Note: The words "plan" and "outline" are sometimes used without sense discrimination. But

it is better to use "plan" when the composition is not yet written or planning is made by the author.

The word "outline" is used rather when dealing with a work already written by someone else.

The best way to learn how to make a good plan of your writing is to learn how to make an

outline of original pieces of prose. There are different ways of writing an outline. It can be expressed

in: 1) key-words or brief topic phrases (topic outline); 2) complete sentences (sentence outline); 3)

groups of sentences containing the topic or main idea (paragraph outline). The choice depends on the

length and complexity of the writing and experience of the beginner.

Examples:

a) A sample topic outline of "A Day's Wait".

1. A very sick boy of nine years old.

2. Doctor's visit.

3. Feeling the same.

4. Leaving the boy for a while.

5. The boy's talk about death.

6. Argument about temperature.

7. Relaxation and nervous breakdown.

b) A sample sentence outline of "A Day's Wait".

1. The boy was shivering with fever, unwilling to go to bed.

2. The doctor took the boy's temperature and said there was nothing to worry about.

3. The boy seemed detached and kept looking at the foot of the bed.

4. The father went for a walk.

5. He came back and found the boy still staring at the foot of the bed.

6. The boy was sure he was going to die.

7. The father explained the difference between the Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometers.

8. The boy relaxed, but the next day he cried very easily at little things that were of no

importance.

Assignments:

1. Read the story "How We Kept Mother's Day" and make a topic outline of Its contents.

2. Make a sentence outline of the story.

3. Make a plan of your narration about the people presented is the picture (see p. 138).

LABORATORY EXERCISES (II)

1. a) listen to the test "An Englishman's Meals", mark the stresses and tunes. b) Repeat it in

the intervals following the model.

2. a) Listen to the dialogue "At Table".

b) Repeat it in the intervals following the model.

c) Learn the text by heart.

3. Answer the questions using the given patterns.

4. Make up sentences using the given patterns.

5. Write a dictation.

6. Paraphrase the given sentences.

7. Translate the sentences into English. Check them with the key.

8. listen to the text "He Was Too Timid" or some other text on the topic "Meals". Get ready to

give the summary in class.

CURIOSITY QUIZ FOR EAGERS

1. What is "Mother's Day"? Where and when is it celebrated?

2. What is a pub? What traditions are connected with if?

3. What is a bank holiday in Britain!

4. Describe some traditions or customs connected with family or public holidays in England.

5. What do the terms "Welsh Babbit", "Pancake Day" and "Dutch Treat" mean?

6. Find a story (an essay) or a passage in a novel by an English or American writer describing

a meal. Give its summary in class.

UNIT FIVE

I SPEECH PATTERNS

1. I was sure to be put down in class next to the girl... and she would whisper and giggle.

The children always came to see their grandmother on Sundays, and she would give them

delicious pastries.

When asked this question, he would smile and say nothing.

When people met him in the street they would turn away and pretend not to know him.

2. Judy said she didn't know that people use d to be monkeys.

a) They used to be great friends.

There used to be a telephone-booth round the corner. I used to know him. Used you to know

him.

b) He used to travel by plane, Use(d) n't he? or Didn't he? ( colloq.)

He used to work late at night.

Did he use to work late at night? (colloq.)

Judy's fellow-students used to laugh at her ignorance.

3. I'm not used to receiving presents.

She was not used to being treated unkindly.

It is too bad when a college student is not used to reading books.

The mother was used to doing all the work about the house alone.

Our students are used to working with a cassette-recorder.

4. It was Judy who had to read plain books.

It was shame, not fear, that made her cry. It was the last course that tasted especially good. It

was the mother who decorated the house and prepared everything for the celebration.

It was my sisters who cooked all the dishes.

EXERCISES

I. Paraphrase the following using Patterns 1-3:

P a t t e r n 1: 1. By the end of the working-day he usually waited for her at the factory-gate

and they went home together. 2. The spring days were warm and sunny, and the children spent much

time out-of-doors. 3. When they sometimes asked him about his college days, he always answered

that he had greatly enjoyed going to college. 4. The mother never complained; usually she only

sighed and went on with her work. 5. Her husband often came back home tired and angry; at table he

again and again found fault with the cooking. 6. When we told the mother how good everything

tasted, she always said "Hunger is the best sauce."

P a t t e r n 2: 1. He was in the habit of saying that there is no game like football. 2. She

always left the dishes unwashed in the kitchen sink and went away. 3. When he was a student he

went to the library every other day. 4. My mother always made a splendid chocolate tart for my

birthday. 5. When I was a child, our family always went to the seaside for summer holidays. 6. When

he was younger, he was a pretty good dancer.

P a t t e r n 3:1. It's something new for me to be treated in this way. 2. Being made fun of

was something quite unusual for her. 3. It was not the first time that the doctor was to treat this

horrible disease. 4. I always work by such light, it is normal for me. 5. The child was never refused

anything and considered it a normal state of things.

II. Make the following sentences emphatic using Pattern 4 as in the example:

Example:

My friend told me everything about it.

It was my Mend who told me everything about it.

1. Doctor Temple cured Mrs. Greene's husband of his stomach disease. 2. Steve treated them

all to ice-creams. 3. Her brother told us all about that terrible accident. 4. Your rudeness made her

cry. 5. My mother does the cooking for all the family. 6. Those books made a deep impression on

him and decided his future. 7. This noise doesn't let me concentrate on my work. 8. These students

recited their own poems at the last party with a great success.

III. Translate these sentences into English:

1. Он имел обыкновение говорить, что лучшее средство от нервных болезней — труд.

2. Это мама, а не я, так красиво убрала стол цветами. 3. Каждый раз, когда он приходил он

приносил мне книга, которые я должна была прочитать. 4. Я не привыкла петь перед такой

большой аудиторией, но сегодня спою. 5. Его лечили этим лекарством от ангины, а не от

воспаления легких. 6. Раньше ты приходил домой гораздо позже. 7. Каждый раз, когда шел

дождь, он чувствовал себя хуже. 8. Ребенок привык, чтобы с ним обращались ласково. 9. Тебе,

по-видимому, не нравится доктор Марч? Но ведь именно он вылечил меня от этого ужасного

кашля. 10. Время от времени он переворачивал страницу, делая вид, что читает.