C. Explain or comment on the meaning of the

following:

1. George was noticeably bigger and somewhat more

settled in his behaviour.

2. He had lived in a tough neighbourhood, where rough-

and-tumble fighting was a way of life.

3..... fighting was the one way he felt he could make his

mark.

4..... but by then she was dying of the illness that was

the scourge of the day.

D. Give Russian equivalents:

· to transfer to another school

· to be assigned to another teacher

· to attend school

· to be settled in one's behaviour

· to provoke quarrels

· to find insults

· to go into fits of violent rage

· to assault someone physically

· to be of questionable morals

· to pursue a wide variety of interests

· to bring intellectuals in as special guests

E. Look through the first part of the text and make a list of adjectives defining

'a troubled boy'.

Read the second part of the text.

Part 2

In the summer before he was fifteen, Johnny dropped out of school to enter the work force. At least, in the conventional sense, he would have to be considered a dropout, but Charles did not leave it at that. He made arrangements for the boy to leave his work three afternoons a week and walk two miles to school, where he continued to guide him in a program of reading and writing. This continued five years. Charles also introduced his adolescent charge to political journalism. These two, teacher and student but friends as well, pursued a wide range of reading interests - the classic and the contemporary, the esoteric and the popular.

Under this patient and enthusiastic tutelage, Johnny found his own reading interests and expanded them rapidly. He was not so much a brawler any more, though there were still quarrels and scraps and one observer remembered him as 'an idle loafing fellow'. As open and generous as he was, he was also still irascible and temperamental. That was just Johnny.

Charles never lost touch with his grown-up pupils. Certainly he didn't lose touch with John. When John was eighteen, and still a half-time student, Charles lent him a book of poetry. They had read poetry together before, but this one was different.

He began to scribble some lines of poetry himself, mostly imitations of what he had been reading. By the time he reached the age of twenty-one, he had published his first book of poetry.

The rowdy kid, who could have been kicked out of school when he was just thirteen, who didn't like literature and didn't show much promise, had become a prominent poet. He was just another kid. Most teachers might have hoped, understandably, that he would transfer to another school. And even an indulgent teacher, reading his early attempts at verse, might not have known that he had taught the poet who would write, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," or "Beauty is truth, truth - beauty is all".

For that moody kid, who was a behaviour problem at school, was JOHN KEATS.

A. Reproduce sentences with the following phrases:

to expand interests enthusiastic tutelage

a rowdy kidirascible and temperamental

to show much promisean indulgent teacher

a wide range of to kick out of school

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