Crock, corking, crimson, niceties, tremendous, fudge, painstaking

1. She tossed a … party.

2. Chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and topped with hot ….

3. She understands the … of furnishing a home.

4. Her only furniture was an earthen … or two.

5. They drive at a … pace.

6. He is a gentle, … man.

7. She blushed … with embarrassment.

Exercise 5. Make these sentences complete, recalling the situations they are used in the extract.

1. It is the most perfect house for children to be brought up in; with …

2. I felt as benevolent as a Trustee of the John Grier Home. I kissed one …

3. Do you know about that one scandalous blot in my career – the time I ran away …

4. The fox (composed of three girls and a bushel or so of confetti) started half an hour before the twenty-seven hunters. I was …

5. She sat down in front of a mirror and tried on a dozen, each lovelier than …

6. But in any case, I had to return it. It’s different with me than with other girls. They can …

7. Field Day last Saturday. It was a very spectacular occasion. First we had …

8. We had plenty to eat and plenty to wear, sufficient water to wash in, and a furnace in the cellar. But there was one …

Exercise 6. Here are some sentences from the text. Explain what the words in bold type mean.

1. Everything is so comfortable and restful and homelike; I walk from room to room and drink in the furnishings.

2. Julia says that she has never seen him so amiable: he’s usually pretty unapproachable.

3. I have a very wandering spirit, though I haven’t as yet had much chance to develop it.

4. You can see with what nicety we have to trim our sails between chemistry and history.

5. There’s no doubt about it, Daddy; New York would rapidly undermine this fine, stoical character which the John Grier Home so patiently built up.

6. It’s a dizzying experience, Daddy, to pass eighteen years in the John Grier Home, and then suddenly to be plunged into the WORLD.

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

Who’s afraid?

But I don’t care.

I’m changing my mind.

Wasn’t that sweet of him?

I never mean it.

Exercise 8. Say it in Ukrainian.

1. There is a March wind blowing, and the sky is filled with heavy, black moving clouds. The crows in the pine trees are making such a clamor! It’s an intoxicating, exhilarating, calling noise. You want to close your books and be off over the hills to race with the wind.

2. I think if you don’t mind, that I’d rather be an actress than a writer. Wouldn’t you like me to leave college and go into a dramatic school? And then I’ll send you a box for all my performances, and smile at you across the footlights. Only wear a red rose in your buttonhole, please, so I’ll surely smile at the right man. It would be an awfully embarrassing mistake if I picked out the wrong one.

3. In my heart I thank you always for the life and freedom and independence that you have given me. My childhood was just a long, sullen stretch of revolt, and now I am so happy every moment of the day that I can’t believe it’s true. I feel like a made-up heroine in a story-book.

4. You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people’s places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.

Reading Comprehension

Attention check

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Who sent Judy Christmas presents this year? What presents did she get?

2. What did Judy discuss with Julia’s uncle when he came to visit his niece?

Why was it too difficult to entertain uncle Jervis for Judy?

3. What were Judy’s favourite subjects this year?

4. How many girls took part in a paper chase?

5. What Shakespeare’s book did Judy read?

6. What were girls going to see in the theatre of New York? Who invited them to the theatre?

7. What were Judy’s impressions of the play “Hamlet”?

8. What asylum was Judy going to build in her future?

Discussion

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

a. Why did Judy say that it was the most beautiful Christmas vacation?

b. What impressed Judy most of all when she lived at Sallie’s?

c. “They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don’t.“ – about whom did Jerusha say it?

d. Why did Jerusha remember the day when she stole some cookies? What is your opinion if she was right behaving like that?

e. Was it exciting to play a paper chase for girls? And what about you? Would you like to play?

f. Judy changed her mind as for an exam failing. Did she pass her exams successfully?

g. She read a lot of classics. What book made her pretend she was a founder of orphan asylums?

h. What meant for Jerusha to be a winner of the short–story contest?

i. Do you remember your first visit to the theatre? Can you compare your feelings with Judy’s before going to the theatre?

j. Describe Judy’s impressions of New York?

k. Why didn’t Jerusha accept a cheque for 50 dollars from Daddy–Long–Legs?

l. What common features did Judy notice in the Lowood institute (where Bronte’s heroine studied) and the John Grier Home?

m. Jerusha thought that anyone cannot live without imagination. Why is it so important to have imagination?

Unit 6. (2^nd June – 10^th September)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

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

Humiliate, arbitrary, peremptory, omnipotent, dormer, crotch, congregation, faction, twilight, descend, wade, brook, ginger, chaperon, immaculate, pamper, nuisance, spry, distracted, pliable, sizzling, nautical, promptitude, courteous.

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 dispose of,

In compliance with,

To dart up and down,

To dash out,

To draw a veil over,

To turn out,

To move in,

To talk about,

To be engaged with.

Exercise 3. Check whether you know the meaning of these words. Match the words on the left with their meanings on the right.

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

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