Lesson 3 (pp.14 – 27). September 24th– October 25th

Ex.1 a) Find the English equivalents of these words and phrases in the text. Read and translate into Russian the sentences in which they are used.

странный	шутка обошла весь колледж
разориться	Вам интересно знать, что…?
прозвище	изобретательность, находчивость
делать что-л. по звонку	каждую минуту
точность, тщательность	быть хозяином положения
происходить из богатой семьи	угрожающе нависать, маячить
войти в команду	незаметное, но существенное различие
тосковать по дому	совершенно безрадостный
не выносить чего-л.	получать известия от кого-л.
справляться с чем-л.	забросать кого-л.письмами

b) Give your variant of translation of the following sentences:

1. College is the biggest, most bewildering place – I get lost whenever I leave my room.

2. My room is on the north-west corner with two windows and a view.

3. I love college and I love you for sending me – I'm very, very happy, and so excited every moment of the time that I can scarcely sleep.

4. Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world – and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so.

5. It's a sort of too bad, isn't it, to have to give yourself the only pet name you ever had?

6. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that every one but me has shared.

7. I told Sallie McBride that my mother and father were dead, and that a kind old gentleman was sending me to college which is entirely true so far as it goes.

8. If I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady, I should have gone up after service and told him what I thought.

Ex.2 a) Find these sentences in the text and translate them into Russian.

My room is up in a tower that used to be the contagious ward before they built the new infirmary.

That's what Freddy Perkins used to call me before he could talk plainly.

b) Read and translate the sentences. Observe the difference between the structures “used to do smth”, “to be used to smth/doing smth”, “to get used to smth/doing smth”.

1. Diane used to play the piano very well, but now she has too little free time to do it regularly.

2. Do you often go to the theatre? – Now not, but I used to.

3. Did you use to eat a lot of sweets when you were a child?

4. I am used to living alone and find it rather new to have a roommate.

5. We used to live in a big city but recently moved to a small one, and now we’re getting used to a new way of life.

6. I used to have a lot of friends but we haven’t seen each other for ages.

7. I’ve started drinking coffee recently, I never used to like it before.

8. Jane used to have very long hair as a child.

9. I used to think he is unfriendly but now I realise he’s a very nice person.

10. There used to be four cinemas in our town. Now there is only one.

11. As a boy he was used to reading a lot, and quite a well-educated man he is now.

12. I didn’t use to like him at school. He seemed such an arrogant person.

13. You’d better not rely on him so much. He is not used to hard work.

14. Michael gave up smoking a week ago and now he is getting used to doing without sigarettes.

c) Make 4-5 sentences of your own about things Judy used to have in the asylum and those she is getting used to in college.

Ex.3 Listen to the tape (Jerusha’s letter to her guardian written on October, 10 – p.19) and say if the statements below are true or false.Correct the false statements.

1. Everybody in Jerusha’s class seamed to know about Michael Angelo.

2. At college Jerusha made the acquaintance of a Freshman called Maurice Maeterlinck.

3. In Jerusha’s opinion, the trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned.

4. Jerusha’s room is furnished in red and green.

5. It was Julia Rutledge Pendleton who helped Jerusha choose the things at the Senior auction.

6. Julia Rutledge Pendleton is the most entertaining person in the world - and Sallie McBride the least so.

7. Jerusha thinks that Julia and she were born to be enemies.

8. At college Jerusha studies English, French, Latin, Geometry and Physiology.

Ex.4 Discuss the following points:

1. “Before leaving yesterday morning, Mrs. Lippett and I had a very serious talk.” If you were Mrs.Lippet, what sort of instruction would you give Jerusha?

2. What’s your idea of the education Jerusha has got?

3. What, do you think, are advantages and disadvantages of Jerusha’s new life?

4. How does Jerusha characterize her new classmates? How does it characterize herself?

5. Do you think Jerusha has got good sense of humour?

6. What are the subjects Jerusha has to study now? If you were in her shoes, which subjects, compulsory and optional, would you prefer?

7. “I'm still 'Jerusha' in the catalogue, but I'm 'Judy' everywhere else.” – translate the passage on p.22 up to the phrase “In the future please always address me as Judy.” If you had an opportunity to change your name, which one you would choose and why? What does a person with such a name look like, in your opinion, and what is he or she like? Do you share the idea that the name determines your fate in some way?

8. Why, do you think, Jerusha prefers to conceal her past from other girls?

9. Why was Jerusha hurt so much by what the bishop said? Did he sting her to the quick or maybe touch a sore spot involuntarily?

10. Do you think Jerusha’s character is changing somehow at the college? In what way?