IX. a) Fill in prepositions where necessary:
Can you remember your first day... school? It was probably rather confusing. I am sure you
ran ... your mother thinking she was deserting you. When the child goes ... school... his first day, he
has to watch ... his mother leaving. The teacher must convince him that... the end ... the day his
mother and his home will still be there. It is difficult to make the newcomer join ... a game or a walk.
A new life, completely different ... what he is used ... begins.
The mothers are as upset as their children. They hang...... their eyes fixed ... their children
and dislike leaving them ... their fate.
The best way to deal... the situation is to get the child used ... the idea... school, to help him ...
every way. Much depends ... the parents. ... the beginning ... the term the mother should take her
child to see the teacher and to look ... the school. The first day should be something to look......and
not to be feared.
b) Retell what you've read.
c) What measures would you suggest to settle the newcomers?
X. Study Vocabulary Notes, translate the illustrative sentences into Russian
and write your own sentences with the new words and phrases.
XI. Use stare or gaze instead of look where possible:
1. It's impolite to look at people like that. 2. A big crowd stood on the pavement looking at a
broken car. 3. No wonder people stand looking at this picture for hours: it's beautiful. 4. The little
boys stood looking at each other ready to start a fight. 5. Look at her: again she is looking out of the
window with that strange expression of hers. 6. When I looked at her eyes I guessed that she had
cried. 7. The Greek myth runs that Narcissus looked at his own reflection in the water until he fell in
love with it. 8. He stood looking around as if he tried to impress on his memory everything he saw.
XII. Fill in
a) look or seem:
1. The weather ... quite warm though it's only 5°C above zero. 2. The children ... tired but
they... greatly pleased with the trip, don't they? 3. The host and the hostess ... a bit oldfashioned, but
they ... to be hospitable and friendly. 4. She ... to be very light-minded, but she only. . it, in fact she is
a very serious and hard-working student. 5. My brother says that people usually ... what they are and
I believe that people are very often quite different from what they... to be.
b) another or different.
1. The teacher tried to explain the rule in a ... way and I understood it at once. 2. The
schoolboy returned the book he had read and asked for... book, but of a... kind, he said, as he wanted