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

1 All day long Mary Poppins was calm, nice and friendly.

2. The kids sat to count their money from the money-boxes because they were getting ready for a trip to the Zoo.

3. Michael dreamt of buying a horse.

4. At night Mary Poppins brought them to the Zoo.

5. When Jane and Michael saw human beings in cages they looked at them with pleasure and laughed.

6. That night they celebrated Michael’s birthday.

7. The kids understood that they hadn’t had a dream about the Zoo when they saw a belt on Mary’s waist.

XV. Answer the following questions.

1 What did Jane and Michael hear when they went to bed?

2. How did the children get to the Zoo?

3. Whom did they meet at the gates of the Zoo?

4. What did the animals tell them? Was every animal friendly to the kids?

5. How was the Birthday celebrated?

6. What animals were there?

7. How do you understand the phrase: “it may be that to eat and to be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that it is this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we, of the Jungle, you of the City…”?

8. What is the main idea of the chapter, in your opinion?

XVI Make up dialogues between:

• Michael and Jane discussing the human Zoo;

• Two animals discussing their life in the Zoo.

Use the phrases from Appendix 3.

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

• One of the kids;

• Mary Poppins;

• One of the animals.

Chapter 11

West Wind

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

Extraordinary happenings

To chase

To make a special effort

To deliver a sermon

Tactless

A coat of paint

Wallpapers

Commotion

Frantically

To soothe smb

Disturbed

To waste time in being nice

Smb’s heart fall heavy with the thought that / of

Smb’s heart feels tight in his/her body

Neatly and methodically

A hob

To comfort smb

Deliberately

To take no notice

Outrageous

Preposterous

Thoughtless

Discourteous

To leave smb high and dry

Reproachfully

To clench one’s fist

To be utterly shocked

A heart of stone

To keep oneself to oneself

A nobby parcel

To tremble with excitement

To give a sigh of relief

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

A luxurious packet, with a rebuke, to be not communicative, to be very astonished, very wicked, silly, awkward, to abandon smb in a difficult situation, disgusting, worried, accurately and coherently, to ignore, to look for smth, unusual events, to calm smb down.

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

To know, to hear, to sing, to come, to lose, to begin, to chase, to run, to make, to hold, to keep, to take, to hurt, to blow, to swing, to think, to forget, to light, to find, to dig, to sow, to shake, to burst, to weep, to bear, to fall, to grow, to shut, to stand, to understand, to thrust, to sweep, to leave, to strike, to fling, to send, to draw, to tear, to write, to mean, to shine, to regret.