2. Discuss the following: a) Agree or disagree with the statements. Prove your answer.

1. The King's son was going to be married, so the whole court was preparing for the occasion.

2. The State Banquet lasted for a week.

3. The King played the flute very well and everybody enjoyed listening to him.

4. The King always answered questions that were not addressed to him.

5. Catherine Wheel, the Rocket's mother, was renowned for her graceful dancing.

6. The son of the Prince and the Princess was drowned in a deep river.

7. The King had seven attendants with him, each of whom carried a torch.

8. The Duck was a very peaceful creature and never quarrelled with anyone.

9. The Rocket was found by the King's courtiers in the ditch.

10. The Rocket managed to set the whole world on fire, and made such a noise that nobody talked of anything else for a whole year.

B) Give the Remarkable Rocket's character-sketch. C. Give a summary of the tale revision

I. Pronounce the words:

genius, salon, aesthetic cult, apostle, consequence, irresistible, triumph, insolence, contempt, prejudice(s), essay, worthy (of attention), drama, to mirror, imitative;

column, sapphires, to wander, ruby, sword-hilt, councillor, lead, forehead, misery, courtiers, pedestal, to frown, feverishly, clerk, pomegranate; holm-oak, hyacinth, emerald, pearl, buried, wretched, to pierce, heather, tomb, meadow, jewels, dawn, sincerity, brow, to wonder; ogre, castle, delicious, giant, to be wrapped in smth, to cease, scene, wound, wicked, peach-trees, to hasten, breath, axe, merely, awe; bachelor, to occur, gilly-flowers, courageous, worth, to be drowned, funeral, daffodils, odour, canary, flour, clergyman, essence, moor, to pour; swan, ceremony, banquet, flute, cough, memoir, to inquire, to tread, virtue, consciousness, indignant, gauze, to plough, to condemn, to gasp.

II. Give Russian equivalents:

1) a man of exceptionally wide culture

2) to try one’s hand at smth

3) to encourage smb to attempt smth

4) to establish oneself as a writer of consequence

5) to be prejudiced against smth

6) to win one’s fame as (a dramatist)

7) an entertaining plot

8) to have a hailing success with the public

9) to be accused of smth

10) to be sentenced to two years’ imprisonment

1. to be much admired (27)

2. to approve (of smth/of smb doing smth) (28)

3. to come to the point (28)

4. to shake one's head (29)

5. to bargain with smb (32)

6. admirer (34)

7. to faint (33)

8. (to try) to keep oneself warm (37)

9. to praise smb (38)

10. to murmur (40)

11. to throng round smb/smth (40)

12. to spread one's wings (41)

13. a way of doing smth (42)

14. to do smb good (44)

15. to mean smth (44)

to mean a lot/ a great deal to smb

to mean nothing to smb

16. to perfect smth (45)

17. to frown (46)

18. to cost far more than smth (46)

19. to bear rich fruit (47)

20. a trespasser (48)

21. to be prosecuted (48)

22. to be wrapped in furs (49)

23. a most wonderful sight (49)

24. to break into blossom (50)

25. to bid smb good-bye (51)

26. to long for smb/smth (51)

27. marvellous (52)

28. every now and then (53)

29. to be in trouble (56)

30. to set to work (60)

31. to flatter smb (62)

32. to take pains (to do smth) (63)

33. to occur to smb (64)

It occurred to him that …

34. to lose one's way (65)

35. to be a great loss to smb (66)

36. a confirmed bachelor (67)

37. to prefer smth to smth (70)

38. to take (a prominent) part in smth (71)

39. to tread on smb's toes (73)

40. to reflect on/upon smth (73)

41. to be moved to tears (73)

42. to be in better spirits (74)

43. I am destined to make a sensation. (81)

44. to set the world (the Thames) on fire (82)

45. to be sound asleep (82)