отмечать (праздновать) День Матери, не пойти в школу, одеться по-праздничному

(принарядиться), взять напрокат машину, почти все время, на случай если.... мог бы с таким

же успехом остаться дома, скоротать время, от нас бы не было никакой пользы, ушибить руку

обо что-нибудь, убирать со стола, хотя бы на этот раз, обед продолжался долго, ради такого

случая, в такой чудесный день, повезти ее на машине за город, вернуться домой к

праздничному обеду, не так уж много места, не годится оставлять отца дома, выяснилось, что

все равно.,., махал ей рукой, сели обедать, приносить и уносить что-л., мы чувствовали себя

вполне вознагражденными за...

b) Get the student sitting next to yon translate half of the Russian phrases into

English (in writing) and check them with the key in your notebook. Translate the

other half yourself and ask your neighbour to correct your translation.

III. Translate in writing these passages. Compare and discuss different

variants of students' translation:

1. It occurred to Father that a thing it would be better to do even than to take Mother for a

motor drive would be to take her fishing; if you are going to fish, there is a definite purpose in front

of you to heighten the enjoyment. 2. Father said not to mind him, he said that he could just as well

stay home; he said that we were not to let the fact of his not having had a real holiday for three years

stand in our way,

IV. Try your hand at teaching:

A. Preparation. Pick out from the text all the words with the letter g in them. Classify them

according to the way g is pronounced and put them down in columns. Make up a list of words to

illustrate the same rules.

B. Work in Class. a) Show the table to the class and let the students comment on it.

b) Dictate the words in class with one student writing them on the board. Correct the

mistakes on the board. (See 'Classroom English", Sections IV, VII, VIII.)

V. a) Write the words below in the Past Indefinite. Classify them into two

groups: one with the final г doubled, the other one with one final r in the Past

Indefinite.

b) Explain to the students when the final r should be doubled:

enter, occur, offer, remember, clear, refer [rÌfE:], cheer, bar, utter [Àtq], star, prefer, stir

[stE:].

VI. a) Write an outline of the text (see Ex. IX on p. 59). (The outline may be

written in the Present or Past Indefinite tenses.)

b) Discuss the outlines written by several students and choose the best one.

Improve it by using some variants from other students' works. Write it down on the

board and make the students copy it in their exercise books.

VII. Write two questions to each item of the outline: one should help to reveal

the contradictions between what the members of the family said and did, the other

(with a modal verb) — what they could or ought to have done.

e.g. 1 . Did the girls really think that their mother's old bonnet was "awfully becoming" to

her? 2. Don't you think they should have bought something for their mother too? (Make the students

reason out their answers.)

VIII. Study the Vocabulary Notes end Essential Vocabulary (I) and a)

Paraphrase the following (in writing):

1. to make smb. do smth.; 2. to have smth. arranged; 3. to recover after a disease; 4. to stand

up and sit down; 5. to look in the opposite direction; 6. to come to one's mind; 7. to appear

unexpectedly; 8, a great pleasure; 9. at last; 10. to be able (to spend money on smth., etc.); 11. to

continue to do smth.; 12. not to let smb. do smth.; 13. to conceal some tact; 14. to enjoy oneself; 15.

to love (take interest in); 16. for a short time; 17. to take a taxi; 18. to become dirty; 19. to laugh at

(mock) smb.; 20. to get other people into a mess.

b) Make op sentences with the phrases yea have written.

IX. A word in one language may have different equivalents in another.

е.g. место — room, place

жертва — sacrifice, victim приносить — fetch, bring

a) Look op the words given above in an English-Russian dictionary, find out

the exact meaning of each pair of words and write sentences illustrating the

difference in their use.

b) Ask the students to translate the Russian variants of your sentences.

X. Translate the sentences into English using Essential Vocabulary (1);

1. Какое удовольствие слушать ее пение! 2. После концерта детей угощали чаем с

пирожными. 3. Выключи радио, эта музыка действует мне на нервы. 4. Я повернула за угол и

столкнулась лицом к липу со своей подругой. 5. Почему нужно переворачивать все вверх

дном, чтобы найти какой-то пустяк? 6. Мальчика лечили от кори, но оказалось, что у него

скарлатина. 7. Девочке нравилось, что с ней обращаются как со взрослой. 8. Она не могла

удержать ребенка от шалостей. 9. Мы прекрасно провели время на пляже. Было очень весело.

10. Дэвиду не приходило в голову, что он всех задерживает. 11. Детей нужно приучать хорошо

(kindly) обращаться с животными. 12. Кто бы мог подумать, что она станет талантливой

актрисой! 13. Ах, вот как ты держишь свое слово! 14. Ваш приятель — такой весельчак, —

Да? Представьте, мне это никогда не приходило в голову. 15. Это случилось много лет назад.

Она, должно быть, уже забыла обо всем. 16. Как весело играть в эту игру! 17. Школьные

товарищи Роберта смеялись над его зеленым костюмом. 18. Какая забавная шляпка!

XI. Retell the test following the outline (see Ex. VI, p. 132). Speak about the

contradictions between the words and the behaviour of the members of the family:

е.g. ... They said, they realized what their mother had sacrificed for their sake and wanted to

thank her for everything she had been doing for them. In fact, I believe, they just wanted to make it a

holiday for themselves. They stayed at home ... etc.

XII. a) Translate these sentences into Russian.

I. We may just as well dance now. 2. I would rather hire a taxi. I'm very tired. 3. It will

never do to punish the child for what he has not done. 4. He never keeps people waiting if he can

help it. 5. We must keep him from making trouble. 6. Take my gloves, they will keep your hands

warm. 7. It's no use trimming this old hat, it won't look better. 8. We got everything arranged for

the trip by 9 o'clock. 9. We got her to believe our story. 10. The arrangements for the party will keep

me busy the whole day, I'm afraid. 11. You shouldn't keep the children out after dark. 12. Keep the

ticket if you don't want to be fined.

b) Write sentences of your own using the phrases in bold type. Address them

to the other students who should reply them expressing their approval or

disapproval.

P r o m p t s: How nice (good, clever, bad, awful) of you (him, her)! I don't think you should

have done it. Sure. But that's not quite true. No wonder. I am delighted at your idea.

ХIII. Make up a conversation which took place after the day described in the

text between: the two girls, the two boys, the father and his son, the mother and her

friend, two neighbours. You may find the following openings useful:

I say...; Honestly. .; If you ask me...; You know what I think...; The point is...; Don't you agree