1. Прочитайте текст. Письменно ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1. What did the Nightingale hear from her nest in the Oak-tree?

2. Did the Nightingale understand the secret of Student’s sorrow?

3. Where did the Nightingale fly to look for the red rose?

4. What did the Rose-tree ask the Nightingale for the red rose?

5. What did the Nightingale sacrifice to help the Student and why?

6. What did the Nightingale sing of and how did she sing?

7. The Nightingale sang all night, didn’t she?

8. How did the ladylove meet the Student when he came to her with the red rose?

9. Where did the Student throw the red rose and what happened to it?

10. Why did the Student go back to Philosophy?

2. Закончите следующие предложения.

1. There is no rose in my garden, so __________________________ .

2. I feel unhappy because ________________________________ .

3. The winter has chilled my veins, the storm has broken my branches, and ________________________________________ .

4. The Student couldn't understand what the Nightingale was saying, for __________________________________________________ .

5. When she finished her song, the Student got up, and ___________ .

6. She sang first of the birth of love __________________________ .

7. The Nightingale made no answer, for ______________________ .

8. When the Student ran to the Professor's house with the rose, his ladylove _____________________________________________ .

9. The Student threw the rose into the gutter, because ____________ .

10. Love is not half as useful as Logic, for _____________________ .

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, заменив прямую речь на косвенную.

1. "The Prince gives a ball tomorrow night," said the young Student.

2. "The musician will sit in their gallery," continued the young Student.

3. "He is weeping because of a red rose," said the Nightingale.

4. "Give me a red rose," she pleaded, "and I will sing you my sweetest song."

5. "There is the way," answered the Tree, "but it is so terrible that I dare not to tell it to you."

6. "If you want a red rose," said the Tree, "you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart-blood."

7. "Death is a great price to pay for the red rose," cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all."

8. "I shall fell lonely when you are gone," he whispered.

9. "One red rose is all I want," cried the Nightingale, "only one red rose! Is there any way by which I can get it?"

10. "I am afraid it will not go with my dress," she answered.

IV. Перепишите предложения, употребляя прямую речь.

1. I wrote to her at the library to ask her if she could see me the following Monday at six.

2. They had explained their sudden departure by saying that they had mistaken the date of Chorton Fair and had gone off in a hurry.

3. I told her mother that I should be happy to receive her in a year or two – when her general studies were completed.

4. The Miller said to his wife that he would go down to see Little Hans.

5. He said that he would come as soon as he was free.

6. He assured her that she would be perfectly safe there.

7. When they had finished supper Mr. Otis ordered them all to bed, saying that more could be done that night.

8. The door was opened by a foreign-looking man who asked him in a very bad English what his business was.

9. He asked his wife if she had known the truth.

10. She said that she would give her excellent references.