Translation

1. Translate two paragraphs beginning with “I said I’d pack…” and ending with “doing nothing when I’m working” (pp. 31-32).

2. Translate the following vocabulary units into your mother tongue and describe the situations in which they are used.

Indigestible, to ooze, to saturate, fragrance, to reek of sth., to confine oneself to sth., a ramshackle affair, a shamble, to do credit to sth., to have the presence of mind to do sth., a crusty old gentlemen, to fidget, to catch sth. right on the chest, to be harried about, the undertaker class, to make a fuss over sth., mean, to draw up, to droop off, to deprive sb. of his living, to gain a reputation, consumptive people, to throng, a good round square, slap-up meal, a sticky concoction, to harp too much on sth., the victuals, uncanny, to potter about, to haunt sb., to make sb.’s life a misery, to rummage, not to care a hang, to have a go.

3. Translate the following phrases into English making use of the active vocabulary:

1. Це була деренчлива колимага, яку тягнула кульгава, захекана сомнамбула. 2) Мати достатньо самовладання, щоб зупинити коняку.

3. Пройшло декілька хвилин, і старий сварливий пан почав соватися. 4) Потім повна пані піднялася і сказала, що це ганебно, що гідну заміжню жінку отак дратують. 5) Він сказав, що це була змова лишити його засобів до існування. 6) Ми гарно, ситно, шикарно поїмо в сім годин. 7) Мені здавалося, що Джордж занадто багато торочив про ідею 14еревершення. 8) Ми взяли якусь чудову липку бурду для пиття. 9) Я перерив усі наші речі, але не зміг знайти зубну щітку.

Speaking

Work in pairs. Describe the following episodes from Chapter IV using the vocabulary given below.

a) The story of cheeses: ripe and mellow, to knock a man over, a ramshackle affair, at a shamble that would have done credit to, to dash off, crusty, to fidget, to catch it right on the chest, to be harried about in this way, mean, to have a sniff and droop off, to deprive sb. of his living, to gain the place quite a reputation, consumptive people, to throng.

2. Packing for the trip: to fall into the suggestion, uncanny, to cock one’s legs on the table, to boss the job, to potter about, to haunt, to make one’s life a misery, to rummage the things up, not to care a hang, to slam the bag and strap it, the hampers, to squash.

Unit 4. Chapter 5

Vocabulary

1. Work with a partner. Match the lexical units in A with their definitions in B. Recall the situations in which these words are used in Chapter V.

A B

1. sluggard a. fraud

2. swindle b. lazy, slow-moving person

3. snarl c. growl

4. defiant d. irritating

5. shy sth. e. annoy

6. depression f. senseless behaviour

7. tomfoolishness g. area of low barometric

pressure

8. plague h. throw sth.

9. aggravating i. showing no respect

10. wend one’s way j. understand

11. make head or tail of sth. k. go

2. Fill the gaps in the following sentences using the lexical units given below.

a. George was throwing away in … the inestimable gift of time.

b. We were interrupted by a … from George.

c. Of all the silly, irritating … by which we are …, this “weather forecast” …is about the most … .

d. It was going to be a “warm, fine to … day”; and we would dress ourselves in … things, and go out.

e. I never can … of new styles of mobile phones.

f. It was too bright and sunny on this special morning for George’s … readings about “Bar. Falling”.

g. We shouldn’t …much … to that alibi.

h. Bigs’s boys are not, as a rule, … .

i. Our boat was waiting for us, and to it we … .

Lexical units to be inserted: aggravating, defiant snore, plagued, blood-curdling, touchy,fraud, set-fair, hideous sloth, attach importance to, wend one’s way, make head or tail, flimsy,tomfoolishness.