3. Give a summary of Text One.
4. Make up and act out a dialogue between George and Harris cooking the stew.
VOCABULARY EXERCISES
1. Study the Vocabulary Notes and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the words and word combinations in bold type:
A. 1. Of an evening Barbara would have a good gossip with the neighbour over the garden fence. 2. Gossiping and lying go hand
in hand. ( proverb) 3. "I decided to have her up here, for a time at least, and let the gossips do their worst," said Beatrice. 4.
"Who's talking gossip now?" said cousin Rachel. 5. While playing under her mother's eye, she felt a wind-up toy. 6. It was
becoming stuffy in the compartment of the train. I wound the window down and got my pipe out. 7.1 braided her hair and wound it
round her head. 8. If one only could peel her, as one peels an onion, of pretence and insincerity. 9. I saw him with great clarity,
from the pleased smile to the peel of sunburn on the top of his bald head. 10. Carefully she broke all the twigs from the branch, so
that it became an almost straight stick, and as she walked, she peeled the bark from the wood until it was stripped clean. 1 1 .
Scrape your muddy shoes with this old knife. 12. "Hi!" cried Nick, scraping some snow from the sledge and flinging a snowball
which hit George full in the ear. 13. All the trivial sounds of the room re-echoed maddeningly about him— the scraping of chairs,
the coughing. 14. You've got to scrape up some courage, some daring. 15. The lane was so narrow that a donkey with panniers
could hardly have scrapped its way through. 16. It was so slippery that if he had not steadied me, I should have fallen. 17. The
fog came steadily over us in waves and it was extremely difficult to see where one was on the road. 18. She looked at me again
with that peculiar steady gaze. 19. She heard the steady beat of her heart: "Get up! Go out! Do something!" 20. These eyes, when
he raised them, were extraordinarily steady and inquiring. 21. Tom was charming and unscrupulous. He made a steady income
from his friends and he made friends easily.
B. 1. He felt that he was beginning to clear up the mess into which his life had fallen. 2. I've never seen so much mess and
disorder anywhere. 3. It's true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess. 4. "I saw my father
today. I hoped he'd give me a last chance and haul me out of the mess for the time being," said Ben. 5. The driver