Chapter seven – an unexpected visitor

1. Find the words and phrases in the text and read these sentences. Give their Russian equivalents.

1. to inhale sharply

2. a bundle of letters

3. to seem like an eternity

4. to squeeze a hand

5. to slide behind the wheel

6. startling chirped

7. to savour

2. Make up 3 sentences in English using new words from ex.1. Read them for the rest of your group to translate.

3. Write a Gist of Chapter 7. Present it orally in class.

4. Reproduce the situation shown in the picture:

4. Enlarge one of the following statements from the book into an essay:

• “The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”

• “Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”

• “No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop;...”

• “That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”

• “Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish, cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again”

• “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

• “Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”

4. Comment on the letter:

7. Think over several problem questions based on the part you have read. Discuss them in a dialogue form with the partner. Chapter eight – winter for two

1. Find the words and phrases in the text and read these sentences. Give their Russian equivalents.

1. to wipe eyes

2. to yearn

3. twitch

4. to tap

5. to board up

6. a throbbing pain

7. to be misshapen

8. grotesque

9. steady erosion

10. joints

11. to flush with an answer

12. harden knots

13. crisp

14. goslings

15. a grip

16. a barren disease

17. bosom

18. back and forth (to and fro)

19. to be grim

20. a hollow man

21. to sift through

22. an excerpt

23. marveling

24. remnant

25. pinnacle

26. to swoop

27. evasiveness

28. inconsolably

29. to fatten smb up

30. to be of no avail

31. to potter around

32. to peep over the horizon

33. to go numb

34. cane

35. a tingling

36. a mighty ship in churning waters

2. Make up 5 sentences in Russian using new words from ex.1. Read them for the rest of your group to translate.

3. Write a Summary of Chapter 8. Present it orally in class.

4. Match some more new words from Chapter 8 with their definition. Find the words and phrases in the text and read these sentences. Give their Russian equivalents.

New Word	The Definition
tumbleweeds	to breathe in
a carafe	throw (something) somewhere lightly, easily, or casually
to sob	walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground
to inhale	make small movements, esp. of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience
cadence	an attack of illness or strong emotion of a specified kind
to toss	1) turn or cause to turn or whirl around quickly; 2) (of a person's head) give a sensation of dizziness
to shuffle	an open-topped glass flask typically used for serving wine or water
to fidget	to cry noisily, making loud, convulsive gasps
to sigh	emit a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a similar feeling
a bout	beat or sound with a strong, regular rhythm; pulsate steadily
to throb	a plant of dry regions that breaks off near the ground in late summer and is tumbled about by the wind, thereby dispersing its seeds.
to spin	a fall in pitch of the voice at the end of a phrase or sentence