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И. Б. ВАСИЛЬЕВА, И. А. КИТЕНКО, Д. В. МЕНЯЙЛО
Пособие на английском языке
для студентов педагогических институтов
ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО „ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЕ"
Ленинградское отделение
Ленинград 1970

В настоящем пособии помещены карикатуры, которые
сопровождаются разнообразными упражнениями,
направленными на развитие разговорных навыков. Материал,
представленный в пособии, охватывает темы, рекомендованные
программой, поэтому сборник может быть использован по
усмотрению преподавателя на любом уроке Для оживления
занятий.
Как карикатуры, так и разработки к ним высмеивают не
только черты, характерные для капиталистического мира, но
и некоторые отрицательные явления, встречающиеся в нашей
действительности.
Сюжет картинок, их конкретные ситуации придают
лексико-грамматическим упражнениям пособия отчетливую
коммуникативную направленность и приближают беседу
к условиям естественного речевого общения.
Разработки связаны между собой только тематически и
могут быть использованы выборочно, так же как и входящие
в них упражнения, в зависимости от степени их трудности и
уровня знаний учащихся.
Помимо тренировочных упражнений, построенных
полностью на материале картинок, в пособии есть отрывки из
произведений английских и американских авторов, шутки и
анекдоты, тематически увязанные с картинками и
закрепляющие и обогащающие словарь по данной теме.
Для удобства пользования в конце пособия имеется
указатель наиболее существенных речевых образцов. К
некоторым упражнениям (они помечены звездочкой) дается ключ
(см. стр. 133).

At Home
Family Life Scenes
Suggested Vocabulary
to resign oneself to one's
fate
lawn
lawn-mower
to cut (to mow) grass
to take fancy to smth.
bar
barman
electric plug
to plug out the telly
to recline
to watch television (the TV)
to quarrel
to gesticulate
to fold one's arms
to give in
couple
decisive
to undertake an action
I. Answer the following questions:
1) Who is reclining comfortably in the
armchair? (/)
2) Whom can you see in the background?
3) Does time hang heavy on the hands of one of
the characters? Who is it?
4) What is the husband doing?
5) Is the man enjoying only one thing at the
moment?
6) What is he smoking?
7) Is the wife still in the background? Where is
she now? B)
8) Has she joined her husband in watching the
telly?
9) Do the wife's gesture and the husband's pose
suggest a very friendly talk? B) What do they
signify?
10) Do you think that the conversation is
becoming more heated? What makes you think so?
A-3)
11) Is the talk still one-sided as it was before?
Why do you think so? A—3)
12) Who is gesticulating now? What do you think
the wife means by folding her arms — giving in or
just the contrary? C)

13) The couple seems to have passed from words to actions. What was
the decisive action undertaken by one of the sides? And by whom? D)
14) The husband seems to have humbly resigned himself to his fate,
doesn't he? Is he leaving the battlefield with his head up and talking back
to his wife as if he had won the day? E)
15) What is the man doing? Where is the scene laid now? F)
16) Did it take the man very long to mow the grass on the lawn?
17) Has he thought of any plan to see to the end the show that took
his fancy? G)
18) Where is the man now? Is there any TV (set) in the bar?
19) Has the man ordered himself anything?
20) What is the barman doing?
21) The husband is less comfortable here than he was at home, isn't
he?
22) Where does his wife think him to be?
II. Compose sentences prompted by the pictures and use no (any) longer. Use the
following words and word combinations: to be in the background; to gesticulate; to hold
the pipe in the mouth; to be silent; to watch television (the telly); to sit in the
armchair; to be inside; to cut (to mow) grass; to be switched on.
Pattern
He is no longer ill. He is not ill any longer.
III. Put the same questions on every picture and answer them using the suggested
vocabulary (page 3). Begin your answers with: as far as I can see; in my opinion; as
for; as a matter of fact; in fact; if my eyes don't fail me.
1) What is he (she) doing?
2) What has (she) done?
3) What will he (she) do?
4) What is he (she) going to do?
IV. Read the following dialogue. Retell it in indirect speech using the words given
after the dialogue.
wife: Oh, Max, I am quite off my feet and you sitting comfortably in your
armchair and watching that damned telly!
husband: And what do you expect me to do?
W.: What to do? The house is going to rack and ruin and you ask me such
silly questions!
H.: Well, well, don't exaggerate! What's amiss?
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W.: The grass on the lawn is about a man's height and the door in the
pantry won't shut again.
H.: But I mended it only last week! What are you doing with it? Banging
it all day long?
W.: You think I have nothing more to do than to go to the pantry and
back. I have quite a lot of really important things on my hands.
H.: Pray tell me, what are they?
W.: Do you want to say I have nothing at all to do about the house? Or
do you mean that I am good-for-nothing? And I dead-beat after the
day's drudgery and trying to make both ends meet!
H.: You know perfectly well I didn't mean that.
W.: Do pick your words with care. I regret to say that you want
manners.
H.: There again you begin lecturing me on manners. How many times did
I tell myself to keep my mouth shut. Nothing like silence. It has two
advantages: it gives no ground for quarrel at the moment and cannot
be quoted against you afterwards.
W.: I was only trying to drive home my point that it is shameless of you
to idle your time away when there are so many things to be done about
the house.
H.: Well, what's eating you? Have you got out of bed on the wrong side?
Can't a man have a moment's rest after a busy day?
W.: You may turn a deaf ear to me, but you know that I am right. And
it's no use looking daggers at me. You very well know that I'm right.
H.: Oh, what has come over you? When I courted you I thought you the
most sweet-natured girl I ever met.
W.: Don't start being rude again! You married with your eyes open so
you have no ground to grumble now.
H.: Great Scott! There are three occasions when a fellow can't make head
or tail of a woman: that's first, last and all the time!
W.: It's for me to complain. If I were to begin my life anew, I wouldn't
have you if you were worth your weight in gold. There you are!
To complain (of); to talk back; to grow indignant, nervous, irritated; to
reproach (smb. with smth.); to grumble; to nag (at).
V. The day after the "conflict" the husband complained of his ill luck to a friend
of his. Make pairs of the husband's utterances and those of his friend's.
HUSBAND: HIS FRIEND:
1) At first she spoke in her vel- 1) You don't say so!
vety manner, which always
suggests claws.
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HUSBAND:
HIS FRIEND:
2) Soon she began nagging at 2)
me. No wonder it put my back
up. 3)
3) And she had the nerve to say
it right in my face, and that
with the contemptuous up-and-
down looks of hers. 4)
4) She even went to the length of
promising to plug the telly out
but I had heard the same
threat so often that its effect 5)
was gone.
5) She found she might as well
have talked to the winds, so
she passed from words to ac- 6)
tions. 7)
6) Oh, you don't know my better
half. She actually drove me 8)
out-of-doors.
7) And that at the very moment
when the plot was about to
thicken!
8) So you see it was no use
arguing with her — she had her
way all the same.
VI. Compose another possible dialogue between the characters in the pictures.
VII. Compose sentences based on the pictures. Use the following expressions: to sit
idle; to talk back; to waste time scandalously; to order somebody about; to boss
somebody.
Pattern
Don't look at me that way. I don't like it. —
I won't have you look at me that way.
VIII. Listen to the following jokes and discuss them.
— My husband and I never quarrel. When he sees I'm right, he always
gives in.
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Yes, that's what's so
maddening about them.
And mine is always doing the
same — beneath their
differences women are so much
alike.
Well, you must see the bright
side of everything. But for your
wife you wouldn't have had a
whiff of fresh air.
I am feeling for you, old man.
You are not the only one to be
under the wife's thumb. Let it
be a consolation to you.
Yes, women are like that.
I wouldn't like to have been in
your shoes.
Well, my own experience also
tells me: never set your will
against that of your wife;
feminine will opposed to
masculine is always sure to carry the
day.

— What about when he's right?
— But he never is.
— Is your wife outspoken? l
— Not by anyone I know.
— Old Goodman hasn't spoken a hasty word to his wife during their
married life.
— How lovely!
— Yes; he stutters.
— Do you know why we call our language the mother tongue?
— Because Father never gets a chance to use it.
— Is your wife fond of listening in?
— Not half so much as she is of speaking out.
professor of political economy: Who's the Speaker of the House?
STUDENT: Mother.
boy: Do you know, Dad, my Sunday school teacher says that in some
parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her.
dad: Why single out Africa?
— I say, Pa, what is an empty title?
— An empty title, my son, is your mother's way of referring to me as the
head of the house when there are visitors present.
she: I remember the time when you were just crazy to marry me.
he: So do I, but I didn't realize it at the time.
bill: My wife doesn't understand me; does yours?
jim: I don't think so; I've never heard her mention your name.
VERY CAREFUL
"I'm always very careful," said Mrs. Robinson, "to send the children
out of the house before I have a quarrel with my husband."
"Bless the little dears," said Mrs. Jones, "they look so healthy,
spending so much time in the open air."
1 Отвечающий принимает прилагательное outspoken (искренний) за Past Participle
от шутливо образованного глагола to outspeak „переговорить" (т. е. говорить больше,
чем кто-либо другой).
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He Could Not Stand It
Suggested Vocabulary
at table
to do one's tie
to fix one's tie
'pony's tail" (spoken of hair-do)
din, racket
to subside
squabble
to tease
to do smth. on the go
to kiss smb. good-bye
to wave smb. good-bye
to be off
compressed lips
a guilty look
to struggle into one's clothes
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I. Answer the questions. Make use of the following opening phrases if possible:
that's right; sure; it looks as if; / should (not) say so; I (don't) think so; on the one
hand; on the other hand; there is no saying; one can hardly say; so it (he, she) is.
1) What is going forward in the dining room? (/)
2) How many members of the family do you actually see at table?
3) It's an evening meal, isn't it? What makes you think so?
4) WThat has the head of the family just been doing?
5) What do you call the woman's style in hair-do?
6) Which of the children is obviously more naughty? How do you
know?
7) Has the din and racket in the dining-room subsided if only a
little? B)
8) How does the quarrel progress?
9) Does the children's mother care for the squabble?
10) There are two things the man is doing at the moment. What are
they?
11) The man is in an awful hurry, isn't he? What makes you think
so? C)
12) Where is he off to, do you think?
13) Does he make a loving husband? Substantiate your answer.
14) "Time is pressing" can serve as a subtitle, can't it? D)
15) Why has the woman come out on to the porch?
16) What is she doing?
17) Can you say what the man is carrying in his left hand? E)
18) What makes the man turn back, do you think?
19) His face is all smiles, is it not? What expression does it wear^
then? F)
20) What do you think of the man's behaviour? Is he to blame, or can
you justify him? Give grounds for your answer in either case.
II. (a) Read the following short study on different ways of walking:
Clerk after clerk hastened into the square. . . and looking up at the
Hall clock accelerated or decreased his rate of walking according to the
time at which his office hours commenced; the half-past nine o'clock
people suddenly becoming very brisk, and the ten o'clock gentlemen
falling into a pace of most aristocratic slowness. The clock struck ten and
the clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration
than his predecessor.
(Ch. Dickens. The Posthumous Papers of the Rickwick Club)
(b) Now turn to picture 6 and try to class our man. Is he one of those whose
office hours begin at half past nine, or does he look like a ten o'clock gentleman? Why
do you think so? Why has he fallen into the pace that Dickens calls one "of most
aristocratic slowness" and can even afford reading his paper on the go?
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III. Recast these sentences according to the following pattern:
Pattern
You drive the car well. It shows (leads one to believe) that you know how to
handle it. — The way you drive the car shows (leads one to believe) that you
know how to handle it.
1) The man ran into the room. It was clear that he was in a great
hurry.
2) The man ran quickly. One could suppose his office hours were to
begin soon.
3) The man turned back. It leads us to believe he was afraid of
something.
4) The man is reading on the go. It shows he didn't need to hurry.
5) The man ran away from the squabbling children. Their behaviour
can actually drive one mad.
IV. Complete the following sentences:
1) The man came running into the room as if... A)
2) Whatever the children did, their parents. .. B)
3) The man's turning back and a guilty expression on his face prompt
the idea of. . . E)
4) Now that the man is out of sight he doesn't seem to... F)
5) Hadn't the children raised such a racket, he wouldn't...
6) The woman should have told the children to. .. (/, 2)
V. Make up some 8—10 sentences according to the following pattern:
Pattern
To come running into the room; to fix one's tie. — The man came running into the f
room, fixing his tie. (At the same time he was fixing his tie.)
J_ _ fe
1) To pour tea; to call somebody to order.
2) To cry at the top of one's voice; to hammer (with something).
3) To drink one's tea; to struggle into one's clothes.
4) To kiss somebody good-bye; to put on one's hat.
5) To make for the door; to give somebody a kiss.
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6) To watch somebody: to wave somebody good-bye.
7) To run away; to turn back.
8) To walk; to read.
VI. Bring this story to a suitable end.
On that memorable day when Mr. Peterson decided to "act", breakfast
in the Peterson home didn't differ from the usual morning routine.
When Mr. Peterson came running into the room, it met him with a din
and racket sufficient to drive one mad.
Peterson Junior, three, going on four, was crying at the top of his
voice. The dear little thing wouldn't take his cod liver oil with a spoon
and demanded a fork for the purpose. Peggy Peterson, his six-year old
sister, who usually went under the name of Miss Tease, was trying hard
to justify her nickname.
In short, the family were in the process of having their tea. Mr.
Peterson slammed down the tea his unperturbed wife poured him, struggled
into his coat and. ..
VII. Give a talk on the upbringing of children in families like the one shown in the
picture.
VIII. Discuss the following jokes:
Two ladies met for the first time in several years.
"Well, darling," one said. "I hear you are married. Congratulations,
for I also hear you have an excellent and most accomplished husband."
"Yes, indeed," was the reply. "My husband is accomplished. He is
perfectly at home l in literature, at home in art, at home in music, at home in
science, in short at home everywhere, except... ."
"Except what?"
"Except at home."
A man hurried into a quick-lunch restaurant and said, "Give me a ham
-sandwich."
"Yes, sir," said the waiter, reaching for the sandwich, "will you eat it
or take it with you?"
"Both," was the unexpected but obvious reply.
mother (at dinner): Peggy, darling, you should not scratch your nose
with your spoon.
peggy: Oh, Mother, ought I to have used a fork?
1 to be at home — 1) быть дома; 2) хорошо знать, разбираться в чем-л.
И

A wife went to the Missing Persons Bureau at the police headquarters
and said to the officer on duty, "My husband is a little bit of a man about
five feet three, without much hair, watery eyes and thick glasses and he
squints, a very sloppy dresser and bets all his money at the race track
and. . . oh well, on second thought, just skip the whole thing and don't
bother looking for him."
There was a queue at the telephone booth. The man inside had been
there half an hour. He held the receiver but his lips were not moving. At
last one of the impatient crowd pushed open the door: "Excuse me, but
are you speaking to anybody?"
"Yes," was the answer. "To my wife."
IX. Ask questions on the joke to find out as many details as you possibly can.
They'd been "having words" because he came home very late again.
"Well, at any rate, I'm a man of my word," he snapped angrily. "I do
call a spade a spade."
"Maybe, Henry," his wife retorted, "but you don't call a club a club,
you call it working late."
X. Learn this humorous verse by heart.
"SEVEN STAGES" OF MAN
1. Sugar sweet — Start to get
At her feet. Into debt,
"Will you please?"
On his knees. 5. Holiday?
Bills to pay!
2. Wedding bells. Can't relax —
Sad farewells. Income tax!
Sun in June —
Honeymoon. 6. Son at school —
Acts the fool.
3. Baby trained — Sit at fire,
Temper strained. And retire.
Up at six —
"Things" to fix. 7. Daughter mad -^
Marries cad.
4. Homework next. Wedding bills —
Getting vexed. Sleeping pills!
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Gossip
I. Answer the questions. Begin your answers with: // you ask me; set me right if
I am wrong, but ...; it looks as if ....
1) These are Mr. and Mrs. John Brown. As far as you can see Mrs.
Brown is a rather talkative person. What can you say to characterize
Mr. Brown? A)
2) How long, in your opinion, has Mrs. Brown been speaking? A—5)
3) Isn't she carried away by her talk? What makes you think so?
4) The telephone talk is an enjoyable talk, isn't it?
5) Do you think Mrs. Brown realized how long she had been on the
phone when Mr. Brown moved a bed to the telephone stand? F)
6) Why did Mr. Brown offer his wife a chair, an armchair, a bed?
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II. Make use of the following pattern in answering the questions given below:
Pattern
A.: Why is she late?
В.: I don't know. С seems to know it. (To C.) Don't you know why she is late?
C: She may have fallen ill.
A.: I thought so. (I thought as much. I don't think so.)
1) Who is Mrs. Brown talking with, do you think?
2) What may the talk be about?
3) Why is she surprised to see her husband offer her the armchair?
III. Make the following sentences emphatic:
Pattern 1
1) You had better rest.
2) Hadn't you better rest?
3) Do rest (a bit)!
Pattern 2
1 l)
2)
3)
4)
5)
It's a nice book. |
What a
Such a
So nice
Isn't it
nice book!
nice book!
a book!
a nice book!
Pattern 3
1) The man works hard.
2) The man does work hard.
3) Doesn't the man work hard?
4) How hard the man works!
1) Mr. Brown is a good (loving, considerate, patient) husband.
2) Sit down.
3) Mrs. Brown is a chatterbox.
4) She wastes a lot of time.
5) Take the chair.
6) Mr. Brown is a good-natured man.
7) Make yourself comfortable.
8) The woman talks much.
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9) The talk is a shameless waste of time.
10) Lie down.
11) The man makes her a considerate husband.
IV. Disagree with the following statements:
Pattern
You don't like skating (do you?).—1) Yes, I do. 2) But I do. ("Oh, but I do.)
1) Mrs. Brown doesn't like talking, does she?
2) Mr. Brown doesn't make his wife a considerate husband.
3) The telephone isn't a useful instrument, after all.
V. Play this game. Complete the following statements giving as many variants as
possible. Then arrange a memory training competition. Let one student complete the
first sentence; another will complete the second sentence and repeat the first one the
way it was finished up, etc., etc. He wins who goes over all the sentences without
making a single mistake.
1) The way Mrs. Brown is talking is enough to make one understand
that...
2) The way she looks at her husband is enough to make one
understand that. . .
3) The way Mr. Brown sees to his wife's comfort is enough to make
one understand that...
Here are some hints to help you complete the sentences: chatterbox, gossip,
talkative person, considerate husband, patient person, henpecked (находящийся
под башмаком у жены), tired of, carried away by, interesting talk, (to be) used
(to), to take something coolly.
VI. Read the following dialogue and make use of it while telling your story
prompted by the pictures.
mrs. в. (answering the telephone call): Hallo, dear! Haven't heard from
you ever so long. What's wrong with you?
mrs. f.: Down with a bad flu. Have been so for over a week. Can you hear
me all right? I've completely lost my voice.
mrs. в.: Poor darling. I must call on you. I've been wanting to have a good
talk with you for a long time.
mrs. f.: Do come round, love. I've got so much to tell you. Tons of news.
They say Mrs. Smart is actually going gray with worry.
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mrs. в.: You don't say so! How can she, with her husband being ten years
younger than herself!
mrs. f.: Yes, poor thing. She can't make up her mind whether to be dyed
blond or red.
mrs. в..- I saw Mrs. Davidson the other day. She told me a sad story, sad
indeed.
mrs. f.: How interesting!
mrs. в.: Her husband divorced her, and all for nothing. He says his only
grudge against her was her parrot.
mrs. f.: What has the parrot got to do with the divorce?
mrs. в.: That foolish bird, he said, kept saying. "Kiss me, Harry."
mrs. f.: That doesn't seem much of a reason, does it?
mrs. в.-. That's what I told her too. But it has just occurred to me that her
husband's name happens to be Sam.
mrs. f.: I see. The poor little thing was badly ill-treated.
mrs. в.. That's exactly my idea. Now, tell me about your little Tommy. Is
the dear boy all right at school?
mrs. f.: Oh, he is a clever lad. One day his dear papa asked him who was
the laziest member of their class. You can't believe me, my dear,
he said it was the teacher.
mrs. в.: But why, for goodness sake?
mrs. f.: There's the rub. He said the teacher never worked when all of
them were busy reading or writing their lessons. "He just sits idly in
his seat watching us work," he said. There, isn't the boy clever!
mrs. в.: Indeed, he is. Now, I'll complain to you of that old witch — your
sister-in-law.
mrs. f.: Why! Is anything the matter?
mrs. в.: That horrid woman says I paint.
mrs. f.: Does she? Never mind, my dear. If she had your complexion, she'd
paint too. Well, what have you been doing all this time?
mrs. в.: Went shopping this morning.
mrs. f.: Was your shopping tour a success?
mrs. в.: Not a bit. I shopped for hours and never once did I see anything
I didn't want.
mrs. f.: Before I was taken ill I saw a nice hat at Simpson's.
mrs. в.: I'll come to your place and see it as soon as I possibly can.
mrs. f.: But I didn't buy it, after all.
mrs. в.: Why?
mrs. f.: They said it wasn't exactly a hat, but something in the way of
lampshades.
mrs. в.: What a pity! But hadn't we better wind up? You aren't tired, are
you? I'm afraid your husband will be cross with you for straining your
voice so much now that you've actually lost it.
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mrs. f. (in a hoarse voice): He never says a cross word to me.
mrs. в.: Is he really so good?
mrs. f.: No, just cautious. Good-bye, my dear.
mrs. в.: Good-bye, darling. I enjoyed our little talk ever so. Come round
as soon as you get well. We've got so much to talk over, haven't we?
VII. Discuss the following jokes:
husband (after shaving in the sitting room): Who was that woman you
have been gossiping with at the door the last hour?
wife. Mrs. Smith. She hadn't time to come in.
A woman called another woman on the telephone and asked how she
was feeling.
"Terrible," the other woman said. "My head's splitting and my back is
killing me and the house is a mess and the children are driving me crazy."
"Listen," the caller said, "go and lie down. I'll come right over and
cook lunch for you and clean the house and I'll take care of the children
while you get some rest. By the way, how is your husband, Sam?"
"Sam?" the complaining housewife said. "I've got no husband named
Sam."
The first woman gasped.
"My heavens, I must have dialled the wrong number!" she said.
There was quite a long pause.
"Then you're not coming over?" the other woman said.

Trouble in the Home
Suggested Vocabulary
to be engrossed in smth.
to pay (no) attention to
annoyed
to no purpose
to exasperate
to reproach
to teach one a lesson
resolute
belongings
dressing gown
to change one's clothes
firm
reticule ['retikju:l] = handbag
bus stop
to ring the bell
the very picture of despair
to shed floods of tears
to be sympathetic with
one's ewe-lamb ['jurlaem]
to console
to resign oneself to one's fate
to demand
to give up
to go about with black looks
to lose patience
to make up one's mind = to decide
to leave
to pack
suit-case
slippers
determined
to bang (slam) the door
to hurry
tear-stained
to embrace
to pour out one's sorrows
to point at (to)
much of a muchness = much
the same
almost alike
I. Answer the questions. The following openings may be found useful for answers:
Not in the least. By no (all) means. (There are) no two ways about it. Nothing of the
kind. Far from it. (I have) no idea. Just the opposite.
1) Whom do you see in the picture? A)
2) Do you think the man and the woman are a married couple? What
makes you think so?
3) What time of day could it possibly be? Substantiate your answer.
4) Is my supposition that they are having a meal out a good hit?
Why not? How do you know the people are at home?
5) Isn't it an evening dress the woman has on? And what is the man
wearing?
6) If they were on a visit, could the man behave the way he is
behaving?
1 See pp. 19—20.
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7) Is the woman in high spirits, cheerful, friendly and
talkative? What do you think is the cause of her low spirits?
8) As far as we can see, the woman isn't uttering a word. Her looks
and the way she is standing, the glances she is casting at her husband
make it clear that she is charged with hostility. Don't you think so? Has
the husband's attitude changed in any way?
9) The woman must have completely resigned herself to her fate. She
is quite satisfied with the present state of affairs, isn't she? C) Why do
you think it's not the case? Perhaps the woman is making for the kitchen
to fetch something she has forgotten to bring for her husband's
breakfast?
10) What is the woman doing? D) Is she doing the rooms? What
room is she in? Substantiate your answer. What pieces of furniture do
you see?
11) Is the woman getting ready to go to work? Where is she putting
her belongings?
12) What is the woman doing now? E)
13) Is she still wearing her dressing gown? Where is her suit-case?
Do you think she is going to take it with her? Does she leave the bedroom
in perfect order? Why is she leaving it at sixes and sevens (in disorder)?
14) Has she taken leave of her husband? F)
15) Does the woman, in your opinion, treat her husband unjustly, or
does he deserve it? Whose side do you take, the wife's or the husband's?
16) Did the woman close the front door softly? How do you know she
banged the door? What is she holding in her hands?
17) Where is our heroine now? G) Is she calmly strolling along the
street? Where do you think she is hurrying?
18) Has the woman arrived at her destination? (8) What is she doing?
Is she calmer now? Why do you think so? By brooding over her grief and
nursing it she has worked herself up to a high pitch, hasn't she? What, to
your mind, is the main feeling gnawing at her heart — self-pity or the
desire to punish her husband?
19) Has the woman's bell been answered? (9)
20) Who has opened the door? With what is the woman drying the
flood of tears?
21) The old woman must be thinking that a terrible misfortune has
befallen her poor daughter, mustn't she? How does she take her daughter's
grief?
22) Where is she leading her unhappy daughter? A0)
23) Why is the old woman pointing at the man hidden behind a
newspaper? Who is the man? Do you see any similarity between the first and
the last pictures? Is it any consolation for the woman that both the men
behave similarly?
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II. Look at the ten pictures and answer the following three questions about the
characters in every picture:
1) What is she (he) doing?
2) What has she (he) just done?
3) What is she (he) going to do?
III. Completing the sentences given below use either needn't 4- Perfect Infinitive or
didn't need to...
Pattern
1) He knew the rule; so I needn't have explained it. (I did explain.)
2) He knew the rule; so I didn't need to explain it. (I didn't.)
1) The woman cooked delicious and tasty things, but her husband
swallowed them without noticing what he was eating. So she... (to go)
to all the trouble of doing it.
2) She. . . (to ask) her husband where her suit-case was — she knew
it herself.
3) She... (to take) a taxi as there was a bus stop nearby.
4) Her mother told her that she... (to leave) her husband and that by
doing it she had made a bad mistake.
5) The husband was so engrossed in his newspaper that he didn't hear
the door bang. She... (to slam) the door, as she failed to attract his
attention.
6) The old woman... (to go) to visit her daughter because the latter
came to see her first.
IV. Read and memorize the dialogue between the two women; enact it and then
retell in indirect speech.
mother: Oh, dear! You of all people! And at such an hour!
daughter (sobbing): Yes it's me.
M.: Why! What do I see! You crying! What's up?
D. (hardly able to speak): It's Harry...
M.: What? Ill again? Come, come, do stop crying.
D.: No, it's not that. He will drive me to despair.
M.: I'm sure it's his new secretary. I always distrusted her. That hairstyle
and that neckline!
D. (indignantly): Oh, no, she has nothing to do with it!
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M.: What's the matter then? Don't keep me in the dark. Out with it! The
suspense is killing me.
D.: Harry will read his newspaper at breakfast time.
M.: There, there, stop weeping, will you? If that's the only trouble you've
got, you may consider yourself a happy woman. (Laughs.)
D.: I don't see the fun of it. It really drives me mad to see him read his
damned newspaper without giving me a moment's thought.
M.: That's the way of all husbands. They are all pretty much of a
muchness. Have a look at your dear Papa. There he is buried in his precious
newspaper!
V. (a) Write out of the articles all the words and expressions that may be useful
while speaking on the story in pictures, (b) Discuss the articles.
HE WANTS THE WIFE TO BE A SLAVE TO HER HUSBAND'S HEART
SAYS GWEN LEESON
In a time when the women of many countries are coming to the
forefront in every sphere of life, the attitude in How not to Kill Your Husband
by a Family Doctor leaves me absolutely stunned.
As a contribution to improving the general reader's knowledge of the
workings and needs of the body in relation to heart-disease the book is
extremely well written.
Had the author left it at that, the result would have been praiseworthy.
But the book also aims at putting the married woman firmly in her
place as a lady-in-waitingl to her husband, as a slave of his real or
imagined heart condition.
The main argument among the opponents of equality has always been
that woman's place is among her children — all day and every day. She
should therefore stay at home, and woe betide her 2 if she takes on a job!
And much ink has been spilt in proving that the working mother is to
blame for the increase in juvenile delinquency.3
But this argument is no good among the professional classes, where
it is common to send the children to a boarding school. Here the woman's
main task apparently is to look after the husband — and should he die of
heart disease, it's all her fault.
She has failed in her appointed task of stopping him from overeating,
over-drinking, over-smoking, over-concern about how to make more and
1 зд. служанка
2 горе ей!
3 ['d5u: vinail driiijkwansi] преступность среди несовершеннолетних
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more money. For this book is essentially addressed to the business and
professional man's wife.
To do her job properly, she must certainly not think of a life of her
own, such as going out to work. It would leave her less time to handle the
domestic and family problems, thus causing worries which might lead to
a heart conditions in that lord and master of hers.
Do you think of marriage as a comradeship between two people who
look after each other, and together look after the family? If so, don't read
this book — it might give you a heart condition!
ANY MAN TIRES OF A WOMAN-
INTERESTED ONLY IN HER HOME
I was interested to read Gwen Leeson's article. My view is that any
man will tire of any woman who is only interested in her home!
I find that women, even with young children, are going to meetings
once or twice a week, and husbands stay in to baby-sit for them.
Study and discussion groups are important for women, who are facing
more and more difficulties. They are realizing their responsibilities for the
next generation. Naturally those husbands who were brought up
surrounded by aggressive methods do not want their wives to go out to
meetings. As a result there may be disagreement in methods of bringing
up children.
I think it is even more important that wives of such men should get
together to study and discuss the best methods to conduct their lives and
the lives of their children.
As women's knowledge becomes greater they will be better able to cope
with "difficult" husbands. They must be patient, and in time husbands
may even help!
Maybe they can then work together to get a peaceful and better world
for themselves and their children.
VI. Here are some suggested headlines for our story in pictures. Discuss them. Give
their Russian equivalents. Which one, if any, do you like best? Give grounds for your
choice.
1) When one is fond of making a mountain out of a molehill.
2) One heart bleeding, the other unheeding.
3) One man's sore is another man's bore.
4) French leave.
5) Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
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VII. Discuss the following. Say if the ideas are true in our case.
1) A trouble's a ton, or a trouble is an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it,
And it isn't the fact that you are hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it.
E. Footlcr
2) There is always a risk of making bad worse with words, however
carefully chosen.
3) Our near ones never appreciate anything in us. We have to go to
others for that!
4) Habits are at first cobwebs, at last, cables.
VIII. Read the story, compare it with the story in pictures.
Breakfast in the Jenssen home was not much different from breakfast
in a couple of hundred thousand homes in the Greater City.1 Walter Jens-
sen had his paper propped up against the vinegar cruet and the sugar
bowl. He read expertly, not even taking his eyes off the printed page when
he raised his coffee cup to his mouth.
"Holy hell!" exclaimed Walter Jenssen. He slammed down his coffee
cup, splashing the contents on the tablecloth.
"What kind of talk is that in front of the children?" said Elsie.
"In front of the children! Just take a look at this. Take a look at it!""
He handed her the paper as though he were stabbing her with it.
She took the paper. Her eyes roved about the page and stopped. "Oh^
that? Well, I'd like to know what's wrong with that."
"You! You!" said Walter.
"Myrna, Paul, off to school." She shooed them off with a smile that
would have been approved by the Good Housekeeping Institute.2 But as
soon as they were out of the apartment, the smile was gone. "All right,,
you big baboon, go ahead and curse your head off. I'm used to it."
Walter said, "Gimme3 back that paper."
"You can have it," said Elsie. She handed him the paper. "Go ahead,,
read it till you get a stroke."
1 Greater New York (the city formed by uniting the original New York City„
Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens and Richmond counties)
2 Институт образцового ведения домашнего хозяйства
3 gimme = give me
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Walter began to read aloud. "Is your husband as attentive to you now
that you are married as when he was courting you? Answer: Mrs. Elsie
Jenssen, West 174th Street, housewife: Yes, in fact more so. Before we
were married my husband was not exactly what would be called the
romantic type. He was definitely shy. However, since our marriage he has
become the ideal man from the romantic point of view. None of your
Tyrone Powers of Clark Gables l for me, for God's sake."
"Well, so what?" said Elsie.
"So what? Do you think that's funny or something? What the hell
kind of a thing is that you're putting in the paper? Go around blabbing
private matters. I guess all the neighbours know how much we owe on
the car. I suppose you tell everybody how much I get. How do you think
a person's going to have self-respect if you go running around and
shooting off your face to newspaper reporters?"
"I didn't go around,anywhere. He stopped me."
"Who stopped you?"
"The reporter. On Columbus Circle.2 I was just coming around the
corner and he came up and tipped his hat like a gentleman and asked me.
It says so there."
Walter wasn't listening. "The office," he said. "Oh, God! What they're
going to do to me at that office. Wait till they see it. They probably read
it already. I can just see them waiting till I get in. And the boss'll find
out. And he'll call me in his office and say I'm fired, and he'll be right.
What happens to the public confidence if. .."
"It doesn't say a word about you. It says Elsie Jenssen. It doesn't say
where you work or anything else. Well, it could be another one."
"Not living on 174th Street. I'm not going to that office today. You
call up and tell them I have a cold."
"You big baby. If you want to stay home, call them up yourself," said
Elsie.
"I said you call them up. I'm not going to that office."
"You go to the office or I'll — who do you think you are, anyway? The
lime you had this year. Your uncle's funeral and your brother's wedding.
Go ahead, take the day off, take the week off. Let's take a trip around the
world. Just quit your job and I'll support you while you sit here, you big
baboon." She put down the dishes and put her apron to her eyes and ran
out of the room.
Walter took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth but did not light it.
He got up and looked out the window. He stood there a rather long time,
then he picked the paper off the floor and began to read. First he re-read
1 Tyrone Power and Clark Gable — well-known American film-stars of the 1930's
2 площадь в Нью-Йорке
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his wife's interview, and then for the first time he read the other
interviews. The first, a laughing Mrs. Bloomberg, said her husband was so
tired when he came home nights that as far as she was concerned romance
was only a word in the dictionary. Mrs. Petrucelli said she hadn't noticed
any difference between her husband's premarital and present attentive-
ness. But she had only been married five weeks. There were three more.
Jenssen studied their photographs, and one thing you had to say for Elsie:
she was the prettiest. He read the interviews once more, and he
reluctantly admitted that — well, if you had to give an interview, Elsie's
was the best. Mrs. Bloomberg's was worst. He certainly would hate to be
Bloomberg when his friends saw that one. He began feeling sorry for
Mr. Bloomberg. He ended — he ended by beginning to plan what retorts
he would have when the gang at the office began to kid him. He began
to feel pretty good about it. He put on his coat and hat and overcoat and
then he went to the bedroom. Elsie was lying there, her face deep in the
pillow, sobbing.
"Well, I guess I'll go to the office now," he said.
She stopped sobbing. "What?" she said, but did not let him see her
face.
"Going downtown now," he said.
"What if they start kidding you?"
"Well, what if they do?" he said.
She sat up. "Are you cross with me any more?" she said.
"Nah,1 what the hell?" he said.
She smiled and got up and put her arm around his waist and walked
down the hall with him to the door. It wasn't a very wide hall, but she
kept her arm around him. He opened the door and set his hat on his head.
She kissed his cheek and his mouth. He rearranged his hat again.
"Well," he said. "See you tonight." It was the first thing that came
into his head. He hadn't said that in years.
(After The Ideal Man by J. O'Hara)
IX. Tell the story as if you were the wife, the husband or an outsider.
X. Discuss the following jokes:
wife (to her husband reading his morning newspaper): When you were
courting me you used to be more attentive.
husband: My dear, who is worried about missing his train when he's on it?
1 nah = now
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The tired-looking man sat facing the lawyer.
"So you want a divorce from your wife," said the latter. "АгепЧ your
relations l pleasant?"
"Mine are," came the answer, "but hers are simply terrible."
waiter: Have another glass of beer, sir?
husband (to his wife): Shall I have another glass, Henrietta?
wife (to her mother): Shall he have another, Mother?
When they were engaged, he talked and she listened; during the
honeymoon she talked and he listened. After that they both talked and the
neighbours listened.
XI. Here is another picture
dealing with a similar situation.
Make up your own exercises on
the picture: (a) Ask and answer
questions on the picture, (b)
Select suitable patterns to be
trained with the help of the
picture. Use them in your speech,
(c) Comment upon the picture,
(b) Tell the episode as if you
were an outsider witnessing the
episode, (e) Compare the two
pictures, (f) Speak on table
manners in general.
I was sure you'd like the soup, hubby, 2 dearl
1 relations — 1) отношения; 2) родственники
2 hubby (сокр. от husband) разг. муженек
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Discord in the Family
Suggested Vocabulary
living-room
drawing-room (sitting-room)
bedroom
dining-room
bathroom
ironing-board
linen
rack
to iron
to watch the TV
I hate the sight of you ... -ing
to put up with smth.
to be through with smth.
what with
to go full blast
to grumble
to wash linen
laundry
to distract attention
to bother
I hate the sight of you working here.
Couldn't you do it in the bathroom?
I. Answer the following questions:
1) Where does the action take place?
2) What do you see in the foreground?
3) Where is the man sitting?
4) What is there in front of him?
5) What has the man got in his hands?
6) What is he doing?
7) What is there behind the man?
8) What is the man's wife doing?
9) Where is she standing?
10) What has she got in her right hand?
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11) What is there at the side of the ironing-board?
12) The basket is full of linen, isn't it?
13) The woman has ironed some articles of linen, hasn't she?
14) Whose shirts are hanging on the rack?
15) The woman has not finished ironing yet, has she?
II. Correct the following statements which are not true to fact:
Pattern
1) The husband is ironing linen. — No, he isn't. It is his wife who is ironing linen,
while her husband is watching the TV.
2) The woman is not busy. — Oh yes, she is. She is very busy.
1) The man is glad to see his wife working.
2) The husband is going to help his wife.
3) The woman is reading a magazine.
4) The man is working very hard.
5) There are no such husbands as the one shown in the cartoon.
6) This man is an exception.
III. Make note of the italicized word combinations and use them in different
situations.
husband: Will you do me a favour, dear?
wife: Certainly. What is it?
H.: I just hate the sight of you ironing away at that board. Couldn't you
do it in the bathroom?
W.: Гт afraid not. I can't move to the bathroom if only because there is
not enough room there. You'll have to put up with it.
H.: How long will it take you to finish the work?
W.: I think /7/ be through with it in half an hour.
IV. Read the sentences with the word combination what with. Compose other
sentences on the analogy.
1) What with your ironing those darn things I can't read my
newspaper.
2) What with the TV set going full blast I can't hear what you are
saying.
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V. Link each pair of sentences according to the following patterns:
Pattern 1
Help me. Don't grumble. — You might
help me instead of grumbling.
1) Have the linen washed at the laundry. Don't wash it at home.
2) Finish ironing the linen in the bathroom. Don't bother me while I
am reading.
3) Do the work in the morning. Don't do it now, when I'm at home.
Pattern 2
1) You helped me. I did it. — But for you, I could never have done it.
2) You bothered me. I did not do it. — But for you, I could have done it long ago.
1) I couldn't finish the article. The TV programme was distracting my
attention.
2) 1 couldn't watch the TV programme. I had to finish ironing the
linen.
3) You interrupted my work. I didn't finish ironing.
VI. Tell the story as if you were the wife or an acquaintance of the family.
VII. Read Exercise V on pp. 23—24 and find the paragraph in which the author
gives his opinion as to the relations between members of an ideal family. Make it the
topic of discussion.
VIII. Enact this joke:
SO CONSIDERATE
husband (newly married): Don't you think, love, if I were to smoke, it
would spoil the curtains?
wife: You are really the most unselfish and thoughtful husband to be
found anywhere; certainly it would.
husband: Well, then, take the curtains down.
IX. Read and discuss the following text:
PECULIAR SPECIES OF MAMMALS
In my biological research I discovered a blank spot in our knowledge
of mammals. No scientific paper has any mention of the peculiar though
very widely spread species of mammals — the husbands.
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So I decided to fill in the gap with the present brief scientific paper.
In working at it I made use of various sources ranging from the Bible to
Darvin's theory of the origin of species. But most of all I drew on my own
observations and the experience of my acquaintances who have for a
number of years been keeping one specimen of the species of husbands in their
households.
ON THE ORIGIN OF HUSBAND
The mammal husband originates from a man in love. Love is only a
temporary transient state, which is lost altogether when the man in love
turns into a husband. The symptoms of being in love are: the man
presents flowers and bottles of perfume, he bestows long and tender looks
and, finally, he grows very sentimental. All this is very much the same as
the spring love-singing with blackbirds.
But the main symptom of the man being in love is his longing to
become a husband. On the day when he becomes that he envelops himself
in a black cocoon, known in science as the wedding suit, and utters an
indistinct sound vaguely resembling the word yes. That day is followed by
a period during which the husband may continue, on rare occasions, to
buy flowers, but now he invariably brings them home in his pocket or
bag. This may be accounted for by the residual excitation of the cerebral
activity following the period of being in love. After some time the cerebral
excitation passes, and then the process of turning of a man into a
husband may be regarded as accomplished. Instead of flowers and perfume,
he now brings some shoe polish or beer at best,
SOME PECULIARITIES OF BEHAVIOUR
In the morning, scarcely out of bed, he is surprised at being served
very hot tea. This proves that his knowledge of the elementary laws of
physics is very poor, for he is obviously unaware of the fact that water
boils at 100° C, irrespective of one's being, or not being, in a hurry to get
to work. Then he shows his annoyance if he has not got a fresh
handkerchief. At such moments he is venomous, and it is better to keep out of his
way.
Then he goes to work. It should be noted that though husbands have
been going to work in the morning for centuries, they consider it to be a
heroic deed and claim due respect on the part of the wife.
The above mentioned facts lead us to believe that this species of
mammals does not possess a sufficiently developed power of observation,
otherwise the husband would not have failed to notice that he is not the only
one who works, his wife working as well.
At home he is mostly occupied in watching the TV, reading
newspapers and dozing in his armchair with his face covered with the paper.
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His behaviour radically changes when he meets other representatives of his
species. When several husbands get together, they go, to put it
scientifically, "to have a drop". After this procedure the husband is known to grow
cheerful and even violent at times.
Sometimes the husband may be seen contemplating us with a long and
thoughtful look. We have been able to discover experimentally the object
of his meditation at such moments. He is believed to be thinking with
regret of how much better off he was when single and what a good cook,
as compared with us, his dear mother was. Thus one may reasonably
suppose that the sphere of mental activity of the husband is rather limited.
HUSBAND'S RESISTANCE TO DISEASES
Long observation has failed to discover any. Although this mammal is
proud of his strong physique, there are data to the effect that an ordinary
cold in the head is sufficient to disbalance and depress him so much as to
make him think of his own funeral. The more hardy of the species do not
begin to think of death at once, though in any case the husband goes into
bed immediately, groaning continuously.
Toothache is known to be the worst malady with this species of
mammals. The weaker individuals have been observed to ask the dentist to
make them an injection of the anaesthetic so as to send to sleep the whole
of the upper part of the body. The stronger ones may be dangerous
insomuch that they may bite the dentist with the last of their sound teeth.
IS THE HUSBAND OF ANY USE?
The tamed, carefully and patiently brought up husband may sometimes
be useful. We can use him for washing up dishes, opening tins and,
occasionally, we may even succeed in making him dust the places we are
unable to reach ourselves. He may also prove useful as a shopper,
although his capacity to keep in mind the names of the articles to buy is
some three or four items at the utmost. It should be noted, however, that
a husband of the more obstinate turn of mind would not agree to carry
out even such simple jobs on the ground that they are allegedly below his
dignity. Such a variety of husband is altogether useless and unprofitable.
WHY, THEN, SHOULD WE KEEP A HUSBAND IN THE HOME?
Thus we see that we keep the husband in the home not because he is
useful, for he is not, nor do we keep him for entertainment, as in the
capacity of entertainer he is worse than the worst canary bird.
Why, then, do we try to procure at least one specimen of husband for
the home? The explanation is very simple — we love him.
(After Milena Major ova)
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The Man Who Didn't Like Washing Up
Suggested Vocabulary
bachelor
apron
bald-headed
rolled up sleeves
to brush
bowl
sink
tap
to turn the tap on (off)
steam
scullery
it occurred to him
to make an appointment
to keep an appointment
to make a love declaration
to propose (to)
to accept
proposal
drawing-room
wedding
bride
bridegroom
solemn
in the background
to keep house=to manage a
household=to look after,
the house
I. Ask and answer questions on the pictures. The following openings may be found
useful for answers: / may be mistaken but ...; as far as I can see...; I'm not quite
sure but.. .; / have my doubts, of course, but I think.. ..
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II. Speak on George's train of thoughts. The following words and word
combinations may be useful: (a) why shouldn't I...; it's high time...; I had better...; I would
rather ...; (b) / wish J...; I should (not) have...; I ought (not) to have...; (c) to
marry; to bring a wife home; to have a partner in life; to look for a wife; to find one's
better half.
III. Read and discuss the dialogue. Relate it as if you were Bill.
bill: Hallo, George!
george: Hallo! Haven't seen you for ages.
В.: What have you been doing with yourself all this time? Did you get
married at last?
G.: No, not yet. I always wonder why everybody including your precious
self should be making such a fuss about my private affairs. What
difference does it make to you if I'm married or not?
В.: You queer fish! But I'm your friend, ain't I? Look at yourself, how thin
and haggard you are. You need someone to look after you. You are a
fool not to marry.
G.: A man who remains a bachelor may be a fool, but he is not reminded
of it so often as a married man, I'm sure.
В.: By the way, do you happen to know that Jim got married last week?
G.: Гт glad to hear it. (After reflecting a moment, compassionately.)
And yet I don't know why I should be — he never did me any harm.
В.: Don't start being too cynical, George. There is such a lot of really
nice women around. You would have no difficulty in making your
choice.
G.: In my opinion there are three kinds of women: the lovely, the
intelligent and the majority.
В.: So you do admit that there are lovely and intelligent women. Why not
concentrate your attentions on one?
G.: I tried once, but unfortunately I placed my feelings at the wrong door
and she didn't return my love.
В.: Just your luck!
G.: Besides I am always so busy, and neither a pretty wife nor a man's
business can be neglected with impunity. Do you know what the future
of "marry" is?
В.: No, I am afraid not.
G.: Divorce.
В.: You always see the dark side of everything, George. Not so many
people divorce nowadays.
G.: You are simply not in the know. Have a look at the World Almanac
that shows the steady increasing national divorce statistics of recent
years. And mark, the number for the last available year establishes an
all-time high record.
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В.: But on the other hand, statistics says that married men live longer.
G.: They don't, it only seems longer because their life is much duller and
they are fed up with it.
В.: Well, you are a convinced bachelor, if you ask me.
G.: Yes, and no matter what people may say I'll always believe that
marriage is not a word, it is a sentence.1
В.: Don't exaggerate, old man.
IV. Here is a talk Lizzie had with her friend Maggie before George proposed to
her. Both the girls are typical husband-hunters like those of whom you can read in
newspapers published in the capitalist world. Read the dialogue and criticize their phi-
listine morals.
maggie: Are you still wasting your time on that unfeeling man George?
lizzie: Yes, Maggie, my dear.
M.: Any hints at marriage?
L.: Yes, several. But unfortunately he ignores them.
M.: It's not so easy to lure a confirmed bachelor into matrimony. Never
let him think marriage will change his life.
L.: Of course not. If he imagines for a moment that marriage is in my
mind, he will run away like a wild horse. If it is in anyone's mind, he
wants it to be solely in his own.
JW.: Yes, if and when a bachelor marries, you will usually find he married
a woman who wasn't much thinking about it one way or another.
L.: I'm simply intrigued to know how Jane succeeded in making Archie
marry her. I always thought he was only flirting with her.
M.: So did he; that's where he blundered.
L.: And how are they getting on with each other?
M.: Oh, very well. They have one big thing in common. She thinks he's
wonderful and he thinks he's wonderful.
JL: And Harry, whom Jane wouldn't have, has been drinking since then,
so I hear.
M.: Well, that's carrying the celebration too far.
L.: Once I tried to make myself useful about George's apartment, just to
show him the advantages of married life. But that literally drove him
crazy.
M.: You should have asked me before doing it. The busybody who goes
about doing things to a bachelor's quarters is in a danger of becoming
his bitterest enemy. A bachelor likes his quarters the way they are,
even, in point of fact, if the place looks like an outhouse full of junk.
L.: I tried playing up the quiet-evening-at-home idea when he suggested
the movies or a show entertainment, but that made him pretty mad.
sentence—1) предложение; 2) приговор
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M.: In all likelihood he must have really wanted to see the movie or the
show. No wonder the proposal to stay quietly at home and be bored to
death listening to your chatter made him see red. And if he had wanted
a quiet evening at home, he would have remained at his own home, in
the first place.
L.: Then I even studied up on his hobbies, but it wasn't much help either.
M.: Quite natural. Any woman who speaks authoritatively about a
bachelor's hobbies strikes him as something of an idiot.
L.: Most bachelors are said to like to be considered helpless babies who
need looking after.
M.: Any such damned fool, bachelor or a married man, isn't worth any
intelligent woman's effort. If that's the case with your George, go after
one who not only knows how to take care of himself but who knows
how to take care of you.
L.: A very sensible idea, that.
JVL: Are you really so bent on marrying George? Are you sure you love
him enough for that?
L.: Oh, no, not in the least. But Kate is so crazy to have him that I just
couldn't remain indifferent.
V. Find in the dialogues above the English equivalents to the following Russian
expressions.
1) Скорее всего; 2) по всей вероятности; 3) она не ответила мне
взаимностью; 4) ты все всегда видишь в мрачных тонах; 5) с другой
стороны; 6) они по горло сыты; 7) ну и везет же тебе!; 8) вот чудак!;
9) такой, как она есть; 10) ты просто не в курсе дел; 11) безнаказанно;
12) ничуть; 13) в действительности; 14) взбесило его; 15) поставила
себе целью; 16) по-моему.
VI. When George, tired and exhausted, one day came home after his work, he found
the rooms in disorder, no dinner ready and his wife carried away by a thriller. Put the
words of reproach into George's mouth. The following words and word combinations
may be found useful: to cook dinner; to think of...; to be considerate; to be of help; to
go to the trouble of... ; to wash up; to do the apartment; to make oneself useful about
the house.
VII. Here are some phrases George's friends used to say when consoling him.
Supply the missing remarks.
GEORGE: HIS FRIENDS:
1) ... — Cheer up!
2) ... — Keep up your spirits!
3) ... — Take it easy.
4) ... — Things will come right.
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These expressions may be found helpful: to make a mistake; to stand; to be unused
(to); to be upset; to drive mad; to quarrel; to give a deaf ear (to); to be selfish.
VIII. Fill in the blanks with either used to or be used to.
Pattern
He is used to hot climate, because he used to live in the South.
1) When a bachelor, George... grumble about the tediousness of the
household chores.
2) George. . . washing up because he. . . do it every day.
3) It's doubtful whether Lizzie will make a hit with George, they
both. .. living alone.
4) Before they got married George. .. call on her once or twice a week.
5) George's friends. .. say about him that he wras the best of fellows
before he allowed his wife to henpeck him.
6) Lizzie.. . reading and she said she had no intention of changing
that long standing habit of hers.
7) So, after their marriage the everyday routine of their life was
unchanged: George.. . wash up and Lizzie... recline comfortably in her
armchair with a book in her hand.
8) George, of course, can take care of his wife because he... taking
care of himself.
9) Lizzie... (negative) getting up early or sitting up late.
IX. Compose sentences of your own, using the pattern in Ex. VIII Say what Lizzie
and George are used or unused to. The following words and word combinations may be
found useful: to make one's bed; to tidy up; to sweep the floor; to polish the furniture;
to iron one's things; to polish the floors; to lay the table; to do one's shopping; to dust
the things, to air the rooms; to vacuum carpets; to clean the windows; to send one's
linen to the laundry; to repair household things.
X. Tell the story in full. Tell it also as if you were the unfortunate George himself.
XI. Read the following jokes. Comment upon them.
— I can see you are a married man now?
— How?
— 'cause you have no buttons off your coat and...
— Yes, that's the first thing my wife did — taught me how to sew them
on.
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A six-year-old boy was wonderful at spelling and definition. The other
day the teacher asked him to spell matrimony.
"M-a-t-r-i-m-o-n-y," said the youngster, promptly.
"Now define it," said the teacher.
"Well," replied the boy, "I don't exactly know what it means, but I
know mother's got enough of it!"
— Which do you think the best month to get married in?
— Septober.
— But there's no such month.
— Exactly.
Jones was sitting with his wife behind a palm in a hotel veranda late
at night when a young man and a girl came and sat down on a bench
near them. The young man began to tell the girl how pretty and good and
lovable he thought she was. Hidden behind the palm, Mrs. Jones
whispered to her husband, "Oh, John, he doesn't know we're here and he's
going to propose. Whistle and warn him."
"What for?" said Jones. "Nobody whistled to warn me."
"Henry," his wife told him, "it'll be twenty years ago tomorrow that
we were married. Why not go out and kill a couple of those young
chickens?"
"Why should I?" said Henry. "It wasn't their fault."
"A bachelor has nobody to share his troubles with."
"Why should a bachelor have any troubles?" asked the married man.
husband: No dinner ready! I'm going to a restaurant.
wife: Couldn't you wait a few minutes?
H.: Will it be ready then?
W.: No, it won't. But I'll be ready myself to come with you.

A Long Wait
Suggested Vocabulary
evening dress slip
to put finishing touches vanity bag
to shave to be thickly set with hair
razor stubble, bristle
padded stool to do the nails
I. Answer the following questions. Use the following
words and phrases in your answers: the way things are...; as
far as I can see (gather)... ; no doubt (about it); evidently;
that's why.
1) What are husband and wife doing? What
makes you think so?
2) Do you think they are getting ready for an
"at home" or may the man be taking his wife out?
Substantiate your answer.
3) Which of the two was the first to start
preparations? How do you know it?
4) How did the man come to be the first to get
dressed?
5) How long did it take the woman to dress, do
you think? Why did it take her so long?
6) What change has come over the man?
7) If wre give the picture credit, what ought the
man to do now?
II. Complete the following sentences:
1) The more the woman studied herself in the
looking glass, the more. .. .
2) She was half-way through when... .
3) The longer it took his wife to dress, the more
he... .
4) The man looks as if he hadn't.... D)
5) Only after she put the last finishing touches,
did the woman... .
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6) The woman didn't see the change that had come over her husband
until she... .
III. Compose some sentences based on the picture using the following pattern:
Pattern
It took him (her) long to read it. — 1) How
long did it take him (her) to read it?
2) Did it take him (her) long to read it?
IV. Express your doubt or astonishment on account of the picture story. Take the
following as hints: to take long to do something; to grow a beard; to wait; to get
dressed; to be a slowcoach; to shave; to find out; (not) to suit (spoken of dress).
Pattern
1) You can't (couldn't) have answered so rudely.
2) Can you have answered so rudely?
3) Can it be that you answered so rudely?
V. Practise a typical English response. Verbs to be used: to read, to put on, to hire
a taxi, to wear, to buy, to take off, to warn, to see to.
Pattern
A.: It's cold in the room.
В.: Why don't (haven't) you shut the window then?
SHE:
HE:
1) I don't like this dress.
2) The bonnet doesn't suit me.
3) Feathers are no longer in fashion.
4) I haven't done my nails yet.
1) We are being late.
2) We are pressed for time.
3) It's a long way to the theatre.
4) I'm ever so hot with my things on«
VI. Retell the dialogues.
1
he: I've got two tickets for the Opera.
she. Have you, really! That'll be a treat!
he: And you can wear your new dress.
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she: Which one?
he: The new light one.
she: I'm not sure I can wear it any longer, dear.
he: Why?
she: It doesn't match my hair at all.
he: Well, sweetheart, you ought to have thought of its colour before.
she: My dress?
he: No, your hair.
she: Well, darling, you are being naughty. But tell me what's on.
he: Carmen, I guess.
she: What luck! I've been wanting to hear it so long. Here, give me a kiss.
And now I think I'll go and start dressing right away.
he: Do, love. Then there will be a chance of your getting ready in time, the
tickets are for tomorrow evening.
2
he: Hurry up, darling.
she: Why such hurry?
he: It's on the stroke of seven.
she: Impossible.
he: Impossible? What d'you mean?
she: I say it can't be seven. We ought to have been on our way if it were
seven, oughtn't we?
he: Sure.
she: Well, aren't we still here?
he: Look alive, dear. Time is pressing.
she: No worry. I've got only some finishing touches to put. Do you want
me to wear lipstick tonight?
he: Just a touch.
she: I've always thought 60 minutes was too short for an hour.
he: Of course, you've been at it for two hours and aren't ready.
she: But I want to please you.
he: If women dressed to please their husbands, it would, certainly, take
them less time.
she- Well, darling, I think I am about ready. Just take a look and tell me
if this hat suits me well.
he: What?! Do you call this thing on your head a hat?
she: I do. And do you call that thing under your hat a head? Oh, poor me!
My dear mother always told me not to marry this monster of a man.
he: Monster of a man?! Well, that's the limit!
VII. Tell the story as if you were the woman's husband. Make use of the
following: slowcoach; of all the slowcoaches!; to keep somebody waiting; to take somebody
out; to potter about.
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VIII. Read the following extract from the Perfect Lover's Guide by the Canadian
humorist S. Leacock and discuss it.
Few people appreciate at its true importance the selection of a wife.
One has only to look at other men's wives, to realize how carelessly they
have been selected. A great many of them are too small, others are too
large. Others again, while suitable as to size are of poor quality. With
others the colouring is imperfect, or easily washed out. In short if a man
desires to select a wife of the right size and shape, of good colour and
wearing quality, one that is washable and will not bleach out in the sun,
he must be willing to devote time and study to the question. Many a
young man admits after marriage with regret that he has selected his wife
too rashly.
IX. Read and discuss the following anecdotes:
— I'm ready now, darling.
— Well, I am not. I shall have to go and shave again.
— If you were my husband, I should put poison in your coffee.
— If I were your husband, I should drink it.
"Your dress," said a husband to his fashionable wife, "will never
please the men."
"I don't dress to please the men," was the reply, "but to worry other
women."
doctor (to a woman-patient): I'd recommend you to take baths, have
plenty of fresh air and dress in cool gowns.
(Later on.)
husband: What did the doctor tell you?
wife: He said I was to go to the sea, to have plently of fresh air and to
buy myself some new gowns at once.

Not What She Meant
Suggested Vocabulary
middle-aged = advanced in years
corpulent = stout = fat
necklace
spotted
low-necked
bald
bristling
banknote
jewelry
well-off = well-to-do == rich
silver
That's not what I meant
by silver cleaning!
I. Answer the following questions, opening them wherever possible with: as a
matter of fact; when I come to think of it,...; ten to one,...; for oil I know (see),...;
on second thought,....
1) How do you think the people in the picture are related?
2) Is the scene laid at an office?
3) If it is not an office, why is there such a thing as a safe in the
room?
4) Where is it usually found?
5) What are the people in the picture then?
6) If you take them for a married couple, is it possible for them to
he newlyweds? Why do you think so?
7) We think they have a lot of years of married life behind them. Do
you share the opinion?
8) How old can they be? Is the woman still slim and graceful?
9) What is it she's wearing on her neck?
10) Is the dress a high-necked one?
11) What's the most prominent feature on the man's face?
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12) Has he a mop of hair on his head?
13) What kind of moustache has the man got? Would a drooping one
be more becoming to him?
14) What is lying in a heap on the table before the man?
15) What is he holding in either of his hands?
16) The safe seen in the background is a built-in one, isn's it?
17) What is kept in the safe?
18) Do you think the family is hard up (poor, needy)?
19) Does the heap on the table differ from that to the man's left?
20) What makes you say the coins in the bag have already been
polished?
21) Did the wife really want the man to polish the coins when she
asked him to polish the silver?
22) What exactly did she mean by it?
23) Was the man reluctant to do the job? Is it possible that he should
even have enjoyed it?
24) Is it your opinion that the woman was cross with her husband
when she took in the situation?
25) Are you under the impression that the wife is reproaching
him?
26) What excuses could he make for his blunder?
II. Change the sentences according to the pattern.
Pattern
The
a
day
is
warm
warm
and
warm
and
and sunny
sunny
the
sunny.
day
day
it
is!
is!
1)
2)
What
How
1) There is a large heap of silver on the table.
2) The man has a long fleshy nose.
3) The coins in the heap to the man's left are bright and shiny.
4) The woman must be furious.
5) The situation is very funny, isn't it?
III. Compose sentences and give all the variants of them as in the pattern.
Pattern
I (to call) on him. He (to leave). — 1) When I
called on him, he had already left. 2) I didn't
call on him until after he had left.
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1) She (to come) home. Her husband (to polish) half of the heap.
2) He (to raise) his head. His wife (to approach) the table,
3) The man (to tackle) his job. His wife (to leave).
IV. Render the dialogue using indirect speech.
she. John, what are you doing with yourself till 6 when we leave for the
show?
he Nothing much.
she And I must be off now. I must keep the appointment with my
hairdresser.
he: You'd better hurry up or you'll be late.
she Well, John, if time is heavy on your hands, I suggest polishing the
silver. You'll make a quick job of it with Jane helping you.
he: All right, but let me do it my own way if you want me to.
she: Don't object if you do it yourself.
V. Speak on a misunderstanding of any kind that you may have been involved in,
witnessed, read about, seen in pictures and so on.
VI. Ask questions of the following kind on the subject matter of the picture: What
would have happened if... ? or Would it have happened if... ? Introduce your answers
with: well. ..; let me see.. .; just a moment...; hm...; how should I put it? These
are called silence-fillers and are used when you are not ready to give your answer
and need time to think it over.

Cook's Day Off
Suggested Vocabulary
clean-shaven
self-conceited
waistcoat
to fit tightly
frock
dignified
fleshy face
stooping shoulders
overfed
to shine
as stiff as a poker
solemn
bristling moustache
elaborately done hair
ear-rings
table-cloth
dinner set
to place
to arrange flowers
gilt frame
goblet
wine-glass
to sparkle
Apologies from the kitchen-
it's cook's day off!
I. Answer the following questions:
1) Are there many people gathered
in the room?
2) What have they all come for? Is
the party being held at a restaurant,
cafe or some such place?
3) Do you think it's a family festival of some kind? Perhaps the fact
that there are no children present may serve as a clue.
4) People of what age have come to the party?
5) What may be the occasion for this party?
6) Can it be the case of the host having invited his colleagues (fellow-
clerks) to celebrate his promotion or some such occasion?
7) Can the party in question be by any chance a wine and cheese
party? 1
8) Are you of the opinion, then, that this is a conventional
(traditional) dinner-party given by an old-fashioned couple?
1 The so-called "wine and cheese party" is rather fashionable in England. Drinks
and cold dishes are usually served in the next room where the guests can go and take
them for themselves.
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9) To what walk of life do all these people belong? What makes you
think so?
10) Do all the people look very intelligent and bright?
11) Aren't you under the impression that the intellect of all these
overfed, self-satisfied people must be rather deficient?
12) Are the people snobbish? l
13) Can you answer why the people in the dining-room look like
snobs?
14) Do you agree that they have a groomed look about them?
15) Have the guests come to the party in their everyday clothes?
16) You think that they marked the solemnity of the occasion by
coming to the party in full fig, don't you?
17) There is a general atmosphere of prosperity about the people, isn't
there?
18) Why don't the guests begin eating? Are they waiting for some
more people to come?
19) Can you single out the lady of the house? How?
20) Who is standing near her? What news has the butler got to break
to the hostess?
II. Describe the guests and the dining-room they are being received in. Make use
of the suggested vocabulary.
III.* Translate into English using the Present Continuous.
1) Что мы делаем сегодня вечером?
2) Ведь мы сегодня обедаем в гостях, не правда ли?
3) Что у нас сегодня на обед?
4) Я надеюсь, что той нудной дамы, которая сидела рядом со мной,
сегодня не будет.
IV. * Define the words given below and make your fellow-students guess what you
are thinking of.
Pattern
Drawing-room, sitting-room.—What do we call a room which is used to receive
guests in?
Napkin; guest; spoon; servant; dinner set; cook; knife; vase; small
talk; table cloth.
1 A shob is a person who respects others on account of their high rank or wealth
and despises those of lower rank and less rich than himself.
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V. * This is the story told by one of the guests, explain the italicized expressions.
Several days ago we were invited to a party. Of course we accepted
the invitation. "Nothing like a party for reviving the drooping spirits,"
I said to my wife when she told me about it.
To be quite frank, I even looked forward to the event. Mrs. Brown is a
very competent hostess, capable of making any party a go. Besides, she
has an excellent cook. So I was going to make the most of the delicious
things which always find their way to the Browns' table, shortage or not.1
My wife was as usual making a great fuss over every single article of
clothing we were to have on. The whole day she had been running about
town looking for some sort of trimming to her new blue dress. And
naturally she had no time to see to the dinner being prepared in time. The
meat was underdone and quite uneatable. But I wasn't too much upset,
anticipating a substantial meal at the Browns'.
We were accorded the warmest of welcomes. After the usual ceremony
of introduction everybody tried to be as comfortable as could be. There
were some very nice people among the guests, but some were really
abominable. I especially remember one woman dressed up to the nines. I can't
bear dressy women. But her husband proved to be a brick, — he was the
life and soul of the party. He was so full of topics that for some time he
actually held us spellbound. And you should have heard the jokes he
cracked. I myself told some by way of keeping the ball rolling. Soon we
led the ladies to the dining-room and took our seats at the table. The
conversation began to flag and the jokes began to fall flat. And however
hard the host tried to set the conversation going, it became one-sided and
ran dry. It was high time the dinner were served. But for some reason or
other the servants did not appear. I tried to run through some subjects in
my mind but all to no purpose. Time dragged on and the tension
increased. Even the host lapsed into silence, having given up all hope of
reviving the spirit of the party. There was but one thing that could save
the party from being a complete failure — a substantial dinner.
At long last the door opened and the butler appeared. Faces brightened
up and we heaved a sigh of relief. The butler approached the lady of the
house, and bending over her, said in a tragic whisper, "Apologies from
the kitchen — it's cook's day off."
You should have seen the long faces the guests drew on hearing it.
Well, it was really appalling unless it was a practical joke.
VI. The guests waiting impatiently for the dinner to be served complain to each
other in a whisper. Compose phrases they might have said. Words and expressions to
be used: to forget something; to have something amiss (not up to the mark, out of
order, wrong); to overlook; to keep somebody waiting; to let down (the cook); to brag.
даже когда трудно достать продукты
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VII. Compose sentences. Add for, since, since when, for how long if possible. Use
the following expressions:
Pattern
To wait for somebody. — I have been waiting for you since 6.
1) To walk all the way along to get up a good appetite.
2) To discuss politics together.
3) To rack one's brains how to entertain the guests.
4) To wait for the dinner to be served.
5) To keep a bottle of wine for a special occasion.
6) To stew the meat.
7) To decorate the room.
8) To lack finishing touches.
9) To stand before the mirror.
VIII. Retell the jokes.
— How long has your last cook been with you?
— She was never with us, she was against us from the start.
— I do hope that my visits aren't boring to your husband, dear Julia.
— Oh, no indeed. However depressed he is when you come, he's always
happy when you go!
One of the guests turned to a man by his side to criticize the singing
of the woman who was trying to entertain them.
"What a terrible voice! Do you know who she is?"
"Yes," was the answer, "She's my wife."
"Oh, I beg your pardon. Of course, it isn't her voice, really. It's the
stuff she has to sing. I wonder who wrote that awful song?"
"I did," was the answer.
The hostess was talking to one of her guests as the two sat on the
lawn listening to a chimes recital.
"Beautiful, aren't they?" remarked the hostess.
"Pardon?" inquired the guest.
 say, they're beautiful, aren't they?"
"I'm sorry," roared the guest, "but I can't hear a word for those
damned chimes."
mrs. brown: You know that couple we met at Blackpool on holiday and
invited to come and stay with us for a few days?
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mr. brown: Yes, dear.
mrs. brown: Well, the silly idiots are actually coming.
A bore had outstayed his welcome and at the end of the fortnight his
host thought of a sure way of getting rid of him.
"Don't you think your wife and family must be getting tired of being
separated from you?" he asked the unwanted visitor.
uIt never occurred to me," replied the latter, "but now you put it so
nicely, I will wire for them to come down and join us."
ouest (trying to be complimentary): It's a long time since I've eaten
such a good meal.
hostess: That's what I thought.
IX. Explain wherein lies the humorous effect of the jokes.
The family were seated at the table with a guest, who was a business
acquaintance of Dad's, all ready to enjoy the meal, when the five-year-
old son declared:
"Why, this is roast beef!"
"Yes," answered the mother, "what of it?"
"Well, Pop said this morning that he was going to bring a big fish l
home for dinner tonight."
mistress (severely): If this occurs again, Jane, I shall be compelled to
get another servant.
jane: I wish you would, ma'am, there's quite enough work for two of us.
late arrival: So sorry, Mrs. Knight, I'm so dreadfully late.
mrs. knight (who has been holding up a dinner-party): It's quite all right.
Miss Brown, you could never be too late.
big fish — 1) большая рыба; 2) важная персона, большая „шишка"

He Overdid It
Suggested Vocabulary
to iron
iron
linen
to have one's linen
washed
laundry
to overdry
to wet
to sprinkle with water
youngster
to watch
to make up one's mind
apron
watering-pot
to pour water
to climb the chair
pool of water
dripping wet
to trickle down
to give one a turn
I. Answer the following questions:
1) Where does the housewife have
her linen washed?
2) Is linen brought wet or dry from
rthe laundry? What makes you think
so?
3) What is the next thing to be
done with the linen brought from the
laundry?
4) Which do you find more
difficult — to wash or to iron your linen?
5) What article of clothing has the
woman on to protect her dress from
getting wet or soiled?
6) What was the boy doing while his mother ironed the linen?
7) Was the boy up to some mischief when he made up his mind to wet
he piece of linen himself?
8) Was it a good idea to use a watering-pot for wetting linen?
9) Which do you think is better — to sprinkle the linen the way our
housewife did or to pour water on it like the boy did?
10) Do you think the boy is used to helping his mother about the
house?
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11) Was the woman pleased to have her son's help?
12) What was it necessary to do with the piece of linen the boy had
watered?
II. Recast the following sentences as in the pattern:
Pattern
Why are (were) you crying? — What
makes (made) you cry?
1) Why is the woman sprinkling the linen with water?
2) Why is the boy looking at his mother so attentively?
3) Why did the boy decide to use the watering-pot?
4) Why had the boy to climb the chair?
5) Why did the woman turn when the boy climbed the chair?
III. * Supply the missing parts of similes in the story relating in a nutshell the
incident dealt with in the pictures. Here are the missing parts of the similes- monkey,
ABC, two sticks, Punch, cricket, fire, bee, mouse, snow, rock, day, snow in harvest.
The woman was as busy as. .. ironing her linen. Her son was sitting
as quiet as. . . watching her work. Although her son was as tricky as. ..
she didn't suspect him of anything this time. The linen was as white as. ..
and smelt of fresh air. The iron was as hot as. .. and hissed when coming
into contact with wet linen. The boy, always as merry as... , was silent
as if thinking something over. He thought he had found a way of
sprinkling linen and it seemed to him as easy as. .. .
He rushed to the attic and snatched the old watering-pot from the
window-sill. When he saw water pouring on the article spread on the
table he was as pleased as... . No wonder his mother was as cross as...
when she realized what had happend. She said his help in this case was
as welcome as... . She was as firm as... in punishing him. It was as
clear as... she had to be always on her guard having such a tricky boy
at home.
IV. * Which word would serve better to describe what the woman was doing with
the linen — iron or press? Cive reasons to justify your choice.
V. When the husband came home, his wife complained to him of their son. The man
didn't attach much importance to the incident and tried to calm his wife. In the left-
hand column we give hints for you to reconstruct the woman's complaints; in the right-
hand column are the sentences with which the man reacted on her words.
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SHE: HE:
to play a trick on somebody There's no harm done,
to get on one's nerves Don't exaggerate!
misbehaviour You are b*™S unJust The ub°y
, ., isn t as bad as you make him.
t0 spoU Just the other way round. I'm sure
^aughty he wanted to help you.
disobedience Nothing of the kind. You have no
to get out of hand ^аУ ™*ь hinL l can manaSe
him easily.
to be always ready for all sorts of Boys will always be boys,
tricks Don't let that distress you.
, . t .. , Don't be too hard on him — he's
a monster of a child simply giving vent to his
to be always up to some mischief energy.
VI. * Explain the meaning of the italicized words.
The woman had been on the go since seven o'clock that morning, and
the work she was doing was not of the kind to be done hands down. As
there was a lot to be done and the woman was up to her eyes in work, she
could not keep an eye on her five-year-old son. He was her only child,
the apple of her eye, and consequently, a rather spoilt boy, ready for all
sorts of tricks. He broke or tore to pieces everything he could lay hands on.
When his mother saw him pouring water on the thing she was going
to iron, she must have seen red. The boy could not think of any excuse to
escape the punishment — he was caught red-handed.
His father tried to plead for him, but the woman cut him short and
declared that he had no say in the matter. So he could do nothing but tell
the boy that the latter would have to face the music. And when the next
day at the canteen he told his chums of the trick his son had played, it
set the whole table in a roar.
VII. Retell the jokes in indirect speech, supply more details.
customer: Take a look at what you did to this!
laundryman: I can't see anything wrong with that piece of lace.
customer: Lace, hell! That was a sheet!
customer: Why do you charge extra for each of my cuffs?
manager of laundry: Because you make pencil notes on them.
customer: Why should that make such a difference?
manager: The girls waste so much time trying to make them out.
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— I expect a lot of dirty work when I start my new business.
— Treachery, eh?
— No, I'm opening a laundry.
— Does you mother do her own washing?
— Yes, all except her back.
teacher: Bobbie, who was Anne Boleyn? l
bobbie: Anne Boleyn was a flat iron.
teacher: What on earth do you mean?
bobbie: Well, it says here in the history book: "Henry, having disposed of
Catherine, pressed his suit2 with Anne Boleyn."
— My suit has not been pressed and has been all night on the floor.
— Couldn't your wife have picked it?
— No, you see, I happened to be in it.
— What did you do with the cuffs I left on the table last night?
— They were so soiled I sent them to the laundry.
— My god, the entire history of England was on them.
"Eliza," said a friend of the family to the old washerwoman, "have
you seen Miss Edith's fiance?"
"No, ma'am," answered the latter, "it ain't been in the wash yet."
VIII. Read and retell the text given below. Pay special attention to the italicized
words that may be useful while relating the story in pictures.
It was a small steam laundry, wherein the most modern machinery did
everything that was possible for machinery to do. Martin, after a few
instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the
washer and made up fresh supplies of soft-soap. Finishing the sorting,
Martin lent a hand in wringing the clothes.
And after supper they worked until ten o'clock, under the blazing
electric lights, until the last piece of underclothing was ironed and folded
away in the distributing room. It was a hot Californian night, and though
the windows were thrown wide, the room, with its red-hot ironing-stove,
was a furnace.
Tuesday was a day of similar unremitting toil. Martin "rubbed out"
collars and cuffs, rubbing the starch out from between the double
thickness of linen, so that there would be no blisters when it came to the
ironing.
1 ['аэп 'bulin] second wife of king Henry VIII
2 to press one's suit — 1) спешить жениться; 2) гладить костюм
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They starched two hundred white shirts, with a single gathering
movement seizing the shirt so that the wristband, neckband, yoke, and bosom
protruded beyond the circling right hand. At the same moment the left
hand held the body of the shirt so that it would not enter the starch, and
at the same moment the right hand dipped into the starch — starch so hot
1hat, in order to wring it out, their hands had to be thrust, and thrust
continually, into the bucket of cold water.
Martin washed woolens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with
strong soft-soap. Martin learned to do many things. In the course of the
first week, in one afternoon, he and Joe accounted for the two hundered
white shirts.
It was exhausting work, carried on, hour after hour, at top speed. The
air in the laundry was sizzling. The huge stove roared red hot and white
hot, while the irons, moving over the damp clothes, sent up clouds of
steam. The heat of these irons was different from that used by housewives.
An iron that stood the ordinary test of a wet finger was too cold for Joe
and Martin, and such test was useless. They went wholly by holding the
irons close to their cheeks, testing the heat by some secret mental process
that Martin admired but could not understand. When the fresh irons
proved too hot, they hooked them on iron rods and dipped them into cold
water. Twice a week they had to put through hotel linen — the sheets,
pillow-slips, tablecloths, and napkins.
(After /. London)
IX. Tell the story in pictures. Tell it as if you were the housewife, the boy or the
husband.
X. Describe your washing day.

Getting about Town
A Nice Drive
Suggested Vocabulary
to be at the wheel
brake
to put the brakes on
to slow down
gates
to smash
back-seat driving l
my patience is at an end
in the long run
sun visor
slippery
to grab
to bawl out smb.
to frown
I. Answer the questions. Before you do it, make sure you understand the question
correctly by repeating it in indirect speech. Begin like this: Do you want me to tell
you..., Shall I tell you.. ..
1) Is the action taking place in Great Britain or in the U.S.A.? What
makes you think so?
2) In Great Britain traffic keeps to the left,, doesn't it? The driver's
seat in British cars is to the right, isn't it?
3) What may the woman be pointing her finger at? A) What makes
you think so?
советы пассажира водителю, как надо вести машину; непрошенные советы
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4) Is she saying anything to her husband?
5) What is she saying to her husband?
6) What is the difference between pictures 1, 2 and 3?
7) Are the remarks, pieces of advice and shrieks on the part of the
woman helping the husband to drive the car better?
8) How does the expression of the man's face change throughout the
series of pictures?
9) Could the man bear it very long?
10) What has the man done to make driving more comfortable?
11) Why has the man lowered the sun visor in front of his wife?
12) Can the woman see anything that is going on on the road in front
of the car now?
13) How has the arrangement affected the mood of the driver? What
makes you think so?
II. Act the following dialogues and compare the situations in them with those in
the series of pictures. Introduce your arguments by: whereas, while, in contrast with
(to), unlike, both... and
1
There are two of them in the car. The husband is at the wheel, his wife is sitting at
the back. Both of them are working very hard: the husband is busy driving the car,
and his wife is no less busy giving him lots of advice as to what he ought and what
he ought not to do; in short she is busy back-seat driving.
wife: Careful, Jack! There's a bend over there.
husband: I've seen it, dear. Don't worry.
W.: Don't hit that lorry! Slow down a little!
H.; We're going very slowly as it is. Only forty miles an hour. I can stop
in fifty yards, or less than that.
W.: Forty miles an hour isn't very slow. There's a crossing. Can't you see
the sign?
H.: I see it all right. Why worry?
W.: But the gates are closed. Put the brakes on, quick!
H.: It's all right. I hope we shan't have to wait long. There's the train.
W.: Get ready to go, Jack! The man's going to open the gates. Get going!
Will you never learn?
(For some minutes they drive in silence, then the wife resumes the
dialogue.)
W.: Look! There's a tunnel and a bend! The tunnel is very narrow!
Whatever are you doing? You'll smash into the van before you know where
you are!
H.: Listen, Nora. I'm sick of your back-seat driving. The tunnel is wide
enough for two heavy lorries to pass. Can't you keep silent for a
while?
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W.: How can I possibly keep silent if you keep driving like a fool?
Motoring isn't dangerous if the driver is careful, and you are driving like a
madman.
H.: I can't bear it any longer. My patience is at an end. Look here, Nora*
if you keep on your back-seat driving, we shall have an accident in the
long run... Ah, that's an idea! (Lowering the sun visor so as to
exclude the possibility of his wife's seeing anything in front of the car.)
There! That'll fix it, I hope.
2
she: You shouldn't have put your brakes on when the highway's so
slippery.
he: I put the brakes on because you grabbed the steering wheel.
she- I grabbed the steering wheel because you started to weave from side
to side.
he: I started to weave after you grabbed the emergency brake.
she-. I grabbed the hand brake after you shouted "My God!"
he: I shouted "My God!" after you jerked my foot off the accelerator.
she: I jerked your foot off the accelerator because you didn't want to-
listen to me.
he: I didn't want to listen to you because you told me I should be driving
an ass on a rope instead of a car.
she-. I suggested you should be driving an ass and not a car because you
were driving like a madman.
he: I drove like a madman to get away from the Fiat driver you bawled
out as we passed.
SHE: I bawled him out because he was looking at me and pointing his
finger at his forehead.
he: He was pointing his finger at his forehead because you had put your
right hand out of the window as if we were going to make a right
turn.
she: I put my hand out to show you the tree we were going to smash into
if you kept driving like a fool.
he.- But in the end we smashed into a different one.
she: But of course. You'll do anything just to contradict me.
III. Find in the dialogues (Ex. II) English equivalents to the following Russian,
expressions:
Руль; ручной тормоз; ты не должен был тормозить; столкнуть ногу
с акселератора; в конце концов; врезаться в дерево; ты готов на все,
лишь бы сделать мне наперекор; шлагбаум закрыт; приготовься ехать;
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езда на машине не опасна; мы сбавили скорость до двадцати миль
в час; не успеешь опомниться; не можешь ли ты помолчать немного;
терпению моему пришел конец.
IV. * Here are some sentences to illustrate the meanings of the word drive.
Translate these sentences without looking up the words in the dictionary, then check your
version with the key.
1) Whoever wants your back-seat driving? You had better mind your
own business.
2) We can do very well without your back-seat driving.
3) What are you driving at? You don't mean to say that you are going
to back out of your promise?
4) John was quick enough to see at once what the fellow was driving
at.
V. Compose sentences based on the pictures containing comparison of
proportionately increasing or decreasing qualities according to the pattern.
Pattern
1) The longer we stayed there, the more we liked the place.
2) The longer we stayed there, the less we liked the place.
VI. Make use of Dialogue 1 to ask questions beginning with What would have
happened if...? Give your answers. Introduce your answers with: well...; let me
see...; just a moment; how should I put it?
Pattern
A.: What would have happened if the woman hadn't grabbed the steering wheel?
В.: The man wouldn't have put the brakes on.
VII. Practice a typical English response. Use the following in responses: to put the
brakes on; to drive the car oneself; to slow down; to step on it; to be more careful.
Pattern
A.: It's cold in the room.
В.: Why don't (haven't) you shut the window then?
1) I don't like your driving.
2) The road is very slippery.
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3) Гт afraid we're going to have an accident.
4) We are moving at a snail's pace.
5) We'll soon have a crossing.
VIII. Retell the following jokes.
A pretty young woman was driving her car when something went
wrong with the engine. The traffic light changed from green to red and
back to green and still she couldn't get the car to budge. A policeman
strolled up.
"What's the matter, Miss?" he inquired gently. "Ain't l we got colours
you like?"
— What would your wife say if you bought a new car?
— "Look out for the traffic-light! Be careful now! Don't hit that truck!
Why don't you watch where you are going? Will you never learn?"
And a lot more like that.
battered motorist (waking up): Where am I? Where am I?
nurse: This is Number 62.
motorist: Room or cell?
WOMAN LEARNING TO DRIVE: But I don't knOW what to do!
her husband: Just imagine that I'm driving.
mother: What did your father say when you smashed the new car?
son: Shall I leave out the swear words?
mother: Yes, of course.
son: He didn't say a word.
1 ain't (coll.) = haven't

Her Own Little Darling
Suggested Vocabulary
to travel by bus to rebuke (smb.)
passenger to nip mischief in the bud
to fidget to get on one's nerves
to turn back he got sick of it
to pick up a quarrel (with) to make a row
tease, bully to turn a blind eye (to)
to pull (make) faces = to to put the blame (on)
grimace to have a guilty air
to mimic to feel uneasy (ill at ease)
I. Compose sentences prompted by the pictures. The
following verbs and word combinations may turn out helpful:
to like, to dislike, to stare, to make (pull) faces (see /, 2);
to like, (not) to pay attention, to (dis) regard, (not) to
notice, to see, to hear (see 3, 4).
Pattern
1)
2.
1 3)
1 4)
The more I
The
It
It
He
read
the book, the more
longer he spoke, the less I liked
looks as
looks as
doesn't
if it
if he
seem
were going to rain.
didn't understand
to understand me.
I enjoyed it.
him.
me.
II. * Select come adjectives to be used as attributes in
characterizing any of the personages.
III. Ask and answer questions on the pictures.
IV. The incident you see in the pictures is undoubtedly
the result of a faulty upbringing in the family. Exchange
opinions and find out what your comrades think of the
child, what its mother should have done to preclude the
incident. Ask them what they would do under the
circumstances if they were directly involved in the incident or if
they merely observed it. The possible opening phrases are:
/ wonder what (why)...?; Should you see (hear, etc J...;
What would you.. .?; If I were in his (her) shoes, I...; She
ought to have. . t .
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V. Make up a short dialogue between the woman and the man. Let the woman
accuse the man of bullying the child. The man will try to talk back. Use the following:
How impudent of you to...!; How naughty of the child to.. ./; How wicked!; But I
didn't (wasn't)!; But you did!
VI. Retell the episode at length. Add as many details as you possibly can.
VII. If ever you witnessed an incident of the kind, enlarge on it.
VIII. Tell the Russian story given below and compare it with the episode under
discussion. What is there in common in both the incidents? Who, do you think, is to
blame for them? Why? The following words and expressions may turn out useful: to be
delayed; to scream (with); to push aside; swollen feet; cab; to offer one's seat; to be
on the safe side; shut up!; leave me alone!; oh, bother!; to make a face; to hurt; to
drum; jump table; somersault; stewardess; censure.
ВСЕ ХОТЯТ ЧУЖИХ ДЕТЕЙ ВОСПИТЫВАТЬ
Самолет задержался вылетом из-за погоды. [...] Пассажиры
нервничали. Кто опаздывал на работу, кто торопился по другим срочным делам.
Несколько часов мы сидели в автобусе в ожидании, когда повезут
на аэродром. [...]
За время ожидания пассажиры успели познакомиться с мальчиком
лет десяти-одиннадцати, которого мама постоянно окликала, боясь, что
он потеряется. Это был Саша, юное существо с совершенно
неукротимой энергией. Он прыгал, пел, визжал от удовольствия, расталкивая
усталых пассажиров, чтобы промчаться от одной двери автобуса и
выскочить в другую. Мама счастливо улыбалась.
Наконец автобус тронулся. Саше не досталось места, и мама
уступила ему свое. Полной и уже немолодой женщине, с отекшими ногами,
было трудно стоять. Автобус покачивался. Сжимая спинку кресла,
Сашина мама болезненно морщилась, силясь удержать равновесие.
В нашем автобусе было еще несколько женщин с ребятами. Одна
из них сидела рядом с Сашей, а своего мальчугана, примерно того же
возраста, отправила вперед. Там он стоял возле кабины водителя
и с интересом наблюдал за его работой.
— Саша, — обратилась к нему сидевшая рядом женщина. — Как
тебе не стыдно? Уступи место маме.
Мальчик недовольно покосился на мать и на всякий случай
всхлипнул. Мамино сердце не выдержало.
— Все хотят чужих детей воспитывать, — вспылила она.
— Почему только хотят? — мягко возразила женщина. — Многие
считают своим долгом.
— И дети эти нам не чужие, — кто-то подсказал из другого ряда.
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... В самолете мне досталось место в самом хвосте. Я с уважением
посмотрел на плотную перегородку, отделяющую наш отсек от
остальной части пассажирских мест, подумал, что наконец-то можно отдохнуть
от Саши. . . [. . .] Перегородка с шумом раздвинулась, и к нам ворвался
Саша. За ним, гордо подняв голову, проплыла мама. [...]
Она была уверена, что ее ребенка никто не имеет права
воспитывать и тем более давать советы, как это делать. Впрочем, даже если бы
она и послушалась чьих-то добрых советов, то все равно это оказалось
бы бесполезным.
Она пыталась останавливать Сашу. ..[...] На эти бесплодные
попытки Саша отвечал довольно лаконично:
— Не ори!
— Отстань!
— Без тебя знаю!
— Ты мне надоела!
На коленях у сидящей неподалеку от меня женщины вздрагивал от
крика сонный ребенок. Саша подбежал к нему и состроил зверскую
рожу. Мать не выдержала и шепотом послала милого Сашу к черту.
Вслух бы она не сказала. Побоялась Сашиной мамы. Мы тоже все
боялись, но по-разному. Одни избегали скандала. Другие не хотели
затрагивать материнские чувства. Какой же матери приятно, когда
посторонние делают замечания ее ребенку? Наверное, она и так несчастна.
Потерпим как-нибудь до Москвы.
За моей спиной Саша выбивал барабанную дробь на
откидывающемся столике. [. . .] Я попросил Сашу хоть чуточку успокоиться. Ведь он
не один.
Напрасные старания. Мы терпели. Но вот в очередном
сальто-мортале Саша больно ударил моего соседа по голове. Взбешенный, он
нажал кнопку для вызова бортпроводницы, и, когда она подошла, от
имени всех пассажиров попросил удалить отсюда ребенка.
Проводница удивилась.
— Но ведь он же с матерью. Обратитесь к ней.
— Бесполезно, — последовал ответ, и все его поддержали.
Я уже не помню, какие внушительные слова говорила Саше
проводница. Человек, так сказать, облеченный административной властью.
Это ли подействовало или единодушное осуждение, выраженное в столь
конкретной и нелицеприятной форме, но Саша успокоился. Мама тоже
молчала, видимо понимая, что отстаивать свои принципы единоличного
воспитания в данной ситуации не следует.
(Вл. Немцов. Волнения, радости, надежды.
М., Госполитиздат, 1961.)
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IX. Read and retell the dialogues that might have taken place in the bus.
1
gentleman: When I was a child, ma'm, I was told that if I made ugly faces
I would stay like it.
lady (to boy): Look, dear. The gentleman says he made faces when a boy,
though he knew he would stay like it.
boy: Well, he can't say he wasn't warned, can he?
L.: Oh, Willie, for shame. You could have whispered it to me.
В.: But why? Doesn't he know he is ugly?
2
lady: Do stop fidgeting, dear. Whatever makes you turn, I wonder?
boy: The gentleman in the back seat.
L. (after a while): Didn't I tell you to stop turning, Willie? What is it
that you have found in that gentleman of yours?
В.: Why! He hasn't a hair on his head. I saw him lift his hat and didn't
see a single one.
L.: Hush, dear. You shouldn't speak so loudly.
В.: Why?
L.: It's impolite. The gentleman will hear you.
В.: Oh! Doesn't he know it, mum?
L.: Well, Willie, when we got on the bus you told the conductor I was
thirty-one without his asking you anything of the kind. And now you
are being naughty again.
В.: But the conductor asked you how old I was, so I thought he wanted to
know your age too. Aren't you thirty-one, mummy?
L.: I wish I could go through one whole day without once scolding or
punishing you, Willie.
В.: Well, mother, you have my consent. I won't mind it at all.
3
gentleman (to lady): Your child, ma'm, is a savage, cruel, noisy, frightful,
inquisitive thing.
L.: He is decidedly nothing of the kind.
G.: Why! He has been turning and making faces and annoying me all the
time.
L.: He did not. It's just the poor dear's indiscretion that drives you mad.
G.: May I ask you what you mean, ma'm?
L.: That the kid was indiscreet to the point of telling the truth about your
ugliness. You're just hurt, that's what I say. In general, I'd strongly
recommend you, Sir, to mind your own children.
G.: Believe me, ma'm, if I had a son like yours, I would live with him only
because I can't afford to do otherwise. There!

At a Bus Stop
Suggested Vocabulary
to push aside
to cut in ahead of turn
overcrowded bus
rush hour
ill-bred men
ungentlemanly behaviour
to be too timid to elbow one's way through
to let smb. pass (first)
to help one into the bus
to move aside for smb. to pass
I. Answer the following questions:
1) Where are the people standing?
2) What are they waiting for?
3) What can you say about the people who are queueing at the bus
stop? Are they of the same age, sex?
4) How many people are there at the bus stop in the second picture?
5) Are they new-comers or some of those shown in the first picture?
What makes you think so?
6) What happened at the bus stop when the bus drew up? How do you
account for the incident? (See Pattern 1.)
7) Was there much room in the bus when it came to the stop?
8) Was it easy to get on the bus?
9) Did the people get on the bus in turn, that is to say, did they get
on the bus in the order they were standing in the queue?
10) Did the woman that was first in the queue get on the bus?
11) Did any one of the women in the queue get on the bus?
12) Did any of the men in the queue stay behind?
13) What should the men have done? (See Pattern 2.)
14) Under what circumstances would the three women not have been
left behind? (See Pattern 3.)
15) What do the pictures illustrate?
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16) Are such episodes a rare occurrence in your town?
17) What are the ways to eliminate such unseemly practices from our
life?
18) Did the men follow the principle "Ladies first"?
Pattern 1
1)
2)
Tom
Tom
must have come here,
seems to have come here.
You should
have
come
earlier.
Pattern 3
They wouldn't have been told about the incident unless they had insisted on it
(being told).
II. Correct the statements that are not true to fact. Make use of the following
expressions: I'm sorry to contradict but.. .; on the contrary; / don't agree with you
there; I hardly think it probable that... .
1) The men were very polite and let the women go first.
2) All the people in the line got on the bus in turn.
3) The bus was not overcrowded, there were many vacant seats in it.
4) It is always easy to get on the bus during the morning rush hour.
5) The buses did not run regularly. There were long queues at the bus
stops.
III. The bus was crammed full, and the people looked a real sight after they got
off. Their friends made some remarks concerning their state. Supply the replies.
Introduce the replies with: Oh, my (dear)!; Oh, bother!; Oh, really?; What a nuisance!; Right
you are!; So it is!; Looks like that. Use the following verbs in the replies: to polish, to
clean, to iron, to mend, to wave, to brush, to repair.
1) Your jacket is dreadfully dirty.
2) The lock of your handbag is broken.
3) Your shirt is creased.
4) Your hair is all dishevelled.
5) I think lots of people must have treaded on your shoes, they are
so dirty.
6) Your coat is covered with mud all over.
7) And your watch is broken too.
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IV. What might have happened if the men were well-bred?
V. Here are some suggested captions to the pictures. Choose the ones that are, in
your opinion, most to the point and reject others motivating your choice.
1) Left Behind.
2) Civility.
3) Gentlemen First.
4) Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady.
5) Glory to the Brave.
VI. After the bus disappeared out of sight the women got into conversation. Read
and enact the following possible version of it.
the black-haired woman: How impudent of them to have left us behind.
As if I hadn't been first in the line!
the girl: Yes, really. That long-legged lad actually pushed the dear old
lady aside. (To the middle-aged woman.) You must be in a hurry,
ma'am, aren't you?
the elderly woman: Me? No. I'm just taking a nerve cure.
the black-haired woman: Oh, what did you say?
the elderly woman: Well, I'm trying to harden my nerves. Every day I
wait two hours for the bus to pick me up. It sometimes takes me three
hours, though. But I don't care. You must take some fresh air,
somehow or other. Besides, there are interesting things to watch.
the girl: Indeed? How interesting!
the elderly woman: You won't believe me, my dear. The other day I had
a talk with a man whose wife is as forgetful as I myself am at times. I saw
a piece of cord tied around his finger. So I asked him what it was for.
the black-haired woman: What was it really for, I wonder?
the elderly woman: His wife put it there to remind him to post a letter.
But she forgot to give him the letter, see. That was a relief for me to
hear. I'm absent-minded too, you know.
the black-haired woman: Whatever you tell me, those men were brutes.
the elderly woman: You needn't fall upon them, dear. Buses are often so
overcrowded that even men have no seats.
the girl: There! Doesn't it speak for itself? No seats for them, to be sure!
I would be content if I had a wee bit of standing room. I've dated my
boy, and he must be waiting for me already. I think I had better run.
the black-haired woman: Here comes another bus. Let's try our luck again.
VII. Be ready to speak on the improvement of the public transport facilities in your
town.
VIII. Say wherein lies the humorous effect of the pictures.

He Sees Green
Suggested Vocabulary
crossing
traffic lights
to fine
colour-blind
to prescribe (to)
to obey traffic rules
to break traffic rules
I. Answer the following
questions:
1) What is there in the
middle of the picture?
2) Why has the policeman
stopped the car?
3) What must the driver of a car do when he sees a red light in
front of him?
4) When may the driver go on?
5) Are there traffic lights at every crossing?
6) The policeman is going to fine the driver, isn't he?
7) Is the driver trying to justify himself, do you think?
8) What is he saying to justify himself?
9) Are there people who cannot see the difference between colours?
10) What are they called?
11) What people are called colour-blind?
12) Colour-blind people ought not to drive cars and buses, ought
they?
13) Why do accidents happen in the streets?
14) What must we do to make our roads safer?
II. Finish the sentences according to the pattern.
Pattern
I did not understand the question, that is why I didn't answer it. If I had
understood the question, I should have answered it.
The doctor prescribed these spectacles
to me and I see everything green now.
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1) While driving a car the man wore dark spectacles prescribed to
him by the doctor and he did not notice the red light. If...
2) The man did not notice the red light, that is why he was stopped
by the policeman. If...
3) The man did not obey the traffic rules, that is why he was fined by
the policeman. If...
III. Correct the statements which are not true to fact. Introduce your answers by:
/ don't think so; I differ from you there; you are mistaken; you are wrong. Pay attention
to the correct use of sentence stress on the auxiliary verb.
Pattern
It isn't difficult. — I differ from you. It is difficult.
1) There are no colour-blind people.
2) All people can see the difference between colours.
3) The policeman did not fine the driver for breaking the traffic rules.
4) The driver didn't break the traffic rules.
5) The driver was not to blame for breaking the traffic rules.
IV. * Notice the different ways of expressing nearly the same idea. Which of the
sentences is more categoric and which of them expresses mere admonition? Comment on
the meaning of each sentence.
1) You must be more attentive while driving the car.
2) You should be more attentive and careful while driving.
3) Surely you might be more careful while driving the car.
4) You ought to be more careful while driving the car.
V. Enact the following dialogue:
If a driver does not obey the traffic rules, he is sure to be stopped by some traffic
officer. In our case the policeman stopped the driver for going right past the traffic
lights when they were red. The man had to give the policeman his name and address
and the policeman gave him a talk about dangerous driving.
Here is a possible dialogue between the driver and the policeman.
policeman: Let me see your driving licence, Sir.
driver: Here you are. What's the matter, officer?
P.: Nothing's the matter except that you aren't obeying the traffic rules.
D.: I'm doing my best.
P.: Then why don't you stop before the red light?
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D.: But it isn't red, it's green, can't you see?
P.: I can. Take off your dark spectacles and you'll see it as well.
D.: Oh, my! I clean forgot about the spectacles! The doctor prescribed
them to me, and now I see everything green. I'm sorry, officer.
P.: You are, are you! But then you don't seem to realize how dangerous
your driving is both to yourself and other people. Here's the ticket for
you. Now take off those spectacles and drive straight home. And you
mustn't try to drive again until your eyesight returns to normal.
VI. Tell the story as it might be told by the driver or the policeman.
VII. We headlined the picture He Sees Green. Notice that the expression to see red
has an altogether different meaning; it is an idiom, the Russian equivalent of which is
прийти в ярость, в бешенство. Give all the expressions you know with the verb see and
use them in sentences.
VIII. Speak on other comic situations you were involved in, witnessed or read
about.
IX. Retell the jokes.
Two men in a car went right past the traffic lights when they were
red, and were stopped by a policeman.
"I'm sorry, officer," said the driver thinking quickly. "I happen to be
a doctor and I am taking a patient to the asylum in a hurry."
The policeman was suspicious — but the passenger was just as quick.
Looking up at the policeman with a seraphic smile, he whispered: "Kiss
me, darling}"
They got away with it.
policeman: What do you mean going fifty miles an hour?
motorist: My brakes don't work and I was hustling to get home before I
had an accident.
The woman motorist was trying to navigate a traffic jam. She rammed
the car in front of her, then tried to back and knocked down a pedestrian.
Then she tried to move over to the kerb and smacked into a hydrant.
A policeman came up.
"Okay, lady, let's see your licence," he demanded.
"Don't be silly," she grunted. "Who'd give me a licence?"

A Way Out
Suggested Vocabulary
to have a ride
to ride a scooter
to be late (for)
to be in time (for)
you will make it
to be at a Iogs
to offer one's services
to offer a ride on the scooter
to do one's best
Get a move on!
I. Using the following questions, arrange a talk. Make use of the following
expressions: in fact; as a matter of fact; to tell you the truth; I may be wrong, but I think;
it seems to me that....
Pattern
A.: What do you see in the first picture?
В.: What did you say?
A : I want you to tell me what you see in the first picture.
В.: I see. As far as I can judge...
1) What do you see in the first picture?
2) What are Pif and Tom talking about?
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3) What does Tom wish to do?
4) What does Pif offer?
5) Where is the man sitting and what is he doing?
6) Is the newspaper interesting, do you think? What makes you think
so?
7) What is the man's wife saying to the man, do you think?
8) Why is the man not in a hurry?
9) Is the man sure that he will not be late for work?
10) Why is he sure that he will be in time for work?
11) What can be seen through the window?
12) Tom and Pif are having a ride on the motor scooter, aren't they?
13) Does the man find the motor scooter where he left it?
14) Is the man surprised?
15) Has the man enough time to go to work on foot now?
16) Is the man in a hurry now, do you think?
17) What does the man decide to do?
18) Is the man enjoying the ride on the little scooter, do you think?
19) The man is doing his best not to be late for work, isn't he?
20) The man looks funny on the little scooter, doesn't he?
21) The man's wife is greatly surprised to see him ride ihe little:
scooter, isn't she?
22) Can you ride a bicycle, a motor cycle or a motor scooter?
23) What would you do in the same situation?
II. Correct the following statements that are not true to fact. Make use of the
following expressions: on the contrary; you are mistaken; that's not quite right; I don't
agree with you there; I shouldn't say so; but he (she, they, etcj did.
Pattern
Tom didn't want to have a ride on the scooter. — On the contrary, he did want
to have a ride on the scooter.
1) Pif did not offer Tom a ride on the scooter.
2) The woman did not insist that her husband should go to work
immediately.
3) The man did not look surprised when he found that Pif had taken,
his scooter.
4) The man didn't intend to use the motor scooter that day.
5) Pif didn't enjoy the ride on the motor scooter.
III.* Look at picture 3. The man is greatly surprised to find that his scooter is no
longer where he left it. Arrange the sentences given below according to the degree o?
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the emotional colouring they possess. Which of them would you use if you were in the
same position?
1) Where is my scooter, I wonder?
2) What the devil have they done with my scooter?
3) Oh, if that Pif hasn't taken my scooter!
4) Pif will be the death of me!
5) It must be Pif s doing. Pif is the limit.
IV. Read the following dialogues, paying attention to the italicized expressions. Use
the expressions in sentences of your own.
1
wife: Whyever should you be reading that paper of yours? You'll be late
for work.
husband: Don't worry, dear, I have plenty of time yet.
W.: You think so. If I were you, I'd be moving already. You can't get there
in a hurry. Besides, the buses haven't been running regularly of late.
H.: Yes, those buses are the limit. But I don't need any bus today. I'll take
the motor scooter. It won't take me more than a quarter of an hour to
get there.
W.: Anyway, it's time you were moving. You must always have time for
an emergency. Besides our wall clock is five minutes slow.
H.: Is it? Then you should have told me so before.
W.: It's just like you, dear. Get a move on and you'll make it.
2
pif: Do you see that scooter over there, Tom?
том: Don't I! I'm not blind. What about it?
P.: A fine thing, isn't it?
Т.: Not bad.
P.: Would you like a ride?
Т.: Wouldn't I just! But Grand-dad wouldn't take me.
P.: We can do very well without him.
Т.: How? You don't mean to say that you can drive a scooter?
P.: I do. I learned when I was in the country.
Т.: You don't say so!
P.: Yes, we can have a ride now if you like.
Т.: You bet I do! It'll be wonderful!
V. Find in the dialogues English equivalents to the following Russian expressions:
Да что ты говоришь; еще бы; мы можем обойтись и без него; на
твоем месте; уж эти мне автобусы; пора тебе поторапливаться; это так
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похоже на тебя; туда не скоро доберешься; во всяком случае; за
последнее время; ты успеешь; вон там; ну и что.
VI. What is the difference between a bicycle, a motor cycle and a motor scooter?
VII. The episode shown in the pictures is not as improbable as one may suppose,
which may be proved by the following article.
АВТОМОБИЛЬ-КАРЛИК
Житель английского города Манчестера Лесли Шепард купил
в США игрушечный автомобиль, который может передвигаться со
скоростью двадцать километров в час. Шепард зарегистрировал машину,
получил номер и стал на ней ездить на работу, собирая каждый раз
вокруг себя много любопытных.
(Наука и жизнь, № 2, 1965)
Retell the article and comment on its contents. Here are some words that may be
helpful: a toy car; at a rate of... kilometres an hour; to have the car registered*
licence; curious onlookers.
VIII. Tell the episode as if you were one of the characters involved.
IX. Tell the episode using conditional sentences as often as possible.

The Disturber of the Peace
Suggested Vocabulary
pneumatic drill portable
to make noise radio-set
brass band to disturb
fire-engine consistent
horn sotto voce
to clear the way loud enough to wake the
fire-brigade dead
to put out the fire bundle of nerves
gossip to get on one's nerves
to gossip (skin)
I. Answer the following questions:
1) What are the two women in the
foreground doing?
2) What is the man with the pneumatic
drill doing?
3) Is the drill making much noise or is it
working noiselessly, do you think?
4) The women don't seem to mind the noise
very much, do they?
5) Who is making noise in the second
picture?
6) Is the brass band playing very loud?
7) Is the drum beater making very much
noise, do you think?
8) Are the women annoyed at the noise?
What makes you think so?
9) In the third picture there is another
source of noise, isn't there? What is it?
10) Why is the fire-engine making much
noise? Do fire-engines usually make much
noise?
11) The driver of the fire-engine is using
his horn to make people clear the way, isn't
he?
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12) The fire-brigade is hurrying to some fire to put it out as soon as
possible, isn't it?
13) Do the two gossips seem to mind the noise now? What makes you
think so?
14) But in the fourth picture the women seem to mind the noise, don't
they?
15) Are they speaking politely to the young man with the portable
radio?
16) They stopped talking and are now shouting at the disturber of the
peace, aren't they?
17) What is the source of the noise now?
18) Can a small portable radio set produce very much noise?
19) Can that noise be compared with the noise produced by a
pneumatic drill or a fire-engine rushing on duty?
20) Are these women consistent in their indignation?
II. Correct the statements that are not true to fact.
1) The brass band was playing sotto voce.
2) The two women did not like to gossip.
3) That portable radio was playing loud enough to wake the dead.
4) The two women were a bundle of nerves and could not bear any
noise.
5) They could not possibly talk in the street with all the noise of the
heavy traffic.
III. Memorize the following expressions and use them in appropriate situations
suggested by the pictures.
1) It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
2) My patience is at an end.
3) What's the idea of making that damn thing so loud?
4) It's getting on my nerves.
IV. Combine the pairs of sentences according to the patterns.
Pattern 1
He tried hard. He couldn't get there in time. — No matter how hard he tried,
he was unable to get there in time.
1) The pneumatic drill made much noise.
The two gossips went on'talking.
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2) The drum beaters (drummers) tried hard to deafen the onlookers.
The two women paid no attention to them at all.
3) The horn of the fire-engine was very loud.
The two women didn't even notice the disturbance.
Pattern 2
He finished the work. He left the room. — Hardly had he finished the work
when he left the room.
1) The young man with a small portable radio set appeared.
The two gossips began scolding him for disturbing their peace.
2) The fire-engine passed by.
The two women resumed their talk.
V. Listen to the following and render it:
1) A crowd of idlers were assembled in the road, looking at a hoarse
man in the balcony, who was apparently talking himself very red in the
face in Mr. Slumkey's behalf; but the force and point of whose arguments
were somewhat impaired by the perpetual beating of four large drums
which Mr. Fizkin's committee had stationed at the street corner. There
was a busy little man beside him, though, who took off his hat at
intervals and motioned to the people to cheer, which they regularly did, most
enthusiastically; and as the red-faced gentleman went on talking till he
was redder in the face than ever, it seemed to answer his purpose quite
as well as if anybody had heard him.
2) There was a grand band of trumpets, bassoons and drums,
marshalled four abreast, and earning their money, if ever men did, especially
the drum beaters, who were very muscular.
(Ch. Dickens. The Posthumous Papers, of the Pickwick Club)
VI. From the flashes of the two gossips' talk heard through the noise one might
reconstruct something like the dialogue given below.
State your attitude to the two gossips. What is it that you don't like in them
particularly? What traits of their characters are made especially prominent in the talk?
A.: Can it really be you, my dear?!
В.: Why, if it isn't Mrs. Brown! Just step aside for me to take a better
look. Small wonder I didn't recognize you at once: you are altered so
much.
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A.: For the better or for the worse?
В.: Oh, darling, you could only change for the better.
A.- Thank you, my dear. My! What an expensive dress! Has your husband
got a new job?
В.: No, dear. I've got a new husband.
A.: I see. Do tell me more about yourself. You look awfully tired.
В.: So would you. I've been window-shopping since morning. My
husband's birthday is coming round, you know, so I thought I might buy
him some nice book.
A.: Is the dear old man a bookworm?
В.: No, just an ordinary worm.
A.: Oh, dear! How you talk! I'm sure you didn't mean it, did you?
В.: But I did. I'll tell you, between ourselves, we aren't getting on quite
well. In fact we've been quarrelling since wedding day.
A.: When did you get married?
В.: Three weeks ago. I wish I hadn't taken that rash step.
A.: But surely you don't want to divorce him, with your honeymoon not
over yet. What is the quarrel about?
В.: His impudence! Just think: he signed his name in the register in
bigger letters than mine. I wonder if you'd ever stand it!
A.: Not me. (Pointing to a little dog passing by.) Just take a look at that
little thing. I had one too, but it's got lost.
В.: Poor darling! But why not put an advertisement in the papers?
A.: The idea crossed my mind, but then I gave it up.
В.: Why?
A.: The poor pet can't read, can it?
В.: I never thought of that.

One Way Only
But, officer, I am
only going one way!
Suggested Vocabulary
car driver
traffic officer
to obey traffic rules
to break traffic rules
road sign
road accident
to prevent an accident
to meet with an accident
to drive a car
to fine smb. a definite sum of money
to keep to one side of the road
driving licence
to exceed the speed limit
to speed (sped)
to charge smb. with smth.
to give a lesson in "safety first"
to misunderstand
to differ (from smb.)
to contradict smb.
to be indignant
to be furious
to fret and fume
to argue
to prove
I. Answer the following questions:
1) What do you see on the left of the policeman?
2) What do you see on the right of the policeman?
3) What does the inscription on the road sign mean?
4) What does the arrow on the road sign show? In what direction Is
the street open to traffic?
5) Did the driver obey the traffic rules?
6) Why has the policeman stopped the car?
7) What is the policeman doing?
8) The driver of the car will be fined by the policeman, won't he?
9) Does the driver consider the policeman a just man?
10) Why is the driver indignant?
11) How is the driver trying to prove to the policeman that he is
right?
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12) Streets and roads with one way traffic only help to reduce the
number of road accidents, don't they?
II. Ask questions on the picture and answer them.
III. Correct the statements that are not true to fact using the pattern. Here are
some expressions to introduce your answers: / shouldn't say so; just the other way
round; far from it.
Pattern
The driver didn't notice the road sign. — On the contrary, he did notice it.
1) The car driver did not break the traffic rules.
2) The traffic officer did not fine the driver.
3) The car driver is not trying to justify himself.
4) The car driver is not surprised and indignant.
5) The car driver enjoyed the talk with the traffic officer.
IV. Read the dialogue, saying the Russian sentences in English. Use the following
-expressions: how much is it?; to be late for work; what's the matter?; here you are!; to
¦exceed the speed limit; it looks as if I'll never...; I wonder; as it is; well enough; to
be in a hurry; that's none of your business; a fiver.
driver (sees the traffic officer ordering him to stop): Похоже на то, что
сегодня я не доберусь до работы. Интересно, что ему нужно? (Stops
the car.) В чем дело, сержант?
traffic officer: Let me see your driving licence, young man.
D.: Зачем? Я ведь не превысил установленной скорости. Я ехал
осторожно.
Т. О.: I'm not going to charge you with speeding.
D.: Так в чем же дело? Я уже и так опаздываю на работу. Я
тороплюсь.
Т. О.: If you are in a hurry, you shouldn't be driving a car. Don't you see
this here sign?
D.: Еще бы, я достаточно хорошо его вижу. Я ведь не слепой.
Т. О.: Then why don't you obey the traffic rules? This is a one way lane.
D.: Но ведь я и еду только в одном направлении.
Т. О.: That you are, to be sure. But which way are you driving?
D.: Мне кажется, что это не ваше дело. На работу, конечно.
Т. О.: I didn't mean that. Don't you see this here arrow? It shows the way
in which the traffic is allowed here. And you are driving in the oppo-
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site direction. So, I'll write up a ticket for you. You had better pay the
fine at once.
D.: Сколько платить?
Т. О.: One rouble. Here is the ticket.
D.: У меня есть только пятерка. Возьмите.
Т. О.: I'll give you four roubles change. Here you are. Drive on and be
more attentive.
V. Complete the following:
1) The traffic officer stopped the car and prevented a possible road
accident. If... .
2) The car driver did not obey the traffic rules, and so he was fined by
the traffic officer. If... .
3) The man did not notice the road sign, that is why he broke the
traffic rules. If... .
4) The man did not understand the meaning of the road sign and
thought that he was right, so he began arguing with the policeman. If... .
VI. Tell the story. Tell it as if you were the driver and then the traffic officer.
VII. Read or listen to the dialogue and explain wherein lies the humorous effect
of it. Enact the dialogue.
KEEP TO THE LEFT l
A street in an English town. A policeman stops a car. In the car there is a visitor
from another country.
policeman (holding up his hand): Stop!
visitor: What's the matter?
P.: Why are you driving on the right side of the road?
V.: Do you want me to ride on the wrong side?
P.: You are driving on the wrong side.
V.: But you said that I was driving on the right side.
P.: That's right. You're on the right, and that's wrong.
V.: A strange country! If right is wrong, I'm right when I'm on the wrong
side. So why did you stop me?
P.: My dear sir, you must keep to the left. The right side is the left.
V.: It's like a looking-glass! I'll try to remember. Well, I want to go to
Bellwood. Will you kindly tell me the way?
P.: Certainly. At the end of this road, turn left.
1 In England traffic keeps to the left.
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V.: Now let me think. Turn left! In England left is right, and right is
wrong. Am I right?
P.: You'll be right if you turn left. But if you turn right, you'll be wrong.
V.: Thank you. It's as clear as daylight.
(G. C. Thornley)
VIII. Memorize the jokes, enact them and then retell in indirect speech as fully as
you can.
policeman (after collision): You saw this lady driving toward you. Why
didn't you give her the road?
driver: I was going to, as soon as I could discover which half she wanted.
officer (to couple in parked car): Don't you see that sign, "Fine1 for
Parking"?
driver: Yes, Officer, I see it and heartily agree with it.
— Why is your car painted blue on one side and red on the other?
— Oh, it's a fine idea. You should just hear the witnesses contradicting
one another!
IX. * Can-you change ride into walk in five steps? Alter one letter at a time and
form another word at each step. Here are the clues to the words to be formed.
RIDE
1. . . . 1) The regular fall and rise of the sea, about 12 hours.
2. . . . 2) Thin piece of baked clay used to cover roofs, walls, floors,
etc.
3. . . . 3) A story
4. . . . 4) To speak
WALK
X. Read the following short article from the Daily Worker.2 Pay attention to the
expressions dealing with road safety and use them while speaking on the picture.
ROAD SAFETY BID
A new road safety club for motorists, the Silver Wheel Club, launched
in London yesterday, is open to all road users prepared to take a pledge
to help raise the standard of driving and to practise road courtesy.
1 fine—1) штраф; 2) прекрасный
2 Now Morning Star
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He Crossed the Road
in Safety
Suggested Vocabulary
to fell trees
to block the road
let's call it a day
to run down, to knock down
traffic lights
to be faced with a problem
to cross the road
to have an idea
to set about
to put into effect
tin
battery
electric bulb
electric current
wire
heavy traffic
to obey traffic rules
to prevent road accidents
the road is clear
without loss of time
to tinker with smth.
Crossing a street or a road where the traffic is heavy is not an easy matter. Every
child must be taught to cross the road safely. There are certain rules that help to make
the roads safe, and we must always obey those rules if we want to prevent road
accidents.
The main rule to know is this:
Before crossing the road, stop and look both ways. First look left (in our country,
where traffic keeps to the right; in Great Britain, Australia and Japan, where traffic
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keeps to the left, one must, accordingly, first look to the right), then look right, and
then look left again. If you are sure that the road is clear, you may cross the road.
Here are two series of pictures of the adventures of Pif. In both of them Pif is
faced with the problem of crossing the road.
I. Look at the first series of pictures and answer the following questions:
1) What has Pif been doing?
2) Has he done much?
3) Is he going to continue working?
4) What does he decide to do after a good day's work?
5) What does Pif say wiping his forehead?
6) On his way home Pif has to cross a road with an endless stream of
cars. Can he cross the road in safety?
7) After waiting for a long time Pif finds a way out, doesn't he?
8) What does Pif decide to do to make the road safe for crossing?
9) Now the road is safe for crossing, but it is blocked to traffic, isn't
it?
10) Aren't the drivers of cars surprised to find the road blocked in
that way?
11) Is that the right way to make the road safe for crossing?
12) What ought Pif to have done to cross the road safely without
blocking it?
II. Now look at the second series of pictures dealing with the same subject. Here
Pit is again faced with the problem of crossing the road with heavy traffic. He saw
that he couldn't possibly cross the road in safety. "They'd run you down without a
thought, however careful you may be," he thought.
And this time, as usual, he had a bright idea. Without loss of time he set about
putting it into effect. In one of the pictures we see Pif busy tinkering with empty tins,
electric bulbs, pieces of wire and other things.
1) What is Pif going to make?
2) What does he need wire for?
3) What does he need batteries for?
4) An electric bulb wouldn't burn without electric current, would
it?
5) How many colours are there in the traffic lights?
6) Pif has switched on the red light, hasn't he?
7) When the light is red, the traffic must stop, mustn't it?
8) What might be the consequence if the driver of a car didn't stop
before a red light?
9) Can Pif cross the street now?
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10) Is this solution of the problem better than that in the previous
scries of pictures? What makes you think so?
11) Do you think the traffic was stopped for a long time?
III. Find the English equivalent to each of the Russian sentences. Make use of
them in new natural contexts.
A. 1) Светофор — вот что мне нужно!
2) Одна минута — и все будет готово!
3) Не зря я провозился с этим хламом!
4) Провалиться мне на этом месте, если этот Пиф не задумал еще
чего-нибудь!
5) Ну вот, светофор готов!
6) Вот те на! Дорога закрыта!
B. 1) I'll get it ready in no time!
2) There, the traffic lights are ready!
3) Oh, my! The road is blocked!
4) Traffic lights! Just the thing I need!
5) It's not for nothing that I tinkered with that trash!
6) I'll be blowed if that Pif isn't up to something!
IV. Read and reproduce the dialogue between two drivers.
ist driver: What's the matter? Why don't we go?
2nd driver: The road is blocked.
ist: What's wrong there? Some accident, eh?
2nd: Not exactly. Some wise guy has felled a tree across the road.
ist: Are they doing anything to clear the road?
2nd: Yes, but the tree is very large, so it'll take some time to cut it into
several logs before they can be moved aside,
ist: I'm afraid standing here an-d talking won't get us anywhere. Let's go
and help them.
2nd: Yes, that's what I was going to suggest.
V. Find in the dialogue English equivalents to the following Russian
expressions:
Разговоры ни к чему не приведут; очистить дорогу; дорога
перегорожена; не совсем так; я тоже собирался это предложить.
VI. Tell the story as if you were one of the drivers. Make use of the expressions: and
what should I come across but...; to be up to some trick; to block the road (the road
was blocked)*
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VII. Speak on Pifs train of thoughts. Use the following expressions: It's high
time...; Hadn't I better.. .; / would rather. *.; / wish I.. „ .
VIII. Use the following expressions in situations of your own:
1) Not exactly.
2) This won't get us anywhere.
3) Just the thing I need!
4) That's what I was going to suggest!
5) It's not for nothing that I... .
6) I'll be blowed if... .
7) To be up to smth.
IX. Compose sentences dealing with road safety.
Pattern
It is advisable (necessary) that you should read much.
X. Arrange a talk on road safety and prevention of road accidents.
XI. Speak on a road accident described in literature (see Morning Star, An
American Tragedy by Th. Dreiser, etc.).
XII. Here is another picture for you to dwell on. Make up your own exercises on
the picture: (a) Select the vocabulary that might be used while dealing with the picture,
(b) Ask and answer questions on the picture, (c) Select suitable patterns to be trained
with the help of the picture. Use them in your speech, (d) Comment upon the picture,
(e) Tell the episode as if you gave it credit.
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His Manners
Suggested Vocabulary
to turn a blind eye (to) to fold one's hands in
to recline comfortably one's lap
to hold on to the back of
the seat
shaky
to walk with a stick
to use make-up freely ill-bred (mannered)
too mindful of one's looks impudent
stylish
beauty spot (mole)
checkered comforter
I. Arrange a short talk about the questions we give
below. Make use of the pattern wherever possible. Here
are some phrases for you to use in your talk: just so;
that's right; exactly; you never can tell; I hardly think
so; in my opinion; to my mind; the way things are.
Pattern
A. (to В): Here is N. reclining comfortably in
his seat in the tram. What sort of man do you
think him to be?
В.: Do you want me to speak of his looks first?
(Do you mean his looks?)
A.: Just so.
В.: He doesn't look young, does he, C? (I don't
think he is young, do you, C?)
C: Well, if you ask me, he must be past his teens.
1) What sort of man do you think S. to be?
2) Do you think he is hurrying to work?
3) The old man in picture 1 is old enough
for S. to offer him his seat, isn't he?
Substantiate your answer.
4) S. is too deep in thought to notice the
woman. B) Don't you think so? Give reasons
for your answer.
5) What has made S. change his conduct and
extend his politeness to the young woman? (<?)
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6) Do you like women like the one in picture 3?
7) Would the lady in question have offered her seat to an elderly
person if need be, do you think?
8) What would you think of S. if you didn't take into consideration
his previous behaviour? C)
9) How does picture 3 characterize him?
10) What are well-mannered people expected to do when an elderly
person enters a tram or a bus? Why?
11) What course of behaviour ought S. to have taken?
12) What would you do if you witnessed the episode?
II. Express your attitude to the man's behaviour (pictures 1, 2). Make use of the
following: inconsiderate; impolite; indecent; impudent; cruel; to offer a seat; to keep
sitting; to turn a blind eye (to); to ignore.
Pattern
It was silly of you not to do it.
III. Think of some sentences which S.'s fellow-travellers might have addressed to
him to express their disapproval of his conduct. Your key phrases are: to offer one's
seat; to consider one's age; to have respect for old age.
Pattern
1) You might have told me about it.
2) You ought to have told me about it.
IV. Complete the story told by a witness of the episode you see in the pictures.
On Friday evening, just as it began to grow dark, I was travelling
home by tram route 10. There weren't many passengers in the tram, yet
all the seats were taken. As the car rolled from one stop to another, people
got on and off, and I watched them from my seat at the back of the
carriage. I saw a man get on at the front platform. He was rather advanced
in years. His face was all wrinkled up, his hair was gray. So were his
long drooping moustaches. The man ascended the steps with difficulty.
He paid his fare to the conductor and shuffled to a desirable seat... .
V. Enact these humorous stories. Compare the behaviour of the hero of the second
joke with that of the man in the picture.
There were no vacant seats in the car, and when a good-looking
woman entered, an old man near the door tried to rise, but she at once
forced him back into his seat.
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"Thank you," she said, "but please, don't do that, I can stand."
"But, madam, allow.. ."*
"Don't trouble yourself," was the answer.
The man tried to rise again, saying:
"Madam, allow me to. .."
The woman again forced him back, saying that she couldn't accept his
seat, but the old man forced her aside.
"Madam," he said. "You have already carried me three blocks beyond
my destination. I don't care whether you take my seat or not, but I wish
to leave the car."
When a group of women got on the car, every seat was already
occupied. The conductor noticed a man who seemed to be asleep, and fearing
that he might miss his stop, he nudged him and said:
"Wake up!"
"I was not asleep," the man protested.
"Not asleep? But you had your eyes closed."
"I know. I just hate to look at ladies standing up in a crowded car."
VI. Compose a talk between the indignant passengers and the ill-mannered man in
the picture.
VII. Speak on situations like those in the picture.
VIII. Here is another series of pictures dealing with a similar situation. Make up
your own exercises on the pictures: (a) Select the vocabulary that may be necessary to
discuss the pictures, (b) Make use of the assignments on page 28, Exercise XI.

Their Way of Life
The Enterprising Barman
I. Answer the questions. Introduce the answers (wherever possible) by: I'm not
sure, but I think.. .; I may be mistaken, but 1 think...; I may be wrong, but I think...;
judging by... one may suppose that.. .; there is every reason to believe that....
1) Where is the scene laid?
2) Are there many customers in the bar?
3) Are all the customers having their meal?
4) Where are all the customers looking?
5) What can they see through the door?
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6) It is raining hard, isn't it?
7) Can the customers go out in such weather?
8) The barman is not displeased with the weather, is he? Neither is
the waiter displeased with the weather. Can you prove it?
9) Have the people been sitting in the bar long, do you think? Give
reasons for the answer.
10) The second picture explains the cause of the steady downpour of
rain, doesn't it?
11) What is the woman holding in her hands?
12) What is the hose connected with?
13) Is she watering some flowers? Are there any plants in sight?
14) The woman is no gardener at all, is she?
15) The weather isn't so bad after all, is it?
16) The woman is enjoying the joke, isn't she?
17) Was it the woman's own initiative to play a trick on the
customers, do you think? Give reasons for the answer.
18) Is it in the interests of the proprietor of the bar to keep the
customers in as long as possible?
II. Looking at the incessant rain, waiting for the waiter who has too many people
to wait upon, or just to kill time, the people in the bar may exchange their opinions; in
short, they may try to make small talk. Compose scraps of conversation on the
following pattern. Make use of the following words and expressions: the waiter; to come; to
be waiting on other people; the weather; to clear up; the band; to start playing soon;
to be assembled.
Pattern
A.: I wonder whether the rain will stop soon.
В.: (a) Certainly not. (Surely not. Unlikely.)
(b) It looks like it.
C: I don't agree with you there. It will stop soon if only because the sun is
shining.
III. Change the following sentences according to the pattern. Compose other
sentences prompted by the picture.
Pattern
It is no use waiting any longer.— 1) What's
the use waiting any longer? 2) It is no
good waiting any longer.
1) I shall not stay here any longer.
2) I shan't order anything more, as I've had enough for today.
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3) We must not keep the customers, they don't want to buy anything.
4) I shan't hurry with my meal as it is raining and I shan't be able to
go home all the same.
5) I shall not waste any time, I shall have to go out in the rain.
6) Don't lose your temper for no reason. Let us order a good lunch
while we're waiting for the rain to stop.
IV. The situation shown in the picture may cause a person to regret his having
done or not having done something and make a promise for the future. Change the
following sentences according to the pattern. Compose other sentences prompted by the
picture.
Pattern
1) Far be it from me to have lunch in this bar again.
2) Catch me having lunch in this bar again!
1) I shall never go out without an umbrella.
2) I shall never try to walk when I can take a bus.
3) I shall think twice before I take your advice again in such matters.
4) I shall never try to wait until the rain stops. It's only a waste of
time.
V. Read the following description of rain given by W. S. Maugham. Retell it, then
use it in speaking about the episode shown in the picture.
... Dr. Macphail watched the rain. It was beginning to get on his
nerves. It was not like our soft English rain that drops gently on the
earth; it was unmerciful and somehow terrible; you felt in it the malignancy
of the primitive powers of nature. It did not pour, it flowed. It was like a
deluge from heaven, and it rattled on the roof of corrugated iron with a
steady persistence that was maddening. It seemed to have a fury of its
own. And sometimes you felt that you must scream if it did not stop, and
then suddenly you felt powerless, as though your bones had suddenly
become soft; and you were miserable and hopeless.
(W. S. Maugham. Rain}
VI. Find the English equivalents to the following words in the text that followsr
Действовать на нервы; закончить что-л.; на днях; не мешало бы
(выпить кружку пива); поступать так же; не торопиться; прогуляться;
постепенно; нет ничего лучше; странное дело; передумать; ловкий
малый; в действительности.
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VII. Retell the story. Comment on the cunning plan of the enterprising
businessman.
THE ENTERPRISING BARMAN
The other day I happened to finish work earlier than usual. The
weather was charming, so I decided to take a walk. Passing by one of the
numerous pubs, it occurred to me that I could do with a pint of beer.
"Nothing like a bottle of beer on a hot day like this!" I thought and
entered the Golden Bar.
I looked about the place. It was just an ordinary bar. There were not
many customers in it. Several men and women were seated at the tables
having their lunch, others were standing at the bar, drinking beer.
I took a seat at one of the tables and ordered a pint of bitter. The beer
was brought soon, but as I was in no hurry I took my time drinking it.
By and by the place was filled with visitors and soon almost every seat
was occupied.
Presently I finished my pint of bitter and was about to leave the bar
when it began to rain. I waited a few minutes, but the rain did not stop.
The strange part of it was that there were no clouds in the sky, and yet it
was raining hard.
I could not possibly go out — I had no umbrella or waterproof with
me — so I changed my mind and ordered a substantial lunch. I noticed
ihat many people did likewise, so the waiter had plenty of work to do.
The rain showed no sign of stopping. It was falling with a cruel
persistence, though the sun was shining brightly. I was through with my
lunch, had finished a cigar, and yet the rain would not stop. It was
beginning to get on my nerves. I saw it was no use waiting any longer, so,
prepared for the worst, I went out.
I walked a few steps in a hurry and then stopped in surprise. There
was no rain. In fact, there had been no rain! What did I see, you may ask?
There wasn't very much to see, after all. Just a few yards from the front
door of the bar there was an elderly woman comfortably seated on a chair,
holding a hose linked to a tap and watering the pavement in front of the
bar assiduously.
A clever dog, that barman was!
VIII. (a) What would you do if you found yourself involved in a situation like that
shown in the picture and found out that you had been fooled? (b) What might have
been the reaction of the customers after the exposure of the trickster?
IX. Ordinary people — consumers — in Britain and the U. S. A. often become victims
of various designs on the part of the enterprising businessmen, as may be seen from
our pictures. The situation is so grave that even the local councils are sometimes obliged
to interfere to protect the shoppers. Below are two articles from the Daily Worker. Read
and discuss them.
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CITY APPOINTS OFFICER TO WATCH H-P1 TRICKSTERS
Sheffield, Friday
Protector of the housewife — that is the new role adopted by the
Sheffield Council and already it is proving a winner.
The city council has appointed an officer to look after the Sheffield
shopper in dealings with the glib salesman or the seller of shoddy goods.
The man responsible for negotiating on H. P. confusions and sales
swindles is Mr. C. R. Wells, an expert in the city council's weights and
measures department.
Of 73 complaints brought before the new officer in his first month, the
overwhelming majority have been settled in the consumer's favour.
Aid.2 Sheard said that the service was started because "the need for
such protection is greater than ever before". She said it was necessary
because of shoddy goods, bad service and the practice of misleading
sales.
The consumer council, she said, operated on inadequate finances and
its powers were, therefore, restricted.
The council would protect people who had become involved in H. P.
troubles or who had become victims of quick-talking salesmen.
(Daily Worker, 1965)
THE THINGS THEY DO TO OUR DAILY BREAD
Hurrah for the bakery workers of Britain! Or, more precisely, the
2,500 members of the Bakers' Union in Manchester and district.
Their delegates at a recent meeting decided to send a resolution to the
annual conference of the Bakers' Union at Rhyl next summer, calling for
the nationalisation of our daily bread.
They want to end the super-soggy, devitalised, pappy, puffed-upy
roughed-up, stored-up, wrapped-up, blotting-paper tasting, nauseating
conglomeration of puerile, half-steamed, crustless, anaemic lumps of
inedible dough, blessed with this and that, and sold by the bakery
monopolies by expensive advertising, to a gullible public, who pay through the
nose for the muck in the fond belief that it is the staff of life.
Heaven help them if it were.
The delegates, bless 'em, didn't quite put it in those words, but I'm
sure that most of them will agree with my description of our present daily
starch.
1 hire purchase — продажа (покупка) в рассрочку
2 alderman — член совета графства или муниципалитета
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One told me: "Any similarity between real bread and the undertaken
lumps of dough we are forced to produce is a remarkable coincidence.
"There is no substitute for a well-baked loaf, but we bake a 2 lb.1 loaf
in 27 minutes flat, and a very raw product it is. Now there are plans to
cut even that baking period considerably.
"Nationalisation is the only remedy for the bakery industry — then
real bread, and cheaper bread, would come before profits."
(Daily Worker, 1965)
X. Retell these jokes and anecdotes.
— It's absolutely pouring, and my wife has gone shopping without a
mac.2
— Don't worry: she won't get wet. I expect she'll shelter in a shop.
— That's what I'm afraid of.
"Say, Jim," said the friend of the taxi-cab driver, standing in front of
<a vehicle, "there's a purse lying on the floor of your car."
The driver looked carefully around and then whispered: "Sometimes
when business is bad I put it there and leave the door open. It's empty but
you've no idea how many people'll jump in for a short drive when they
see it."
— You come into my restaurant, you order a glass of water, you drink it,
and you calmly walk out!
— What were you expecting me to do, man? Stagger out?
guest (to waiter): I've only a shilling — what would you advise me to do?
waiter: Have a walk to the next restaurant.
— We had a drinking competition at the club tonight, dear.
— Oh! Who was second?
Warning in a New York Cocktail Bar: "Customers are requested to
keep their seats while the room is in motion."
1 libra (Lat.)—pound
2 mackintosh

Bank Raid
Suggested Vocabulary
raid
raider
gangster
robber
gang
to dash (to, for)
to wait at the wheel
to get away
in cash
pursuit
alarm buzzer
to grab
to offer resistance
to puncture
tyre
flat tyre
mask
revolver
tommy gun
coward '* Answer the following questions:
1) At what time is the bank raid taking place,
do you think? Give reasons for your answer.
2) How many members does the gang consist of?
3) Is anyone of the gangsters armed? If so, with what weapon?
4) Do you see anyone in pursuit of the raiders?
5) Who, do you think, has smashed the glass door of the bank?
6) Who is the gangster with the tommy gun aiming at?
7) Did all the gangsters break into the bank? Why do you think so?
8) What have the raiders, making for their car, got in their hands?
9) What is each bag worth? What makes you think so?
10) How much does the whole grab amount to? (How much does the
sum of the money grabbed by the raiders amount to?)
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11) Is there anyone in sight to prevent the bandits from reaching
their getaway car?
12) What would the gangsters do if offered resistance? Would they
hesitate to use their guns?
13) The raiders are masked, aren't they? Why are they wearing masks?
14) If the bandits reach their car, they will drive off at high speed,
won't they?
15) Do you think any of the bank clerks pressed the alarm buzzer?
16) Would patrol cars have appeared if the alarm buzzer had been
pressed?
17) Did the cashier think the men were playing a trick when they
burst in and demanded money?
18) Is the man kneeling beside the car a policeman? What makes you
think so?
19) What object is lying near the man that may help to guess its
owner's profession?
20) Did the man waiting at the wheel notice the policeman approach
the car?
21) Could the policeman fight this five-man gang single-handed?
22) What is the policeman doing to the car with his helmet as an
instrument?
23) What tyre has the policeman punctured? What is the result?
24) The gangsters can't get away with a flat tyre, can they?
25) The gangsters have no time to replace the wheel with a flat tyre
by a spare one, have they?
26) Do you think that what the policeman did was the best way under
the circumstances?
27) Were the gangsters captured by the police? Give reasons for your
answer.
II. Combine the following pairs of sentences according to the pattern. Remember
that instead of should you may use would, could, might.
Pattern
I had no time. I didn't go there. -* If I
had had time. I should have gone there.
1) The policeman punctured the tyre. The raiders did not get away in
their car.
2) The policeman was single-handed. He did not fight the gang.
3) The man at the wheel did not notice the policeman. He did not
prevent the policeman from puncturing the wheel.
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4) The clerks in the bank were frightened. They didn't raise the alarm.
5) The policeman was clever. He found a way out.
6) The policeman was a coward. He didn't fight the gang.
III. Read the article given below. Retell it and compare the facts in it with the bank
raid depicted by the artist.
WAGES GRAB —?2,600
A three-man gang left a car at Leyton, London, yesterday, entered a
building, dashed to the first floor, "corralled" clerks with a revolver and
coshed a woman cashier.
They seized a f 2,600 payroll in cash and dashed for the door. But
John Johnson, 22, who was arriving for his wages, realised what had
happened.
He ran to the car, in which a woman was waiting at the wheel, and
snatched the ignition key. The gang split up and got away on foot.
(Daily Worker, 1962)
IV. Comparing the two raids, complete the sentences using the conjunction whereas.
1) A woman was waiting at the wheel in the London raid, whereas... ^
2) The grab in London amounted to f 2,600, whereas... .
3) A three-man gang raided the bank in London, whereas... .
4) The cashier of the London bank happened to be a woman,
whereas... .
5) In London a man who wanted to get his wages offered resistance
to the raiders, whereas. .. .
6) The man snatched the ignition key, thus preventing the bandits
from getting away in the car, whereas... .
V. Render the contents of the article given below in English. The following word&
and expressions may turn out useful: brazen impudence; in broad daylight; 37,000
roubles in new currency; to dupe; carnival; dummy noses; "corralled" the clerks; to take a
tragic turn; recovered after the shock; the pedal jammed; idlers; script.
КАК В ДЕТЕКТИВНОМ ФИЛЬМЕ
париж, 1 декабря. Корреспондент ТАСС передает: Даже видавшук>
виды парижскую печать сразила беспримерная наглость шайки
бандитов, которые вчера средь бела дня в одном из оживленнейших мест
Парижа, на Больших Бульварах, на глазах нескольких сот прохожих
ограбили банк „Жордан". Украдена огромная сумма денег—200
тысяч новых франков (примерно 37 тысяч новых рублей).
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События развертывались, как в одном из тех посредственных
кинодетективов, в которых преступники с неимоверной легкостью
совершают налеты и кражи, изящно оставляя полицию с носом. За
несколько минут до закрытия банка напротив его дверей у тротуара
остановился роскошный серо-голубой „ситроен".1 Несколько гангстеров в
нелепых карнавальных масках с фальшивыми носами и усами ворвались
в банк. Двое из них остались на улице, один—за рулем автомобиля,
другой — на тротуаре, наставив автомат на прохожих.
В банке налетчики, видимо, предварительно хорошо
ознакомившиеся с местом операции, действовали с молниеносной быстротой. Одни
из них держали под прицелом служащих, другие набивали денежными
купюрами чемоданы. События приняли трагический оборот, когда
пришедший в себя после потрясения кассир попытался нажать педаль
сигнала тревоги. Педаль, как назло, заело и сигнал не сработал, зато
кассир получил пулю в ногу. Наскоро захлопывая на бегу чемоданы,
гангстеры выскочили на улицу. Тем временем у банка уже собралась
настоящая толпа. Зеваки приняли налет на банк за съемки
полицейского кинофильма и оживленно обменивались впечатлениями о
сценарии, строго критикуя столь „ненастоящую" и грубую подделку „актеров"
под грабителей, их гротескную маскировку и „плохую" игру.
Налетчики впрыгнули в „ситроен", пригрозив по дороге
пытавшемуся их сфотографировать уличному фотографу, и преспокойно
укатили...
Печать напоминает сегодня, что в результате грабежей с начала
этого года во Франции в общей сложности украдено 10 миллионов
новых франков.
VI. Discuss the picture story. Speak on gangsterism as a scourge of the capitalist
¦world.
VII. Read the text given below. Part of the story dealing with the policeman's report
io the Sergeant is deliberately omitted. Go on with the story to supply the missing part
ihe way you find it fit.
HOW I ROSE TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN
SHOE-SHINE BOY
In my theatre-acting days I used to forget now and then about the
matinees. So they said I ought to try another job.
"You might get work in Ireland," they said.
"There's a place called Ballydoggin," a gentleman in North Ireland
said. "They might have a job for you there."
1 Citroen ['sitrouanj
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At Ballydoggin a gentleman on the railway station said, "You might
try the Constabulary.1 They're short of cops in this town."
The Police Sergeant didn't ask me about my education or things like
that.
"Have you got people depending on you?" — that was all he asked.
"Or a darling wife?" he asked.
"Or a sweet old widowed mother?"
I told him I was alone in the world, and he said, "You'll need a
uniform."
"Now this," he said, trying a tunic on me, "was Sullivan's. He was
drowned last week, trying to pacify the boys at The Old Flag.''
It was tight under the arms.
"Try Jimmy Coster's," he said, "Jimmy won't need it now, poor lad.
He was interfering with a bank hold-up, and there was three of them to
one of him."
It might have been made for me, that tunic.
"Pluck," the Sergeant said, "pluck and initiative, that's what makes
a class cop. We're going to be proud of you, my lad," the Sergeant said.
"And, by the way," he said, "as you go down O'Mailey Street you'd better
shoot an eye at Vumber 48. That's Mr. James's house, and he's the Mayor
of this town, and he's away with Mrs. James in the country. We wouldn't
want anything pinched from Mr. James's house," the Sergeant said.
I made a note of that. If you want to get on, I always say to young
chaps, you need to pay attention to what people say.
In that town they turn off the street lights at midnight to save the
rates; O'Mailey Street was like the inside of a railway tunnel and I
couldn't read the numbers. But a pair of gentlemen were sitting in a big
car beside the road, and I put a question to them.
"Why, this is Number 48," they said, "this one beside you here."
"You aren't by any chance Mr. James?" I asked the biggest of these
gentlemen.
"Well, not exactly," he said, "I'm Mr. Healey, and my friend here is
Mr. O'Brien."
"I just wondered," I said, "because Mr. James is supposed to be away
in the country with his old lady. I thought perhaps he'd changed his
plans."
"Well, that's strange," Mr. Healey said, "because I saw a light
flashing in the house not five minutes ago."
It's little things you overhear like that which act as clues for a keen
young chap.
1 organized body of police of a city
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"I'm going to look into this!" I said.
I went and rang at the front door, but no one came, so I went round
the back. No answer there either, and the whole place seemed to be bolted
up. But I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to have a look inside and I tried my
pocket knife to see if maybe the lock of the back door would give way; it
didn't feel to me like much of a lock.
"You want a better tool than that," Mr. Healey said. He'd come after
me to see how I was going on. "Tim!" he said — because Mr. O'Brien had
come to see how he was going on. "See if you can find that thing in the
cai \ use for taking off plugs."
You couldn't have wanted a better tool than that was. And a neat
little flash-lamp Mr. Healey had as well, and Mr. O'Brien had one too.
"It won't do to put the house lights on," Mr. Healey said, when we
were all in the hall.
"Why, surely, that would be like calling Peekaboo l to any chap that is
hiding inside," Mr. O'Brien said.
So we went upstairs with nothing but the flash-lamps to show the way.
There was no one around that we could see. But in the bedroom there was
something Mr. Healey said I ought to look into and that was a big tin box.
standing under the bed.
"Now, that's the sort of place people keep their jewels in," Mr. Healey
told me.
"And that's not right!" Mr. O'Brien said.
"It looks a safe enough place for me," I said, meaning to learn from
these gentlemen what I could.
"Safe?" Mr. Healey said. "Tim, give me that tool again!"
And then I saw these gentlemen were one hundred per cent right! Why,
a child could have opened that box, the way Mr. Healey showed me how.
And when I saw the diamond rings and the pearl necklaces, why, I could
have laughed and cried to think of Mr. James's foolishness, trusting all
Mrs. James's jewels to what was no better than a chocolate-box.
"We can't leave this stuff the way it is," Mr. Healey said.
"Wouldn't be right!" Mr. O'Brien said.
"Better hide it somewhere out of sight," Mr. Healey said.
"Put it in one of the grips we got in the car," Mr. O'Brien said.
"And then put the grip where no housebreakers would see it,"
Mr. Healey said.
Mr. Healey and Mr. O'Brien found when they went to look they had
three big grips in their car. So beside Mrs. James's jewels we put in some
1 to call Peekaboo — here: to give oneself away (Peekaboo — childish game, the
point of which is to spring out suddenly from half-suspected hiding-place, so as to
startle the child mildly)
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silver sporting cups we found in one of the rooms downstairs, and some
silver forks and spoons, and a pile of other things a housebreaker might
lay his hands on. The trouble was to find somewhere safe to put the grips.
"They may go in the cupboard under the stairs," I said.
"Housebreakers always look in cupboards," Mr. Healey said. "Or down
in the coal cellar."
"The coal cellar's where housebreakers begin," Mr. O'Brien said.
Not in a superior way. Just putting me wise.
"If they weren't so heavy I'd take them to the police station," I said.
"Oh, they are heavy!" Mr. Healey said.
"You may borrow Mr. Healey's car," Mr. O'Brien said.
"But I've got to finish my beat," I said.
"Then why don't I take them to the station?" Mr. Healey said.
"It is very lucky for me," I said, as we were putting the grips in the
car, "meeting such gentlemen like you my first time on duty."
"Why, it was lucky for us!" Mr. Healey said.
"You do get young cops that haven't the sense to cooperate,"
Mr. O'Brien said.
Nine o'clock in the morning I was back reporting like the Sergeant
had told me...
(R. C. Hutchinson)
VIII. Relate the jokes in indirect speech.
banker: What do you mean by telling me that you had seven years'
experience in a bank when you never had a job there before?
youth: Well, you advertised for a man with imagination.
poet: Burglars broke into my house last night.
friend: Yes? What happened?
poet: They searched through every room, then left a five-dollar bill on my
bureau.

Hands Up!
Suggested Vocabulary
Hands up!
bank
cashier
safe
counter
cash
ready money
currency
neat packages of currency
revolver
to point a revolver at
robber
raider
gangster
single-handed
elderly
bald-headed
masked
I. Answer the following questions. Introduce the answers by some such expressions
as: it seems to me that...; to my mind; judging by.. ., one may suppose that...; there
is every reason to believe that. ..; / don't think so; I think so, etc. wherever possible.
1) Where is the scene laid?
2) What has the cashier been doing before the moment shown in the
picture? Give reasons for your answer.
3) Why is the raider wearing a mask?
4) How did the raider get into the bank?
5) What do you see on the cashier's desk?
6) Is there much money in currency at the moment?
7) Why is the cashier standing, do you think?
8) What do you see over the window? Why is the revolver placed just
there, of all places?
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II. Change the following sentences according to the patterns:
Pattern 1
I
told
that
him
he
(not)
should
to
come at
(not)
come
five
at
. — I
five.
demanded
Pattern 2
You'd better (not) come at five.
I
1) The robber told the clerk to keep silence.
2) The raider told the clerk to give him the money.
3) The robber told the clerk not to move.
4) The robber told the clerk to raise his hands up.
5) The raider told the cashier not to make a row.
6) The robber told the clerk not to stir.
III. Change the following sentences according to the pattern:
Pattern
I stood waiting in the hope that my friend would (might) help me. —
I waited for my friend to help me.
1) The bank clerk stood waiting in the hope that the robber would
order him to raise his hands up.
2) The bank clerk stood waiting in the hope that the robber would
unconsciously give him a chance to use the revolver.
3) The clerk stood in the hope that something might turn up and save
him.
4) The clerk stood waiting in the hope that the robber might turn
aside.
5) The robber stood waiting in the hope that the clerk would give him
the bills without resistance.
IV. Make the sentences more emphatic according to the pattern.
Pattern
I saw him yesterday.— 1) I did see
him yesterday. 2) It was yester-
| day that I saw him.
I
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1) The gangster meant it when he pointed the revolver at me.
2) I was frightened when I saw what the bandit was up to.
3) I remember that eventful afternoon very well.
V. Change the following sentences according to the pattern:
Pattern
I wish I
knew how to dc
only I knew how to do
I had
| only I
known how to
had known how
) it
it!
do
to
2)
it.
-1)
If
I wish
3)
do it!
If
I wish the man would order me to raise my hands.
I wish I had not taken the money out of the safe.
I wish somebody would come to my rescue.
I wish it were a bad dream.
1 wish I were younger.
I wish I could disarm him somehow.
I wish I knew what's to be done.
VI. Express your surprise or incredulity on account of the picture story.
Pattern
Who could (would) have said that N. could be (have been) such a good-naturec
person?
Take the following as hints: to say; to think; to expect; to imagine; to suspect; to
find a way out; to dare; to be far-sighted; to hang up a reuolver; to foresee; (not) to
take fright; to be staunch (brave); to be cold-blooded.
VII. Read the following text. Select the vocabulary having a direct bearing on the
subject under discussion.
"Do you remember reading in the papers about a month ago," says he,
"about a train hold-up on the M. K. & Т.? l The express agent was shot
through the shoulder and about $ 15,000 in currency taken. And it's said
that only one man did the job."
"Seems to me I do," says I. "But such things happen so often they
don't linger long in the human Texas mind. Did they overtake, seize, or
lay hands upon the despoiler?"
1 Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
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"He escaped," says Ogden. "And I was just reading in a paper today
that the officers have tracked him down into this part of the country. It
seems the bills the robbers got were all in the first issue of currency to
the Second National Bank of Espinosa City. And so they've followed the
trail where they've been spent, and it leads this way."
Ogden pours out some more wine, and shoves me the bottle.
"I imagine," says I, after taking another drink, "that it wouldn't be
at all a bad idea for a train-robber to run down into this part of the
country to hide for a spell. A sheep-ranch, now," says I, "would be the
finest kind of a place. Who'd ever expect to find such a desperate
character among these song-birds and sheep and wild flowers? And, by the way,"
says I kind of looking H. Ogden over, "was there any description
mentioned to this single-handed terror? Was his lineaments or height and
thickness of teeth fillings or style of clothes set forth in print?"
"Why, no," says Ogden, "because they say nobody got a good sight of
him because he wore a mask. But they know it was a train robber called
Black Bill, because he always works alone and because he dropped a
handkerchief in the express car that had his name on it. There's one
thousand dollars reward for his capture," says Ogden.
(After The Hiding of Black Bill by O. Henry)
VIII. Relate the story in the picture as if you were the cashier. Use the following
as often as you can: / saw him stand(ing)...; / heard him say(ing).. .; he looked as
if...; / wished I had.. .; I wondered if he was. .. ; the wretch!; I don't mind telling
you...; that's about all there is to it.
IX. Read the jokes and reproduce them in indirect speech.
1st robber: What if that trick of yours doesn't work?
2nd robber: Then, I shall have to work.
"Pluck l is the secret of success on the Stock Exchange!"
"Well, I'll give you ? 1000 if you will teach me your method of
plucking."
robber. Your money or your life.
paddy: Take my life. Sure, I want money for my old age.
1 pluck—l) смелость, отвага; 2) обмануть, обирать

Window-shopping
Suggested Vocabulary
window-shopping
shop-window
to display for sale
to resort to tricks
department for electrical
appliances
customer
saleswoman
shop assistant
plug
to plug in
gadget
desk-lamp
kettle
iron
electric stove
electric razor
socket
to shave
Show me
please.
7)
8)
9)
10)
I. First look at the pictures attentively and then
answer the questions that follow. Introduce them by:
I'm not sure, but I think...; I may be mistaken, but
I think. ..; I may be wrong, but I think...; judging
by... one may suppose that...; there is every
reason to believe that....
1) What goods are sold in the
department for electrical appliances? Name the
things you see on display.
2) Are there many customers in the
department?
3) Is the saleswoman glad of the
opportunity to sell something, or, at least, to have
someone to talk to?
4) Is the customer clean-shaven?
5) What does the man ask the shop
assistant to show him?
6) Does the man want to try the electric
razor?
What is the shop assistant doing in the second picture?
What is the man doing? B)
Has the saleswoman plugged in the electric razor yet?
In the third picture the man has finished shaving, hasn't he?
an electric razor,
... Thank you.
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11) Is the man going to buy the razor?
12) Why isn't the man going to buy the razor? Doesn't he like it?
13) What can you say about the expression of the woman's face in the
third picture? What emotions may be reflected on it at the moment?
14) Is the saleswoman expressing her feelings in words, do you think?
15) What may be the widow-shopper's reply?
II. Combine the following pairs of sentences into one according to the patterns.
Pattern 1
I can't
with
Pattern 2
I can't go
go with
go with
you now
with
you
you
now
you now. I haven't done my homework yet.—
if only because I haven't done my homework
now.
if I
I haven't done my homework yet. -
haven't done my homework yet?
- How
-1 can
yet.
can I
't go
possibly
1) I cannot buy this gadget. I haven't even got the price of a cup of
tea.
2) I cannot shave at home. I haven't got a razor.
3) The man could not shave at home. He had no home.
4) I can't go unshaven. It is unpleasant.
III. Look at the articles displayed for sale, then ask and answer questions about
their use according to the pattern. Suggested words and expressions: (a) desk-lamp;
kettle; flat-iron; electric stove; electric razor; socket; (b) to shave; to boil water; to iron
linen; to press clothes; to cook meals; to light the table one works at; to plug in
various electrical gadgets.
Pattern
What do we use pencils for? —
1) We use pencils to write with.
2) We use pencils for writing with.
IV. Read and reproduce the dialogue.
saleswoman: What can I do for you, sir?
customer: I'd like to see an electric razor, please.
S.: We've got a good selection of electric razors. Which would you like?
C: Any one that shaves well.
S.: Have a look at this here razor. It is well worth its price.
C: Plug it in, please, I want to try it.
S.: You're welcome, sir. (Some minutes later.) Does it shave well?
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С Not quite. Will you show me another one?
S.: Just a minute. Here you are. I hope you'll like it better. Shall I plug-
it in?
C: Yes, do please. (After he has finished shaving.) Thank you very much.
Put it away.
S.: What?! You don't mean to say you don't like this razor either?
C: Not exactly, madam. To tell you the truth I haven't got a penny in
my pocket.
S.: Why then have you been bothering me all this time?
C: You see, madam, I've got to have a shave, like all other decent people,
haven't I? Well, but I haven't got the money. Surely you wouldn't
advise me to steal, would you?
S.: The very idea of it! Get out of here before I call a policeman!
V. Make use of the pictures to play the game "What is the Object?"
Patterns for questions and answers.
1) Is it made of...? — Yes, it is. (No, it's not.)
2) Do you use it to...?—Yes. (No.)
3) Is it the object that you see (is found, is used...)?—That's (what) it (is).
That's right. (That's not the object.)
VI. Speak on the low purchasing capacity of the common people in capitalist
countries. Give examples from literature.
VII. Read and retell the following jokes and anecdotes:
Pat and Jock were in London for the first time. During a tour of the
shops in the West End they came to an expensive-looking barber's.
"Razors!" exclaimed Pat. "You want one, don't you?"
"Ay," l said Jock, peering through the glass.
"There's a beauty there for twenty-five bob," said Pat, "and there's
another for thirty bob. Which would you sooner have?"
"A beard," said Jock, walking off.
she: Why didn't you shave this evening?
he: It makes my face sore if I shave twice a day.
she: Well, it makes my face sore if you don't.
i ay = yes

Electric Shock
Suggested Vocabulary
electricity bill
electric shock
ambulance
first aid
to faint, to lose consciousness
to come to oneself, to regain consciousness
to charge some money for smth.
to make both ends meet
cost of living
I. Answer the following questions. Introduce your answers by some such
expressions as: I'm not sure, but I think...; it seems to me...; judging by..., one may
suppose that..., etc. wherever possible.
1) Where is the scene laid and how many people are there in the
picture?
2) What is wrong with the husband?
3) What is the wife doing?
4) What is the cause of the trouble? Why did the man lose
consciousness? What makes you think so?
5) Is it an electric shock that the man has had?
6) Is the bill the family has to pay for electricity very large?
7) Is the family well off, do you think?
8) It was a severe shock for the man to see the heavy bill he must
pay for electricity, wasn't it?
9) He couldn't possibly stand the shock, could he?
10) Was medical aid necessary in the case? Give reasons for your
answer.
11) Is the woman excited, do you think? What makes you think so?
12) What do people do in case of accidents?
13) What is an ambulance?
14) Is it easy for a family to make both ends meet with the cost of
living steadily rising?
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II. Combine the following pairs of sentences into one according to the pattern.
Compose other sentences with clauses of concession based on the picture.
Pattern
My car is very old. It still goes well.— 1) Although
my car is very old, it still goes well. 2) However
old my car may be, it still goes well.
1) The woman tried to convince the doctor that the case was urgent.
He did not come at once.
2) The family were fairly well off. The man couldn't stand the shock
of having to pay that heavy bill.
3) The man was used to all kinds of surprises. He couldn't bear that
one.
III. Read and reproduce the following dialogues:
1
A.: Hullo, I want to speak to Dr. N. please.
В.: Hold the line a moment. I'll tell him.
C: Dr. N. speaking.
A.: Dr. N., I want you to come at once.
C: Who is speaking?
A.: Mrs. Smith, Number 52, High Street.
C: Vm sorry, I can't come at once. I have other patients needing
attention.
A.: But doctor, it's urgent! It's my husband... .
C: What is the matter with your husband?
A.: He's just had a severe electric shock!
C: I'll be down directly.
2
doctor: What is it you want, and speak quick, for I'm in a hurry.
red muffler: It's me l child, sir; me little girl, sir, only just nine years old.
D.: Yes, yes; what about her?
R. M.: We're afraid for her. You saw her four days ago; top room,
hundred an' one Hill Street, sir. We want you to come at once.
D.: I know, I know; everyone wants the doctor to come at once. I'll come
some time tomorrow.
1 Notice the peculiarities of Red Muffler's speech: the use of me for my, the
dropping of endings in and, listening, etc.
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R. M. (blocking the doctor's way to the door): No, today, sir, please; now.
She needs you now. Have a look at her, at least. Last night was one
of agony to th' missus x an' me, listenin' to her losin' her breath. We're
afraid soon she'll silently be seen no more. She's bad; she's worse;
she's chokin'!
D.: I'll go tomorrow; I can't go sooner. There are others needing
attention, you know.
R. M. (desperately): Nine years isn't long enough for a life to Jive! Damn
it, man, if you've none for me, have some thought for th' mother
watchin' the child's struggles to live!
D.: Oh, man alive, there are thousands of kids like yours gasping for life
in the city today.
R. M. (fiercely): An' no one seems to care a coloured damn about them!
{Hall of Healing by Sean O'Casey)
IV. Retell the following article:
DEARER LIGHT FOR THEM
Average household electricity bills will go up by an estimated
2 pounds under increases announced for 1,250,000 domestic customers of
the East Midlands Electricity Board.
Smaller increases are announced for industry. The new rates will
applv from July.
(Daily Worker, 1964)
V. Tell the story as if you were the doctor who was called to the case in question.
Account for the misunderstanding based upon the meanings of the words electric shock.
VI. Remember the difference between the words bill and account. Use them in your
own sentences.
An account is a periodic or running reckoning of money owed; a bill is a demand
for its payment. If you want to keep your savings in a savings bank, you may open an
account there, which may be large or small. It is not convenient to keep money in cash.
At shops, at all kinds of personal services establishments etc. we get bills which
we must pay.
VII. Retell these jokes.
science teacher: Let's assume that I want to switch the electric light on
and it doesn't work. What may be wrong?
smart boy: Maybe you forgot to pay the bill.
A man ran into the house of a neighbour and shouted, "I say, Mrs.
Murphy, your husband has just laid his hands on 2 ten thousand volts!"
"Good gracious," said Mrs. Murphy. "Now we shall be rich. How much
is that in English money?"
1 the missus (vulg.) — one's own wife
2 to lay hands on smth. — 1) схватить что-л.; 2) присвоить что л.

Birds of a Feather l
No grab after him.
Suggested Vocabulary
to break into the house
burglar
alert
to be on the alert
(doctor's) overall
urgent case
mansion
grab
colleague
I. Answer the questions introducing'
your answers with: well...; let me
see.. .; just a moment...; how should
I put it?
1) What is going forward in
the street you see?
2) What has brought the two
armed men here?
3) Why are they hiding
themselves round the corner?
4) What makes them so
watchful and alert?
5) Have they been watching the house long? What makes you think
so?
6) What do the two burglars look like?
7) What is there in the appearance and the outfit of the man on the
steps that leads you to believe he is a doctor?
8) What do" you think is the nature of the case that has brought the
doctor to the place? Give grounds for your answer.
9) Is it a municipal house with rooms to let or a private mansion
that the doctor's patient lives in? Substantiate your answer.
одного поля ягода
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10) The burglars aren't likely to profit much by breaking into the
house, are they? Why?
II. Make use of the picture in completing the following sentences:
1) The burglars were most unlucky to. .. .
2) Dark as it was, the doctor saw... .
3) The doctor went slowly down the steps as if. . . .
4) No sooner had the door opened than.. . .
5) But for the doctor the burglars... .
6) The sound of the opening door and the tapping of the doctor's
stick made the men... .
III. Change the following sentences as in the pattern below:
Pattern
1) The man (he) worked. — I saw (watched)
the man (him) work.
2) The man (he) laughed. — I heard the man
(him) laugh.
1) The door opened, a man went out onto the porch.
The burglars heard. .. and saw... .
2) The doctor went down the steps, stick in hand.
Those hiding round the corner saw. .. .
3) The burglars spoke in a whisper.
The doctor heard. .. .
4) The robbers were disappointed. One said to the other there was
nothing left in the house for them to grab after the doctor's visit.
The doctor heard... .
IV. Listen to the doctor's story. Retell the story adding as many details as you can
think of.
As I walked down the steps to my car, my ear caught a whisper
nearby. I strained my eyes (the night was very dark) and saw two grey
figures in the shelter of the wall. I at once thought those were robbers
waiting for me and my purse, and my heart went into my mouth. I slowed
down in expectation of an attack, but nothing of the kind happened. On
the contrary, the men hid their weapons as if they weren't going to do me
any bodily harm.
I spoke to them in a faltering tone. They came up to me, and I heard
one of them, the fat one, say: "Hello matey! How's the grab?"
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That was beyond me: they were actually talking to no other person but
myself. As I moved on I heard them say they might as well leave the place
as there was nothing left in the house for them to grab after me. What
did they mean, I wonder?
The doctor was unable to understand the "unaccountable" behaviour of the burglars.
Can you do it?
V. Here are some hints for American tourists suggested by Z. Yuryev in his article
(Krokodil No 35, December 1962). Comrade Yuryev has written them for the tourists
to answer, without blushing, various questions they are likely to be asked in our
country, France, India or elsewhere. Render them in English.
Вопрос. Как объяснить, что только за вызов «Скорой помощи»
больной платит от 30 до 35 долларов?
Ответ. Надо сказать, что высокая стоимость вызова «Скорой
помощи» — это огромное благо (benefit) для больного или пострадавшего
от несчастного случая. 35 долларов заставляют больного тщательно
проанализировать свое состояние, прежде чем вызывать машину.
И только тогда, когда он твердо убежден, что платить придется не ему,
а наследникам (heirs), он поднимает трубку телефона.
Вопрос. За пребывание в течение шести недель после инфаркта
(heart failure) в американской больнице представляют счет на две
тысячи долларов. Не слишком ли это много?
Ответ. Эта цифра, безусловно, не отражает положения вещей.
Мало кому приходится действительно платить такую сумму.
Вопрос. Значит, журнал «Юнайтед Стейтс ньюс энд уорлд
рипорт» ошибся?
Ответ. Строго говоря, нет. Просто в момент вручения счета
больной обычно отдает богу душу.
VI. Speak on the inadequacy of medical care in capitalist countries.
VII. Listen to these jokes and discuss them.
A fashionable doctor who was known for the high fees he charged for
his visits got into the hands of gangsters.
He was ready to pay a high ransom for his release. Producing his-
card he said to the men: "Name your price, I'm willing to pay any sum."'
To his surprise the ringleader of the gang said: "You're at liberty to
go wherever you please. Ever so sorry to have caused you inconvenience.
It would be bad form if we charged a colleague."
doctor: Could you pay for an operation if I thought one was necessary?
patient: Would you find one necessary if I could not pay for it?
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— Am I very ill, doctor?
— Oh, dear, no. Not more than thirty pound worth.
young doctor: Why do you always ask your patients what they have for
dinner?
old doctor: It's a most important question, for according to their menus
I make out my bill.
"Doctor," asked the patient, "I am feeling much better now, and I want
you to let me have your bill."
"Nonsense, sir," said the physician, "do be calm; you are not strong
enough for that yet!"
— I saw the doctor today about my loss of memory.
— What did he do?
— Made me pay in advance.
— Did the doctor diagnose your case?
— Yes.
— How long did it take?
— About a minute and three quarters. I had on an old suit.
— The doctor said he'd have me on my feet in a fortnight.
— And did he?
— Sure, I've had to sell my car.
VIII. Take this picture and make up exercises of your own based on it: (a) Select
the vocabulary, (b) Select suitable patterns to be trained with the help of the picture.
Use them in your speech, (c) Ask and answer questions on the picture, (dj Comment
on the picture, (e) Think of life stories of the characters involved.

She Was Right
Didn't I say, Jack, that children
would bind us hand and foot?
Suggested Vocabulary
TV set
radiogram (radiogramophone)
aerial
tommy gun
knife
dagger
holster
to sling (slung)
pistol
arrow
bow
mask
string, clothes-line
fuse
plastic bomb
armchair
thriller
comics
a piece of modern painting
screen
to bind
to release
to stab
to aim (to point) a gun (at)
to go full blast
to be on1
I. Answer the following questions:
1) What do you see in the top left-hand corner?
2) What is there on the wall? What kind of picture is it, do you
think?
1 to be on— 1) идти, демонстрироваться; 2) работать, быть включенным
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3) What do you see near the wall?
4) How do you account for the two arrows stuck in the back of the
sofa?
5) Are the TV and radio on at the moment? What makes you think
so?
6) Why is the comic paper stabbed through with the knife?
7) The two figures in the centre are husband and wife, aren't they?
8) Who is standing behind the armchair with his tommy gun pointed
at the two persons in the centre?
9) Why is the boy wearing a mask? What does the boy imagine
himself to be?
10) What is it that has brought about this situation?
11) What is it that has been poisoning the mind of the boy daily?
12) What kind of film is on at the moment? Substantiate your
answer.
13) What are the names of all the weapons you see in the picture?
14) What kind of string is it in front of the man? Why is it burning?
Isn't it a fuse attached to a plastic bomb?
II. Sitting on the floor bound up hand and foot the boy's parents wondered at and
grieved over their son's heartlessness. Formulate their thoughts using the following
words and expressions: to grow; to tell on smb.; to take one's fancy; to bind smb. hand
and foot; to ill-treat smb.; hard-hearted; unfeeling; comics; TV programme; thriller.
Pattern
W7ho would (could) have thought (supposed, expected) that he would (might) do
that.
III. Combine the following pairs of sentences according to the following pattern:
Pattern
My car is very old. It still goes well. — 1) Although my
car is very old it still goes well. 2) However old my
car may be, it still goes well. 3) No matter how old
my car may be, it still goes well.
1) The woman tried to persuade the boy to release them. The boy
wouldn't do so.
2) The man tried hard to undo the knot. He couldn't do so.
3) The parents were used to the boy's tricks. They couldn't stand his
last one.
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IV. Describe the picture.
V. Discuss the episode as if you were two neighbours of the family in question, one
of them having witnessed the scene. Make use of the following formulas of surprise,
anger, indignation to convey their attitude to the behaviour of the boy: Just fancy!;
What a shock you have given met; What next, I wonder?; I like that!; That's the
limit!
VI. Arrange a talk between the erring parents and their critically-minded
acquaintances. Ask questions aimed at finding out the causes that led to the sad results of
education shown in the picture. Prove to the boy's parents that they should have acted
differently in bringing up their children.
VII. Retell the text. Comment on the humour of the story.
Quite soon now, and just off Chiswick Mall,1 there lived a husband
and wife called Adam and Vanessa. They had two or three children who
went first to a not-too-progressive prep-school and then to public
schools.2 After dinner Adam and Vanessa would talk intelligently, or
sometimes they went to friends or friends came to them, and quite often
they managed to dump the children and find a little pub abroad. It wasn't,
they often said, that they'd anything against it, but simply that their own
lives seemed so very full that they wouldn't know what to do with a TV
set if they had one.
But when the BBC3 started up its "TV 3rd and the ITA5 opened
their "Egghead Entertainment",6 Adam and Vanessa, like most of their
friends, came to the conclusion, that one mustn't, any longer, shut one's
eyes to the possibility that there was a new art form and, after all, it was
simply a question of being master of the thing and not its servant. It
wasn't as there'd very often be anything they cared to watch; and right
from the start they'd make a rule that there was no question of the
children being allowed to look in.
So they bought a set and they put it in the drawing-room and the man
came to show them how it worked, but for quite a long time they never
turned it on at all. "We don't want to form a habit," they said.
1 Chiswick Mall — название улицы
2 prep-school — подготовительная школа, public school — закрытое среднее
учебное заведение
3 ВВС (British Broadcasting Corporation)—Британская радиовещательная
компания
4 TV 3rd — третья телевизионная программа (для любителей модной литературы,
новых направлений в искусстве и т. п.)
5 ITA (Independent Television Authority)—телевизионная компания,
конкурент Би-Би-Си
6 Egghead Entertainment (шутл.) — передача для самых умных
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Then one evening after they'd been looking through the Radio Times l
they noticed that Les Huts Clos2 was being done in the original on the
TV 3rd that very evening.
Well, there couldn't be any doubt that was the kind of thing they'd
bought the set for, so they switched it on. At first they tried it with the
lights so that they could get on with their work, but, as Adam eventually
said, quite apart from the fact that it was harder to see the screen, you
couldn't enjoy it to the full; so they sat in the dark and gave themselves
up to it heart and soul. "It's really surprisingly effective," Vanessa said
at one point, but when it was over, Adam switched the set off very quickly
and said, "Well, I think that will do us for some time," and Vanessa
agreed.
And so, no doubt, it would, if it hadn't been that the very next night
they were doing Les Huis Clos in French again, but with another
company. And soon it happened that — well, say, every other night, Adam and
Vanessa were looking at TV.
They didn't have friends in any more, the worm got into their
furniture, the moth got into Vanessa's needlework-pictures, and I've forgotten
what happened to the children, but then so did Adam and Vanessa.
(After Seduction of the Innocent by M. Laski)
VIII. Imagine that the people in the picture are the very Adam and Vanessa
you've read about. M. Laski in his story tells about the changes in the life of the
family that the purchase of the TV set brought about, but he does not say a word how
that rash step told upon the children. Make use of the picture to continue the story and
tell what M. Laski did not say. In other words, say what actually happened to the
children.
!X. Most of the Hollywood films are a means of spreading corruption and
delinquency. Explain why it is so.
X. Speak on the role of different forms of art in the upbringing of children.
XI. Retell the joke.
A fond mother in Italy in the neighbourhood of a volcano, hearing that
an earthquake was coming, sent her children to a friend's in the country
to escape it. After a few days she received a note from her friend, saying,
'Take your boys away, and send along the earthquake instead."
1 Radio Times — радиопрограмма (приложение к газете Times)
2 Les Huis Clos (франц.) — „При закрытых дверях", пьеса современного
французского драматурга Поля Сартра

Snobbery
He is a snob, he always takes a sleeper.
I. Answer the following questions. Before answering each question make sure that
you understand the task correctly by asking a general question beginning with: Do you
want me to tell you...; Shall I tell you.. . .
1) How many people do you see in the picture?
2) Are they all travelling by train?
3) Are they all inside the carriages?
4) What carriages are there in a passenger train?
5) Why are the three men travelling not inside but on top? Do you
think they enjoy the ride?
6) Are the three people well off? What makes you think so?
7) Is the man who is lying on the roof of the first class sleeping-car
better off than the other two?
8) Have they all much luggage? Do they need a porter to carry the
luggage?
9) What do the two men think of their third fellow-traveller?
10) What is the humorous effect of the cartoon based upon?
11) The three men can't afford the fare, can they?
12) These people are evidently unemployed, aren't they?
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II. Correct the statements which are not true to fact.
1) The three men did not want to travel inside.
2) The three men are very rich.
3) The man who is lying is much better off than his two
fellow-travellers.
4) The two men envy their third companion.
5) It is more convenient to travel on the roof of a sleeping car than
to travel inside.
HI. Combine the following pairs of sentences according to the pattern:
Pattern
They are poor. They are travelling on carriage tops. — If they were not poor, they
would not be travelling on carriage tops.
1) The three men cannot afford the fare. They are obliged to travel on
carriage tops.
2) The two men know their third fellow-traveller well. They say that
he always travels first class.
IV. Describe the appearance of the three passengers travelling on carriage roofs.
Make use of the following words and expressions:
Tramps, hoboes, unshaven, threadbare, patched clothes, shoes with
worn through soles, rips and tears, a mop of hair, faded, dirty, to be in
the same boat, to bring somebody low.
V. Read and translate the following description of a person's appearance. Make use
of it in describing the characters in the picture.
His rough clothes were old and slouchy. The uppers of his shoes were
loo weak to carry the heavy resoling that was itself of no recent date.
And his cotton shirt, a cheap, two-shilling affair, showed a frayed collar
and ineradicable paint stains.
(J. London. A Piece of Steak)
VI. Read and reproduce the following dialogues.
1
first traveller: I say, Jim, do you know thai man over there?
second traveller: Don't I! Of course I do. I've known him these two years.
ist: Let's ask him to join us here and keep us company.
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2nd He won't do that.
ist: Why?
2nd: He's a snob. He always travels in style.
ist: I don't quite get you.
2nd: He takes all his baggage with him (consisting of two handkerchiefs
and a walking stick) and occupies the best place on a sleeper. And
ours is a third class day coach.
2
first traveller: Hallo, stranger! You appear to be travelling.
second traveller: Yes, I always travel when on a journey.
ist: I think I have seen you somewhere.
2nd: Very like, I have often been there.
ist: Mightn't your name be Cole?
2nd: It might, but it isn't by a long chalk.1
ist: Have you been long2 in these parts?
2nd: Never any longer than at present — five feet nine.
ist: Do you get anything new?
2nd: Yes, I bought a new whetstone this morning.
ist: I thought so, you are the sharpest blade 3 1 have seen on this road,
VII. Read and discuss the texts.
1
Morrow is a town of some importance, about forty miles from
Cincinnati. A new brakeman on the road, who did not know the names of the
stations, was approached by a stranger the other day, who inquired, "Does
this train go to Morrow today?"
"No," said the brakeman, who thought the stranger was making game
of him; "it goes today yesterday week after next."
"You don't understand me," persisted the stranger; "I want to go to
Morrow."
"Well, why don't you wait till tomorrow, then, and come bothering
around today?"
"Won't you answer a civil question civilly? Will this train go to
Morrow?"
"Not exactly. It will go today and come back tomorrow."
1 by a long chalk — ни в коем случае
2 long — 1) for a long time; 2) tall
3 the sharpest blade—1) самое острое лезвие; 2) самый остроумный парень
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As the gentleman who wanted to go to Morrow was about to leave in
disgust, another employee, who knew the station in question, came along
and gave him the desired information.
2
If the tramp were suddenly to pass away from the United States,
widespread misery for many families would follow. The tramp enables
thousands of men to earn honest livings, educate their children, and bring
them up God-fearing and industrious. I know. At one time my father was
a constable and hunted tramps for a living. The community paid him so
much per head for all the tramps he could catch. . . The amount of meat
on the table, the new pair of shoes, the day's outing, or the textbook for
school, were dependent upon my father's luck in the chase. Well, I
remember the suppressed eagerness and the suspense with which I waited to learn
each morning what the results of his past night's toil had been — how
many tramps he had gathered in and what the chances were for
convicting them. And so it was, when later, as a tramp, I succeeded in eluding-
some predatory constable, I could not but feel sorry for the little boys and
girls at home in that constable's house; it seemed to me in a way that I
was defrauding those little boys and girls of some of the good things of
life.
3
One evening I went down to the railroad yards at Concord and found
a freight train made up and ready to start. I located an empty boxcar,
slid open the side door, and climbed in. It was my hope to win across ta
White River by morning. . .
In the car I found a "gay-cat",1 who displayed unusual fright at my
entrance. He took me for a "shack",2 and when he learned I was only a
stiff,3 he began talking...
The freight got under way, and we lay down in one end of the boxcar
and went to sleep. Two or three hours afterward, at a stop, I was
awakened by the noise of the right-hand door being softly slid open. The
gaycat slept on. I made no movement, though I veiled my eyes with my
lashes to a little slit through which I could see out. A lantern was thrust in
through the doorway, followed by the head of a shack. He discovered us,
and looked at us for a moment. I was prepared for a violent expression
on his part. . . Instead of this he cautiously withdrew the lantern and
very, very softly slid the door to. This struck me as unusual and suspi-
1 gay cat (si.) — начинающий бродяга
2 shack (si,) — brakeman
3 stiff (si.) — бродяга
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cious. I listened, and softly heard the hasp drop into place. The door was
latched on the outside. We could not open it from the inside. One way of
sudden exit from that car was blocked. It would never do. I waited a few
seconds, then crept to the left-hand door and tried it. It was not yet
latched. I opened it, dropped to the ground, and closed it behind me. Then
I passed across the bumpers to the other side of the train. I opened the
door the shack had latched, climbed in, and closed it behind me. Both
exits were available again. The gay-cat was still asleep.
The train got under way. It came to the next stop. I heard footsteps in
the gravel. Then the left-hand door was thrown open noisily. The gay-cat
awoke. I made believe to awake; and we sat up stared at the brakeman
and his lantern. He didn't waste any time in getting down to business.
"I want three dollars," he said.
We got on our feet and came nearer to him to talk. We expressed an
absolute and devoted willingness to give him three dollars, but explained
our wretched luck that compeiied our desire to remain unsatisfied. The
brakeman did not believe us. He bargained with us. He would compromise
for two dollars. We regretted our condition of poverty. He said
uncomplimentary things, called us sons of toads and damned us from hell to
breakfast. Then he threatened. He explained that if we didn't dig up, he'd lock
us in and carry us on to White River and turn us over to the authorities...
(After Bulls by J. London)
VIII. Compose questions to the subordinate clauses making use of the italicized
words.
1) The men travel light because they haven't got any belongings
whatever (or: because they like this way of travelling).
2) They travel on top the cars because they can't afford the fare.
3) The men look ragged because they haven't had any new clothes for
years.
IX. * Listen to the text (Ex. VII —3) and test your memory. He who answers the
questions given below correctly is the winner in the game. (Verify your answers with
the key.)
1) How many steps had the tramp to mount to get into the car?
2) Which of the two tramps fell asleep first?
3) Which of them was a heavy sleeper?
4) How many hours had they been asleep before they heard some
noise?
5) Was it the first stop the train came to when the tramp awoke?
6) What struck the tramp as unusual in the behaviour of the brakeman
when he first appeared near the car?
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7) How much did the brakeman charge each man?
X. Retell the text, introducing the following distortions of facts (or any other
distortions you may think of). Let your comrades correct the distortions.
1) The brakeman wore a silk top hat and patent leather shoes, so it
was not difficult to recognize him.
2) The old tramp was the first to fall asleep, the "gay cat" being so
frightened with his first experience.
3) The old tramp was a heavy sleeper but the banging of the door
awoke him.
4) The brakeman was a painstaking fellow and performed his duty
well.
5) The tramp crawled under the car to unlatch the door.
XI. In the Concise Oxford Dictionary we find the following explanation of the
meanings of the word snob: Man of low breeding or social position (arch.); (at
universities and public schools; arch.) townsman; person with exaggerated respect for social
position or wealth and a disposition to be ashamed of socially inferior connexions,
behave with servility to social superiors, and judge of merit by externals.
What is the meaning of the word snob in the situation shown in the pictures?
XII. Read, retell and discuss these jokes and anecdotes.
The old gentleman felt very sorry for the tramp.
"Goodness!" he cried, "and you say you are 15,000 miles from home?"
"That's right, sir," answered the tramp hopefully.
"And where is your home?"
"Australia."
"Dear me! Take this, my good man. And how do you expect to get
back?"
The man looked hard at the penny in his hand.
"Well, if I don't do better than this," he said thoughtfully, "I suppose
I'll have to walk!"
— Where are you living now, Grumpy?
— In the Park. The fresh-air treatment is all the thing nowadays.
— I wish I knew what town I was going to die in.
— How would that help?
— I'd never go near the place.
XIII. Tell the story.
XIV. Speak on vagrancy in capitalist countries. Find examples in literature.

Looks Different from the Inside
Suggested Vocabulary
a ragged man shadow, reflection, silhouette
tramp, vagabond window pane
to hang about to be comfortably off
patched up clothes to envy (smb.)
miserable to mislead
invalid to sympathize (with)
to take medicine to relax (after work)
to recline in an armchair
. . to give the sack
cushion *
dressing-gown confined to one's bed (armchair)
wine glass burglar
I. Study the picture and answer the following questions. In giving your answers
use, if possible, such formulas of agreement or disagreement (as the case may be) as:
/ think so; I don't think so; I should say so; I shouldn't say so; very likely; I hardly
think so.
1) What has brought the tramp to the window?
2) What is the man inside doing?
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3) Is there anything enviable in the man's position?
4) Why is the scene misleading if you look at the window from the
outside?
5) Does the ragged man arouse your sympathy? Why so?
6) One can often see such miserable-looking people in capitalist
countries, can't one?
II. The following sentences are not true to fact. Correct them.
Pattern
Tom hasn't come to the Institute because he is badly ill. —
Well, but I have seen him walking about.
1) The ragged man is a friend of the invalid's.
2) The ragged man must have come to pay the sick man a visit.
3) The man inside seems to be really taking wine.
4) Perhaps the man inside isn't ill at all. Don't people relax after
work in comfortable armchairs?
5) The dressing-gown doesn't necessarily mean that one is ill. The
man inside may be just enjoying his day off.
III. Make up questions to suit the following answers:
1) ... ? — Why, no. Don't you see the bottle labelled medicine.
2) ... ? — Oh, no. He merely came here for alms.
3) ... ? — Because he envies the man inside.
4) ... ? — He looks a regular tramp.
IV. Describe the two men. Make use of the following pattern:
Pattern
1) The man looks like his brother.
2) The man seems to be his brother.
3) The man must be his brother.
V. Express some of the ragged man's thoughts.
Pattern
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1) I wish I could see Brown.
2) I wish Brown were at home.

VI. Think of the life story of the ragged man; make suppositions about the other
man's illness.
Pattern
He may (must) be (have been) here.
VII. Read and retell the text.
CARRYING THE BANNER
"To carry the banner" means to walk the streets all night; and I, with
the figurative emblem hoisted, went out to see what I could see. Men and
women walk the streets at night all over this great city, but I selected the
West End, making Leicester Square my base, and scouting from the
Thames Embankment to Hyde Park.
The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant
crowd which poured from the places of amusement was faced with the
difficulty of finding cabs. The streets were so many wild rivers of cabs,
most of which were engaged, however; and here I saw the desperate
attempts of ragged men and boys to get a shelter from the night by finding
cabs for the cabless ladies and gentlemen. I use the word "desperate"
advisedly, for these wretched, homeless ones were gambling a soaking
against a bed; and most of them, I took notice, got the soaking and
missed the bed. Now, to go through a stormy night with wet clothes, and,
in addition, to be ill fed and not to have tasted meat for a week or a
month, is about as severe a hardship as a man can undergo. Well fed and
well clad, I have travelled all day with the spirit thermometer down to
seventy-four degress below zero — one hundred and six degrees of frost;
.and though I suffered, it was a mere nothing compared with carrying the
banner for a night, ill fed, ill clad, and soaking wet.
The streets grew quiet and lonely after the theatre crowd had gone
home. Only were to be seen the policemen, flashing their dark lanterns into
doorways and alleys, and men and women and boys taking shelter there
from the wind and rain. Piccadilly, however, was not quite deserted. lis
pavements were brightened by well-dressed women without escort, and
there was more life and action there than elsewhere, due to the process of
finding escort. But by three o'clock the last of them had disappeared, and
it was then indeed lonely.
At half past one the steady rain stopped, and only showers fell
thereafter. The homeless folk came away from the protection of the buildings,
?nd began walking up and down and everywhere, in order to get warm.
One old woman, between fifty and sixty I had noticed earlier in the
night standing in Piccadilly, not far from Leicester Square. She seemed
to have neither the sense nor the strength to get out of the rain or keep
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walking, but stood stupidly, whenever she got the chance, thinking of past
days, I imagine, when life was young and blood was warm. But she did
not get the chance often. She was moved on by every policeman, and it
required an average of six moves to send her off one man's beat and on
to another's. By three o'clock she had progressed as far as St. James
Street, and as the clocks were striking four I saw her sleeping soundly
against the iron railings of Green Park. A shower was falling at the time,
and she must have got wet to the skin.
Now, said I, at one o'clock, to myself, consider that you are a poor
young man, penniless, in London Town, and that tomorrow you must look
for work. It is necessary, therefore, that you get some sleep in order that
you may have strength to look for work and to do work in case you
find it.
So I sat down on the stone steps of a building. Five minutes later a
policeman was looking at me. My eyes were wide open, so he only grunted
and passed on. Ten minutes later my head was on my knees, I was dozing
and the same policeman was saying, "Here, you, get out of here!"
(After /. London)
VII. Find descriptions of the plight of homeless people in other works of literature*
by English-speaking writers. Discuss them.
IX. Read and retell the newspaper article given below. This sentence is suggested
for the opening: Leonardo Powell, a vagabond, is reported to have attempted to.. fc
Use the words and expressions given after the text.
Из зала суда
ЕСЛИ БРОДЯГА, ТО ВИНОВАТ
Несколько месяцев тому назад было сообщено о сенсационной
краже в доме лорда Л. на Гайдпаркгейт. Сыщики Скотленд-Ярда
наконец представили судьям человека, который якобы совершил
«воровской рейд» в дом на Гайдпаркгейт.
Обвиняемого зовут Леонард Пауэлл, 32 лет, безработный, без
определенного адреса, его видели в квартале, где проживает лорд Л., во
время совершения кражи. Вот и все улики. Судья заявил, что Пауэлл
не знал, кому принадлежит дом и кухня, куда он проник, чтобы
утолить голод.
From the man in the courtroom; raided the house; the accused; burglary;
evidence.
X. Comment upon and reproduce these jokes.
An old tramp sailed up to the back door of a little English tavern
called The George and Dragon and beckoned to the landlady.
"I've had nothing to eat for three days," he said. "Would you spare an
old man a bite of dinner?"
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"I should say not, you good-for-nothing loafer," said the landlady and
slammed the door in his face.
The tramp's face reappeared at the kitchen window.
"I was just wonderin'," he said, "if I could 'ave a word or two with
George."
"You have lost all your teeth," said a traveller to a beggar.
"It was time to lose them," was the reply, "when I could get no work
for them to do."
— Can you lend me five shillings, old man?
— Yes, old man, as soon as I get back from Bristol.
— I didn't know you were going to Bristol.
— I'm not, old man.
old lady (to a beggar whom she gave alms): Now, then, what should a
polite man say to a lady who has given him a penny?
beggar: I'm too polite to say it, madam.
XI. Here is another picture throwing light upon the miserable condition of the
jobless in capitalist countries. Make up your own exercises on the picture: (a) Select
What a lucky dog old Jim is! No fear of losing that job!
the vocabulary, (b) Ask and answer questions on the picture, (c) Select suitable
patterns to be trained with the help of the picture. Use them in your speech, (d) Comment
•on the picture, (e) Think of the life stories of the characters involved, (f) Discuss the
meaning of the remark of one of the unemployed that serves as the caption.

INDEX TO MAJOR PATTERNS
must + Infinitive — pp. 67. 130
can -r Infinitive — p. 109
may + Infinitive — pp. 14, 130
might + Infinitive — pp. 31, 89
should + Infinitive — pp. 105. 67, 87
ought + Infinitive — p. 89
need + Infinitive — p. 22
used -f Infinitive — p. 38
Accusative with the Infinitive — pp. 53, 72, 88, 6, 115
Nominative + Infinitive — pp. 62, 67, 129
Accusative H- Participle — p. 129
Conditional Clauses — pp. 31, 67, 69, 99, 123, 60, 46, 62
Concession — pp. 77, 119, 112, 109, 92
Wish—pp. 35, 87, 129, 106
Had better —pp. 14, 35, 87
would rather — pp. 35, 87
Emphasis— 14, 70, 81, 30, 73, 105
Agreement, disagreement— 18, 92, 15, 30, 63, 70, 73, 81, 67, 123, 127
Indirect questions — p. 122
Comparison — pp. 60, 62, 99
Surprise, doubt, disbelief — pp. 41, 119
Anger, indignation — pp. 63, 119
Silence-fillers — pp. 46, 60, 114
Openings—pp. 4, 9, 34, 44, 72, 88, HI, 104
KEY TO SOME EXERCISES
p. 48, III
I) What are we doing tonight? 2) We are dining out today, aren't we? 3) What are
we having for dinner? 4) I hope that bore of a lady who sat next to me isn't coming
today?
p. 48, IV
napkin — a small linen cloth used at meals to protect one's clothes and to wipe one's
lips and fingers on
guest — a person who is entertained at another's house at a meal
spoon — a utensil with a shallow bowl at the end of a handle; it is used in cooking,
serving, or eating food
servant — a person who works in a household for wages, food and lodging, often called
a domestic servant
dinner set — a special set of plates, dishes, etc., used at dinner
cook — a person who cooks
knife —a cutting instrument with a sharp edge, fastened in a handle and used for
cutting food at table
vase — an ornamental vessel made of glass, pottery, metal etc., used for holding
flowers or simply as an ornament
small talk — light or trifling conversation, conversation on subjects of little importance
table cloth — a cloth, usually of white linen, spread of a table at meal-times
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p. 49, V
nothing like — nothing better (than); nothing can be compared with; it's a good thing;
to look forward to — to await eagerly; to anticipate
to make any party a go — to make any party a success
to make the most of — to enjoy to the full; to use the most profitable way
to see to — to look after; to take care of; to attend to
to be underdone — not cooked enough
to be a brick — a first-rate good fellow
(to hold somebody) spellbound — too interested or amazed to move
to crack jokes — to make jokes
to keep the ball rolling — to uphold the conversation
to flag — to become weak (and tired)
jokes began to fall flat — didn't amuse any longer; were not a success any more
but all to no purpose — with little or no result
time dragged on—made slow progress, did not advance
p. 53, HI
as busy as a bee, as quiet as a mouse, as tricky as a monkey, as white as snow, as hot
as fire,- as merry as a cricket, as easy as ABC, as pleased as Punch, as cross as two>
sticks, as welcome as snow in harvest, as firm as rock, as clear as day
p. 53, IV
to iron — гладить; to press — утюжить
p. 54, VI
on the go (col.) — at work, active
hands down — easily, without effort
up to one's eyes in work — with plenty of work on hand
to keep an eye on — to watch
an apple of one's eye — much cherished object
to lay hands on — to get possession of
to see red — to fly into rage, to be very angry
caught red-handed — here: caught in the act of mischief making
to cut somebody short — to interrupt
to have no say — to have no right to share in a discussion
to face the music — to stand bravely against
to set the whole table in a roar — to make the people sitting at the table laugb
hear tily, loudly
p. 60, IV
1) Кому нужны твои непрошенные советы? Лучше бы ты занимался своим делом.
2) Мы вполне можем обойтись без ваших непрошенных советов. 3) К чему ты
клонишь? Не хочешь ли ты сказать, что собираешься отказаться от своего обещания^
4) У Джона хватило сообразительности сразу же увидеть, к чему тот клонит.
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p. 62, II
child — spoiled, naughty, mischievous
woman — careless, impudent
man — shy, nervous
p. 70, IV
1) You must be ... 2) You ought to be .. . 3) You should be ... 4) Surely you might
be
p. 73, III
I) Where is my scooter, I wonder? 2) Oh, if that Pif hasn't taken my scooter!
3) It must be Pif's doing. Pif is the limit. 4) Pif will be the death of me! 5) What the
devil have they done with my scooter?
p. 83, IX
1) tide; 2) tile; 3) tale; 4) talk; 5) walk
p. 126, IX
1) There were no steps at all, the car being a boxcar. 2) The gay-cat was the first
to fall asleep. 3) The gay-cat was. 4) After two or three hours one of the tramps was
awakened, the gay-cat being asleep all the time. 5) No mention is given in the text to
that effect. 6) Only one tramp noticed the unusual behaviour of the brakeman, who
slid the door to without scolding them. 7) One dollar and fifty cents each.

CONTENTS
At Home
Family Life Scenes 3
He Could Not Stand It 8
Gossip 13
Trouble in the Home 18
Discord in the Family . 29
The Man Who Didn't Like Washing Up 34
A Long Wait ; . 40
Not What She Meant 44
Cook's Day Off 47
He Overdid It 52
Getting about Town
A Nice Drive 57
Her Own Little Darling 62
At a Bus Stop 66
He Sees Green 69
A Way Out 72
The Disturber of the Peace 76
One Way Only 80
He Crossed the Road in Safety 84
His Manners 88
Their Way of Life
The Enterprising Barman 91
Bank Raid 97
Hands Up! 104
Window-shopping 108
Electric Shock Ill
Birds of a Feather 114
She Was Right 118
Snobbery 122
Looks Different from the Inside 128
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