Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

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.

IV. Answer the questions: use would or used to.

N o t e:When the meaning is customary, repeated or habitual activity m the past, used to or

would are interchangeable, е.g. Our teacher used to give her students a written test every Thursday.

She would read them a story every week too.

For greater emphasis on the idea of past custom used to is preferable, е.g. He used to watch a

children's program at that hour.

To express volition, or persistence referring to the past would is usually used; е.g. Several

times he tried to get away, but they would not let him go.

1. How often would you write a composition when you were in the ninth form? 2. Would

your teachers always correct your compositions? 3. Who used to help you with your homework? 4.

What would you do during the summer? 5. Where did you use to go for your vacation? 6. When you

were a child what did you use to do on Saturday afternoon? 7. What would you usually do on

Sunday? 8. When your brother was younger, he used to play tennis, use(d) n 't he?

V. Make up short situations (no more than two or three sentences) or

dialogues to illustrate Patterns 1-4

VI. Search the books you read for sentences with these patterns (1-4) to add

up to your student's workbook; practise the best examples in class.

TEXT. A FRESHMAN'S EXPERIENCE From "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean

Webster

The book "Daddy Long-Legs" by an American writer Jean Webster (1876-1916) is a novel

written in the form of letters. The author of these letters, a young girl, Judy by name, writes them to

her guardian, a rich man whom she has never seen.

Judy was brought up in an orphan asylum where her life was hard. The children were wholly

dependent on charity. They were badly fed and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Judy was

a very bright girl and when she finished school, her guardian sent her to college.

Judy feels very happy about it. She hopes to become a writer and pay back the money spent

on her education by her guardian. About the latter the girl knows almost nothing: she knows that he

is a very tall man. That is why she jokingly calls him Daddy Long-Legs.

This text is one of her letters giving us a glimpse of her early college impressions.

October, 25th

Dear Daddy Long-Legs,

College38 gets nicer and nicer, I like the girls and the teachers and the classes and the

campus39 and the things to eat. We have ice-cream twice a week and we never have corn-meal mush.

38 college: a place of higher education both in the USA and in Great Britain. The oldest universities in Great Britain are Oxford and

Cambridge dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, respectively; the largest is the University of London. Admission to the

universities is by examination and selection. Women are admitted on equal terms with men, but the general proportion of men to

women students is three to one, at Oxford it is nearly five to one, and at Cambridge eight to one.

A college is sometimes a part of a university. For instance the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London are composed of

groups of largely autonomous colleges. On the other hand a college may be quite independent. There is a great number of such

colleges in Great Britain (technical and commercial colleges, colleges of art, etc.),

39 campus: the grounds of a school, college or university

The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never

learned. It's very embarrassing at times. I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned

Maurice Maeterlinck,40 and I asked if she was a freshman.41 The joke has gone all over college.

Did you ever hear of Michaelangelo? He was a famous artist who lived in Italy in the Middle

Ages. Everybody in English Literature seemed to know about him, and the whole class laughed

because I thought he was an archangel. He sounds like an archangel, doesn't he?

But now, when the girls talk about the things that I never heard of, I just keep still and look

them up in the encyclopedia. And anyway, I'm just as bright in class as any of the others, and

brighter than some of them!

And you know, Daddy, I have a new unbreakable rule: never to study at night, no matter how

many written reviews are coming in the morning. Instead, I read just plain books — I have to, you

know, because there are eighteen blank years behind me. You wouldn't believe what an abyss of

ignorance my mind is; I am just realizing the depths myself.

I never read "David Copperfield", or "Cinderella", or "lvanhoe", or "Alice in Wonderland", or

"Robinson Crusoe", or "Jane Eyre". I didn't know that Henry the Eighth was married more than once

or that Shelley was a poet. I didn't know that people used to be monkeys, or that George Eliot was a

lady. I had never seen a picture of the "Mona Lisa" and (it's true but you won't believe it) I had never

heard of Sherlock Holmes.

Now I know all of these things and a lot of others besides, but you can see how much I need

to catch up.

November, 15th

Your five gold pieces were a surprise! I'm not used to receiving Christmas presents. Do you

want to know what I bought with the money?

1. A silver watch to wear on my wrist and get me to recitations in time.

2. Matthew Arnold' s42 poems.

3. A hot-water bottle.

4. A dictionary of synonyms (to enlarge my vocabulary).

5. (I don't much like to confess this last item, but I will.) A pair of silk stockings.