CHAPTER 5
The Summer Holidays
1. Checking Comprehension
1. What happened to Grandmama with only three weeks of summer left?
2. Why did the doctor say Grandmama couldn’t go to Norway?
3. Where did they end up going on vacation?
4. What gift did Grandmama give her grandson? What did he plan to do with them?
5. What did the narrator want to train the mice to do?
6. Where did Luke go to work with his pets? Why did he choose this location?
7. What tricks did he teach to his pets? How?
8. What was the RSPCC Meeting and who attended it?
2. Vocabulary
2.1 Fill in the prepositions and translate phrasal verbs
1. She had booked a cabin _____ each of us ____ the boat ____ Newcastle _____
Oslo _____ the earliest possible moment after my school broke _____
2. The whole coast is dotted ____ tiny islands and there's nobody ____ them.
3. The doctor explained _____ me that pneumonia is not normally a dangerous illness
nowadays because _____ penicillin.
4. He said he didn't even dare to move her ____ hospital _____ her condition, so she
stayed _____ her bedroom and I hung _______ outside the door
5. I flew _____ the stairs and burst _____ my grandmother's room and threw myself
_____ her arms.
6. Then don't let her go _____ a long journey this summer.
7. ______ the end, the doctor had his way _____ the holiday
8. She had a key _____ my door and she kept bursting _____ at all hours, trying to
catch me _____ the mice _____ ____ the cage
9. Even if they hadn't, even if they did suddenly come pouring ____, they would be
wonderful kind people who would look _____ favour ______ a young mouse-trainer
going ______ his business.
10. Then I started going _____ the same routine all ______ again _____ Mary.
2.2 Worformation
1. It's ____________( MARVEL)
2. There followed an _______scene in the Manager's office with the Manager
(PLEASE)
3. No wonder my breakfast toast was all nibbled round the edges this morning," my
grandmother went on _______.(RELENT)
4. _________ private (STRICT) / this room is ________ (RESERVE) / for the annual
meeting of the royal society / for the _______ (PREVENT) of _______ (CRUEL) to
_______ (CHILD)
5. His whiskers twitch with ________ (EXCITE).
6. This time I ________ the string (LONG)
7. I could see the entire ______ and _______ of the Ballroom without
anyone _____ me (LONG) (WIDE) (SEE)
2.3. Translate from Russian into English
1
делать по-своему
2
бросить якорь
3
полный вздор
4
Бодрящий (живительный) и здоровый
5
осмеливаться
6
поспешно бежать, удирать
7
заниматься своими делами
8
благосклонно относиться к
9
канатоходец
10
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2.
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10.
сопровождать
2.4 Translate from English into Russian
What did you use for bait, Grandmamma, when you went fishing?
The shrimps were still warm from having been just cooked, and we would sit in the
rowing-boat peeling them and gobbling them up.
I liked her very much, but she wasn't a patch on my grandmother for telling
stories
"We'll have her up in another week."
He dropped a bombshell on my grandmother and me by telling us that on no
account were we to risk the journey to Norway this summer.
On the very first morning after our arrival, the chambermaid was making my bed
when one of my mice poked its head out from under the sheets.
"That will suit us very well," my grandmother said, and she stood up and marched
out of the room with me behind her.
But there was not a soul in sight
I tiptoed to the back of the room and settled myself on the thick green carpet
behind the big screen.
I let him have a quick nibble of the cake just to whet his appetite.
2.5. Match the word and de nition
1
gobble
A
comfort
2
consolation
B
a swing used by circus acrobats
3
scuttle
C to eat in small bites
4
nibble
D unpleasant, unacceptable
5
trapeze
E
eat very quickly
6
somersault
F
a man’s black coat (swallow-tailed coat)
7
vile
J
to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to
escape
8
to hesitate
H as a precaution
9
a tail coat
I
10 on the safe side
to run or jump, turning the heels over the head
G to pause before doing something, because you are nervous
3. Grammar
3.1. Used to
Подчеркните в тексте предложения с конструкцией use to. Вспомните правило.
Преобразуйте в вопросительное и отрицательное предложения.
3.2. Nor can I
Подчеркните в тексте предложения с использованием конструкции “Nor can I”.
Вспомните правило. Приведите свои примеры.
*3.3. Reported Speech
Подчеркните в тексте предложения с использованием косвенной речи.
* 3.4. Inversion
Подчеркните в тексте предложения с инверсией.
3.5. What (a) ….!
Подчеркните в тексте восклицательное предложения с использованием подобной
конструкции.
fi
my school broke up
Holidays came and went
The whole coast
A handful of
Move into the house
Within a week
On no account
In the end
Bracing and healthy
Looked to me like a pretty boring place
As consolidation
Do tricks
Make bed
The entire hotel/ length and width vs whole
There is no way you can …
Break the rules
Carry on with …
In search of
A maze of public rooms
None of them was empty
Cushions
In sight
Just to be on the safe side
Do my training
Well-behaved
Be dotty about
Lean forward
A good sense of
Without a moment’s hesitation
Enjoy himself tremendously
A great flock of
A vast herd of