I. Transcribe, translate the words and reproduce the situations where they were used: encounter, muscle, reassemble, apprehensive, enormous, triumphant, impertinent, bewildered, halibut,

Chapter 20

The Third Miracle

I. Transcribe, translate the words and reproduce the situations where they were used: encounter, muscle, reassemble, apprehensive, enormous, triumphant, impertinent, bewildered, halibut, twinkling.

II. Mark the statements as True or False. Correct the false statements.

1. One of the pupils was to take charge of the first lesson after lunch on Thursday.

2. One of the boys said that his muscles were like steel ropes.

3. Miss Trunchbull was going to check the three-times table.

4. The Headmistress went straight to her jug of water, peered inside and noticed a slimy creature there.

5. Miss Trunchbull wanted Wilfred to recite the three-times table forward.

6. Miss Honey saw no point in teaching anything backwards to the pupils.

7. Miss Trunchbull saw Nigel writing something with the chalk on the blackboard.

8. The chalk wrote the following: “Agatha, give Jenny back her house…”

9. The Headmistress fainted and was lying on the floor of the classroom.

10. When the children began filling out of the classroom Miss Honey reprimanded Matilda for her behaviour.

III. Choose the correct variant:

1. On Thursday the Headmistress was going to …

a) take the children to the Zoo; b) check the three-times table;

c) take the children out for a walk; d) read a new book to the children.

2. What was the first thing Miss Trunchbull did when she entered the room?

a) She said “Hello”. b) She shouted at Wilfred.

c) She drank some water. d) She checked her jug of water.

3. Wilfred was asked to recite…

a) the three-times table backwards. b) a poem.

c) the months of the year. d) the Alphabet.

4. Miss Honey was of the opinion that…

a) it was good to learn to write words backwards;

b) there was no point in teaching anything backwards;

c) her pupils were not smart;

d) it was important to recite the three-times table backwards.

5. When Miss Trunchbull interrogated Wilfred he…

a) answered immediately;

b) was thinking hard;

c) was too frightened and bewildered even to speak;

d) gave a clear answer.

6. Nigel jumped to his feet and started shouting because…

a) Miss Trunchbull was holding Wilfred by his ankle upside-down;

b) he didn’t feel well;

c) he wanted to answer the three-times table;

d) he saw a piece of chalk hovering near the blackboard.

7. The first thing the chalk wrote was…

a) “Agatha” b) “Hello”

c) “How are you?” d) “Nice to see you”

8. What was Miss Trunchbull’s reaction to the chalk writing: “Agatha, give Jenny back her house”?

a) She was sorry for what she had done.

b) She turned white snow and couldn’t say a word.

c) She was calm and not at all surprised.

d) She apologized for being bad and cruel.

9. When the Headmistress fainted Nigel …

a) tried to catch her.

b) ran for the matron.

c) gave her a kick.

d) tipped the content of the jug over her head.

10. Matilda, sitting motionless at her desk, was…

a) tipped the content of the jug over her head.

b) sorry for the Headmistress.

c) extremely frightened.

d) revising the three-times table.

IV. Write out the word combinations used by the Headmistress to characterize the children. Translate them and make sentences of your own.

V. Translate the following phrases and reproduce the situations they are used in.

1. To be smart-aleck with smb.

2. To remain silent and very tense.

3. To take any chances.

4. To get impertinent with smb.

5. To hover near smth.

6. To glance swiftly at smb.

7. To give out a series of strangled gasps.

8. To kneel beside smb.

9. To feel curiously elated.

10. To stagger with smb/smth.

VI. Find in the text the words and word-combinations which mean the following. Use them in the sentences of your own:

1. To take control of a situation, organization or group of people;

2. To be rude or irrespective especially towards someone older such as a teacher or a parent;

3. To make smth easy to notice or understand;

4. To look at someone in an angry way;

5. To understand that there is no purpose or aim of something;

6. Totally confused and scared to produce any verbal sound;

7. To become extremely pale;

8. Impressive and interesting new information;

9. To experience the ability to do smth;

10. To make someone spend time in an enjoyable way.

VII. Match the halves to make phrases used in the text. Translate them. Write sentences of your own.

1. tiny		eyes
2. exceptionally		chicken
3. twinkling		woman
4. enormous		scream
5. slimy		unpleasant
6. hysterical and shrill		hand
7. plucked		child
8. invisible		star
9. farthest		fluid
10. warm		creature

VIII. Render the following sentences into Reported speech:

1. “She stretched then,” Eric said. “My mother said she’s positive they are bigger than they were.”

2. “And Rupert,” Miss Honey said, “I am glad to see you didn’t lose any of your hair after last Thursday.”

3. “And you, Nigel,” Miss Honey said, “do please try not to be smart-aleck with the Headmistress today. You were really quite cheeky to her last week.”

4. “I hate her,” Nigel said. “Try not to make it so obvious,” Miss Honey said.

5. “What will she be testing us on this afternoon?” a small girl asked.

6. “I am glad to see,” she said, “that there are no slimy creatures in my drinking-water this time.”

7. “Very well,” boomed the Trunchbull. “Let us see how well you know your three-times table. Or to put it another way, let was see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table.”

8. “Recite the tree-times table backwards!” the Trunchbull barked. “Backwards?” stammered Wilfred. “But I haven’t learned it backwards.”

9. “It’s writing something!” screamed Nigel. “The chalk is writing something!”

10. “My father says cold water is the best way to wake up someone who’s fainted,” Nigel said.

IX. Give the summary of the text

X. Write a monologue (15-20 sentences) on Miss Trunchbull’s way of teaching and her approach to children. Do you think this is the right method? Use the phrases from the text (Ex. I, IV, V, VI, VII).

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