Chapter 3 Anna Meets Her Class

I.Read, translate and transcribe the following words, give explanation of their meaning. Say in what situations these words and combinations are used.

Lively and inquisitive children

The high tea

A lodger

The remains of the Sunday joint

A pinch-penny spirit

To meet the challenge

A tin of baked beans

To waste gas (money, time, effort) unnecessarily

To purse one’s thin lips with satisfaction

To buy smth. at a reduced price

To make a little festive touch

Evaporated milk

A wild burst of extravagance

Pity to open smth

A professionally bright smile

With a sudden deafening noise

A well-corseted figure

To bring some appreciable quietening

To stuff cotton-wool in one’s ears

Docile class

A fleeting grimace

To stand with monumental dignity

To remain silent and statuesque

To note wryly

To feel quite exhausted

To advance with happiness and confidence

To be decorated with cigarette ash

A shabby suit

Tightish cavalry twill trousers

Glossy shoes

The second-in-command

To be serving under N.

Glamorous appearance

To gulp down the remains of one’s tea

A rum lot

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

To feel very tired, fashionable look, a person who rents a room, supper, a strange company, to spend smth. in vain, to decorate, obedient children, to stay without motion or speaking, with a quick loud sound, a tendency to economize, an old and worn-out clothing.

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

To meet, to screw, to feed, to rouse, to raise, to rise, to bake, to buy, to twirl, to think, to evaporate, to accomplish, to bring, to boom, to feel, to come, to get, to find, to hear, to murmur, to send, to leap, to wag, stride, to roar, to break, to chorus, to hold, to wheeze, to shrill, to tell, to warn.

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

Tough, ingredient, gravy, charm, thrift, start, shuffle, baked beans, uproar, upheaval, bewildered, psychiatrist, plait, conscious, tempestuous, spasmodically, injunction, wheeze, exhausted, descend.

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

1. She had screwed the old mincer to the table and now fed it with rather tough strips of beef…

2. If I open a tin of baked beans, … there’ll be no need for gravy.

3. There was a noisy shuffling of chairs and an upheaval of those who had already taken their seats and now must struggle from them.

4. Anna began to wonder if she would ever get used to it or if she would be compelled to stuff cotton-wool in her ears before these mass upheavals and take it out when the class had settled.

5. I should give out paper and coloured pencils… as soon as you’ve called the register.

6. Keep them busy while you are finding your way about the cupboards and so on.

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

1. While Anna prepared herself to meet her class of forty-four lively and inquisitive children…

2. There was not to be much, to be sure, bur Mrs. Flynn’s pinch-penny spirit…

3. Pity to open them…

4. … making Anna and other children start nervously…

5. … she realized that it was just below the windows and likely to keep up its merry din for the most of the term.

6. You are very lucky this term to have Miss Lasey for your new teacher.

7. Is no one going to remember his manners?

8. A freckled girl … was the first to hurl herself upon the handle and drag open the door.

9. I expect you to help Miss Lasey in every way…