Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own

Choose the right word or word combination from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.

Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.

Comprehension Check

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.

leather, nuisance, exultantly, pearly, moustaches, sacrilege, quavered, paths, desperately, clamber, oozed, scythe, minute, courage, laborious, timid, seized, grinding.

1. Where is the action set?

2. What do you know about Mr Woodfield?

3. Why is special attention given to the description of the boss’s room?

4. Do you think the two old men had known each other for a long time?

5. What did Mr Woofield tell his friend about his girls’ visit to Belgium?

6. What was the boss’s reaction to the news?

7. What did we learn about the boss’s past life?

8. What helped the boss draw away from his sad memories?

9. How did he feel after the episode with a fly?

1. to have a useful effect: to help smb.	to be over
2. to meet or find something by chance.	to make a nuisance of oneself
3. to bring into actuality; effect.	to do smb good
4. to persuade smb not to do smth again by making them suffer so much that they are afraid to do it.	to come across smth/ smb
5. to continue the job or the work that smb else had started.	to teach smb a lesson
6. to learn how a particular job should be done.	to step into smb’s shoes
7. a feeling of pleasure, wonder, and approval.	to fulfill
8. in a direct way that is easy to understand.	to learn the ropes
9. to behave in a way that annoys other people.	to tackle
10. to take on and wrestle with (an opponent or a problem.	fair and square
11. to be completely finished.	admiration

a) He spent three days ……… an absolute ………… himself.

b) The accident ………………. I’ll never forget.

c) Do you think these latest changes will … any ……..?

d) She ……. …….. some old photographs in a drawer.

e) The outing will …….. me ………..

f) The bad times …………..

g) I told him ………………. to pack his bags.

h) He never fulfilled his promises.

i) “Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and …………..” (Matthew Arnold).

j) Now that Chris is gone she wants me to ……………

k) The government is determined to ………….. inflation.

Пора было уходить; с тех пор, как он ушел на пенсию; никуда его не выпускали; полон жизни; он гордился своим кабинетом; с рисунком; не привлек внимание; я помнил; его песенка спета; не повредит и ребенку; по большому секрету; у старика отвисла челюсть; казалось, он сейчас заплачет; это кощунство; злоупотреблять нашими чувствами; проводил старика; это было ужасным потрясением; он был совершенно неиспорченным мальчиком; казалось небо обрушилось; промокашка; напрасно.

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