I. Transcribe and practice reading the following words:

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

Part 14 (October 3d – Sunday, pp.170 - 184)

A. Vocabulary work:

I. Transcribe and practice reading the following words:

sophisticated intrigue wardrobe

reminiscent tombstone omniscient

evanescent ballet pirouette

clover consumption embroider

tonsils exuberant purgatory

denomination

II. Prepare model reading of the passage beginning with “Such a blight has fallen over my literary career.” up to “…and wait until I graduated before beginning to write” (p.172).

III. Give the English for:

Бежать (с возлюбленным), отеческое письмо, обложка, вкладывать в письмо, делать наброски, удалять гланды, постоянная работа, не ложиться спать, вероисповедание, подписываться.

IV. Translate the following words and phrases and use them in situations:

inmate

to refer to sth

plot

to flatter

to accuse sb of sth

to knit/ to do sth with one’s own hands

to insure

to put sth into sb’s mind

to stay up

to urge sb to do sth

V. Comment on the grammar phenomenon used in the following sentences:

1. You men ought to leave intrigue to women.

2. Don’t you know that you mustn’t give one girl seventeen Christmas presents?

3. You should have seen the girl’s face!

B. Comprehension tasks:

I. Translate into Russian:

1. Plot highly improbable. Characterization exaggerated. Conversation unnatural. A good deal of humour but not always in the best of taste.

2. Haven’t you any sense? Don’t you know that you mustn’t give one girl seventeen Christmas presents?

3. Think how embarrassing it would be if we should ever quarrel!

4. She sits with her hands folded, a picture of patient resignation, while the daughter kills herself with overwork and responsibility and worry.

5. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged.

II. Explain what is meant by the following:

1. I thought I was making a notable addition to American literature.

2. Here’s a four-leaf clover from Camp McBride to bring you good luck for the New Year.

3. There’s a family here who are in awfully desperate straits.

4. You deserve ten thousand years out of purgatory.

5. The Self-Government Association has abolished the ten-o’clock rule.

III. Answer the questions:

1. What was Judy’s new occupation? Was she proud of it?

2. Judy wrote a book, didn’t she? Why wasn’t it published? Was Judy disappointed with this fact?

3. What were her views on life? Was she an optimist or a pessimist? Did she believe in fate or was she going to achieve everything herself?

4. What family did she write about? What made her ask her Daddy to help them?

C.

I. Dwell on the following topic:

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish – and that is the belief that moves mountains.” How do these words characterize Judy? Do you share her beliefs?

II. Write a two-page long summary of the chapter making use of the vocabulary units from the list.

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