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Squall, bleary-eyed, questionnaire, bawl, fatigue, soothe, wearing, hypnotherapy, teary, assign.
II. Define the meaning of the following lexical units. Say how they were used in the text.
To juggle, to coo, pert, a news chopper, unwavering, crib, freeway, enticing, sb’s beauty sleep, a host of, slumber, to put sb. on a schedule, to be assigned to a hospital, to grow teary, to dismiss questions about sth., credentials.
III. Find in the article the English for:
на другом конце провода; ребенок успокоился; бешеная сумма денег; раздражительный, капризный ребенок; няня, нянюшка; перекинуть через плечо, положить на плечо; нагромождение, груда; распознать, узнать; заведовать студией; бежать как сумасшедший; чьи-то услуги стоят $...; уложить ребенка спать днем; взять ребенка на руки; учетная запись о ком-либо; двухнедельная командировка; «надавить» на кого-либо; говорить двусмысленно, темнить; отрывистый (о тоне, манере говорить), магазин детских товаров.
IV. Say what you know about:
a) Dr. Spock, Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis;
b) Ballantine Books, Twentieth Century Fox Television;
c) Encino Irvine, L.A., Ormond Street;
d) WHO, London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital;
e) Mary Poppins.
V. Say what is implied by:
a red-faced infant, the cameras rolled, nanny-to-the stars Tracy Hogg, a three-hankie movie, a two-book deal, her 29-city author tour, power moms, quickie questionnaires, cute acronyms, your basic over-the-black-fence wisdom, a university spokesman, a three-week-end-long training course, a “stint with the World Health Organization in India”, a nannylike “Never mind” sb’s accent is as thick as Yorkshire pudding
VI. Write out the verbs which the journalist makes use of to describe the way babies cry. Account for the author’s choice of words and specify their meaning.
VII. State the idea behind the following lines and say whether you agree with it.
1. Best-selling British nanny Tracy Hogg has advice about bringing up baby. Mary Poppins would plotz.
2. Hogg says she is to newborns what Robert Redford’s character was to horses in the three-hankie movie “The Horse Whisperer”.
3. Hogg’s premise is simple.
4. You can have a new baby and still get your beauty sleep.
5. But some of her advice is downright kooky.
6. She [Tracy Hogg] had, as they say in the movie industry, “ great word of mouth ”.
7. A Ballantine publicist says the company is standing behind its author.
8. “I know that I’ve helped a lot of people along the way. And nothing can take away from that”, says Hogg.
9. For now, the success of her book has the phones in her store ringing off the hook.
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