- •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:
Chapter 14 secrets tasks
Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 14 and translate them into your mother-language.
to make a dash here and there to be of a literary turn a circulating library to nibble pens to take a roundabout way to the road to stand stock still to pass through a trying ordeal to be up to some mischief a hearty boy’s laugh to look nettled to be born a wheedler |
to get into a scrape to chuckle at the idea to dart away romping ways to skip stones to rush to the door a woe-begone face to lose one’s wits for a sequel to exult over the splendid success to cluster about smb |
Translate the following:
I don’t like Ned and his set, and wish you’d keep out of it.
I’m not a fashionable party and don’t mean to be, but I do like harmless larks now and then, don’t you?
Thank you. Fire away.
I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that.
A dozen newspaper puffs.
Meg, looking particularly ladylike in her state and festival suit, for she had been making calls.
It’s very trying, but we never can make her do it.
The reader suddenly sat up, cast away the paper, displaying a flushed countenance, and with a funny mixture of solemnity and excitement replied in a loud voice, “Your sister.”
Stop jabbering
Jo’s breath gave out here.
Translate the following passage into English. Compare it with the original.
-Если вы минуту помолчите, я вам все расскажу. Девочки затихли, и она добросовестно поведала, как «Соперники» оказались в редакции газеты.
- Когда я пришла за ответом, - продолжала Джо, - редактор сказал, что берет оба рассказа, но начинающим гонораров не выплачивает. Редактор сказал, что это отличная практика. По том, когда новички превратятся в знаменитых писателей, каждый им с удовольствием заплатит. В общем, я согласилась и отдала оба рассказа, а сегодня мне прислали газету. Лори вы следил меня и захотел прочесть. Я ему разрешила. Он сказал, что ему понравилось. И просит меня продолжать. Говорит, что за следующий рассказ сам мне заплатит. Я так счастлива. Со временем я, наверное, смогу зарабатывать себе этим на жизнь и помогать вам.
Джо почувствовала, что не в силах говорить. К горлу ее подкатил ком, и, зарыв лицо в газету, она разрыдалась. Как долго она втайне мечтала об этом дне! И вот наконец ее труд заслужил похвалу самых близких и любимых людей. Джо плакала, но это были особые слезы. Она чувствовала себя так, будто только что сделала первый шаг на пути к счастью.
Chapter 15 a telegram tasks
Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 15 and translate them into your mother-language.
to observe pensively a blot on one’s nose un unjust world clay models of birds in a despondent attitude to spat away to say smth in a persuasive way to snatch smth afflictions to put away grief |
an evil spell to undertake a long journey to knit one’s heavy eyebrows abundant hair vanity to say smth in a tone of awe to divert smb to snivel over trifles an afflicted heroine a benignant face |