Find in the text and write out 10 verbs and 10 nouns related to travelling by boat. Translate them into Russian. Use the ones you want to remember in sentences of your own.

Suggest synonyms to the words below:

tow (a boat), (lay down) sculls, to skull (up to Walton), embark (a ship), disembark (from a starboard), fasten (a boat), float.

2. Explain the difference between the words in red:

1.One sees a good many funny incidents up the river in connection with towing.
Whatever the accident may have been, however, it had in no way disturbed the young lady and gentleman, who were towing.

2.While we were wrestling with one side of the hoop, and endeavouring to persuade it to do its duty, the other side would come behind us in a cowardly manner, and hit us over the head.

You can hardly believe you are only where you are, and you are convinced that the map must be wrong.

3.She said she must be in to supper.

I began to think it must be all a dream, and that I was really asleep in bed.

4.…then we both wondered if we were both asleep.

…he told them how in the dark wood he had lost his way, and had wandered many days and nights…

5."You – you are sure you know a lock, when you do see one?" I asked hesitatingly, not wishing to offend her. The question did offend her, however, and she suggested that I had better look for myself.

"I should like to see him pull the wrong line," murmured George, as they passed. And at that precise moment the man did it…

6.I did get to sleep for a few hours.

That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river.

7.We waited some time, but matters seemed to get only more and more involved.

Overall project implementation involved three key phases.

8.Now, rise, and show your strength.

Now, raise your voice for justice.

9.Muscles can often feel sore after exercise.

Spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar…

10.We adopted this harmless bit of trickery, and the result was that, by the time everything else was ready, the tea was waiting.

For our conference, we adapted this exercise to promote creative thinking in activists.

11.That was an under-estimate.

We can't underestimate how much harsher traditional computing displays are on the human eye

than print is.

12.Their path lay by a deep wood.

We know what she would say, and layour hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.

13. Above the bridge the river winds tremendously.

…the sound of the lapping water round the boat, and the wind among the branches, kept me restless and disturbed.

14. On the other hand, the man who wound it up thinks the whole cause of the muddle rests with the man who is trying to unwind it.

…so fair the vision seemed, that of his bleeding wounds he thought no more.

15. I told them I would owe them the money, and they should have it at the end of the month. But they would not hear of that, and said it would be much better if they had it then, because otherwise the interest would accumulate so.

16. George had taken it firmly, and held it away from him, and had begun to unravel it as if he were taking the swaddling clothes off a new-born infant.

…and, borneon her dark wings, we pass for a moment into a mightier Presence than her own.

17. They, sorely grieving, rode on without him, mourning him as one dead.

Three or four miles up stream is a trifle, early in the morning, but it is a weary pull at the end of a long day.

18. People who have tried it, tell me that a clearconscience makes you very happy and contented.

I'm very conscious of my weight.

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