Explain the words in bold type

Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.

Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 6 and translate them into your mother-language.

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BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL

CHAPTER 6

to pass the lions
to play truant
coddle
browse
yearn
impart
blithely
to mount guard
eventful
cluster
pansy
glossy
tumble
heartsease
apple-pie order
render

Find in the text and translate the following passages:

1. The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. – He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now that Mr. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches'.

2. But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the `Mansion of Bliss', as Meg called it. – And presently, as if the idea had just occurred to him, he said to Mrs. March...

3. Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home. – At any rate she deserved both.

4. They would have been still more amazed if they had seen what Beth did afterward.

Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:

1. What good times they had, to be sure.

2. Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.

3. Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home.

4. “Yes, dear. It will please him very much, and be a nice way of thanking him.”

5. “Here's a letter from the old gentleman! Come quick, and read it!”

6. “You'll have to go and thank him,” said Jo, by way of a joke, for the idea of the child's really going never entered her head.

Speak on the following:

1. Explain the title of the chapter.

2. Laurie and his new friends.

3. Beth finds the neighbours’ house beautiful.

4. The present for Beth.

5. Beth’s gratitude.

Answer the questions:

1. Why could not Beth visit the “Palace Beautiful”?

2. What way did Mr. Laurence “mend matters”?

3. Did some pretty easy music lie on the piano by accident?

4. Why was the gift so precious to Beth?

5. What way did Beth thank Mr. Laurence?

Make up the situation round the following sentences:

1. “Never mind, let him take a holiday, and make it up afterward”.

2. “The boy neglects his music now, and I'm glad of it, for he was getting too fond of it”.

3. “I'm Beth. I love it dearly, and I'll come, if you are quite sure nobody will hear me, and be disturbed”.

4. “Mother, I'm going to work Mr. Laurence a pair of slippers”.

5. “Here's a letter from the old gentleman! Come quick, and read it!”

6. “Yes, I mean to. I guess I'll go no, before I get frightened thinking about it.”

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