with vowel sounds illustrating different types of syllables and place them in right
columns.
IV. Try your hand at teaching.
(Look up the words and phrases you may need to do the task in "Classroom
English", Sections IV, VIII.)
A. Preparation. a) Pick out from the text and from the introduction to it words with the letter
с in them. Divide a sheet of paper into ten columns with the following letters at the top of each
column: 1) с+е, 2) c + i, 3) c + a, 4) c + o, 5) c+u, 6) c+a consonant, 7) с in the ending -ic, 8) c + h
= [t f], 9) c+h= [k], 10) c+k=[k].
Classify the words under each heading.
b) Make up your own list of words to illustrate the same rules.
B. Work in Class. a) Show the table with 10 columns to your fellow-students and explain
how с should be pronounced in each case.
b) Dictate the words from your list to the students and ask one of them to spell them on the
blackboard. Correct the mistakes.
V. Answer the questions:
1. What were the symptoms of the boy's illness? 2. Why did it seem to the father that the
doctor knew all about influenza? 3. What worried the boy? Since when? 4. Why did the boy prefer to
stay awake? 5. What were the symptoms of the boy's nervous strain that the father took for the
symptoms of his illness? 6. Wouldn't it have been more natural if the boy had told his father about
his fears? Why? 7. Do you like the boy's behaviour? How does it characterize him? 8. How would
you explain the contrasts in the boy's behaviour on the first and the second day of his illness? 9. Why
did the author introduce the description of the father's walk? 10. Do you find the situation described
in the story true to life? (Give your reasons.) 11. Do you think you would have behaved in the same
way in the boy's place? 12. What do you consider to be the point of the story?
Begin when possible your answers with:
I believe; I think; I'd like to say; In my view; As I see it; I don't think it would...; This is my
way of looking at it.
VI. Study Vocabulary Notes and a) write derivatives or compounds of:
refuse, prescribe, pain, ache, condition, bare, like.
b) Give the opposite of:
to read aloud, in good condition, at the foot of the bed (mountain, page), the girl had shoes
on, the seat is occupied, the trees are covered with leaves, to be asleep.
c) Give English equivalents of these words and use them in sentences of your
own:
голый (2 words), дрожать (2 words), отказаться (2 words).
VII. Fill in
a) ache, hurt, pain, painful:
— What... you?
— I can't say I feel any sharp ... in some definite place, I just... all over.