Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.

1. a tiny imaginary being in human form, depicted as clever, mischievous, and possessing magical powers.	a mple
2. to dislike intensely.	to sacrifice
3. to ask for urgently.	f airy
4.a friendly informal manner.	to detest
5. to make you look attractive.	to call in
6. enough or more than enough.	to demand
7. a holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.	to suit smb
8. money, property, etc. that you you receive from smb when they die.	f amiliarity
9. having agreed to marry smb.	h oneymoon
10. to telephone a place.	i nheritance
11. to forfeit (one thing) for another thing considered to be of greater value.	to be engaged

Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.

a) There was ………….. time to get to the airport.

b) She spent all her ……. In a year.

c) They ……………. to be married.

d) We went to Venice for our ……………

e) She addressed me with an easy …………. that made me feel at home.

f)  He …………… to speak to the manager.

g) Blue ….. you. You should wear it more often.

h) She promised to ………… the other day but seemed to forget about it.

i) They …… each other on sight.

j) …………… are often represented as small people with wings.

k) She ………….. everything for the children.

 

Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.

Это была основная причина; шляпная мастерская; что-нибудь горячее, острое и сытное; наверняка ее возраста; глупый, действующий на нервы разговор; шевеля губами; эскалатор; она чуть не расплакалась; отговорка была шита белыми нитками; рыжие волосы; им было трудно угодить; замшевые перчатки; вот это настоящая жизнь; обыденные вопросы; полусонная.

Put in the missing prepositions.

a) The car was parked in the small weedy lot next … the hotel.

b) She looked … … the window; there was nobody … the street.

c) The veranda was equipped … heavy wooden rain doors that were kept close … night.

d) Try … clothing and shoes to make sure they fit.

e) The desk was covered … papers.

Find in the story the sentences with the words or expressions given below, translate them into Russian and ask your fellow students to translate them back into English.

A hard day’s work; a cheap paper-covered edition; jeweller’s shop; it was really criminal to…; to try on; well dressed; in despair; they had been charmed; did not pay the slightest attention; shake hands with…; she dreamed.

8. Pick out from the story the words and expressions denoting:

a) pieces of clothes and shoe-wear;

b) meals and drinks;

c) fabric.

Expand on the following.

a) Rosabel was hungry that day.

b) The city looked mysterious at night.

c) Rosabel lived in a rather cheap flat.

d) There was something indecent about the young man’ behavior.

e) ‘Suppose they (Rosabel and a girl with beautiful hair) changed places.’

f) ‘So she slept and dreamed.’

g) ‘That was life, thought Rosabel.’

Comment on the following words of the author.

a) ‘ And because her heritage was that tragic optimism, which is all too often the only inheritance of youth… she smiled, with a little nervous tremor round her mouth.’

b) ‘Yes, it was a voluptuous night…But she became very tired.’

‘Oh, the haven of those arms, and she was very tired.’

‘She was very tired after the journey and went upstairs to bed… quite early…’ Will her tiredness ever cease?

Respond to the statements.

a) ‘Chance is the one thing you can’t buy.... You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.’

Robert Doisneau (b. 1912), French photographer.

b) ‘Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.’

John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic.

c) ‘Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.’

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–45), U.S. poet, critic, short-story writer.