- •Introduction
- •Chapter 1 playing pilgrims tasks
- •Speak on the main characters you came across while reading the chapter according to the following scheme:
- •Reveal the atmosphere in the house through the family traditions and through the relations between the members of the family. Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Dwell upon the title of the chapter. “Playing Pilgrims”
- •Chapter 2 a merry christmas tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Chapter 3 the laurence boy tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Answer the questions
- •Reproduce the conversations:
- •Chapter 4 Burdens tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Reread the description of the girls in the chapter and present each of them Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 5 Being Neighbourly tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Translate the following passage. Comment on it. Pay attention to the connotation of the underlined words.
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions
- •Make up conversations on the following:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 7 amy’s valley of humiliation tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 8 jo meets apollyon tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type.
- •Find in the text and translate the following passages:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Speak on the following:
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences:
- •Chapter 9 meg goes to vanity fair tasks
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the phrases.
- •Translate the following:
- •Translate the underlined passages.
- •Make up the situation round the following sentences and passages:
- •Chapter 10
- •Comment on the passage:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Comment on the sentences:
- •Comment on the type of stories the girls contributed to the magazine.
- •Chapter 11 experiments tasks
- •Speak on the following:
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 12 camp laurence tasks
- •Translate the following and comment on the sentences:
- •Pay your attention to the following comparisons (similies):
- •Using the words from task I try to make up the game described in the chapter. Find synonyms for: a specter.
- •Chapter 13 castles in the air tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 14 secrets tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Chapter 15 a telegram tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Give synonyms for “prediction”.
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- •Into each life some rain must fall,
- •Chapter 16 letters tasks
- •Translate the following:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
- •Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.
- •Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences.
- •Speak on the following:
Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words. Explain the words in bold type. Find in the text and translate the following passages:
The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. – He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now that Mr. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches'.
But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the `Mansion of Bliss', as Meg called it. – And presently, as if the idea had just occurred to him, he said to Mrs. March...
Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home. – At any rate she deserved both.
They would have been still more amazed if they had seen what Beth did afterward.
Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:
What good times they had, to be sure.
Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home.
“Yes, dear. It will please him very much, and be a nice way of thanking him.”
“Here's a letter from the old gentleman! Come quick, and read it!”
“You'll have to go and thank him,” said Jo, by way of a joke, for the idea of the child's really going never entered her head.
Speak on the following:
Explain the title of the chapter.
Laurie and his new friends.
Beth finds the neighbours’ house beautiful.
The present for Beth.
Beth’s gratitude.
Answer the questions:
Why could not Beth visit the “Palace Beautiful”?
What way did Mr. Laurence “mend matters”?
Did some pretty easy music lie on the piano by accident?
Why was the gift so precious to Beth?
What way did Beth thank Mr. Laurence?
Make up the situation round the following sentences:
“Never mind, let him take a holiday, and make it up afterward”.
“The boy neglects his music now, and I'm glad of it, for he was getting too fond of it”.
“I'm Beth. I love it dearly, and I'll come, if you are quite sure nobody will hear me, and be disturbed”.
“Mother, I'm going to work Mr. Laurence a pair of slippers”.
“Here's a letter from the old gentleman! Come quick, and read it!”
“Yes, I mean to. I guess I'll go no, before I get frightened thinking about it.”
Comment on the following passage.
The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr. Laurence was the biggest one, but after he had called, said something funny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over old times with their mother, nobody felt much afraid of him, except timid Beth. The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. But, after a while, they found that he considered them the benefactors, and could not do enough to show how grateful he was for Mrs. March's motherly welcome, their cheerful society, and the comfort he took in that humble home of theirs. So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater.
What is meant by ‘the lions’?
Translate the following passage into English. Compare it with the original.
Прошло немного времени, и Марчи поняли, что Бет оказалась права. Дом Лоренсов действительно стал для них Чудесным дворцом. Правда, перед этим каждой из сестер пришлось одержать победу надо Львами, самым грозным из которых им казался мистер Лоренс-старший. После того как он нанес визит миссис Марч и у него нашлось для каждой из девочек доброе слово, они перестали его бояться. Точнее все, кроме Бет; она по-прежнему относилась к старому джентльмену с опаской.
Другим Львом была бедность, которую девочки почувствовали острее прежнего. Лори был богат, и сам факт, что они не могут принять его на должном уровне, поначалу доставлял сестрам немалые страдания. Но прошло еще немного времени, и, видя, как Лори день ото дня становится все счастливей и
веселей, девочки кое-что поняли - каждое из двух семейств
по-своему богато и по-своему бедно. И старается одарить другого тем, что имеет. Задумавшись над этим, девочки перестали мучиться. Так была одержана победа над коварным Львом.
Новая дружба быстро крепла, и каждый день приносил Лори что-нибудь радостное. Однажды он сообщил по секрету своему воспитателю, что Марчи просто отличные девочки.
И действительно, с того момента как сестры Марч вложили в заботу о нем весь свой энтузиазм и всю свою юную энергию, Лори почувствовал себя совершенно по-иному. Дружба дала ему больше, чем сотни самых лучших учебных заведений, ведь он наконец познал нежность женской души, которой был обделен почти с младенчества. У Лори не было ни матера, ни братьев, ни сестер, и дед не мог заменить ему того неповторимого мира, который создают друзья.
Вовлеченный в деятельную атмосферу семейства Марч, Лори не понимал, как мог раньше вести такой скучный и праздный образ жизни. Теперь он стыдился этого. И, как это часто бывает с детьми, которые долгое время жили исключительно в мире книг, Лори почти перестал читать и заниматься науками. Он даже стал сбегать с уроков, предпочитая час-другой провести в обществе Марчей. Кончилось тем, что мистеру Бруку пришлось пожаловаться мистеру Лоренсу.
- Не тревожьтесь, - к удивлению воспитателя ответил мистер Лоренс. - После нагонит. Думаю, ему полезно устроить каникулы. И еще должен заметить, миссис Марч - чудесная женщина. В ее маленьком семействе царят нравы, каких ни в одном монастыре не сыщешь. Так что вреда от этих визитов не будет, а вот счастья и добра он там найдет столько, сколько мы ему с вами вовеки не дадим.
Лори и впрямь веселился у Марчей как никогда в жизни. Каких только забав они ни устраивали! Дети ставили спектакли, играли в «живые картины», катались на коньках и в санях. А какие замечательные вечера они проводили в старой гостиной!