Pages 1-15
1. Answer the questions in English.
a) What do many parents think about their children? (p. 1)
b) What do schoolteachers think about the pupils? (p. 1-3)
c) What do Mr and Mrs Wormwood think about their daughter Matilda? (p. 4)
d) What kind of a child was Matilda? (p.4)
e) How old was Matilda when her speech was perfect? (p.5)
f)
How did Matilda learn to read? (p.5)
g) Why didn’t Matilda’s father buy books? (p. 6)
h) Where did Matilda read books? (p. 6)
i)
How did Matilda like the children’s books that she read? (p.7)
j)
What was the first grown-up book that Matilda read? (p.9)
k) At what time did the library close? (p. 10)
l)
Where did Matilda read after she started to borrow books? (p.15)
m) Where did the books take her? (p.15)
2. Translate into Finnish
a) brilliance (p.1)
b) a basin (p.1)
c) proud parents (p.2)
d) a grasshopper (p.2)
e) a grub (p.3)
f)
a chrysalis (p.3)
g) a scab (p.4)
h) half-witted parents (p.4)
i)
wrapped up in their own lives (p.4)
j)
the achievements of this child (p.12)
k) libraries allow you to borrow books (p.13)