Assignments

I. Translate the sentences in which the words and word combinations for intensive study are used. Reproduce them in the situations from the book.

II. .Answer each question in 5-7 complete sentences. Include a quote from the text that supports your response.

1. What game did Dill invent? Did Atticus approve of it?

2. Who was Miss Maudie Atkinson? What have you learnt about her background? What did she think of foot-washers?

3. What did the children undertake on the last night of Dill's stay in Maycomb?

4. Speak on Jem's night adventure and the surprise that awaited him in the Radley Place.

III. . Translate the paragraph: “ Miss Maudie hated her house………we did not stand out of the way”. (Chapter 5).

IV. Give a gist of the chapters.

Unit 4. Chapters 7-8

Give the Russian equivalents for the following words.

cleaved (vb.): stuck

gnats (n.): small, two-winged insects that can bite or sting.

perpetual embalming (adj. + n.): Something that is perpetual lasts forever. Embalming is the process of preserving a dead body.

vigil (n.): a watch. Jem is waiting and watching for Mr. Nathan to appear.

whittles (vb.): To whittle is to use a knife to cut away thin shavings of wood. Sometimes, a whittler may actually end up carving a recognizable object.

aberrations (n.): an aberration is a deviation, or a moving away from, something that is normal. The fact that winter comes so quickly in Maycomb is abnormal, thus, an aberration.

azaleas (n.): a colorful and decorative kind of flower.

cannas (n.): a beautiful tropical flower.

caricatures (n.): a representation of a person where certain features of that person are exaggerated or distorted.

flue (n.): a channel in a chimney that allows smoke and flames to pass to the outside

near libel (adj. + n.): When you commit libel, you harm someone's reputation. Atticus tells the children that they have committed a near libel; that is, their snowman is almost libelous because it so closely represents one of their neighbors and could harm that neighbor's reputation.

perpetrated (vb.): carried out; committed

plaited (vb.): braided

procured (vb): got

prophets (n.): A prophet is someone able to predict the future.

quelled (vb.): To quell is to overwhelm something until it is powerless. The tin roof of Miss Maudie's house quelled the flames because tin cannot burn so the fire was eventually stopped.

switches (n.): slender twigs or branches

taffeta (n.): a lustrous, stiff fabric, often used for women's dresses, especially formal wear

touchous (adj.) touchy; sensitive

treble (adj.): high

Words and word combinations for intensive study.

crook (v.) aberration (n.)

flunk (v.) libel ( n.)

walk on eggs (v.+ n.) unfathomable (adj.)

torso (n.) extinguish (v.)

wedge (v.)

Assignments

I. Translate the sentences in which the words and word combinations for intensive study are used. Reproduce them in the situations from the book.

II. Answer each question in 5-7 complete sentences. Include a quote from the text that supports your response.

1. What were Scout's impressions about the beginning of the second year at school?

2. What did Jem tell her about the night he went to the Radley Place?

3. What presents did the children find in the knothole of the oak near the Radley Place?

4. Why did Jem cry when he learnt that the knothole had been filled?

4. What was the weather like that autumn?

5. What impression did the first snowfall produce on the children? How did they spend the day?

Why did they make the snowman look like Mr. Avery?

6. Speak on the night accident. What made Jem pour all his secrets to Atticus?

III. Translate the paragraph: “For reasons unfathomable…….discomfort to ourselves”. (Chapter 8).

IV. Give a gist of the chapters.