forget when I grow older.

7. Do you really mean we won’t be able to hear that when we’re older, Mary Poppins?

8. It’s how things happen.

9. The moment she had disappeared the Starling burst into a peal of rude laughter.

10. Oh, well, I knew it would.

11. They’ve been so quiet all the afternoon – not a sound out of them.