In, for, about, out of, with, back, down

1. And you can deduct the twenty-five cents … my allowance.

2. All the world that I see from my tower is draped … white and the flakes are coming … as big as popcorn.

3. And now, shall I tell you … my vacation.

4. We serenaded them … college songs and offered refreshments.

5. I should be perfectly happy except … one little threatening cloud on the horizon.

6. On her father’s side they date … further than Adam.

Exercise 7. These conversational expressions appear in the text. In what situations could you use these phrases?

I’d burst!

You must be tired.

I can’t imagine!

It was great fun!

Should you mind …?

Such a lot of troubles!

Exercise 8. Say it in Ukrainian.

1. Every spring when the hoptoad season opened we used to form a collection of toads and keep them in those window holes; and occasionally they would spill over into the laundry, causing a very pleasurable commotion on wash days.

2. In the spring when everything is so beautiful and green and budding, I feel like turning my back on lessons, and running away to play with the weather.

3. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh – also if I win.

4. It is a heavenly spot in May. All the shrubs are blossom and the trees are the loveliest young green – even the old pines look fresh and new. The grass is dotted with yellow dandelions and hundreds of girls in blue and white and pink dresses.

5. He’s tall and thinnish with a dark face all over lines, and the funniest underneath smile that never quite comes through but just wrinkles up the corners of his mouth.

Reading Comprehension

Attention check

1. Answer the following questions:

1. How many gold pieces did Jerusha get as a Christmas present?

2. What did Judy buy with her money?

3. From whom did she pretend to get watches?

4. What is she going to wear when Julia Pendleton gets back from vacation?

5. Who else spent winter holidays together with Jerusha?

6. Where did Leonora Fenton come from?

7. What did girls start their studying with?

8. What impertinent question did Julia ask Judy when she dropped to Judy to pay a social call?

9. What Jerusha’s poem appeared in February?

10. What news did Judy tell Daddy about her exams? What subjects did she fail?

11. With whom did Judy have a supper party?

12. Who did Judy pretend to be her grandmother? What present did she see in town for her Granny?

13. What did Judy accuse Daddy–Long–Legs of?

14. What did she get while she was in the infirmary?

15. What usually happened on wash days in the asylum?

16. What is Judy’s favourite book?

17. What landed at Judy’s side and scared girls when she wrote a letter to Daddy?

18. What language besides English did Jerusha write a letter to Daddy?

19. With what did Judy compare Trustees? Why?

20. Whom did she walk about the campus?

21. When did she begin feel like a girl instead a foundling?

2. What do these numbers refer to:

20, 57, 83, 25, 5, 15, 22, 500, 69, 400, 3(3), 1(3), 2(2)?

Discussion

1. Discuss the events of the extract you have read:

a. How did Judy spend her Christmas holidays?

b. What Christmas present did Judy get from Daddy? What do you usually get as a Christmas present? If money, how do you spend it?

c. Why was it so important for Judy to have presents from a pretending family?

d. Who was Judy’s preferable in love?

e. Why didn’t Jerusha sell her textbooks? Is it important for you to have a reliable source of knowledge? Where do take your knowledge from?

f. What was the content of the sermon preached by the Bishop of Alabama? Why did Judy mention it in her letter?

g. How do you understand Jerusha’s words: “Yours in sackcloth”? What text is the source of this allusion?

h. Why did Judy decide to write an extra letter in the middle of the month?

i. Why did Judy say that Daddy was probably the horridest one of all those horrid Trustees?

j. Judy said that education was a futile thing. When did she understand it?

k. What made Jerusha cry while she was in the infirmary?

l. In what way did Judy compare herself with Emily Bronte? What is your opinion whether Judy will use her chance?

m. Dou you agree with Judy that getting an education is an awfully wearing process?

n. What meant for Judy to walk about the campus with Julia’s uncle? What were her feelings after this new acquaintance?

2. Character description:

a. What new has Judy known about Julia and her family?

b. How do Jerusha’s words: “Julia said she’d had a good time, but Sallie stayed to help to wash the dishes” (after supper party) characterize her friends?

c. How does the following allusion “all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can” help you understand Jerusha’s character? Will you follow Judy’s motto: “if I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh – also if I win”.

d. How did Judy get acquainted with Mr. Pendleton? Describe him.

e. What changes in Jerusha have you noticed after she had tea with a Man?

Unit 4. (9^th of June – Saturday)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

a) Consult a dictionary and translate the following words from the extract. Practice their pronunciation paying attention to stresses.

Apiece, welfare, prickly, all-inclusive, murmur, obstruct, ignorance, squeal, inferior, guinea fowl, witch-hazel, churn, nondescript, immortal, drowsily, locust, inherit, revengeful, sympathetic, ostensibly, tousle-headed, grimy, inimical, heatedly, sufferance.

b) Listen to your partners’ reading of the above exercise. Correct their mistakes.

Exercise 2. A suggested list of useful expressions. Learn them and recall the situations from the extract in which they are used. Use them in your own examples.

To sketch out,

To chase up/down,

To spread out,

To blow out,

To put away,

To hunt the eggs,

To crawl over,

To room with.

Exercise 3. Complete the table to make word families. Use the dictionary to help you. In case there is no corresponding derivative put a NO sign.

Exercise 4. Choose from the list an appropriate word and insert it into the gap.

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