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Английский
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Рэй Брэдбери
Короткие
РАССКАЗЫ
АДаптация текста, преДисловие,
коњментарий, упражнения и словарь Е. Г. Вороновой
МОСКВА
АЙРИС ПРЕСС
2007
ознакомительная
копия еп удк 811.111(075)     Предисловие ББК 81.2Англ-9З
Б89 Одиннадцать
рассказов Рэя Брэдбери, собранных в этой книге, были написаны известным
американским фан-

Серия «Английский клуб» включает книги
и учебные пособия, рассчитанные на пять этапов изучения английского языка:
Elementary (щля начинающих), РтеIntermediate (для продолжающих первого уровня),
Intermediate (для продолжающих второго уровня), Upper lntermediate (для
продолжающих третьего уровня) и Advanced (для совершенствующихся).
Серийное
оформление А. М. Драгового
Брэдбери, Р.
Б89 Короткие рассказы / Рэй Брэдбери;
адаптация текста, предисловие, коммент., упражнения, словарь Е. Г. Вороновой. —
М.: Айрис-пресс, 2007. — 112 с.: ил. (Английский њлуб). — (Домашнее чтение).
lSBN 978-5-8112-2348-0
Небольшие по объему рассказы Рэя Брэдбери можно использовать
для чтения и обсуждения в рамках
одного академического часа на уроках в школе и щш самостоятельного чтения дома.
Тексты рассказов адаптированы в учебных целях до уровня Pre-[ntermediate и
сопровождаются комментарием, а также заданиями для отработки и закрепления
навыков владения грамматическим и лексическим материалом. В конце пособия
приводится англо-русский словарь.
Книга адресована учащимся средних и
старших классов школ, лицеев и гимназий.
Данный сборник может стать незаменимым
помощником преподавателя при подготовке экзаменационного материала по чтению.
Уровень адаптации и тематический
подбор текстов позволяет использовать книгу для самостоятельного чтения
студентам неязыковых вузов и взрослым читателям, изучающим или изучавшим английский
язык, которым необходима такого рода практика.
ББК 81.2Англ-9З УДК811.ПЦО75)
© ООО «Издательство «АЙРИС-пресс»,
оформление, адаптация, предисловие, комментарий, упражнения, словарь,
ISBN
978-5-8112-2348-o                        2007
тастом в разные годы ХХ века.
Творчество Рэя Брэдбери  не укладывается в рамки традиционной научной фантастики. Картины далекого
будущего (ТНЕ PEDESTRIAN ALL SUMMER ПЧ А DAY, ТНЕ VELDT) не всегда безоблачны.
Фантастический антураж помогает писателю создать произведение на грани
философский притчи (DEATH AND Т НЕ MAIDEN) и психологического исследования (ТНЕ
BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS, А SCENT OF SARSAPARILLA). Великолепный язык и
тонкий юмор дополняют достоинства его творений, которые хорошо знают и любят в
России.
Небольшие
по объему рассказы (4500 знаков) можно использовать для чтения и обсуждения в
рамках одного академического часа на уроках в школе и для самостоятельного
чтения дома. Тексты рассказов сокраищены и бережно адаптированы в учебных целях
до уровня Pre-Intermediate. Пособие завершает словарь, в котором
собраны слова, выходящие за рамки уровня Pre-Intemediate. Сноски и комментарии
помогут учащимся осмыслить лингвострановедческие, лексические и
грамматические особенности языка писателя. Они также избавят их от
необходимости отвлекаться на поиски нужного значения слова или фразеологизма,
из-за чего теряется целостность восприятия и чтение становится скучным.
К
каждому тексту предлагается ряд заданий для:  отработки и
закрепления навыков владения грамматическим материалом (Grammar— грамматический
комментарий и упражнения);  отработки и закрепления навыков владения
лексическим материалом ( Vocabulary — упражнения на понимание
словообразовательный моделей, дефиниций, контекстуальных смысловых рядов);
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Ray Bradbury
Novelist,
short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet, Ray Bradbury
was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920.
He
was the third son of Leonard and Esther Bradbury. They gave him the middle name
'Douglas,' after the film actor. Ray spent his early years in Waukegan in his
big loving family. Those happy days provided the foundations for both the
author and his stories. In his works Waukegan becomes 'Greentown,' Illinois — a
symbol of safety and home.
Young Ray started
writing his own stories at the age of 11. His family didn't have enough money
to buy Ray one more book by Edgar Burroughs. So he had to do it himself.
In 1934, the
Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles. As a teenager, Bradbury often
roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to meet celebrities. He befriended some
special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen and radio star George Burns.
In fact, it was
Burns who gave Bradbury his first pay as a writer — for a joke to his•adio
program.
Bradbury entered
Los Angeles High School. He was active in the drama club and planned to become
an actor. But his teachers — Ray Harryhausen and George Burns recognized a
greater talent in Bradbury, and encouraged him to become a writer. Snow Longley
Housh taught him about poetry and Jeannet Johnson taught him to write short
stories.
Bradbury's
formal education ended with his high school graduation in 1938. However, he
continued to educate himself. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners
all day, but spent his nights in the library. The hours between newspaper
editions were spent at his typewriter.
His first
published short story was 'Hollerbochen's Dilemma,' printed in 1938 in an
amateur fan magazine. His first paid publication, a short story titled
'Pendulum,' appeared in 1941.
At last, in 1942, Bradbury wrote 'The
Lake' — the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. The
follow5

ing year, he gave up selling
newspapers and began to write fulltime.
In 1946, he met his
future wife, Marguerite McClure. At that time Maggie was working as a clerk in
a book shop when they met. His first daughter, Susan, was born in 1949 followed
by Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra.
Bradbury
became a leading science fiction writer after the publication of 'The
Martian Chronicles' in 1950. The book describes man's attempt to colonize Mars,
the effects of colonization on the Martians, and the colonists' reaction to a
massive nuclear war on Earth.
Another of
Bradbury's best-known works, 'Fahrenheit 4510', was published in 1953. It tells
about the time when a government banned the written word. Montag enjoys his job
as a professional book-burner. But he begins to question his duties when he
learns of a time when books were legal and people did not live in fear. Montag
begins stealing books marked for destruction and meets a professor who agrees
to educate him. When his pilfering is discovered, he must run for his life.
Bradbury's work has won a lot of
awards O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award (1954), the
Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for Best Space Article in an
American Magazine (1967), the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and
the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Perhaps
Bradbury's most unusual honour came from the Apollo astronaut who named
Dandelion Crater after Bradbury's novel, 'Dandelion Wine'.

TYRANNOSAURUS REXI
Terwilliger
opened a door into the crowded cinema hall and heard a dreadful voice, 'Well?
Come on!' It belonged to a little boy. No, not a boy. That's him— Joe Clarence,
the producer.
The next moment film titles appeared on the screen:
TYRANNOSAURUS REX: The Thunder Lizard. Created by John
Terwilliger.
The world of prehistoric sun and
poisonous rain was full of monstrous creatures. Bony pterodactyls were hunting
in the
Tyrannosaurus Rex (mm.) — Tupa1--1H03aBp PeKC
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sky. In the jungle shadow the
dinosaurs, those great creatures looked like ugly machines destroying a
thousand flowers at one footfall.
It had taken
Terwilliger a lot of time to make all those steel reptilian skeletons and cover
them with rubber. Most of models were not bigger that his hand. The biggest
ones were as large as his head. Step by step, frame by frame, Terwilliger made
his animation film. He photographed his beasts, moved them a little,
photographed them again, for hours and days and months.
'My beauties!' thought the animator.
'Lord,' said an admiring voice. 'Wonderful animation.'
'I've seen
better,' said Clarence the Great— the man with a boy's voice.
Terwilliger
turned from the screen where the battle of prehistoric giants was
going on. For the first time he looked at his possible employers.
'It's jerky. I'm
glad it's over,' the producer said when the monsters disappeared. 'It's not
bad. But don't get ideas about money, Terwilliger!'
Terwilliger was not going to give up.
In his studio he continued his work. Twice a day Joe Clarence came in and gave
his useless advice: 'Make it real horrible. The more, the better!' or 'I don't
like his expression.' Or 'Too soft, too gentle! Not bloodthirsty at all! Work!'
Terwilliger would destroy the reptile and reshape its prehistoric face again
and again.
After the first
film test Clarence said, 'Better. But... not enough horrible. Back to work!'
After the second film test Clarence said, 'Close! The face is almost right. Try
again!' Terwilliger went back to work. He tried his best to create the most
disgusting face!
'That's it!' cried
Clarence one day. 'Perfect! Now that's what I call a monster! You are a genius,
Mr. Terwilliger!'
It was at the
third film test when the audience watched the most dreadful and powerful beast
on the screen. When the rep8
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tile paused with a red bone in its mouth, somebody said,
'That monster, it looks familiar.'
'Familiar?' Terwilliger felt uncomfortable.
'Who cares?' Clarence cried. 'It's great. And all because

I made Terwilliger create this dreadful beast.'
Suddenly a gasp ran
through the audience. Clarence looked around and Terwilliger started, not
knowing why. Another gasp followed. Then there was dead silence. Clarence
jumped to his feet and his tiny figure stood in the light of the screen. For a
moment the audience watched two images: Tyrannosaurus and Clarence. The film
stopped and Clarence pointed at the reptile's mouth, its eye and its teeth,
'What is this?' the producer hit the screen with his tiny hand. 'That's me!'
 Terwilliger
was gone. An hour later Clarence's lawyer, Mr. Glass found him in the studio
packing his boxes.
'I didn't know
I was doing it. It just came out in my fingers,' cried Tenvilliger. kept at me.
Do this. Do that. I was angry all the time. Without knowing, I must have
changed the face. But right up till five minutes ago, when Mr. Clarence jumped
at his feet, I didn't see it.'
'No,' said Mr. Glass, 'we should all have seen. If you
tell
'Tell me what?' Joe Clarence stood in the door.
'What he has
just told me.' Mr. Glass turned calmly. 'A touching story. '
'I'm listening!' said Clarence.
'Mr. Clarence,' the lawyer spoke
carefully. 'This film is Mr. Terwilliger's solemn tribute to you.'
Both men, Clarence and Terwilliger,
opened their mouths. The old lawyer continued in a shy voice, 'Shall I go on?
This film was done from a feeling ofhonour and friendship for you, Joe
Clarence. Behind your desk, a noble hero of the film industry, unknown, unseen,
you worked hard while who gets the glory? The film stars. It was absolutely
unfair! How could Terwilliger present the real Clarence to the world? The
dinosaur! This is it! A lonely, proud, wonderful, awful symbol of
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independence, power and strength! Dinosaur: Joe Clarence.
Joe Clarence: Dinosaur!'
Terwilliger said nothing.
'He's shy,' said
Mr. Glass. 'He is impressed by your genius, but he can't express it in words.
But he can immortalize the people he loves! Years from now people will say,
"Remember that film about the Monster?" And people will say,
"Sure!
Because it was the one and only
monster in all Hollywood history that had real personality. A genius had based
that powerful creature on a real-life businessman." You're one with
history, Mr. Clarence. Every day for the next five hundred years, you'll be
starring somewhere in the world!'
'My God, Terwilliger,' Clarence said.
'Do you really like me so much?'
'It's hard to
put in words, ' said Terwilliger with difficulty.
'So do we finish the film that mighty
spectacle?' asked Glass.
'Sure!' Clarence said leaving the studio.
At the first
night when 'Monster from the Stone Age' was on, Mr. Glass visited Terwilliger,
'You weren't there? A great success! A lovelier monster has never been seen!'
The phone rang.
'Terwilliger, this is Clarence! We've done it!'
Notes
My beauties! — Mow KpacaBqHKM!
would destroy — 3ðecb azaeon
would ewpaoæaem noemopmougeecn ðeùcmeue e npouuo»t
That's it! —
B caMY}0 TOHKY!
Who cares? — Aa Kak'aq pa3HHua!
It just came out in my fingers. — PYKM paÕOTWIH caMH
no ce6e.
He kept at me. — OH 3aCTaBJIW1 Me-HH pa60TaTb.
You're one with history — Bbl BXOAHTe B ucrropmo
We've done it! — Mbl noõeawm!
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Activities
Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
I. Terwilliger
made the dinosaur models himself.
2.
Joe Clarence looked like Tyrannosaurus Rex. T
3.
The animated film created by Terwilliger was a success.
4.
The animator was
impressed by producer's  genius.
5.
Terwilliger was
angry with Clarence while he was working at the film.
2
Circle the letter
of the correct answer to complete the sentence.
1. Joe Clarence had
a)
a noble appearance
b)
bony legs
c)
a monstrous nature
3.
Joe ClarenceTyrannosaurus
Rex.
a)
took after
b)
was as bloodthirsty as
c)
looked like
4.
The model of
Tyrannosaurus Rex was not
a)
so big as the real dinosaur
b)
made of steel and rubber
c)
shown in the film
5.
At the first film test Clarence didn't like the way the monster
a)
moved
b)
sounded
c)
opened its mouth
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5. Terwilliger was                                                    Speaking

b) a genius producer

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What
  are the main characters of the story? What did they 100k

c) a talented animator

like? What were they like? Try and
  say as much as you can about them. The words can help you.

6.

Terwilliger created

a) an animated character

a) a
documentary       dreadful voice, little boy, monstrous creature, ugly ma-
b)a
detective story chine, it took Terwilliger a lot of time to make, as large c)
an animated film as his head, photographed them again, a genius, for hours and
days and months, My beauties!, boy's voice, prehistoric giant, was not going to
give up, gave his use-
Vocabulary less advice, Make it
real!, horrible, bloodthirsty, tried his best, the most disgusting face, felt
uncomfortable,
There are many 'cinema words' in this
story. Work out their tiny figure, He kept at me! meanings by matching the
words to their definitions. Translate the story as if you were:
                                                                                2 Retell

them into Russian.
• the lawyer;
A producer issomeone who makes animated • the producer;
the animator.
To star meansto act
the part of a main character in a film.
A frame isthe large
white surface that pic-Writing tures are shown on in a cinema.
An animator isany written material used in a Write a four-paragraph
review — some basic information about the film, a brief summary of the plot,
your opinions, Audience isa film made by photographing a recommendations of
Terwilliger's film about Tyrannosaurus series of pictures, clay models. Rex.
You were at its third film test and saw everything with A screen isan occasion
when you can see a your own eyes. You should use your imagination. In your
review film before it is shown to a include the following features:
public.when it took
place;

Titles area group of people in the cine-where it took
place; ma hall watching a film.who starred in it;

A film test issomeone who has general controlhow it started and finished; of
the preparation of a film butthe audience and their reactions; who does not
direct the actors.your personal reaction to it; An animated film isan
individual picture of a film.your recommendations.
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13
Useful vocabulary:
a producer, titles, a test film, audience, a screen, an
image, an animation studio, an animator, to star, beast/ monster,
dreadful/horrible/ugly/bloodthirsty/disgusting, powerful/mighty, real-life,
bony, jerky.
It is set in prehistoric times.
It is based on a story/book/scientific researches.
The special effects are impressive/disappointing/exciting/
boring.
The animation/ the scenery/ the sound/ the photography is excellent/
weak/ jerky.
Use linking words while
•
giving examples: There are some poor moments, esnecialJy when
...J The animator pays great attention to details, suglL_as .... You can
see the most popular prehistoric creatures, for example....
•
contrasting: Despite the weak points.../ I'd recommend
this film to... , although
•
adding points: The monsters look realistic, their hunting scenes
are also impressive/ The models are excel-        THE PEDESTRIAN

lent. Moreover, their roar sounds natural.
•
concluding: All things considered, it is worth seeing. On
misty November evenings Leonard Mead would leave his house for lonely walks
through the silent city. With his hands in the pockets, he made his way very
carefully trying not to step over a blade of grass. He would stand upon a street
corner and look down long moonlit roads, deciding which way to go. But it
really made no difference. He seemed to be alone in this world of 2053 A.D.
Sometimes Leonard would walk for hours
and miles and return only at midnight. And on his way he would see the houses
with their dark windows, and he seemed to be walking through a graveyard.
Sudden grey ghosts happened to appear behind the dark curtains. He would stop,
listen, look, and go on, his
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feet making no noise. He used to put soft shoes on for his
night walks. He didn't want anybody to notice him walking in early November.
But in ten years of walking by night or day he had never met another person.
That evening there was a good crystal
frost in the air. He listened to the rustle of autumn leaves under his feet and
whisfled between his teeth.
 'Hello, in there,' he said to every house. 'What's on to-
 The street was silent
and long and empty. If he closed his eyes and stood very still, frozen, he
could imagine himself upon the center of a desert with no house in a thousand
miles, and only dry river-bed streets.
'What is it now?' he asked the houses.
'A detective? A quiz? A comedy?'
Two highways crossed the city. During
the day they were busy with thousands of insect-looking
cars. But now these highways were like streams in a dry season.
He turned back on a side street toward his home. That
moment a car turned a corner quite suddenly and flashed a white light on him.
He stood motionless and then went toward it.
A metallic voice called to him:
'Stand still. Stay where you
are! Don't move!' He stopped.
'Put up your hands!' 'But —' he said.
The police, of course, but what
an unbelievable thing it was! In a three-million city there was only one police
car left. There was no crime in the city, so there was no need now for the
police.
'Your name?' said the police car in a metallic voice.
'Leonard Mead,' he said.

Business or profession?'
'I guess
you'd call me a writer.' 16
'No profession,' said the police car.
'You might say that,' said Leonard.
He hadn't written
for years. They didn't sell magazines and books any more. Citizens got used to
spending their evenings in their tomb-like houses. They were lit by television
light and the people were sitting in front of them like the dead. The multi-coloured
lights touched their faces, but never really touched their souls.
'No profession,'
said the car voice, hissing. 'What are you doing out?'
'Walking,' said Leonard Mead.
'Walking!'
'Just walking,' he said simply, but his face felt cold.
'Walking, just walking, walking?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Walking where? For what?'
'Walking for air. Walking to see.'
'Your address!'
'Eleven South Saint James Street.'
'And
there is air in your house, you have an air conditioner, Mr. Mead?'
'Yes.'
'And you have a TV in your house?'
'No.'
'No?' There was a long pause. 'Are you married, Mr.
Mead?'
'No.'
'Not married,' repeated the police voice.
The moon was high
and clear among the stars and the houses were grey and silent.
'Nobody wanted me,' said Leonard Mead with a smile.
'Don't speak unless you're spoken to!'
Leonard Mead waited in the cold night.
'Just walking, Mr. Mead?' 'Yes.'
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'But you haven't explained for what purpose.'
'I explained; for air, and to see, and just to walk.'
'Do you often do that?'
'Every night for years. Is that all?' he asked politely.
'Yes, here.' The back door of the police car opened.
'Get in.'
        'Wait a minute, I haven't done anything!'

'Get in.'

'I protest!'
He came up to the
front car window and looked in. There was no one in the front seat, no one in
the car at all. It smelled of steel, it smelled too clean and hard and
metallic. There was
nothing soft there.
'Now if you had a wife to give you an
alibi,' said the iron voice. 'But —
'Where are you taking me?'
'To the Psychiatric Center for Research on
Regressive Tendencies.' He got in.
A moment later
the car passed one house on one street. All the other houses were dark, but
this one had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window was shining
in the cool darkness.
 'That's my house,'
said Leonard Mead. No one -answered him.
Notes
What's on tonight? — YTO ceroÃHfl BeyepoM no TeneBH30py?
Stand still. Stay where you are! — CMMPHO! HH c Mecm!
You might say that — M0XH0 CKa3aTb H TaK.
What are you doing out? — HTO Bbl nenaeTe Ha ynuue?
Psychiatric Center for Research on
Regressive Tendencies — FIcnxMaTpwqecKHñ ueHTp no VICCJ1eAOBaHHK)
aTaBHCTWRCKHX
HaKT10HHOCTeÈi
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Activities
Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
I. Leonard Mead was alone in the city.
2.
Leonard Mead liked walking through graveyards.
3.
Leonard Mead didn't meet anybody during his long walks.
4.
Leonard Mead didn't have a TV in his house.
5.
Leonard Mead was a writer but nobody
bought his books.
2
Circle the letter
of the correct answer to complete the sentence. l. While Leonard was walking
through the city, he watched
a)     the
ghosts of the dead
b)
the busy roads
c)     the
moonlit empty streets

2.
Leonard gave up writing because
a)     reading
was unpopular
b)     he
had no ideas for new books
c)     the
books had been forbidden
3.
The metallic voice that spoke to Leonard at the street corner
belonged to
a)     a
police officer
b)     a
car
c)     a
ghost
4.
The police car found Leonard suspicious because

a)
he was walking
b)     he
walked every night without any purpose
c)
he was wearing
soft shoes
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5.
The police car took Leonard to the Psychiatric Center because of
a)     his
extraordinary behaviour
b)     his
unusual appearance
c)     his
dangerous ideas
6.
Leonard saw
nobody in the police car because

a)     he
had poor sight
b)
there was nobody
there
c)     it
was too dark
8 Grammar
ECJIH Bbl cooõ1uaeTe O
C06b1T1fflX, KOTOPb1e perYJ1qpH0 rrpowcxoawm PaHbLL1e, HO He npoucxoawr
ceìíqac, uc110J1b3YMTe would H used to nepea HH(þHHHTHBOM
CMb1CJIOB01'O rnarma. PaHbme 6b1BaJIO yaaHH0  nepeBoaa 3THX K0HcTpyK1_1Mii Ha pyccKHiá
H3b1K.
Leonard Mead would leape his housefor
lonely walks through the city. — BblBUIO, JleoHapa MHA A0J1ro B OAHHOt1eCTBe
ryJIHJ1 no ropoay.
Leonard Mead would stand upon a street corner and
look down long moonlit roads. — bblBaJIO, JIeoHapA MMA CTOWI Ha yrny YJIHUb1
CMOTPUI Ha aoporn, OCBe111eHHb1e JIYHOM.
06paTHTe BHHMaHMe, HTO B aaHHOM
3HaqeHMH would HeJ1b3fl HCr10J1b30BaTb C rnaronaM11 COCTOSIHH¶ H t1YBCTB (to be, to
have, to know, to live, to like, to love). BMecT0 3Toro MCFIOJ1b3yVITe
BblpaxeHHe used to:
She used to be very shy. — Pam,we OHa
íb1J1a OHeHb 3aCTeHt1HBOV1.
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1
Translate this
passage from the story.
Sometimes Leonard would walk for hours and miles and return
only at midnight. And on his way he would see the houses with their dark
windows, and he seemed to be walking through a graveyard. Sudden grey ghosts
happened
to appear behind the dark curtains. He would stop, listen, look, and go on, his
feet making no noise. He used to put soft shoes on for his night walks.
2
Complete the
sentences with would or used to and translate them. In some sentences only used
to is possible.
Now my cousin Mary lives next door.
But when she was little her family live in the country. When I came to her for
a holiday, we walk among the hill. Wevisit her friends there. They be really happy
to meet somebody from the big city.
Wespend our evenings sitting around
the fire and talking about politics and art. Her
country friends have
pleasant memories for long winter nights when I was back home.
3
What did you use
to do when you were five? Write six sentences using used to or would.
Example: I would sleep in the day-time.
I used to have lots of toy racing-cars.
Speaking
When you want to explain something or
prove any of your ideas, the following words and phrases can be useful:
As far as I know... / The matter is
that... / I am sure that... / I suppose that... / I believe that... / To sum it
up, / All things considered, / As a result of this... /
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In addition... / What this means is... / because/ since...
/ as...u / in order to... / Moreover, .
I         Can you prove that:

Leonard Mead felt lonely in his city?       the city was
empty and silent?

Leonard Mead believed watching TV to be a waste of time?

Leonard Mead was a law-breaker for the police?

Leonard Mead was different from the people of his City?
Try to say three sentences at least.
2            Can you explain why:
Leonard Mead wore soft
shoes while walking around the city?
• Leonard mead seemed
to be walking through a graveyard during his long walks around the city?

Leonard Mead never met anybody in the silent city?

Leonard Mead gave up writing books?  there was no need in
police in the city?
Try to say three sentences at least.
       Writing
Write five sentences to explain what you think will happen to Leonard
Mead in the Psychiatric Center. Will be be treated as a madman? Will he be
thrown into prison? Executed? Forgiven? You should use your imagination and
give your reasons.

A SCENT OF SARSAPARILLAI
William Finch spent three
mornings and afternoons in the attic. He stood there alone, feeling the white
flakes of Time falling out of the cold November sky. He stood feeling elegant
dry perfumes of the ancient past.
Listening,
downstairs, his wife Cora could not hear him walk or move. When he came down
for lunch on the third afternoon, he smiled at the boring walls, the old cups,
the dirty plates, and even at his wife!

1 Sarsaparilla — capcanapwma;
JleKaPCTBeHHoe pacTeHMe, WHPOKO rrpHMeH¶BIueecq npW0T0BJ1eHHfl TOHH3HPY0111HX
Ham-ITKOB B cepemme XX BeKa
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'Why are you smiling?' she asked.
'Wonderful spirits!' he laughed.
'What's that smell?' his wife frowned.
'Smell? Sarsaparilla. That's what it is!'
'Oh, it
couldn't be!' she cried and his happiness stopped as quickly as if she'd
switched him off. 'Where did you go this morning?'
'I was cleaning the attic.' 'I didn't hear a sound. Maybe you
weren't in the attic at all. What's that?' she pointed.
'Well, how did those get there?' he asked
the world looking at the pair of black metal bicycle clips on his trousers. 'I
found them in the attic. Can you remember when we rode a
bike in
the early morning, Cora, forty years ago?'
'If you don't finish that attic today,
I'll come up and clean it myself.'
'Oh, no,' he cried. 'I have everything the way I want it!'
She looked at him coldly.
'Cora,' he said,
eating his lunch, 'you know what attics are? They're Time Machines, in which
old men like me can travel back forty years to a time when it was summer all
year round.'  Cora looked a little frightened.
'Well, wouldn't it be interesting,' he
asked, 'if Time Travel could happen? And what more logical place for it than in
an attic like ours, eh?'
'It wasn't always summer in the old days,'
she said. 'It's just your crazy memory. You remember all the good things and
forget the bad ones.'
'I mean,' he
said. 'If you rode your Time bike carefully between the years, if you rode from
year to year, spent a week in 1909, a day in 1900, a month in 1905, 1898, you
could stay with summer the rest of your life. Balance, Cora, balance.'
'Blah,' she said, 'blah, blah.
He climbed the long cold stairs to the
attic. William was terribly cold but when he opened the attic door, a dust of
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mer came upon him. It kept the warmth and smell of other
seasons. He smiled and closed the door carefully.
 At five in the
afternoon, Mr. Finch came down singing a happy song with a new straw hat on.
'Did you sleep all afternoon?' asked
Cora. 'I called up at you four times and no answer.'
'Sleep? Well, I guess I did.'
Suddenly she saw him. 'My God!' she
cried, 'where did you get that coat?'
He wore a red striped coat, a white shirt, and ice-cream
trousers.
'I found them in the attic.'
'But
they don't look old! Where have you been all this time?' 'Cora, wouldn't it be
nice to take a Sunday walk the way we used to do, with your silk long dress on?
We would sit on those white chairs at the cam and order two sarsaparillas for
us, Cora. How about it?'

'Dinner is ready. And take those dreadful clothes off.'
'If you could make a wish, would you do it?'
'By the way,' she took
her cup, 'this morning I had forty dollars here. Now it's gone! Don't tell me
you bought those clothes. They're new, they have been just made. Are you crazy,
spending our money on clothes you can't wear nowadays?' she cried.
            'The
attic...' he started to say but she left the room.
The snow was
falling fast now and it was a cold dark November evening. She heard him climb
up the ladder into the attic, into that dusty place of Old Times, into a world
different from this world below. William half-shut his eyes and looked and
looked on every side of the waiting attic. In the dark he saw rainbows and
mornings as bright as new rivers flowing back through time. It was a great
machine of Time, this attic, he knew it! He knew what would happen if he
touched all those things of the past in turn!
        About nine o'clock that night she
heard him calling, 'Cora!'
She went upstairs and he smiled at her. 'Good-bye, Cora.'
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'What do you mean?' she cried.
'I've
thought it over for three days and I'm saying goodbye.'
'Come down out of there, you fool!'
'I drew five hundred dollars from the
bank yesterday. I've been thinking about it. And then it happened, well... For
the
last
time, will you come along with me?'
'In the attic? I'll climb up there and
take you out of that dirty place!'
'Good-bye,' he said and his face was gone.
'William!' she screamed.
She took a chair and got into the
empty and silent attic. The opposite attic window was opened. She came up to it
and saw the ladder, leading down. Suddenly she pulled back from the window.
Outside the wmdow the apple trees were in blossom, it was a summer day in July.
She could hear firecrackers going off She heard laughter and far away voices.
Colourful rockets burst in the warm air softly.
She shut the window and cried. 'William!'
Grey November light came through the
attic door behind her. She saw the snow touching the cold window in that
November world where she would spend the next thirty years.
She did not go near the window again.
She sat alone in the dark attic, smelling the one smell that did not seem to
disappear. She took a deep, long breath.
The old, the familiar, the unforgettable scent of sarsaparilla.
Notes
Wonderful spirits! — HynecHoe HacTpoeHHe!
metal bicycle clips — Me-raJIJIHqecvvue BEIocvmeAHb1e 3aXMMb1
I mean — 51 xoqy CKa3aTb blah, blah — B3AOP, qenyxa
pulled back — 0TrrpHHYJ1a firecrackers going off — K'aK
B3Pb1Ba10TCS1 xJ1011Y111KH
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Activities
Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
l. William Finch and his
wife Cora had been married for years.
2.
A scent of sarsaparilla reminded William of his happy
past.
3.
William had traveled to the past a few times before he
asked his wife to join him.
4.
Cora never doubted in his husband and believed him
completely.
5.
Cora followed William to the past and never returned.
2
Circle the letter
of the correct answer.
l. What was William Finch doing in the attic?
a)
He was tiding it
carefully.
b)
He was thinking over his future.
c)
He was time
travelling.
3.
 Why did Cora decide that William hadn't
cleaned the attic and had left it for somewhere?
a)
She didn't hear
him walk or move there.
b)
He spent there too much time.
c)
He smelled strangely.
4.
Why did a straw hat and a red striped coat which William had on surprise
Cora?
a)
They were new but old-fashioned.
b)
Her husband had never worn such clothes before.
c)
Those expensive clothes were of latest design.
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4.
What frightened Cora?
a)
the smell of
sarsaparilla
b)
the idea of time travelling
c)
the metal bicycle
clips
5.
Why did William ask his wife to come along with him to the attic?
a)
He wanted Cora to clean it.
b) He expected his wife to time travel
with him.
c) He wanted her to smell the dust of Old Times there.
 6. Why did Cora pull back from the open
attic window?
a)
The noise of firecrackers frightened her.
b)
She didn't expect to see the ladder go down.
c)
An unusual view frightened her.
Vocabulary
Fill in the gaps with the correct words using those given in brackets.
I. When William
came down for lunch on the third afternoon, he smiled at the walls, the old cups,
the dirty plates, and even at his wife! (bore)
2.
'Oh, it couldn't be!' she cried and hisstopped as quickly as if she'd
switched him off. (happy)

3.
She looked at him       . (cold)
4.
'Well, wouldn't it be    he asked, 'if Time
 Travel could happen?' (interest)
5.
William wascold
but when he opened the attic door, a dust of summer came upon
him. (terrible)
6.
It kept theand smell of other seasons. (warm)
7.
She heard him climb up the ladder into the attic, into that
dusty place of Old Times, into a world from this world below. (differ)
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8.
She took a chair and got into the empty and attic.
(silence)
9.
rockets burst in the warm air softly.
(colour)
10.
She took a deep, long— . (breathe)
    Speaking
Agree or disagree. Some of your friends can have different points of
view. Give your reasons. Start your sentences with:
I quite agree with you.
I totally agree.
You may be right, I agree.
That's true. You are right.

I'm afraid I'm not with you here.
I disagree with you on the point. I completely
disagree.
 I'm afraid
you are wrong. As far as I know..
I am sure that...
I suppose that.. I believe that...
1.
William didn't love his wife and he was fed up with his boring
family life.
2.
He invented a Time Machine and kept it in the attic.
3.
William thought that his past had been the best time of his life.
4, William had no desire to come back from the past.
5.
Cora thought that her husband was a fool.
6.
Cora couldn't imagine time travelling through the  attic window.
7.
Cora didn't want to follow her husband back in their past.
8.
Cora was frightened when she saw a summer day through the open
attic window.
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Writing
Write the newspaper article which came out the day
after William Finch had disappeared. Don't forget to:

make up a title;

express the summary of the story in the first paragraph;

describe the incident (when and where it took place, who was
there);

give some facts about William and his wife; mention some
explanations from William's wife and her feelings; present your
personal reaction to it.
Useful vocabulary:
amusing, awful, shocking, unusual, spent
three mornings and afternoons in the attic, could not hear him walk or move,
wonderful spirits, smell of sarsaparilla, cleaning the attic, metal bicycle
clips, a Time Machine, can travel back forty years, singing a happy song with a
new straw hat on, a red striped coat, a white shirt, and ice cream
trousers, the apple trees were in blossom, firecrackers going off, colourful
rockets, laughter and far away voices, did not go near the window again, sat
alone  in the dark attic.
While making up your article use

time linking
words: while, when, as soon as, firstly, first of all, suddenly, later, immediately, before,
after, then, later, in the end, finally,  linking words to contrast ideas: although, but,
however, on the one hand, on the other hand, despite, in spite of,
nevertheless.

THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
The two men were travelling home
by train. They didn't talk to each other but when a lady with a rich smell of
perfume passed them along the carriage, the older of the two men said, 'Idiot,
idiot! Did you see that?'

'Oh, her? I followed her off the train once myself.'
'I too, five years ago,' the older
man closed his eyes. 'What happened when you reached the end of the platform?'
The young man stared at his companion in surprise and went on.
'Well, I was just twenty feet behind
her when her husband drove into the station in a car full of kids! Bang! The
car door closed and she drove away. I had to wait for half an hour to get
another train home. It taught me something, by God!'
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'It taught you
nothing,' added the older man. 'Idiots, that's what we are. But, now, what do
you make of her?'
'That woman? Oh,
she likes to keep in trim. She must feel much better making us follow her. She
has the best of all posSible worlds, don't you think? Husband, children, plus
the knowledge she is worth following. You can't call her a beauty. It's just
she smells so good.'
'Purely and
simply, she's a woman. All women are women, all men are dirty goats. That
simple idea may help you in a sticky situation. But few men accept that. I know
only one man who has created the best of all possible worlds. Let's call him
Mr. Smith. He is the happiest man ever lived. He's got lots of girlfriends and
no quarrels among them, no sense of guilt. That successful businessman lives in
an enormous apartment in New York. That's where I met him first last year. He
had just married. At dinner, his wife was truly gorgeous with snow-cream arms
and fruity lips. Two weeks later I was invited to a party and met him again.
Near him, in the center of the living room, stood a dark Italian beauty,
dressed in earth colours, all the tones of a fruitful autumn. Lucky man, I
thought. Wife in town, lover in country. At the end of the party, I finally
caught the lovely Italian's name. Mrs. Smith!'
'He'd married again, eh?'
'Hardly. He hadn't had enough time. He
must have two
sets of friends. One set knows his city
wife. The other set knows this lover whom he calls wife. No other answer. That
night Smith drove me to the railway station. On the way he said,  "What do
you think of my wives? I've had twenty in the last three years, each better
than the last! Here!" As we stopped at the station he pulled out a thick
photo album. I opened it and saw beautiful pictures of blondes, brunettes,
redheads. But there was something terribly familiar about each photo. Suddenly
I got it! The Mrs. Smith I met tonight, the Italian beauty, is the one and only
Mrs. Smith. But, at the same time, the woman I met in New York two weeks ago is
also the one and only Mrs. Smith. It can only follow that both women are one
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rect!"
cried Smith. "My wife is amazing. She was an actress when I met her.
Selfishly I asked her to leave the stage. The first six months of our
marriage were the happiest in my life. But then I began to watch other women.
My wife began to look through the newspapers for theater reviews.
Crisis! One night my wife told me to leave our apartment and be back the next
day. When I returned home, my wife had disappeared! A dark Latin put out her
hand to me. 'I am a friend of your wife's,' she said and threw herself upon me,
until I, suddenly suspicious, cried, 'This is my wife!' And we both fell
laughing to the floor. This was my wife, with a different cosmetic, different
hairstyle, different manners and intonation. 'My actress!' I said. 'Your
actress!' she laughed. 'Tell me what I should be and
I'll be it. Why not? I'll study, create and, when you grow bored, recreate.
I'll sit, stand, walk in ten thousand ways. ' Well," said Smith,
"from that day on I've lived the happiest life! My wife is
the greatest actress. She has found her stage in our apartment and her audience
in me. So, caged at last, yet free, loving her I love everyone. It's the best
of all possible worlds, friend, the best of all possible worlds." '
There was a moment of silence.
The young and the old were thoughtful now. At last the younger man said: 'Your
friend Smith solved his problem, all right. I have a friend, too. His situation
was similar, but different. Shall I call him Quillan? He  was in a bar one night
with a young beautiful redhead. Miraculous, I thought, beyond the senses! A
week later, in Greenwich, I saw Quillan with a little woman of his own age.
Longnosed, not enough make-up, wrinkled stockings and very quiet; she was glad
to walk along just holding Quillan's hand. I was sure she was his poor little
wife who loved the earth he walks on, while other nights he spent with that
incredible redhead! How sad, what a shame! A month later I met Quillan again in
London. "Oh, God!" he cried. "Don't tell on me! My wife must
never know!" That moment a woman called to Quillan from a window above. I
looked up and my mouth opened. There in the window stood the fat little woman!!
So suddenly it was clear. The beautiful redhead was his wife! She danced, she
sang, she
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talked
  loud and long, a brilliant intellectual. Yet she was so 3. Mr. Smith had many
  wives. tiring! So my friend Quillan had taken this small room where, 4. Mrs.
  Smith was a great actress.
two nights a week, he could sit quietly or walk on the
  dark 5. Quillan's lover was more beautiful than his streets with this homely
  comfortable quiet woman who was not wife. his wife at all, as I had thought,
  but his lover! He too had, if you think about it, the best of all possible
  worlds.' 2 Circle the letter of the correct answer.
The train slowed and both men looked at
  each other in

I. surprise. Both spoke at once:
 'You get off at this stop?'
Both nodded, smiling. When the
train stopped, they stood up and shook hands.
'Well, give my best to Mr. Smith.'
'And mine to Mr. Quillan!'
2.
Notes
she
likes to keep in trim — OHa xoqeT OCTaBaTbCH B xopollleiä (bopMe    3. a
sticky situation — COMHwreJ1bHaq cwrya1_1Hfl Suddenly I got it! — Bapyr noHHJ1!
A dark Latin — CMyrJ1aq MeKCHKaHKa beyond the senses! — ITOHATb HeB03MOXHO!
Don't tell on me! — He BblnaBañ Mer-l¶!
4.
Activities
Reading
1       Circle Tif the sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is
false.
5.
I. The two men started
talking after a lady had passed them along the carriage.
2. Both men followed the same
lady the other  day.
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What is true about the lady who was followed by the two men?
a)
She was very beautiful and smelled of elegant perfume.
b)
She had neither children nor a husband.
c)
She liked to be followed by men.
What is not true about Mr. Smith?
a)      He
was married to a talented actress.
b)     He
was a successful businessman.
c)      He
didn't like to take pictures of his wife.
What is true about Mrs. Smith?
a)
After she had
left the stage, she never had an idea to return to the theatre.
b)
She wanted to create the best of possible worlds for her husband.
c)     She
was a dark Italian beauty.
What is true about Quillan?
a)
He seemed to be a happy person.
b)
He had a quiet little woman as a wife and a gorgeous redhead as a
lover.

c)
He spent all his time with his wife.
What is not true about Quillan's wife?
a)      She
was a bright person but very tiring!
b)     She
could sing and dance and talk in a perfect way.
c)      She
changed her appearance and behaviour too often.
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6. What is true
about the two men who told the stories about Mr. Smith and Quillan?
a)
They never got home by train.
b)
They were close friends.
c)
They got off at the same stop.
8 Grammar
nocne pqaa aHrJIHVfCKHX rnarOJIOB cJ1eayeT
yr-rorpe6J1¶Tb onpeaeneHHb1e npeanorw, HanpHMep:
arrive at station/ airport — INPH6b1BaTb Ha CTaHUfflO/
B a3ponopT arrive in Moscow — 11PH6b1BaTb B MOCKBY
stay at the hotel — OCTaHOBHTbC51 B TOCTHHHUe stay with smb — OCTaHOBHTbC¶ y
Koro-JIM60 laugh at smb — CMe¶TbCH Haa KeM-JIH60 look at smb — CMOTPeTb Ha
Koro-JIH60 shout at smb — KPUqaTb Ha Koro-JIH60
Bbl, 6e3 COMHeHHH, 3aMeTHJIH, wro
pyccKMe npewrorll B 11PHBeneHHb1X BblPaXeHHSIX OTJIWfflOTCH 0T
aHrJIMñCKHX. bonee Toro, qacT0 OHM B006111e 0TcyrcTBYK)T B PYCCKOM
Bapnawre. CpaBHMTe:
smile at smb — YJ1b16aTbCfl KOMy-JIH60 explain to
smb — KOMy-JIM60 listen to smb — cnyu_1aTb
KOrO-JIH60 speak to smb — rOBOPHTb KOMY-JIMÕO write to smb — rlHCaTb
KOMy-JIH60 wait for smb — XAaTb KOrO-JIH60
1
In the story you
met some verbs + preposition combinations.
Read their Russian equivalents and find the English combinations in the
text.
Pa31'0BapHBaTb apyr c apyroM, exaTb Ha rroe3Ae, cneaoBaTb 3a KeM-JIH60,
rlPHCTaJ1bH0 CMOTPeTb Ha KOFO-JIH60,
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npurJ1au_raTb KOTO-JIH60 B rocTH, AYMaTb O KOM-JIM60, Ha6J1kOaaTb 3a
VœM-JIH60, ynaCTb Ha non, nepxaTb KOrOJIM60 3a pyKY.
2
Translate the
following sentences into Russian and divide the word combinations into three
groups.

English verb + preposition
Russian verb + preposition

English verb + preposition =
Russian verb + no preposition

English verb + no preposition =
Russian verb + preposition

to talk to smb = pa31'0BapHBaTb
C V&M-JM60

to explain to smb
= 06bqcHHTb KOMy-JIM60

to take a bus ceCTb Ha aBT06yc

            I.
That voice belonged to Joe Clarence.
2.
For the first time Tenvilliger looked at his possible employers.
3.
Clarence jumped to his feet.
4.
The film stopped and Clarence pointed at the reptile's mouth.
5.
A metallic voice called to him.
6.
It smelled of
steel.
7.
A moment later
the car passed one house on one street.
8.
My cousin learnt to play the piano when she was very young.
9.
He smiled at the boring walls, the old cups, and even at his
wife!
10.     Can
you remember when we rode a bike in the early morning, Cora?
I l. Cora looked at her husband coldly.
12.
William climbed the long cold stairs to the attic.
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13.
Are you crazy, spending our money on clothes you  can't wear
nowadays?
14.
The two men were travelling by train.
15.
They didn't talk
to each other.
16.
I followed her
off the train once myself.
17.
She took a bus to get home.
18.
The young man stared at his companion in surprise  and went on.
19.   Two weeks later
I was invited to a party and met him again.
20.   What do you
think of my wives?
21.   They used to hunt wild pigs in
autumn.
22.   But then he
began to watch other women.
23.   They both fell to the floor.
24.   She was glad to
walk along just holding his hand.
3
Make up six true
sentences about your friend. Use the following verb + preposition combinations.
To talk to smb, to take a bus, to explain to smb, to travel
by smth, to smile at smb, to follow smb, to hunt smth, to stare at smb, to
listen to smb, to invite to a party, to speak to smb, to think of smb, to write
to smb, to watch smb, to fall to the ground, to hold smb's hand, to wait for
smb, to play the piano, to meet smb.

Speaking
1 While talking to someone, we often
use exclamatory sentences to express different emotions. Read some of them and
match with the phrases from the story. You and your friends can have different
ideas! Try to prove your point of view.
Isn't he lucky!At
dinner, Mr. Smith's wife was truly gorgeous with snow-cream arms and fruity
lips.
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What a surprise!He
was just twenty feet behind her when her husband drove into the station in a
car full of kids! Bang! The car door closed and she drove away.
Just fancy that!       Mr. Smith's wife is the greatest ac-
tress. She found her stage in her apartment and her
audience in Mr. Smith.
What a
beauty!                 The Mrs. Smith was the one and
only Mrs. Smith!
How tiring she was! That homely
comfortable quiet woman was not Quillan's wife at all, but his lover!
How unusual! The redhead danced and
sang perfectly, she talked loud and long, a brilliant intellectual!

2          Retell the story as if you were:
Mrs. Smith;
• Quillan's lover.
Writing
Choose any of the four women characters and write her
description. You should choose the words and phrases that match your
choice.
A
First introduce
the person and write where she lives, what are her likes and dislikes:
her husband drove into the station in a
car full of kids; the car door closed and she drove away; she has the best of
all possible worlds; husband, children, plus the knowledge she is worth
following; she was an actress; began to look through the newspapers
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told her husband to leave their
apartment and be back the next day; When he returned home, his wife had disappeared!
She danced, she sang, she talked loud and long, a brilliant intellectual. Yet
she was so tiring!
B
Describe her
appearance, personality and character with examples of her behaviour:
a lady with a rich smell of perfume; she
likes to keep in trim; you can't call her a beauty; it's
just she smells so good; truly gorgeous with snow-cream arms and fruity lips; a
dark Italian beauty, dressed in earth colours, all the tones of a fruitful
autumn; amazing; with a different cosmetic, different hairstyle, different
manners and intonation; a young beautiful and incredible redhead; miracuIous,
beyond the senses; a little woman of his own age; long-nosed, not enough
make-up, wrinkled stockings and  very quiet; she was glad to walk along
just holding his hand; his poor little wife who loved the earth he walks on.
C
Give some
examples of her behaviour or relationship with other people:
she must feel much better making us follow her; 'Your
actress!' she laughed. 'Tell me what I should be and I'll be it. Why not? I'll
study, create and, when you grow bored, recreate. I'll sit, stand, walk in ten
thousand ways.'; She found her stage in their apartment and her
audience in her husband; her husband took a small room where, two nights a
week, he could sit quietly or walk on the dark streets with this homely
comfortable quiet woman who was not his wife at all but his lover.
D
Use linking words
while giving examples:
She loves animals, esugially... / She hates crowded
places, such as... / They often quarrel, particularly about... /
She is very helpful. For example...

THE DRAGON
It was a silent night. It seemed to be
years since a bird had flown in the sky. Two men were sitting by their lonely
fire in the wilderness. The orange firelight was dancing on their faces and in
their eyes. They were listening to each other's quiet breathing. At last, one
man touched the fire with his sword.
'Don't do that! You'll give us away!'
'No matter,' said the
second man. 'The dragon can smell us miles off, anyway. Oh, dear! It's terribly
cold. I wish I were back at the castle. It is nearly midnight.'
'It's death, not sleep, we're after...'
'Why? The dragon never sets foot in the town!'
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 'Quiet, fool! He eats men raveled alone
from our town to the next!'
SLet them be eaten and
let us get home!' 'Wait now; listen!'
The two men froze. They were waiting.
'Ah!' The second man said at last. 'What
a land of nightmares! Everything can happen here. Oh, God, listen! This dragon,
they say his eyes are fire. His breath is white gas; you can see the dragon
raveled across the dark lands. He runs with thunder and the grass gets the
fire. Sheep panic and die. Women give birth to monsters. The dragon's anger is
so great that tower walls shake back to dust. His victims, at sunrise, are here
and there on the hills. How many knights, I ask, have gone for this monster and
failed as we shall fail?'
'Enough of that!'
'More than enough! I feel so desperate
that I cannot tell what year this is!'
'Nine hundred.'
'No, no,' whispered the second man with
his eyes shut. 'On this land there seems to be no Time. I feel if I ran back
home, the town would be gone, the people yet unborn, the  trees still uncut in
the forests. Don't ask how I know, the land knows, and tells me. And here we
sit alone in the land of the dreadful dragon. God save us!'
'What's the
use of it? The dragon runs from nowhere and we cannot guess its
home. It disappears in the fog, we don't know where it goes. Get our swords
ready and put on our armour, we'll die well-dressed.'
They turned his heads.
Across the dark country full of night and emptiness,
the wind blew. It filled all the countryside and turned their blood cold. There
came a fog from the darkness, and there was no year or hour at all. Only these
men were standing in a sudden frost and heavy storm, listening to white thunder
and green lightning.
'There,' whispered the first man. 'Oh, there...'
Miles off, rushing with a great roar appeared the dragon.
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In silence, the
men took their swords and mounted their horses. The midnight wilderness was
filled with a monstrous roar, as the dragon was getting nearer and nearer.
Frightening yellow eyes flashed; a long dark body moved over the hill and
disappeared into the dark.
'Quick! Over there! Near those bushes!' 'This is
where it passes!'
They got their swords ready for a battle.
 'Lord"
'Yes, let us use His name.'
On the moment, the
dragon rounded a hill. Its monstrous yellow eye watched them. With a terrible
war cry the dragon rushed at the men.
'Mercy, God!'

The sword
struck the huge yellow eye. The dragon hit him, and the man flew through the
air. The next moment the monster knocked down and smashed the other horse and
rider. Two knights were dead. The roanng dragon, the fire and the
smoke all around and under it, disappeared.
'Have you seen it?' cried a voice. 'Just like I told you!'
'The same! A knight in armour, Harry! We've hit him!'
'Are you going to stop?'
'I did once but
found nothing. I don't like to stop here. I get the willies.'
'But we've hit something.'
 'We gave him plenty
of whistles but he didn't move aside. Well, I think we'll arrive at Stokely on
time. More coal, eh, Fred?' The night train, in fire and smoke, was travelling
across the night to a small town in the North.
Notes
Oh, dear! — boxe MOM!
Enough of that! — XBaTMT 06 3TOM! God save us! —
CnacH coxpaHH!
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Over there! — BOH TaM!
Mercy, God! — bnarocJ10BH Hac rocnoab!
The same! — 3ð. OriflTb!
I get the willies. — Y MeHS1 pyKH 0T cTpaxa TpqcyTcq.
Activities
Reading
I      Circle T if the sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is
false.
1.
Two knights were waiting for the dragon near the castle.
2.
Two knights wanted to meet the dragon and have a fight.
3.
The dragon was a real terror for that town.
4.
The knights won the battle.
5.
The train knocked the knights down.
2         Circle the letter of the correct answer.
l. Why did one knight get angry when
the other touched the fire with his sword?
a)
The dragon could smell them miles off.
b)
The sword could get spoilt.
c)
The fire could
get much brighter and give them away.
3.
What is true about the dragon?
a)
The dragon never came into the town.
b)
The dragon could smell the knights miles off.
c)
Nobody knew where the dragon came from and where he disappeared.
4.
What is true
about the knights?
a)
They knew they would die.
b)
They were afraid of the dragon.
c)
They wanted to be eaten by the dragon.
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5.
What did the dragon look like?
a)
It had white gas eyes.
b)
It was a fire-breathing creature.

c)
It had a long body and his roar was great.
6.
 What killed the knights?
 a) the dragon
b)
the train
c)
the green lightning
7.
What is true about the men on the train?
a)
They thought that place to be frightening.
b)
They had never see knights before.

c)
They were travelling inside the roaring dragon.
 Vocabulary
1
Find the Odd One
Out and explain your choice.
I. a sword, a castle, a knight, armour, a gun
2.
Oh, dear!, God save us!, Mercy, God!, Enough of that!, Lord!
3.
roaring, frightening, lightning, dreadful, monstrous
4.
a nightmare, a
hill, a panic, a monster, a dragon
5.
struck, hit, knocked down, smashed, disappeared
6.
fire, smoke, whistle, coal, horse
2
Fill in the gaps
with the correct words using those given in brackets.
1.
It was a night. (silence)
2.
Two men were sitting by their lonely fire in the
. (wild)
3.
They were listening to each other's quiet
(breathe)
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4.
  The dragon's  is so great that tower walls  To
  my mind...
         shake back to dust. (angry)                                                                                From
  my point of view...
5.
  Across the dark country full of night and

        1. the wind blew. (empty)
2.
6.
There came a fog from the . (dark)
7.
Only these men were standing in a frost  3. and heavy storm,
listemng to white thunder and green 4. lightning. (suddenly)
8.
Miles off, rushing with a great roar the 5. dragon. (appearance)
9.
The midnight wilderness was filled with a

It is a medieval legend about a dreadful dragon.
The story consists of two parts.
It is a time travelling story.

                                                      roar. (monster)2                                                       Retell
  the story as if you were:
10.
  yellow
  eyes flashed. (fiighten) • a witness of a battle between the dragon and two
11.      On the moment, the dragona hill. (mund)   knights;
12.      The
   dragon, the
  fire and the smoke all • the one on the train. around and under
  it, disappeared. (roar)
Writing
Speaking
1 Are the following sentences true
  or false? You choose! Try to Dragons are popular characters of medieval
  legends. They say there used to be a lot of them on the British Isles. Make
  up a prove your point of view using the facts from the text. Say at legend
  based on this story. least four sentences starting them with the following
  phrases.
• While setting the scene, describe the time, place, I'm convinced...
weather and say what the main characters were doing. I agree with the
  point... • While developing the narrative, describe the main I completely
  disagree...
action.
I feel.
While making the conclusion, describe the scene at I
  doubt...
the end and mention the main character's
  feelings. I have my doubts about it...
This is absurd from my point.
Useful vocabulary As far as I
  know...
I am sure that....  Place: silent night, lonely in the
  wilderness, a land of I suppose that.. nightmares, there
  seems to be no Time, midnight wilderness. I believe that.. Weather: the wind
  blowing in dark country full of night and In my view... emptiness, the wind
  turned their blood cold, a fog from In my opinion...     the darkness, a
  sudden frost and heavy storm.
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The writer assures us that it was not a
dragon that killed the knights. It is a story about the special place where the
past meets the present.

 Knights: swords ready, with their
armour on, welldressed, desperate, god save us, it's death, not sleep, we're after.
Dragon: could smell every person miles off, never set foot
in the town, killed men travelling alone from one town to the other, his eyes
were fire, his breath was white gas, travelling across the dark lands, ran with
thunder, the grass got the fire, sheep panicked and died, women gave birth to
monsters, great anger that tower walls shook back to dust, his victims were
found on the hills, a monstrous roar, frightening yellow eyes, a long dark
body, terrible war cry.
Verbs: to wait for a dragon, to go for a dragon and fail,
to get the swords ready, to put on armour, to mount their horses, to appear, to
disappear, to get nearer and nearer, to rush, to hit (hit, hit), to strike
(struck, struck), to knock down, to smash.
While making up your legend use:
 time
linking words: while, when, as soon as, firstly, first of all, suddenly, later,
immediately, before, after, then, later, in the end, finally.
linking words to contrast ideas:
although, but, however, on the one hand, on the other hand, despite, in spite
of, nevertheless.

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Once there lived an
Old Woman, and she had lived in her house for ninety years with the door locked
tight. If someone knocked at it, she said:
'Go away, Death! I
know it's you! But the door is locked. There is no telephone. And I've got
cotton in my ears so I can't hear you. So get away!'
Death couldn't get
in for many years! But the Old Woman was waiting, with her eyes closed. So she
was not surprised when a young man came up to her house.
He was wearing
a snow-white suit and looked fresh and clean. Most important of all, he carried
only one thing with him, a small bottle with something bright-green inside. He
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didn't knock at her door. He walked
slowly around her house and let her feel him making the circle. Then; he let
her feel him waiting for her.
'Oh!' cried Old
Woman. 'It's you! I know who you are this time! A young handsome man. But I see
without looking.'
'Oh,' said the
young man . 'I just want to leave this bottle near your house.'
'What's in it??
'The first night and the first day you turned eighteen.'
'What? The night I
turned eighteen... the day? In a bottle?? cried Old Woman.
'I'll leave it and
go,' he said. 'Try a teaspoonful and you'll know.'
'It's poison! It'll kill me, that's what you want.'
'It will raise you from the dead.'
'I'm not dead!'
'Aren't you?' he
smiled. 'The day and the night you turned eighteen. This will bring it back.
This was a good day in a good year of your life, wasn't it?'
He held the bottle
higher and higher. Suddenly the green fire got out of shining bottle and inside
the old house and inside the Old Woman.
'No, no, you can't fool me! You are
putting on that mask! You are talking with a familiar voice. But I know who you
really are and what you sell!'
 'I sell just these twenty-four hours from
young life.'
'If I come
out you'd catch me and put six feet under the ground!'
'If you came out
the door, I'd only kiss your hand, young lady.'
'Don't call me what I'm not!'
'I call you what you could be an
hour from now.' 'An hour from now...' she said.
'Young lady,' he said, 'it's a fine summer
day. There are golden bees flying in the green church of trees here. There's
honey flowing like a river of fire. Take off your shoes, you
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can walk on the soft green carpet of
grass. Wildflowers like clouds of yellow butterflies lie in the valley. It is a
young summer day.'
'But I'm old, old as ever was.'
'Not if you listen! Twenty-four long
sweet summer hours, starting now. When we've run through these woods and picked
the berries and eaten the honey, we'll go on to town and buy you the finest
white summer dress and catch a train to the city. We'll have dinner and dance
all night.'
                'I
can't move.'
'You'll run
rather than walk, and dance rather than run. We'll watch the stars wheel over
the sky and bring the sun up. We'll have a walk near the lake in the morning.
We'll eat the biggest breakfast in the world and lie on the sand till noon.
Then, late in the day, we'll
come back...' Silence.
 'Why are you doing this? What's in it for
you?!'
The young man smiled.
'Why, girl, I want to be with you.'
              Then
he heard the old woman crying.
'Why are you crying, Clarinda? Why did
you hide in that  house long ago?'
'I was
afraid. Strange. For half my years I had been afraid of life. The other half,
afraid of death. Tell the truth, now! When my twenty-four hours are up, after
we walk by the lake and take the train back and come through the woods to my
house, you want to...'
He made her say it.
stay with me?' she asked.
'For ten thousand million years,'
he said. 'Oh, that's a long time.' He nodded.
'A long time,' she repeated. 'So you
give me twenty-four hours ofbeing eighteen again and I give you ten thousand
million years of my time.'
                 'Don't
forget, my time, too,' he said. 'I'll never go away.'
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'Oh, young man, let me think!' she cried.
And there in the house he could feel
her trying to remember something. But there were no memories in her mind.
Suddenly the door slowly opened and her
hand took the bottle. A minute passed. Then he heard her quick footsteps
through the halls. Then at last, from the opened front door, the empty bottle
sailed and broke into pieces. She was in the doorway as quick as a bird. Then,
down the steps, she threw her hand to catch his.
'Am I beautiful?'
'Very beautiful.'
'Will everyone in town see me beautiful? It's not just me
thinking so, is it?'
        'Beauty is what you are. '
'Then I'm beautiful, for that's how I feel.'
Down the path, she stopped suddenly and looked into his
face.
'Oh, when it's all over and we come back
here, will you be kind to me?'
He looked deep into her eyes and
touched her cheek with his fingers.
'I believe you,' she said. 'Oh, I believe.'
And they ran down the path, leaving the
front door and the windows open so the light of the sun could get in. And the
light summer wind filled the air so it smelled like the Beginning, when the
world was new and no one would ever grow old.
Notes
And I've got cotton in my ears — q 3aTKHYJ1a yum
Barroñ you can't fool me! — TH He CMoxeu.1b 06MaHyrb MeH51!
But I'm old, old as ever was. — Ho KaK
6b1J1a cmpoñ, TaK CTapoñ OCTaHYCb.
Beauty is what you are. — Tbl carvta Kpacom.
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Activities
Reading
1
Circle T if the
sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false.
l. The Old Woman didn't have a
telephone in her house.
2.
The Old Woman had been waiting for her death to come for years.
3.
The Old Woman guessed without looking who the young man was.

4.
There was some magic drink in the bottle the young man had.
5.
 The Old Woman drank a teaspoonful of bright red liquid and died.
2
Circle the letter of the correct answer to complete the sentence.
l. The Old Woman lived in her house with

a)
the windows
opened wide
b)     the
door locked tight
c) the television switched off
3.
One day a young man came up to the Old
Woman's house and

 a) knocked at the door
b)    got into
her house
c)     walked
slowly round her house
4.
There was somethingin the small bottle that the young man
had.
a)
magic
b)
poisonous
c)
delicious
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5.
In fact, the young man wanted the Old Woman to

a)
turn into a
beauty
b)     die
c)     kiss
her hand
6.
The Old Woman
took the bottle because she

a)
was sure the
drink was powerless
b)     wanted
the young man to go
c)     was
afraid of neither death nor life anymore
7.
When the Old
Woman returns home, she will

a)
live a long life
b)     die
c)     get
married
8 Grammar
B awnHiÍCKOM ¶3b1Ke nocne pqaa rJ1ar0J10B qacT0
HC110J1b3YE0Tcfl  npeanoru:

in
  out on round through

off about

up    down along  over

away forward

back by

 Wake
me up at seven, please! — Pa36YAH MeHH, noxa-nyñCTa, B CeMb!
My car often breaks down. — MOH Mau_1HHa Mac-ro JlOMaercg.
9T0 — (þpa30Bb1e rnar0J1b1. HHoraa 0 3HageHHH
(þpa30Boro rnarona MOXHO aoraAaTbcq (OC06eHHO eCJIM 9T0 rnaron ABHXeHH51:
go, come, get, turn, drive), HHorna— HeT. TIPHXOAHTC¶ r10J1b30BaTbC¶ cnoBapeM H
3ar10MHHaTb 3HaqeHue.
Take offyour coat! It 's warm here! —
CHHMH nailbT0! 3necb Ter1JIO!
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Ifelt happy when the plane took off — 6b1J1 CqaCTJIHB,
Korzua CaMOJ1eT B3.mereJ1.
1
Complete the
sentences from the story with the prepositions back, out of, in, inside, away.
Translate the sentences.
1.
Go Death!
2.
So, Death, get
3.
Death couldn't get       for many years.
4.
Suddenly the
green fire got  the shining bottle

and the old house and  the Old Woman.
5.
Shall we take the train
6.
Oh, when it's all over and we come  here, will you be kind to me?
7.
They ran down the
path, leaving the front door and the windows open so the light of the sun could
get

2
Complete the
sentences with the verbs of movements: get, turn, drive, come.
           l.
Will you                      off at this stop?
2.
Mary's hair   down to her waist.
3.
I called Tom and he    round.
4.
I think we can't    on this bus. It is full!
5.
 She told me to leave her house andback the
next day.
6.
A young boy       into my car and off.
7.in!
Take a seat.
8.away so I couldn't see the fear in her
9.
My holidays are nearly over. I'll        back in a day.
10.
I love it when the snowdrops start to out.
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3       Translate the sentences after you have learnt what the phrasal  7.
He kept at me.
         verbs mean.   8. He used to put soft shoes on for
his night walks.

Phrasal Verb

Meaning

to knock smb down

to hit somebody with a short, quick movement, so that somebody falls
  down

to go on

to continue

to make of smb

to have a particular opinion of somebody

to look through

to
  look for some information in the books or magazines

to tell on smb

to tell somebody in authority about something wrong that somebody has
  done

to give up

to
  stop doing something what you do regularly

to keep at smb

to
  force somebody to continue to work hard

to put on

to put a piece of clothes on your body

to be on

to be broadcast

9.
What is on tonight?
                                                                                Speaking
1
Retell the story
as if you were:
•
the Old Woman;
•
the Death.
2
What do you think
about the characters of the story? Do you
 find them pleasant or frightening,
clever or stupid? Who do you like best? Who do you like least? Do you feel
sorry for the Old Woman? Complete the sentences and express your ideas.
1.

1 findto be (clever, stupid, sly, dreadful,
risky, brave) because
2.
I (don't) feel sorry for the Old Woman because
3.was wrong (right) to
4.did a dreadful (an unjust, a
stupid, a reasonable) thing when
                                                                                Writing
1. The next moment the monster
knocked down and smashed the other horse and rider. Write five sentences to
explain what you think will happen to 2. But, now, what do you make of her?  the characters of the story in the
city. Will the beauty be happy 3. My wife began to look through the newspapers
for that day? Will she be happy on her way home? What will theater reviews.
happen when she is home? Will the young man keep his promise? Don't tell on me!
You should use your imagination and give your reasons.
4,
5.
Terwilliger
turned from the screen where the battle of prehistoriC giants was going on.
6.
Terwilliger was
not going to give up.
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ALL
SUMMER IN A DAY
It rained. On the planet Venus it had
been raining for seven years. Thousands of days were filled with crystal
showers and heavy storms. The children were standing near the large window of
their school room. They were waiting.
'It's stopping, it's stopping!'
'Yes, yes!'
 Margot stood
apart from these children who couldn't remember a day without rain. They were
all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun
came

out for an hour and showed its face to the world, they forgot
it.
All day yesterday they were reading in
class about the sun. And they had written small stories or poems about it:
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I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.
That was Margot's
poem. She read it in a quiet voice while the rain was falling outside.
'No, you didn't write that!' protested one of the boys.
'I did,' said Margot.
Now it was raining
again. Margot looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain
had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth. She looked
like an old photograph dusted from an album. Now she stood watching the rain
and the wet world beyond the huge glass.
Suddenly a boy gave her a strong push.
But she did not move. And this was because she would play
no games with them. If they tagged her and ran, she stood looking at them and
did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and games she didn't
join them. Only when they sang about the sun her lips made a slow move. Her
biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth.
She remembered the sun, its colour and its heat!
'It's like a penny,' she said once, eyes closed.
'No, it's not!' the children cried.
'It's like a fire,' she said, 'in the stove.'
'You're lying, you can't remember!' cried the children.
 But she
remembered. She was different and they kept away from her. They knew that her
father and mother would take her back to Earth next year. And so, the children
hated her for all these reasons. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting
silence, her thinness, and her possible future.
'Get away!' cried
the boy angrily. 'Well, don't wait here! You will see nothing! It was a joke,
wasn't it?' He turned to the other children. 'Nothing's happening today. Is
it?'
'Nothing,
nothing!' the other children laughed and shook their heads.
'Oh, but,' Margot
whispered. 'This is the day, the scientists predict, the sun ...'
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'All a joke!'
said the boy. 'Let's put her in a closet before the teacher comes!'
They caught her,
took into a closet and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw
it tremble from her beating against it. They heard her cries. Then, smiling,
they turned and went out, just as the teacher arrived.
'Ready, children?' She looked at her
watch.
'Yes!' said everyone.
Then the rain
stopped and the world got silent. It was so unbelievable that the children felt
they had lost their hearing.
The door opened
and the smell of the silent world came in. The next moment the sun came out. It
was the colour of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky was flaming
blue. The children ran out, crying into the springtime.
'Don't go too far,' called the teacher.
6You've got only two hours, you know!'
 But they
were running and turning their faces up and feeling the sun on their faces.
They were taking off their jackets and letting the sun burn their arms.
When they got tired,
the children stopped running. They were standing in the great jungle. The trees
never stopped growing. They were the colour of rubber from the many years
without sun. It was the colour of stones and white cheese, and it was the
colour of the moon.
 The children ran among the trees, they
slipped and fell, they pushed each other, they played hide-and-seek and tag,
but most of all they looked at the sun until the tears ran down their faces;
they put their hands up to it and that amazing blue sky. They looked at
everything and enjoyed everything. Then, wildIy, like animals escaped from
their caves, they ran and ran in
circles. They had been running for an hour and did not stop

And then —
In the middle of their running one of the girls gave a
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'Oh, look, look,' she said, trembling.
It was a raindrop.
She began to cry, looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sun.
A few cold
drops fell on their noses and their cheeks and their mouths. The sun hid behind
the cloud. A wind blew cold around them. They turned and started to walk back
toward their house. Lightning struck ten miles away, five miles away, a mile, a
half mile. The sky darkened.
They stood in the doorway for a
moment until it was raining hard. Then they closed the door and heard the
gigantic sound of the rain.
'Will it be seven more years?'
'Yes. Seven.'
Then one of them gave a little cry.
'Margot!'
'What?'
'She's still in the closet where we have locked her.'
They looked at each other and
then looked away. Outside it was raining now. Their faces were white. They
looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.
They walked
slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They came to the closet door
slowly and stood by it. Behind it was only silence.
They unlocked the door and let Margot out.
Notes
It's like a penny — OHO noxoxe Ha
MOHeTKY — Kpyrnoe H 6J1eCTHLuee saw it tremble from her beating against it
— BHAWIH, KaK 4Bepb TPHCJ1acb 0T Toro, tno neBOHKa KOJIOTW1a B Hee the
children felt they had lost their hearing — neT¶M KUWIOCb, I-ITO OHH OBIOXJIH
Will it be seven more years? — H TaK 6yneT UW1b1X CeMb JleT?
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Activities
 Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
            l.
There were no forests on the planet Venus.
2.
It didn't often rain on the Venus.
3.
The
children didn't like the sun and its heat.
4.
Margot was different from her classmates.
5.
Margot never saw the sun because she was locked in the closet.
2
Circle the right
answer to the question.
1. What is true about the Venus according to the story?
a)
Nobody lived on that planet.
b)
There was a school on the Venus.
 c) Trees didn't grow there because there was no rain.
3.
What is true about the children?
a)
They didn't get on well with Margot.
b)
They enjoyed the rain.
c)
They looked forward to the sun.

4.
What is not true about Margot?

a)
She had lived on the Earth for many years.
b)
She couldn't write either poems or rhymes.
c)
She was going to be back to the Earth.
4. Why did the children lock Margot in the
closet?
a)
She told them a lie and they punished her.
b)
They didn't want
the girl to see the sun.
c)
They didn't want her to have her arms burnt.
5. What did the children do when the sun came out?
a) They couldn't do
anything because they lost their hearing.
b)
They were lying in the sun and enjoying it.
c)
They were playing their games in the sunlight.
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6. What is true about the sun according to the story?
a)
It came out once
in seven years on the Venus.
b)
It made the trees on the Venus look like rubber.
c)
It was dangerous to all living creatures on the Venus.
 Vocabulary
1
Find the Odd One
Out and explain your choice according to what happened in the story.
1.
rain, shower,
storm, heat, raindrop
2.
the sun, a
flower, a penny, a fire, a lightning
3.
huge, gigantic, tiny, large, great

4.
game, tag,
hide-and-seek, run
5.
the colour of flaming bronze, the colour of stones,
the colour of white cheese, the colour of the moon
6.
white, pale, snow, colourless, amazing
2
Fill in the gaps
with the words given below.

without would be taking off

a cry the clouds unbelievable rained

to have came out where

On the planet Venus
itfor years. Thousands of days were filled with crystal showers and heavy
storms. Then, one day the rain stopped and the sun
It was the colour of bronze and the sky was flaming blue.
The children ran out. They found themselves in the great junglethe trees never
stopped growing. They were the colour of rubber from the many years sun. It was the
colour of stones and white cheese, and it was the colour of the moon.
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It was the world was silent! The children seemed lost their
hearing. But the next moment they were running and turning their faces up and
feeling the sun on their faces. They were  their jackets and letting the sun
burn their arms.
And suddenly one of the girls gaveand everyone stopped. A few cold
raindrops fell on their noses and their cheeks. The sun hid behind  The wind blew
cold around them. Lightning struck and the sky dark-
         ened.
The children turned and walked back
to the house. It seven more years without the sun.

    Speaking
Useful phrases
As far as I know... [The matter is that... / I am sure
that... / I suppose that... / I believe that... /To sum it up, / All things
considered, ... / As a result of this... / In addition... / What this means
is... / ... because / since... / as... l... in order to... / Moreover, .
1
Can you prove
that:
•
the children hated Margot?
•
the children had been waiting for the sun to come out?
•
Margot was different from the other children?
•
it was the first time when the children saw the sun?
•
the children enjoyed being out in the sunshine?
Try to say three sentences at least.
2
Can you explain
why:
•
the children didn't believe that Margot could make up a poem?
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•
the children hated Margot?
•
the children behaved like wild animals escaped from their caves
while they were out in the sunshine?  a raindrop frightened one of the girls so
much?
•
the children let Margot out when it started raining?
Try to say three sentences at least.
3
Retell the story
as if you were:

•
Margot;
•
one of Margot's classmates.
    Writing
Write a personal letter. Margot is
writing to her friend who she knows well but hasn't seen for a long time. She
is telling  her/him about that special day on the Venus when the sun came out for
two hours! Follow the stages.
1.
Introduction: say who you are and where you met the person you
are writing to.
2.
Questions: ask the other person questions about her/ his life.
3.
Information: give information about your own life and how you
have changed.
4.
Reason to finish: give a reason or excuse to stop  writing.
5.
Don't forget to sign om
While writing the letter, use
•
informal linking words: we haven't seen for ages, / Well,
I feel lonely here. Anyyay, how are you?/ ... and guess—y.hat— they
didn't believe it was my poem!/ Luckily, I have already seen the sun...
/ Actually, I wasn't angry with them.
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•
informal expressions to invite the reader with question:
How are you?/The day was special, wasn't it?/Can you imagine that?/lt sounds
unbelievable, doesn't it?
Useful vocabulary:
raining for seven years; crystal showers and heavy storms;
reading in class about the sun; 'you didn't write that!? protested one of the
boys; play no games with them; my biggest crime; remember the sun, its colour
and its heat; different and they keep away from me; my mother will take me back
to the Earth next year; caught me, took into a closet and locked the door; ran
among the trees; they slipped and fell; they pushed each other; they played
hideand-seek and tag.
THE FOG HORN
Every night McDunn and Johnny waited
for the fog. When it came, they lit the fog light in the lighthouse. Red, then
white, then red again. They sent the light to the ships out in the sea but when
the fog was too thick they switched on their Fog Horn!
One cold November evening they were
having a quiet talk about their job, about the mysteries of the sea. The great
eye of the light was shining into the sea. The Fog Horn was blowing once every
fifteen seconds.
 'One night,' said
McDunn, 'years ago, I was here alone. Suddenly the fish came up. Something made
them swim up. When I saw their funny eyes, I turned cold. They were like a
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big peacock's tail in the moonlight. Then, without a sound, they disappeared.
Strange. Think how the lighthouse must look to them. It stands high above the
water, the light comes out from it, and the tower speaks in a monster voice...'

Johnny was
frightened. He was watching the grey sea going away into nothing and nowhere.
'Oh, the sea's full of life,' he said.

 'Yes, it's an old world,' McDunn smoked
his cigar and
looked worried. 'Now, I've got
something to tell you. The Fog Horn sounds like an animal, doesn't it? A big
lonely animal crying in the night. Calling out to the Deep, 'I'm here, I'm
here.' Well, you have been here for three months, Johnny, so I'm going to tell
you. Something comes to visit the lighthouse.' 'Do you mean the
fish?'
'No, something
else. First it happened three years ago. It usually happens about this time of
the year. Let's wait and watch. '
While they
were waiting, McDunn told some theories about the Fog Horn to Johnny.
'One day a
man walked along the cold shore. Then he stopped and said, "We need a
voice to call across the water to the ships. I'll make one like a voice of the
fog. I'll make a sound that's so lonely that everybody listens to it. Everyone
who hears it will start crying, and their hearts will become warmer." I
made up that story to explain why it keeps coming back to the lighthouse. The
Fog Horn calls it, I think, and it comes...'
It was a foggy night and the
light was coming and going, and the Fog Horn was calling through the air. In
the high tower they watched the sea moving to the dark shore. And then,
suddenly from the cold sea came a large dark head, and then a neck. And
then more neck and more! The head was high above the water on a
beautiful dark neck. Finally came the body, like a little island of black
coral.
             'It's impossible!' said Johnny.
'No, Johnny, we're impossible. It has
always been. It hasn't changed at all!'
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The silent
monster was swimming slowly in the icy water with the fog around. One of its
eyes caught the bright light of the tower, red, white, red, white.
'But the dinosaurs died out long ago!' Johnny cried.
'No, they hid away in the Deep.'
'What should we do?'
'We've got our job. We can't leave
it. Besides, we're safe here.'
'But here, why does it come here?'
The next moment
Johnny had his answer. The Fog Horn blew. And the monster answered. A cry so
sad and lonely! The Fog Horn blew. The monster cried again. The Fog Horn blew.
The monster opened its great toothed mouth and the sound that came from it was
the sound of the Fog Horn itself. It was the sound of unhappiness, of a cold
night.
'Imagine,
all year long,' whispered McDunn, 'that poor monster waits, deep in the sea.
Maybe it's the last of its kind. Think of it, waiting a million years! One day
it hears the Fog Horn in his deep hiding-place. The sound comes and goes, comes
and goes. Then the monster starts its way up to have a look at it. He does it
very slowly because the heavy ocean is on its shoulders. It goes up and up for
three autumn months and it can hear the voice better and better. And there it
is, in the night, Johnny! And here's the lighthouse. The monster can see that
the lighthouse has got a neck as long as its neck, and a body
like its body, and, most important of all, a voice like
its voice. Do you understand now, Johnny?'
The Fog Horn
blew. The monster answered. It was only a hundred yards off now.
'That's how it happens,' said
McDunn. 'You love something more than that thing loves you. And one day you
want to destroy it, because it hurts you.'
 The monster
was swimming to the lighthouse. The Fog Horn blew.
'Let's see what happens,' said McDunn
and switched the Fog Horn off.
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It was a minute of silence and
the men could hear their hearts. The monster's eyes looked into the dark. Its
mouth opened. It sounded like a volcano. It turned its head to the right and
then to the left. It looked for the Fog Horn, for its deep sounds. Then its
eyes caught fire. It swam towards the tower, its eyes filled with anger.

            'McDunn!'
Johnny cried. 'Switch on the horn!'
McDunn switched the horn on and they saw its fish skin.
It hit the tower with its gigantic paws and the tower
shook.
McDunn cried, 'Downstairs! Quick!'
They ran down and hid in a small room
at the bottom of the lighthouse. The next moment they heard the rocks raining
down. The lighthouse fell. There was nothing but darkness and the wash of the
sea on the stones. And then they heard the
monster's cry. There was .no tower and no Fog Horn — the
thing that had been calling to the monster for so many years. And the monster
was opening its mouth and sending out great sounds. The sounds of a Fog Horn,
again and again. And so it went for the rest of that night.
The next morning the people came and
helped them to get
out of the ruins.
'It was a terrible storm,' said Mr.
McDunn. 'We had some bad knocks from the waves and the tower fell.'
The ocean was quiet and the sky was blue. The lighthouse was
in ruins. The monster? It never came back. It returned back to the Deep. It
learned you can't love anything too much in this world.
Notes
the fog horn — np•0THB0TYMaHHaH
cupeHa Ha MaqKe, TYMaHHblñ ropH
Something made them swim up. —
I-ITO-TO 3aC-•raBHJIO ee nonHWTbC¶ Ha 110BepxHOCTb.
the Deep — nyuma (n03muqeczoe Ha3gaHue MOPH)
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It sounded like a volcano. — Ka3anocb, 3T0 6b1JIH 3BYKH BYJIKaHa. It
learned you can't love anything too much in this world. — OH Y3HaJ1, HTO B 3TOM
MMpe HeJ1b3H m06HTb CJIHIIIKOM CW1bHO.
Activities
Reading
1
Circle T if the
sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false.
1.
The Fog Horn sent the light into the sea.
2.
One day McDunn saw a great peacock's tail in the sea.
3.
The monster visited the Fog Horn.
4.
The dinosaur destroyed the lighthouse.
5.
The Fog Horn sounded as a dinosaur.
2
Circle the letter
of the correct answer to complete the sentence.
1.
When the fog came, McDunn and Johnny the fog light in the
lighthouse.
a)
lit
b)
blew
c)
switched off
2.
McDunn told
Johnny that once

a)
the fish came out of the sea
b)
he saw a peacock
in the moon
c)
the fish came up to the surface
3.
McDunn thought that
a)
the sea had no
mysteries
b)
someone had made the fog horn sound lonely on purpose
c)
the monster wanted to destroy the lighthouse
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4.
The dinosaur had a

       a)
body made from the black coral
b)
long neck and a small head
c)
beautiful long neck and fish skin

5.
The dinosaur sounded
a)     as
sad and lonely as the Fog Horn
b)     as
if he was calling from its Deep
c)     as
quiet as the fish that came up to the surface of the sea
6.
The dinosaur    the lighthouse.

a)     hid
in
b)     ruined
c)
visited
 Vocabulary
Fill in the gaps with the correct words using those given in brackets.
I. When I saw theireyes, I turned cold.

(fun)
2.
Then, without a sound, they  (disappearance)
3.
It stands    above
the water. (height)
4.
It was anight. (fog)
5.
The head was high above the water on a dark neck. (beauty)
6.
We'rehere. (save)

7.
The monster opened its greatmouth and the sound came from it.
(tooth)
g. It was
the sound of
(unhappy)
9. It swam towards the tower, its eyes
were filled with  .
(angry)
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10. There was nothing
but and the wash of the sea on the stones. (dark)
2
Compound nouns
are onen used in English. They are fixed expressions, which are made up of more
than one word and function as nouns. They are often combinations of two nouns,
e.g. human being, traffic pocket money.
Read the sentences and say what they are about. In each case the answer
is a compound noun from the stories: farmhouse, school room, summer dress,
lighthouse, raindrop, springtime, moonlight, teaspoon, secret place.
1. It looks so unusual! Children sit on
the floor, not at the desks! There are cages with birds and hamsters and little
rabbits there too. Their lessons are really informal!

2.I think ifs really wonderful!
Everything around you wakes up after a long winter sleep. The trees burst into
leaves and you can enjoy the first flowers of the year!
3. Put it away, please! You should take a bigger one when you are going to eat soup.

4.What did it come from? A moment ago
the sun was shining but now it looks like rain. It really does!
5.
It's going to be a hot day today, isn't it? I'd better put it on
and keep my jackets and sweaters in the wardrobe till autumn comes.
6.
It was built on a small island near the sea shore. During long
winter nights it sent its light to the ships into the sea.
7.
They had no wish to stay in it for the night. It seemed to
be very old. Some windows were broken and you could see the stars through the
holes in its roof.
8.
Nobody knows about it. I keep all my love letters and my granny's
jewelry here.
9.
[t was cold and pale. We were moving like ghosts through the
night forest.
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Speaking
I          Use the story to discuss the prehistoric world.
1.
What do you know about prehistoric life? About dinosaurs? Are
there any mysteries about them?
2.
What were dinosaurs like? Were they alike? Were they different?
3.

Have you seen any films or cartoons about dinosaurs? What are they? Were the
creatures angry or friendly there?
2           Describe the story characters using the words and phrases

from the box. You should also use your imagination for
your  description of:
•
Mr. McDunn;
•
the dinosaur.

sensitive sad and lonely imaginative        independent
  large dark head       a beautiful dark neck emotional     romantic a little
  island of black coral

      Writing
1        Choose one of the following
situations and write an exciting dinosaur story.
I. You were coming
home after a party at night when you saw something that looked like a
pterodactyl.
2.
You were visiting a faraway land where gigantic eggs had been
found.
3.
You met a scientist who said he knew how to make the dinosaurs
alive.
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In your story don't forget to say some words about:
where it happened (country, town,
street, school, museum);
• when it happened (season, month, year, time of the
day, the weather);  who was with you (friend, parents,
stranger, relatives);        what you were doing when the action
started;  what had happened before the action
started;  your feelings and emotions to it; if
you needed any help;  how it finished.

THE VELDT
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley
loved their Happylife Home. It clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and was
good to them. They didn't have to do any housework! But something was wrong
with the nursery and Lydia wanted George to have a look at it.
When George came into the nursery, the walls began to
produce a soft sound and presently an African veldt appeared. He could see
every rock and every flower. The ceiling turned into a deep sky with a yellow
sun. He could smell the hot grass and the hidden water, the wild animals and
the dust in the air.
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'Can you see the
lions over there? They've just been eating,' said Lydia, coming into the room.
'Did you hear that scream? It sounds familiar.'
'Sorry, no,'
George Hadley admired
the mechanical genius who invented this room. Every home should have one. What
fun for everyone to get a quick change of scenery!
They watched
the lions getting nearer. The beasts were so real that you could feel their fur
on your hand, and your mouth was filled with their dusty smell.
'Watch out!' screamed Lydia because the
lions came running at them.
Outside, in the
hall, George was laughing and Lydia was crying, and they both were frightened.
'George! They almost got us!'
'Oh, Lydia, it's just a film behind the glass screen!'
'I'm afraid. It's too real. We've got
to lock the nursery for a few days.'
'You know how difficult Peter and Wendy are about that. '
'George, why don't we lock our house
for a few days and take a vacation?'
'Do you mean you want to cook lunch? And
clean shoes? And sweep the house?'
'Yes, yes— oh,
yes! That's just it. I feel like I don't belong here. Can I cook better than
automatic stove? Can I  wash the children better then the
automatic bath? No. Neither can you. You feel unnecessary too, don't you?'
While they were having their dinner,
George was thinking about the nursery. It caught the children's thoughts and
all their wishes came true. The children thought lions, and there were lions.
The children thought zebras, and there were zebras. Sun — sun. Death — death.
Without saying a word he stood up and
came to the nursery door. He listened against it. Far away, a lion roared and
George heard a faraway scream. He came in.
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           'Go away,' he said to the lions that were watching him.                                'Is
it so bad?'
 They did not
go. He knew how the room worked you send 'I'm afraid so. I think that you have
spoiled your chilout your thoughts and it came alive. 'Let's have Aladdin,' he
dren. The nursery has replaced you in their feelings. It is their thought but
Africa didn't disappear. mother and father, far more important in their lives
than
'Come on,
room! Show Aladdin!' he said but nothing hap- their real parents. And now you
want to switch it off. No pened.   wonder there's hatred here. George, you'll
have to change 'Something is wrong with the nursery,' he thought. 'Or... your
life.' it can 't work properly, because the children have thought about George
came up to the nursery door. He had a strange Africa for so long.'  feeling
that the room hated him for his desire to switch it off.
       He heard their children's voices in the hall.  But he turned the switch that killed
the nursery. Then he turned
'Come and tell us about the nursery,'
said George. 'All off all the machines. It felt like a mechanical cemetery
their about Africa and everything.'  silent house full of dead bodies.
'Africa? I don't
understand,' said Peter to Wendy. 'Do  The children were in hysterics. They
screamed and threw things, they cried and jumped at the furniture.
'No,' said the
girl and ran to the nursery. She was back in 'Just a moment, just another
moment of nursery,' cried a minute. 'It's not Africa,' she said.  Wendy and
Peter.

           The
whole family opened the nursery door. There was a     'Oh, George,' said the
wife, 'it can't hurt.
lovely green forest, a purple mountain and colorful
butterflies.     'All right all right, if they finally shut up. One minute and
No African veldt land and no lions. then off forever. Then we're going on a
vacation.'
'Go to bed,' the father said to the
children and locked the The happy children rushed into the nursery. In a moment
nursery tight. George and Lydia were sure that Wendy had George and Lydia
heard the children calling, 'Daddy, Mumturned the veldt into a forest and put
butterflies there instead of my, come quick quick!' They ran into the nursery.
The lions lions. The parents were beginning to feel sorry they had bought were
waiting, looking at them. 'Peter, Wendy?' that room. They
realized Peter and Wendy had been cool to-  The door closed
behind them. George Hadley and his ward them.    wife ran back to the door.
It was about midnight when they heard
two people scream-'Open the door!' cried George Hadley.
'Why, they've ing from the nursery. And then a roar of lions. locked it from
the outside! Peter! Open up!'
'They've broken into the nursery,' said George to Lydia.He
heard Peter's voice outside, against the door.
'And those screams they really sound
familiar.'  'Don't let them switch off the nursery
and the house,' the In the morning they called a psychologist and asked for boy
was saying agam and again.
professional advice. When he examined the nursery,
he got very 'Now, don't be stupid, children.' worried.  And then they heard the
sounds. The lions were on three 'My advice to you is to have the room switched
off and sides of them, in the yellow grass. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley your children
to be brought to me every day during the next screamed. And suddenly they
realized why those other screams year for treatment.'         had sounded
familiar.
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Reading

b)    They
  wanted their parents stay there forever.
c)
  They wanted to leave for the vacation without their

1        Circle T if the sentence is true. Circle F if the
  sentence is false.

parents.
5.
  Why did the sound in the nursery sound familiar to

I. The Happylife Home worked properly.

        Lydia?

2. Lydia enjoyed her life in her smart
  house. T

a) She recognized her own voice.

3. The psychologist realized the danger.

b) It reminded her of children's voices.

4. When George switched the house off, it turned into a
  cemetery.

c) She heard it too often in her Happylife
  Home.

           5. The lions
  killed Wendy and Peter's parents.

6. How did the Happylife Home
  influence Peter and Wendy?

2        Circle the letter of the correct answer to
  each question.

a) Their parents became unnecessary to the child-

I. What is true about the Happylife Home?
a) It cooked food and cleaned shoes and washed chil-

ren.
b) The children learnt how
  to look after themselves

dren.

properly.

b) It was invented by the psychologist.

c) They spent much time
  with their parents and be-

c) It was destroyed at the end of the
  story.

came even closer to them.

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Notes

2.

What is not true about the
  Happylife Home?
a) You wouldn't have to do any
  housework if you lived

Every home should have one. — Xopomo 6b1 B
  KŒKAOM AOMe

     there.
It helped the Hadley family to get on well
  with

6b1J1 TaKOü.

b) each other.

Watch out! — beperqcb!
Do you mean — Tbi xoqelllb CKa3aTb

c) It spoiled Peter and Wendy.

I feel like I don't belong here. — Ml-re KaxeTCH, HTO 3T0 BOBCe

3.

What is true about the nursery?

H He MOü AOM.

a) Your wish would come true if you came
  there.

They've broken into the nursery — OHM np06paJIHcb B aerc-

b)
  It caught your thoughts and showed them on its

it can't hurt — HHqero He CJIYIHTCfl Open up! — OTKPOüTe xe!

walls and ceiling.
c)
  It was the safest place in all the Happylife Home.

4.

Why did the children lock their parents in the nursery?

Activities

a)
  They wanted their parents to learn the nursery bet-

Vocabulary

3.

The parents  (begin)
  to feel sorry they  (buy) that room.

What do the following words mean? Work it out by matching

4.

(realize) Peter and Wendy

the words to their definitions. Translate them.

(be) cool toward them.

psychologist       the
high area of land in South Africa that 5. 'They(break) into the nursery,' said
George is covered in grass and has few      to Lydia.
treatmentpiece of
land in which dead people trees are 6. 'I think that you       (spoil) your
children, ' the buried    psychologist  (say).
hatred someone who is trained in
psychology 7. 'The nursery (replace) you in their feelcemetery a method that is
intended to ings, ' the psychologist (say).

                                        or
illness                                    cure an injury                           8.
'Why, they         (lock) the nursery from the out-
           furniture             a place where young children
are taken     side! Peter! Open up!' George cried.
care
of during the day9. And suddenly they (realize) why those other vacation an
angry feeling of extreme dislike for some- screams (sound) familiar. one or
something screamloud high sound made by your voice because you are very
frightened, angry or hurt ceiling large movable things such as chairs, tables,
and beds that you use in a room veldtholiday or time spent not working nursery
the inner surface of the top part of a room
8 Grammar

Review the Perfect Tenses Present
Perfect and Past Perfect. Open the brackets. Each sentence has one of the
Perfect Tenses! l. 'The nursery can't work properly, because the children
(think) about Africa for so long,' George (think).
2. George and Lydia (be) sure that
Wendy (turn) the veldt into a forest and put butterflies there instead of
lions.
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Speaking
I         Can you prove that:
the Happylife Home was a comfortable place to live
the
Happylife Home spoiled the children? Lydia and George became unnecessary to
their children?
Lydia and George didn't feel that
their children had changed?
the psychologist realized the danger?
Try to say three sentences at least beginning with the following words:
As far as I
know... [The matter is that... / I am sure that... / I suppose that... / I
believe that... /To sum it up, ... / All things considered, / As a result of
this... / In addition... / What this means is... / ... because/ since... /
as... / in order to... / Moreover, .
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2
Can you explain why:        materials used to build it; features
on the outside and inside;  the nursery showed African veldt?
furniture and decorations;
•
the screams in the nursery sounded familiar to Lydia     people
who lived there;

                 and
George?                           •                                          events
that took place there;
•
Peter and Wendy begged their father to switch on       recommendations.
the
nursery for a moment?
•
the psychologist
advised Lydia and George to leave their home and go on a vacation?
•
the children locked their parents in the nursery?
Try to say three sentences at least.
3
Retell the story
as if you were:

Peter or Wendy;

Lydia or George;

the
psychologist.
      Writing
Write a four-paragraph description of a Happylife Home.
1.
Introduction: describe the kind of house and its location.
2.
Rooms: describe what the rooms are like, where they are and what
is in them (furniture, etc.).

3.
Special features: describe the special features that the house
has got.
4.
Conclusion: say if you would like to live there or not and
give your reason.
You should also use your imagination and add any details you
wish. Describe the following features:
•
the building's name and location;
•
style or period it was built in;
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THE APRIL WITCH
Cecy flew over the trees as invisible as
spring winds and as fresh as spring flowers.
 'I want to
be in love but I don't want to lose my magic power,' she thought. 'I can live
in anything a stone, a flower, a butterfly. So I'll be in love through someone else.'

Near a farmhouse
well she saw a girl. Cecy fell — a green leaf— into the well, then into a water
drop, then in a cup. The girl lifted the cup to her lips. The next moment Cecy
looked out from the girl's eyes. It was a good body and she liked being there.
'Is that you, Tom?'
the girl asked a tall man riding a horse, 'Get away!'
'No!' cried Cecy.
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The girl looked at Tom. Cecy made her
drop the bucket and the man ran up. Cecy was looking at him from her secret
place the girl's head. She liked the turn of his head and the shine of his
eyes. Then the girl's pretty mouth opened: 'Thank you!' 'I've gone mad!' the
girl added.
'You have,' he
said, smiling. 'Why don't you run, Ann? I'm not stopping you.' Will you go
dancing with me tonight?' 'No,' said Ann.
'Yes!' cried Cecy.
'I've never danced. I've never known what it's like to be in a woman, dancing.
Dogs, cats, insects, leaves, but never a woman in a long dress. Oh, please we
must go to that dance!'
'Yes,' said Ann,
'I'll go. I don't know why, but I'll go to the dance with you tonight, Tom.'
Then she was
in the bath, the soap on her white shoulders and Cecy in her head. There must
be no pause! Wash here, soap there, now out!
Ann caught
herself in the mirror. 'Who are you tonight? I've rented my body to an April
witch, for sure.' 'Ann, Tom's back!' her mother called.
'I'm not going to that dance. Tell him to go away!'
Cecy got frightened. She had left Ann's
body only for a moment! She decided to find Tom and see what it was like to be
in a young man. But now, like a bird to a cage, she flew back into Ann's head.  Put
on your coat! thought Cecy and Ann put on her coat. Now, go!
 'Good night,
Mum. I'll be home late,' said Ann and ran into the spring evening.
Around, around,
around, danced Ann with Cecy in her head.
'You're strange,' said Tom. 'You're
not the girl I knew.' 'No, notatall,' answered Cecy. 'No, notatall,' said the
lips.
'Why did you come with me?'
'I didn't want to come,' said Ann.
         'Why, then?'
'Something made me. '
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'What?'
'I don't know,' said Ann.
'Oh, but I know,' said Cecy. 'You're the
finest-looking man in the world. This is an evening I'll always remember, being
with you.'
 'But,' said Tom, 'you are always
changing. When we were standing at the well, I knew something had changed. You
were different. There was -something new and soft, something about your voice.
And I'm in love with you.'
 'No,' said Cecy. 'With me, with me. I'd
love you with all my heart! Ann, say it to him, say it for me.'
Tom got closer to
the girl. 'I'm going away. I've got a job a hundred miles from here. Will you
miss me?' 'Yes,' said Ann and Cecy.
'May I kiss you
good-bye, then?' and he placed his lips to the strange mouth. Ann sat like a
white statue. Like a wooden doll in the moonlight.
'I love you,' whispered Cecy. 'It's me you saw in her eyes.'
He moved away. 'I don't know what's happening. But

never mind, Shall I take you home now?'
On their way home
Cecy thought, 'It would be worth everything to be with him from this night on.
I wouldn't need to
fly through the spring nights, I wouldn't need to live in
birds, I need only to be with him.'
'Tom, if you ever come in Green
Town a few miles from here, will you do me a favour? Will you visit my friend?
Cecy Elliott, 12 Willow Street, Green Town, Illinois,' Ann said it in a
strange voice and gave a small piece of paper to Tom.
'She's a good friend. I've told her of you. Promise?'
'What has this to do with us?' he
cried. They were near Ann's house.
I'm tired, thought
Cecy. I have to go home. But before I go...
before I go,' said Ann and kissed
Tom. 'This is me kissing you,' said Cecy.
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Tom looked at Ann
and then he looked deep, deep inside. Then he turned and without saying 'good
night' went away.
Cecy left Ann's
body and started her way home. In the eyes of a cricket Cecy saw the spring
night world. In the eyes of a frog she sat for a moment by a pool. In the eyes
of a night bird she looked down from a tall tree and saw the lights from the
faraway farm. She thought of herself and her strange power.
'Tom? Have you
still got the paper, Tom? Will you come some day to see me? Will you recognize
me then?'
Tom was asleep. In one hand, there was a small piece
of paper. His fingers held it tightly. And he did not notice when a blackbird
stopped near his window and flew away over the sleeping
Notes
Get away! — Yõupaücq!
I'm not stopping you. — He nepxy
Teõq. for sure — HaBepH¶Ka
Something made me. — I-ITO-TO 3aCTaBHJIO MeHfl.
May I kiss you good-bye, then? — MOXHO
q nouenyo Te6q Ha np0LuaHHe?
But never mind. — He 06parua1ä BI--1HMaHÞffl.
What has this to do with us? — Kavvoe
3T0 HMeeT OTHOU1eHMe K HaM?
Activities
Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
I. Cecy was a wicked witch.
2.
Tom was in love with Ann.
3.
Tom felt something went wrong with Ann.
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4.
On a dancing party Ann fell in love with  Tom.
5.
Tom didn't throw away the small piece of paper with Cecy's
address.
2
Circle the letter
of the correct answer to each question.
I. That story happened in

a)     winter
b)     summer
c)
spring
3.
was a
witch.
a)
Ann
b)     Tom
c)     Cecy
4.
That night Cecy wanted to
a)     learn
how to dance
b)     to
be in love with somebody
c)     to
make somebody love her
5.
Cecyin
Ann's body.
a)
disliked being
b)     enjoyed
being
c)     felt
uncomfortable
6.
For the first
time in her life Cecy
a)     visited
a dancing party
b)     flew
over the trees
c)     turned
into the blackbird
7.
Cecy thought, 'It
would be worth everything from this night on.'
a)     to
be with Tom
b)     to
have my magic power
c)
to stay in Ann's
body
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 Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with the right prepositions: away, to, over, out,
near, in, at, up, from.
Cecy flew the trees and thought: 'I want to be love but I
don't want to lose my magic power.' a farmhouse well she saw a girl. Cecy fell
into the well, then into a water drop, then in a cup. The girl lifted the cup
her lips. The next moment CeAy looked from the girl's eyes. It was a good body
and she liked being there.
           'Tom,
get   !' the girl
cried to a tall man.
'No!' cried Cecy.
The girl looked Tom. Cecy made her drop the bucket
and the man ran Cecy was looking at him  her secret place the girl's head.
She liked the turn of his head and the shine of his eyes.
8 Grammar
Report the dialogue between Ann and Tom at the dancing party. Try to use
different verbs to report: wonder, add, nod one's head, shake one's head,
promise, agree, disagree, explain, offer.
'You're strange,' said Tom. 'You're not the girl I knew.'
'No, not at all.'
'Why did you come with me?'
'I didn't want to come,' said Ann.
'Why,
then?'
'Something made me.' 'What?'
'I don't know,' said Ann.
'But,' said Tom,
'you are always changing. When we were standing at the well, I knew something
had changed. You were
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different. There was something
new and soft, something about your voice. And I'm in love with you. I'm going
away. I've got a job a hundred miles from here. Will you miss me?' 'Yes,' said
Ann.
'May I kiss you good-bye, then? I
don'tknow what's hap- pening. But never mind. Shall I take you
home now?'
Speaking
I Retell the story as if you were:
•
Cecy;
•
Tom.

2        Say who in the story:
•
wanted to be in love that April night.
•
was in love.
•
was not in love.
Give your reasons and try to prove your point of view beginning
As far as I know... /
The matter is that... / I am sure that... / I suppose that... / I believe
that... /To sum it up, ... / All things considered, ... / As
a result of this... / In addition... / What this means is... / because /
since... / as... / in order to... / Moreover,
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PERCHANCE TO
Something went wrong with the rocket, it
suddenly turned and crashed.
'Your name?' asked hidden voices.
'Sale,' he replied. 'Leonard Sale, a
spaceman!'
'Welcome,' said the voices and disappeared.
Fortunately he was alive.
He had enough oxygen and food for two months! Wonder of wonders! What is more,
the radio worked. He sent a message and some minutes later the answer came:
RESCUE SHIP WILL ARRIVE IN SIX DAYS. HANG ON.
He didn't have
any fear. Just fancy that! Six days would pass quickly. He would eat, he would
read, he would sleep. He lay down, put his arm under his head, and shut his
eyes.
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Insanity came in to take him.
'Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep,' whispered the voices.
He opened his eyes. The voices stopped. He shut his eyes
'Sleep, sleep,
sleep, sleep, sleep,' sang the voices. 'Die, die, die, die, die.'
           He
shook his head and tried to sleep on his back.
'Mine, mine, he's mine; he's mine!' said a high voice.
Strange voices were singing senseless songs. Leonard
Sale was in agony.
A voice said, 'I am Tyne. Proud Tylle, Killer of Men!'
Another spoke, 'I am lorr, Destroyer of
Infidels!'
'Go away!' Leonard Sale could not stand it. 'Leave me
alone, leave me!'
 There was no record of insanity in his
family. No reason for insanity. No danger. Just an ordinary planet. Suddenly he
felt happy because he had a good idea.
'I won't go to sleep', he thought.
'I'm having nightmares, so why sleep?'
Until twelve he would walk around the
planet. He would make notes. Then he would have a lunch, read a book, have a
walk, have dinner and listen to the radio from Earth until ten. Then he felt
sick.
'I'll sit up,' he thought. 'and drink black coffee and play
cards until sunrise. But sometime I'll have to sleep. Can I
stay awake for six nights?'
The answer was no. He was afraid of those voices. He felt
very much like crying. It was a wonderful day but he could feel
death
ahead.
'All right,' he thought, 'if you are
death, come and get me. I want to know what it is.' Death came.
 'I am Tylle!' said a voice.
'I am lorr!' said another one.
'What is this place?' asked Leonard Sale.
 'It used to be a
powerful planet, a place of great battles!' said Tylle.
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'Now dead and silent,' said lorr.
'Until you came,' said Tylle. 'to give us life again.'
'You're
dead,' thought Leonard. 'You're nothing but empty wind. '
'We live and fight through you!' said Tylle.
'So I'm your
battleground,' thought Leonard. 'How long have you waited for me? Millions of
years?'
'Perhaps. '
              'How
did you survive?'
'It used to be a
rich planet. And there lived two strong nations, led by two strong men lorr and
Tylle. A great war lasted for five thousand years and the planet died. But with
the help of science our minds survived. '
'What a nonsense! What is a mind without
a body?' laughed Leonard.
'It is useless,' said
the cruel voice. 'We have been vapours until today. You are here to give us our
needed body.'
Now he understood
everything. He was their world, their battlefield. They were using his thoughts
and his brain! The great battle began. Ten thousand men, ten thousand guns, ten
thousand voices. •In a moment, one army on another, the blood, the sound, the
death!
He jumped on his feet and cried, 'God, God, help me!' At least
he knew his enemies. All the world'S a stage. He was their small stage. And
they were the players.
He wanted to send
a new message but the radio was dead. There was only one thing to do. Make a
plan and follow it in minute detail.
Books, coffee,
walking, more books, more coffee, more walking. On the fourth day his eyes were
so tired he had to wash them often with cold water. He couldn't read, he had
strong headaches. He followed the hand of his watch. One second less
to wait. Two seconds, three seconds, four, five. A whole
minute. Waiting. How tiring it was! Oh, ship, hurry on!
 'Sleep, sleep: sang soft voices.
He fell asleep. But in his deep sleep he managed to fire his gun. The
bullet went across Sale's forehead, awakening him. He
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washed and bandaged the wound he had
given himself. He wished he had killed himself. He watched the sky. Two more
days.
The flame
appeared on the sky. It was so unbelievable that he started to cry.
'A rocket! You,
monsters, I've won! They're coming to rescue me now!'
The rocket landed and two men jumped out of the rocket.

'Leonard Sale?' they called. 'A bit earlier if you-don't mind. We'll spend the
night here, pick you up, and go on.'
'No night here...'
Leonard couldn't talk anymore and fell to the ground.
'Quick!' said a
spaceman. 'Give him some medicine. He needs some sleep.'
A needle touched
Sale's arm and the medicine got into him. 'No medicine, no sleep, please!'
thought Sale, trying to get up.
In a moment
Leonard Sale fell asleep. The two men stood over him and watched. Sale's face
changed violently. 'Eeeeeeeee!' he screamed and then, suddenly, he was dead.
'Shock. Poor guy! Have you ever seen a face like that?'
'Lord, what an expression! What shall we
do? Shall we spend the night here?'
'Yes. It's
good to be out of the ship.'
They drank their
evening coffee. They looked at the lovely sky and beautiful stars.
'What a peaceful night!' they said, lying
down. 'Pleasant dreams!'
Notes
Something went wrong with the rocket —
I-ITO-TO CJIOMWIOCb B pawre
What is more — bonee Toro
Insanity came in
to take him. — be3YMMe BOUIJTO B Hero H OBJ1aaeno WM.
so why sleep? — TaK 3aqeM cnaTb?
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Then he felt sick. — INOTOM ew CTWIO moxo.
He felt very much like crying. — EMY XOTeJIOCb Il-ffaKaTb.
All the world's a stage. — Becb MHP
-— Temp. (UHTaTa H3 IlleKcrmpa, TaK xe KaK M 1--1a3Ba1-åHe paccKa3a — «H BHAeTb CHb1... » —
uwrara H3 MOHOJ10ra rawnera «bb1Tb WIM He 6b1Tb?» OAHOMMëHHOM TpareAHH)
He followed the hand of his watch. — OH CJ1eAW1 3a
CTPWIKOÏ
gacoB.
He wished he had killed himself. — OH
coxanen, wro He y6HJ1 ce6q.
Activities
Reading
1
Circle Tif the
sentence is true. Circle Fif the sentence is false.
1.
Tylle and lorr met Leonard on the planet after the crash.
2.
Leonard turned mad on the planet.
3.
Tylle and lorr wounded Leonard while he  was asleep.
4.
 Leonard killed himself on the planet.
5.
The rescue spacemen died on the planet.
2
Circle the letter of the correct answer.
I. What is true about Leonard Sale?
a)
He was killed by
the medicine that the rescue spacemen gave him.
b)     He
was mad and heard the strange voices.

c)      He
listened to the radio on the planet.
3.
What is not true about Leonard Sale?
a)
Tylle and lorr
won Leonard.
b)     He
was lucky to land on the planet.
c)      He
sent only one message asking for help.

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4.
What is true about Tylle and lorr?
a)      They
were having a battle when Leonard landed on the planet.
b)     They
used to be great rulers of the planet.
c)      They
shot Leonard dead.
5.
What is not true about Tylle and lorr?
a)      They
heard strange voices singing senseless songs.
b)     They
led their nations in a great war that killed their planet.
c)      They
waited for somebody to land on their planet for thousands of years.
6.
What is not true about the planet?
a)      It
used to be a rich planet.
b)     There
used to be no wars on the planet.
c)      It
used to be a great battlefield.
7.
What is true about the two men who came to rescue Leonard?
a)      They
were happy to see Leonard alive.
b)     They
would have a peaceful night on the planet.
c)      They
came to rescue Leonard but it was too late.
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1
In the story you
met some verbs + preposition combinations. Read their Russian equivalents and
find the English combinations in the text.
CMOTPeTb Ha He60, cnymaTb paAH0, BCK0'-1MTb Ha HONI, ynacTb Ha 3eMJHO,
Ha6JIK)AaTb 3a He60M, BblCTpeJIMTb H3 pyxbH, AJIHTbCH rl¶Tb Tblcw-l -neT, XAaTb
KOrO-JIMÕO, CJ1eAHTb 3a CTpeJIK0ñ qacoB, CJIOMaTbC51 B pavveTe,
ryJ1¶Tb no wuaHeTe.
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2
Translate the
following sentences and divide the word combinations into three groups:

English verb +
  preposition =
Russian verb + preposition

English verb + preposition
Russian verb + no preposition

English
  verb + no preposition —
Russian verb + preposition

To talk to smb.
= pa31'0BapHBaTb C
  VseM-JIH60

To explain to smb. = 06bHCH¶Tb
KOMY-JIHÕO

To take a bus — CeCTb Ha aBT06yc

l. That voice belonged to Joe Clarence.
2.
For the first
time Terwilliger looked at his possible employers.
3.
Clarence jumped to his feet.
4.
The film stopped and Clarence pointed at the reptile's mouth.
5.
A metallic voice called to him.
6.
It smelled of steel.
7.
A moment later the car passed one house on one street.
8.
My cousin learnt
to play the piano when she was very young.
9.
He smiled at the boring walls, the old cups, and even at his
wife!
10.
Can you remember when we rode a bike in the early morning, Cora?
Il. Cora looked at her husband coldly.
12.
William climbed
the long cold stairs to the attic.
13.
Are you crazy, spending our money on clothes you can't wear
nowadays?
14.
Leonard couldn't talk anymore and fell to the ground.
15.
The rocket landed
and two men jumped out of the rocket.
16.
He watched the
sky.
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17. A great war lasted for five thousand
  years and the

            his
  meals;

planet died.

• his activities;

18. How long have you waited for me?

• his thoughts and feelings;

19. Then he would have
  a lunch, read a book, have a walk, have dinner and listen to the radio from Earth

 his dreams.

until ten.

Try to express your ideas emotionally with the help of:

20. Something went wrong
  with the rocket.

•      exclamatory sentences: What a
  bad luck! How sleepy I am!

Speaking

 tag
  questions: They will rescue me, won't they?  informal
  expressions: I'll have to sit up right? Any-

1

While talking to someone, we often use exclamatory
  sentences

way, I'll try again. Guess what— I'll play
  cards all

to express different emotions. Read
  some of them and match with the phrases from the story. You and your friends
  can have different ideas! Try to prove your point of view.

night long. Well, I can't wait any more.

Wonder
of wonders!He would eat, he would read, he would sleep.
Just
fancy that!Poor guy! Have you ever seen a face like that?
What a
nonsense!He had enough oxygen and food for two months!
How tinng it was!A whole minute. Waiting.
Lord, what an expression!
What is a mind without a body?
2          Retell the story as if you were:
•
Leonard Sale;
 • lorr.
      Writing
Write a page from Leonard's diary. He made notes after the
crash every day and all of them were alike. Don't forget to mention his
routines:
•
the time he woke up and went to sleep;
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accept [ak'sept] 11PHHHMaTb

blade
  of grass [bleld DV gra:s]

admire [ad              BOCXM-

TpaBHHKa

LuaTbCH

blood [blAd] KPOBb

advice [ad 'vars] COBeT

bloodthirsty KPO-

amazing [a' memo] YlHBHTeJ1b-

BOXaaHb1M  bloom [blu:m] UBeCTH

anger ['ænga] rl--reB

blossom  LIBeTOK

animated film ænrmeltld film]

(Ha òepeee), UBeCTH (O òe-

 MYJ1bT(þW1bM

peet,gx)

animation [ , æm' melfn] aHHMa-

boring ['bo:r1T)] CKYMHb1Vf

IIHH, MYJ1bTWIJIHKaUHfl

bottle ['bDtl] 6yrb1JIKa

armour ['a:ma] aocnexu

bottom ['bDtaml HH3, OCHO-

attic ætlk] qepaaK

 BaHHe

audience [' o:drans] 3PMRJIH

brain [brem] M03r

awful                 yxacHb1ii
bandage ['bænd1d3]
  nepeBH-

breath [bree] AblxaHHe breathing ['bri:ð11J]
  AblXaHHe bucket ['bAk1t] Benpo

bullet ['bU11t]

3aTb, HUIOXMTb r10BH3KY
  battle ['bætl] 6HTBa, cpaxe-

c

Hue

cage [kerd3] KneTKa

AHTJ10-pyccKHü CJIOBaPb

6HTBb1

carriage ['kær1d3] BaroH no-

beast [bi:st] 3Bepb, HYAOBHLUe

e3Aa

beauty ['bju:tl] KpacoTKa

castle ['ka:sl] 3010K

bee [bi:] nqeJ1a

ceiling ['si:111J] IIOTOJIOK

belong [bl' Ion] TIPHHawuexaTb

cemetery
  sematrr] V.J1aA6wu_1e

below [bl'lav] BHH3Y

cheek [tJi:k] LUeKa

berry ['berr] qrožla

clear [klla] flCHb1ü, HMCTb1M

beyond [bl'jond] BHe, cBepx

closet ['klozrt] gynaH

birth [b3:9] poxneHMe

correct
  [ka'rekt] npaBHJ1bHb1ñ

battkg•ou1NI ['bætlgraund] noue carpet
['ka:prt] KOBeP
cover ['knva] 110KPb1BaTb crash [kræJ] 110TepneTb
aBapmo creature ['kri:tfa] cyuecTB0, c03AaHHe cricket ['krlklt] cBepqoK crime
[krarm] npecTyrmeHMe
death
[de9] CMepTb desert [' dezat] nycTb1Hfl desire  xenal--lwe desperate
['desp(a)rat] 0THa-
destroy [dl'str311 pa3pymaTb,
YHHHTOXaTb disappear [ , drsa'plê] wcqe3aTb
[dlS ' gnst10] OTBPaTH-
TenbHb1V1 dreadful  yxaCHb1ñ drop [drop] KarlJ1fl
dust [dASt] rlb1J1b
employer [1m ' plma] pa60Toaa-
TeJ1b empty ['   nycT0ÿÍ enormous [1' no:mas]
orpoM-
examine [lg'zæmm] M3yqaTb,
HCCJ1eaoBaTb explain [1k' splem] express [1k'
spres] BblPaXaTb expression [1k'spreJn] BblpaXeHMe
fail [fed] npourpb1BaTb familiar
[fa'mlllô] 3HaKOMb1M faraway [.fa:ra'wel] omaaJ1eH-

fear
[fia] crpax feed (fed, fed) [fi:d] (fed]) KOPMMTb flakes [flelk] xJ10r1bH name
[flerm] n.naMH flash [flæJ] BCr1b1XHBaTb now
[flau] Teqb (o peKax) fog [fog] TYMaH  follow ['fDlau] CJ1eAOBaTb footfall
['futfo:l] nocTYflb forehead ['forld] J106 fortunately K cqaCTM0
frame [frerm] Kanp freeze (froze, frozen) [fri:z] ([fravz],
['frauzn]) 3aMep3aTb, 3aMopŒKHBaTb•, 3aMMpaTb frighten ['fraitn] rryraTb
frost [frost] MOP03 frown [fraun] XMYPHTbCH fur [fm] Mex
gasp
[ga:sp] B3AOX YAHBJ1eHHB genius ['d3i:mas] reHHM gentle ['d3entI] giant
['  BeJIHKaH gigantic [d3a1' gæntlk] ruraHTCKwiá, orPOMHb1M

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give smb away [giv '"mbadl a' wel]
BblnaBaTb give up [gw AP] CAaBaTbCH glance [gla:ns] B3rJIHHYTb glory ['glom]
cnaBa gorgeous ['go:d3as] BeJIMKO-

ner1Hb1M graveyard grervja:dl KT1a,u6H-
Ille
guess [ges] noraAb1BaTbc51 guilt [gilt] BHHa
guilty [ ' glltl] BHHOBHb1ìÍ
hardly ['ha:dll] eaBa headache
['hederk] rOJIOBHafl 6011b heart [ha:t] cepaue heat [hi:t] xapa heavy ['hevl] TSIXeJ1b1ñ
highway ['halwer] LLIOCCe hill [hll] XOJIM horrible ['horabl] YXaCHb1Vf huge
[hju:d3] OrPOMHb1ñ hurt (hurt, hurt) [h3.•t] ( IIPHMHHATb 60J1b
1
imagination
[1,mæd31'ne1fn] B006paxeHne imagine [I'mæd31n] B006pa-
XaTb immortalize [I'mo:talarz] YBeKOBetMTb
03HaK0M1-rreAbHa¶
incredible lin ' kredabll HeBepo-
independence [ , Indl' pend(a)ns] He3aBHCHMOCTb insect
['msekt] HaceKOMoe inside [ , In ' sard] BHyrpw invent [m 'vent] H306PeTaTb
invisible [m 'vuzabl] HeBHAHMb1ü

jerky ['d33:k1]
OTPb1BHCTb1ìÍ, nepramunücfl
kid [kid] pe6eH0K knight [nalt]
Pbluapb knock [nok] cwqaTb knowledge n011d3] 31--ral--lue
ladder
['læda] neCTHMUa laugh [la:fl CMeHTbC¶ laughter ['la:fta] CMex
law-breaker Hapy-
ILIwreJ1b
3aKOHa lawyer ['Io:ja] K)pucT lie (lay, lain) [1m] ([ler], [lern])
neXaTb
lift [lift] nom-IHMaTb light (lit, lit) [lalt] ([llt])
3axuraTb lighthouse ['lalthaus] Maqvv lizard ['lizad] muepwua
en lish.ru
lock 110k] 3aKPb1BaTb, 3a11H-
paTb
lonely ['launll] OAHHOKMÜ
make of [merk DV] AYMaTb (o) make-up ['merknp]
KOCMeTHKa message ['mesid3] 110CJ1aHHe mighty ['malti] MoryuecTBeH-
miraculous [ml' rækjulas]
gynecHblü, CBePXbeCTeCTBeHHb1ü mirror ['mrra] 3epKaJ10 miss [rms]
CKYHaTb misty rmstl] TYMaHHb1iÍ mystery ['rmstarl] 3araAKa,
TaìiHa
needle ['ni:dl] urna nightmare
['naltmea] KOUIMaP noble ['naubl] 6J1arop0AHb1ìi
nursery ae•rcKafl (KOMHam)
o oxygen KHCJIO-
POA
pale [perl] 6neAHb1ii pass [pa:s]
11POXOAHTb MHMO
pause Ipo:z] nay3a•, OCTaHOBHTbCH
peacock ['pi:kDk] naBJIHH pedestrian [pa' destruan] neurexoa perfume  ayxM, 3anax pick [Plk] C06HPaTb (groAb1) piece
[pi:s] KYCOHeK point [point] YKa3b1B-aTb poison ['porzn] HA poisonous ['
porznas] HAOBHTb1Ü predict [prl' dlkt] npencKa3b1mTb prehistoric Å0McTopnqecKHü       promise [' proms] 06eu.1aTb
pterodactyl [ , terau'dæktll] mepOnaKTW1b       purely [' pjvall] HCKJ110qwreJ1bHO,
COBepmeHH0 purpose ['pŒpas] UeJ1b
quarrel ccopHTbcq quiz [kWIZ] TeJ1eurpa,
TeneBHKTOPHHa

104                                                                                105

rainbow
rembav] paayra raise [relZ] 110AHHMaTb reach [ri:tJ] 1106HPaTbCfl realize
rralau] OC03HaBaTb reason ['ri:zn] rrpHHHHa recogüze ['rekagnau] Y3HoaTb
record reko:d] 3anucb, ynoMMHa1--me replace [rl'plels] 3aMeH¶Tb rescue
['reskju:] cnacaTb reshape [,ri:' JelP] H3MeHHTb
river-bed rwabed] pycno peKH roar [ro:]
peB rock [rok] KaMeHb rubber ['rAba] pe3HHa
rush [rAJ] 6pocHTbcq rustle ['rnsl] mopox
s
scent
[sent] 3anax scientist yqeHb1Ü scream [skri:m] KPHK, KPMqaTb
selfish selflJ] 3rOHCTMHHb1ii set foot [set fvt] rlPHXOAHTb, cwnaTb
shadow [' Jædau] TeHb shake (shook, shaken) head [Jelk hed]
([Jvk],
OTPnnaTeJ1bHO
110KaqaÎb roJlOBOiÍ shame [Jelm] CTHA, n030p sheep [Ji:p]
OBUa, OBUb1 shore [To:] 6eper Mopq shy [Jai] 3aCTeHHHBb1iâ silent ['sarlant]
THXHiÍ, MOJIgaJIMBb1M silk [Silk] U_IWIK simply srmpll] npocT0 slip
[slip] rlOCVvaJ1b3b1BaTbCH soap [soup] Mb1JIO
031--1aK0MwreAbHa¶ soft [soft] MqrKHÏf solemn ['solam] TOPXeCTBeH-
soul [savl] nyma space [spelS] KOCMOC spoil [spoil]
wcnopTMTb stage [sterd3] cueHa stairs [stea] necTHHua star [Sta:] CHMMaTbCH
B (þHJ1bMe start [sta:tl B3AporHYTb step [step] waraTb straw [stro:]
COJIOMa stream [stri:ml 110TOK stripe [straiP] nonoca sunrise ['smrmz] BOCXOA
survive [sa'vaw] BblXWTb sweep (swept, swept) [swi:p] (swept])
r10AMeTaTb sword [so:d] Meq
tag [tæg] wrpaTb B
caJ10HKM tear [tra] cJ1e3a teaspoonful ['ti:spu:n] qaìÍHafl
.noyxa qero-JIM60 thought [90:t] Mb1CJ1b thunder ['thnda] rpoM tight [tart]
n.nOTHb1M tiny [' talm] Kp011RHHb1iá title ['taltl]
Ha3BaHue, THTP tomb [tu:m] MOrma, Ha4rpo6ne touch [tAtJ] KaCaTbCH,
A0Tpa1'HBaTbCS1
touching ['tAtJ11)] TporaTeJ1b-
tower ['tava] 6aUIHH travel
trævl] nyremecTB0BaTb treatment ['tri:tmant] neqeHHe tremble trembl]
apoxaTb tribute ['tribju:t] nar--[b try one's best [tral wtxnz best]
CaenaTb BCe B03MOXHOe
ugly Aglil ypoa.JIMBb1ií unbelievable [ , Anbl' li:vabl]
HeBePOflTHb1M unfair [,nn 'fea] HecnpaBeAJIH-
vacation [va 'kelJn] KaHMKYJ1b1 vapour ['verpa] nap
veldt [velt] CK'aq caBaHHa victim ['vuktlm] xepTBa
violent *ecTOKMñ voice [VOIS] rmoc
w
warmth [wo:m9] Tenno well [wel] KOJIOaeU wheel [wi:l] KOJIeCO; KPYTHTb whisper ['wispa]
mer10T, LllenTaTb whistle ['WISI] CBHCT, CBHCTeTb wilderness ['waddanas] MeCTHOCTb witch [Witf] BeabMa wonder
['wnnda] gyno wooden ['wudn] AepeB¶HHb1ìi
wound [wu:nd] paHa, paHHTb wrinkle ['rrokl] MOPLUHHKa, cvu1aAKa

106
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11PeAHCJ10BHe
Ray Bradbury ..
Tyrannosaurus Rex. ...
Activities
The Pedestrian .
Notes ..... ..
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The Dragon .... .
Notes ....... Activities .
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The Fog Horn
Notes........
The Veldt.
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The April Witch.
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Perchance
to Dream                                                                    93
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          Activities ..                                                                          .97
AHE10-pyccKHìi CJIOBaPb .. 102

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alt: They had never see knights before

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