Translation

1. Translate and explain the following statement:

“I do think that of all the silly irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this “weather-forecast” fraud is about the most aggravating”.

2. Find the sentences in which the following vocabulary units are used and translate them into your mother tongue.

The sluggard, the “weather forecast” swindle, to snarl at each other, a defiant snore, hideous sloth, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion, noble resolve, to lump sth., to while away the time, a depression, tomfoolishness, to be plagued, flimsy clothes, to get drenched, aggravating, to attach importance to sth., to be touchy, set-fair, to make head or tail of sth., to sneak sth., to shy sth., to wend one’s way.

3. Supply the English equivalents for the following lexical units:

1. Як весело! 2) Бути легко одягнутими. 3) Розбиратися (в нових типах барометрів). 4) Прийти додому мокрим до нитки. 5) На вулиці щиро дощило. 6) Занурений в безпам’ятне забуття. 7) Він стягнув сигарету, яку я старанно звернув для себе. 8) Хлопчик кинув нам услід морквину. 9) Ясний день.

Speaking

1. Speak on the following using the active vocabulary of the chapter.

1. The waking up next morning

2. J.’s attitude to weather forecasts.

3. The uselessness of the barometers: the story of the one hanging up in a hotel at Oxford.

4. The gentlemen’s departure.

2. Describe the following episodes using the lexical units given below:

1. The “weather forecast” swindle (irritating tomfoolishness, aggravating, to be soaked, to get drenched, a set-fair day, flimsy things);

b) The gentlemen’s departure (too bulky, hampers, a large roll of rugs, the most abandoned and unprincipled errand-boys, to attach importance to sth., to be touchy, to shy a carrot after sb.).

Unit 5. Chapter 6

Vocabulary

1. Guess the words from the chapter by their definitions:

a) gather, come or go together in great numbers;

b) period of very hot weather (July and August);

c) labyrinth;

d) think deeply or dreamily, ignoring what is happening around one;

e) crowd together;

Make up sentences of your own illustrating the meaning of these words.

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

1. There was only one … case of cholera in the whole parish: that case was young Stivvings.

2. And we other boys, who would have sacrificed ten terms of our school-life for the sake of being ill for a day, couldn’t catch so much as … .

3. I wonder if there is any real … beauty in the old soup-plates, beer-mugs that we prize so now.

4. They … … various other people who wanted to get it over, as they went along, until they had … all the persons in the maze.

5. The crowd looked dangerous, and he decided to treat it as an … .

6. But all their heads were, by that time, in such a that they were incapable of … anything…

Lexical units to be inserted: pick up, a stiff neck, absorb, grasp, intrinsic, accident, reputed, confused whirl

3. Work in pairs. Find the sentences in which the words and phrases given below are used and translate them into your mother tongue.

1. maze, 2) to be nuts on smth.; 3) to be chucked from smwh., 4) to steal a quiet hour with, 5) to grunt away at the sculls, 6) distant glimpses, 7) to muse on sth., 8) sloping uplands, 9) to flock, 10) to be stricken down with a disease, 11) to be staggered, 12) the dog-days, 13) to huddle together, 14) the “old blue”; 15) to be a credit to smb.