Pp. 8 – 11(I can’t love her)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS

Blue Wednesday up to p.4.

I. Reproduce the situations with the following word combinations, use them in your own sentences:

- to be accustomed to something (p.2);

- to bring up (a question) (p.2);

- to feel free to do something (p.3);

- to keep track of something (p.3);

- to get lost (p.4);

- insulting (p.4).

II. Answer the following questions:

1) What kind of girl was Jerusha? What do you learn about her?

2) Whom did she see in the open door downstairs?

3) Why was Jerusha wanted in the office?

4) What were the Trustee’s plans concerning her?

5) Why do you think the Trustee wished to remain unknown?

6) What was Jerusha’s reaction to the Trustee’s plan?

7) Why did Jerusha decide to call the Trustee Daddy-long-legs?

8) Why did she feel like a fire horse at college?

III. Find synonyms for the following words in the text:

- to imagine (p.1);

- to give a quick look (p.2);

- very small (p.2);

- conditions (p.3);

- thoroughly (p.3);

- strange, odd (p.4).

IV. Read and translate the first two paragraphs of the book.

Pp. 5-8 (Yours most loquaciously)

I. Reproduce the situations with the following word combinations, use them in your own sentences:

- a turn-up nose (p.5);

- to be homesick (p.5);

- change (p.6);

- to accuse somebody of something (p.6);

- to hurt somebody’s feelings (p.7);

- a coward (p.7);

- a bruise (p.7).

II. Answer the following questions:

1) What do you learn about Jerusha’s “floormates”?

2) Why did she like to live alone?

3) Why did Jerusha feel embarrassed at times?

4) Why did Jerusha say that she and Julia were born to be enemies?

5) What inspired Jerusha to write the P.S. on p.6?

6) How did Jerusha get her name?

7) How did Jerusha decide on her new name and what did she think of it?

8) What did the English instructor say about Jerusha’s paper? Why was she surprised to hear that?

9) What did Judy mean saying that she was a foreigner in college?

10) Why didn’t Judy tell the truth about her past?

11) Why did Judy like college more and more?

III. Find synonyms for the following words in the text:

- a room for one person (p.5);

- to fail (p.6);

- to invent (p.6).

IV. Read and translate the passage on p.5 beginning with “Tuesday…” and finishing with “Yours always, Jerusha Abbott”.

V. Translate the ending of the letter:

“Yours ever, Judy Abbott (Nee Jerusha).

pp. 8 – 11(I can’t love her)

I. Reproduce the situations with the following word combinations, use them in your own sentences:

- to be obliged (p.8);

- to giggle (p.8);

- to bubble over with something (p.9);

- to be used to doing something (p.10);

- to enlarge one’s vocabulary (p.10);

- nourishing (p.11);

- by nature (p.11);

- to put up with something (p.11).

II. Answer the following questions:

1) Why was Judy happy to have new dresses?

2) What do the letters “R.S.V.P.” on p. 8 mean?

3) How did Jerusha imagine her guardian’s appearance?

4) What Christmas present did Judy get? What did she do with it?

5) Why did she call herself a miserable creature?

6) Comment on the sentence “The cat was almost out of the bag when I grabbed it by its tail and pulled it back.” (p.11).

7) What cooking experience did Judy have?

8) What did she mean by saying that she had a ready pen?

III. Find synonyms for the following words in the text:

- eager to help and give money (p.8);

- to be worthy of something (p.10);

- to have something against (p.10);

- students of the first, second, third, fourth years (p.11);

- very big (p.11);

- a bit, a little (p.11).

IV. Read and translate the passage on p.9 beginning with “9.45 P.M.” and finishing with “Saturday”.

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