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  1. Replace the following words with their synonyms from the given list.

To wander home, life as it is, to think of the profit, the results of smb’s work, the court working over the teens’ crime problems, to keep the family budget, a man attractive for women, a story where the main characters are working people, a criminal, extremely tired, to react to smth, to be on guard, to mispronounce words, another pair of shoes, to be a professional, to put smth down accurately, to seem funny.

  1. Give the three forms of the following verbs, translate and transcribe them.

Totter, lie, exhaust, keep, alarm, lapse, see, hear, choose, escape, teach, elude, sit, boom, give, nod, demonstrate, hide, exhort, feel, snap, fall, snore, stride, intone, chant, drive, emulate, disguise, make, meet, wreathe, write, know, show, expostulate, exaggerate, grow, fly, think, muse, light, stand.

  1. Translate, transcribe and pronounce the following words, use them in the sentences of your own.

Coverlet, overanxious, treachery, mysterious, knot, boisterously, intoxicated, searchlight, authority, haphazardly, knees, vivaciously, indiscriminately, recrimination, oar, ecstasy, bouquet, quotation, wrathfully, coiffures, outrageous, unsophisticated, utilitarian, array, brusquely, ribald, jejune, wrist, shouldering.

  1. Write out all the synonyms of the verb “to look” from the chapter, use them in the sentences of your own.

  2. Explain the use of tenses in the following phrases.

  1. No longer did she totter home at four o’clock to her narrow little bed, carefully remove the folk-weaved coverlet…

  2. It wouldn’t do at all, she told herself in panic…

  3. She found herself called upon to teach Scripture, Physical Exercise, … and a mysterious subject called Rhythmic Work which had somehow eluded her during her studies.

  4. “Don’t worry,” Miss Enderby had said kindly, when Anna had confessed her ignorance.

  5. Most of the class would have been hidden from her sight had she done it.

  6. Several naughty little boys were charging wildly about the hall catching their friends and enemies…

  7. A vivacious little set-to was being conducted at the back of the piano, which was out of range of Miss Hobbs’s piercing gaze.

  8. The children were beginning to flag but Miss Hobbs… was as fresh as a daisy.

  9. He too would be thinking of the rewards of his labours, but he would have done the major part of them before counting his gains.

  1. State the form and the function of the infinitive in the following sentences.

  1. … overanxious about her ability to keep order and to teach her carefully prepared lessons…

  2. Now she … was amused, and slightly alarmed to hear herself lapsing into imbecile speech…

  3. … she heard herself say sternly…

  4. … the children seemed to respond to this way of talking…

  5. She found herself called upon to teach Scripture, Physical Exercise, … and a mysterious subject called Rhythmic Work which had somehow eluded her during her studies.

  6. As a final exercise the puffing children were told to skip freely about in a beautiful field.

  7. To spend so much time, thought and money upon such things seemed out of all proportions to Anna.

  8. … it simply made Miss Hobbs appear ridiculous…