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Comment on some of Twain’s remarks when describing the quality of student papers. Explain why the commentary is so biting. Translate the sentences into Russian1. Perhaps the reader can endure an extract from it. 2. There was a buzz of gratification from time to time. 3. There were very few there who knew what “tete” meant, but the poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless. 4. This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript. 5. (It) wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize. 6. He said that (…) Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it. Read the translation of one of the student papers. Decide whether it conveys the author’s message or it doesn’t.
На обычных тропах бытия с каким радостным волнением предвкушают юные умы какое-нибудь долгожданное празднество. Воображение рисует им картины веселья, окрашенные в розовый цвет.
If you were one of the judges at a literary contest and were handed in the compositions the examples of which you can find above, what would your verdict be? Write it down in 10 sentences.
As far as I am concerned, the composition…
In the story a historical name was mentioned: Daniel Webster. Why is his name used in the context? Do some research and find out.
Translate the second student’s composition into Russian.
WRITING HUMOROUSLY
Humour is something we all look for and are afraid of once in a while. Writing with humour depends either on the quality of the situation or on the skill of the author. Various techniques can be used here. One of the most basic ones is the pun or, simply, play on words. Read a short story by John Lennon entitled “The Wrestling Dog” and decide whether it is — well — funny. THE WRESTLING DOG
One upon a tom in a far off distant land far across the sea miles away from anyway over the hills as the crow barks 39 peoble lived miles away from anywhere on a little island on a distant land. When harvest time came along all the people celebrated with
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