I. Choose the correct variant:

Chapter 9

The Parents

I. Choose the correct variant:

1. After the Headmistress refused moving Matilda into a higher form, Miss Honey suggested Matilda:

a) change school b) study like the rest of the class

c) private tuition at home d) study according to an individual programme

2. Miss Honey considered Matilda a very _______ child:

a) nice b) unfortunate

c) difficult d) disagreeable

3. Miss Honey’s hopes about Matilda’s future began to expand further to:

a) Matilda’s leaving this terrible school

b) coaching Matilda to go to University

c) Matilda’s parents giving private classes to their daughter

d) having Matilda as a class helper

4. When Miss Honey came to Matilda’s house, her parents were:

a) pleased to see her b) worried

c) frightened d) inhospitable and indifferent

5. Mr and Mrs Wormwood thought reading to be:

a) a useful thing b) a waste of time

c) a dangerous hobby d) important for studying

6. According to Mrs Wormwood, the most important aim for the girl is to:

a) study hard b) become famous

c) get married successfully d) be brainy

7. The only thing Mr Wormwood read was:

a) car magazines b) detectives

c) TV programmes d) classical literature

8. Mrs Wormwood honestly believed that Miss Honey’s life was:

a) quite pleasant b) not so successful as hers

c) not so difficult as hers d) the same as hers

9. Miss Honey was ________ to meet such parents as Matilda’s in flesh:

a) happy b) prepared

c) shocked d) frightened

10. The result of Miss Honey’s visit to Matilda’s parents was:

a) the permission of private tuition b) their trust in Miss Honey as a teacher

c) their pride of their daughter d) nothing

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

1. Miss Honey saw no point in Matilda’s sitting in class doing nothing new for her.

2. Matilda wasn’t grateful to Miss Honey for her new programme of studying.

3. Miss Honey decided to have a secret talk with Matilda’s parents about her future.

4. When Miss Honey came to visit the Wormwoods they were watching TV.

5. The parents were irritated that they couldn’t watch TV because of Miss Honey’s visit.

6. Matilda came from a family that loved good literature.

7. Matilda’s parents were intrigued by the fact that their daughter read long serious adult novels by Dickens and Hemingway.

8. According to Mrs Wormwood, books were more important than looks.

9. Matilda’s parents found it exciting that Matilda was a kind of mathematical genius.

10. The Wormwoods wanted their daughter to go to University one day.

III. Find in the text the words and word-combinations which mean the following (Pay attention to the postpositions used). Reproduce the sentences where they were used:

1. to try to find someone or something, especially when this is difficult;

2. to persuade someone to do something;

3. to think or guess that something is smaller, cheaper, easier, worse etc than it really is;

4. to give someone private lessons in a particular subject, especially so that they can pass an important test;

5. something that you must do as part of your job or duty;

6. quickly irritable or annoyed;

7. to stop being patient and get angry;

8. to interest you a lot because it seems strange or mysterious;

9. a woman who is more interested in ideas and studying than in parties, men etc;

10. someone who has an unusually high level of intelligence, mental skill, or ability;

IV. Complete the sentences with the phrases connected with vision and eyesight used in this chapter and the previous ones (2 of them are extra). Change the form of the phrases if necessary:

a) to keep half an eye on smb;

b) to make one’s eye pop;

c) under smb’s eye;

d) glance up;

e) watch;

f) glare at smb;

g) not to take one’s eyes off smth.;

h) to stare into smb’s eyes;

i) to cast a look at smb.;

j) peer;

k) gaze;

l) look at.

1. Miss Honey _____ __the plain plump person who was sitting across the room.

2. “Quite right, sugar-plum,” Mr Wormwood said, ____ _ ___ of such simpering sloppiness ___ his wife it would make a cat sick.

3. She looked stunning. I couldn't ____ __ ____ ___ her all evening.

4. Her incredible, unbelievable story _________my _____ ____.

5. She was _____ ___ his eyes for so long that he started feeling uncomfortable.

6. He was ________ through the wet windscreen at the cars ahead.

7. Most parents don't know what their kids are __________ on TV.

8. She was so absorbed in a book that did not even_______ _____.

9. We went to dances, but only ______ the watchful ______ of our father.

10. Louise was stirring the soup keeping _____ ___ _____on the baby.

V. Match the halves to make phrases used in the text. Translate them. Restore the sentences where they were used:

1. to lose 2. to be 3. to let 4. to make 5. private 6. to meet 7. to read 8. to become 9. to have 10. to turn down

a) the matter rest b) decision c) somebody in the flesh d) one’s temper e) deeply absorbed in a book f) brilliant mind g) tuition h) the sound i) from cover to cover j) in trouble

VI. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following word-combinations and sentences:

1. Как раз наоборот.

2. быть большими любителями книг;

3. Это крайне неудобно.

4. Заходите же.

5. Давайте поскорее закончим с этим.

6. Спасибо она вам за это не скажет.

7. Ну что ж, продолжайте.

8. Мы не одобряем (поощряем) чтение книг.

9. Разве это не заставляет вас скакать от радости?

10. На этом и остановимся/ Пусть будет так/ Уже не важно.

VII. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs where necessary. Translate the phrases. Make up the sentences of your own with them.

1. There is no point _____ doing something;

2. to be totally unaware _____ something;

3. to stop somebody ______ doing something;

4. to have no difficulty ______ doing something;

5. to appeal enormously _____ somebody;

6. to be given ______ doing something;

7. to deal ______ somebody/something;

8. to have a word _____ somebody;

9. to be ____ the middle ____ doing something;

10. to be far ahead _____ everybody else;

VIII. Who said those words? Who were they addressed to? In what way do these words characterize the people who said them? Do you agree with any of these statements?

1. If you think some rotten TV programme is more important than your daughter’s future, then you ought not to be a parent!

2. You can’t make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.

3. A girl should make herself look attractive, so she can get a good husband later on.

4. Looks is more important than books.

5. A girl doesn’t get a man by being brainy.

6. Who wants to go to University? All they learn there is bad habits!

7. Do not despise clever people! If you had a heart attack this minute and had to call a doctor, that doctor would be a university graduate. If you got sued, you’d have to get a lawyer and he’d be a university graduate, too.

IX. Rewrite the following sentences as reported speech. Try to use different suitable reported verbs:

1. “Thank you, Miss Honey,” Matilda said. “Thank you so much for getting those books for me.”

2. “Yes,” he said, peering out at Miss Honey. “If you are selling raffle tickets I don’t want any.”

3. “My name is Jennifer Honey,” Miss Honey said.

4. “This is most inconvenient. Why don’t you come back some other time?” Mr Wormwood said.

5. “Don’t do that, Harry!” Mrs Wormwood cried out.

6. “You can still watch it while we’re talking,” Mr Wormwood said.

7. “Do you wish me to explain why I came?” she said.

8. “Quite right, sugar-plum,” Mr Wormwood said.

9. “But does it not intrigue you,” Miss Honey said, “that a little five-year-old child is reading long adult novels by Dickens and Hemingway?”

10. “What’s the point of that if you can buy a calculator?” Mr Wormwood asked.

X. Give a short summary of the chapter.

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