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

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

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

Comprehension Check

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.

Cocoa, jeweller’s, inane, dialogue, voluptuous, fatuous, feather, exquisitely, brougham, suede, champagne, scent, boudoir, tulle, ancestral, curtsey, quilt, dawn, flood, nervous, calico.

a) What did Rosabel do to earn her living?

b) What was her mood when she was returning home?

c) What means did the author use to describe Rosabel’s tiredness?

d) What had happened during her working day?

e) Why was Rosabel seized with anger while serving the girl with beautiful red hair?

f) Why was Rosabel thinking about the handsome young man?

g) What pictures did she see in her dreams?

h) Was she able to take pleasure of life in her illusory world?

i) How did she meet her next day?

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

1. a tiny imaginary being in human form, depicted as clever, mischievous, and possessing magical powers.	ample
2. to dislike intensely.	to sacrifice
3. to ask for urgently.	fairy
4.a friendly informal manner.	to detest
5. to make you look attractive.	to call in
6. enough or more than enough.	to demand
7. a holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.	to suit smb
8. money, property, etc. that you you receive from smb when they die.	familiarity
9. having agreed to marry smb.	honeymoon
10. to telephone a place.	inheritance
11. to forfeit (one thing) for another thing considered to be of greater value.	to be engaged

a) There was ………….. time to get to the airport.

b) She spent all her ……. In a year.

c) They ……………. to be married.

d) We went to Venice for our ……………

e) She addressed me with an easy …………. that made me feel at home.

f) He …………… to speak to the manager.

g) Blue ….. you. You should wear it more often.

h) She promised to ………… the other day but seemed to forget about it.

i) They …… each other on sight.

j) …………… are often represented as small people with wings.

k) She ………….. everything for the children.

Это была основная причина; шляпная мастерская; что-нибудь горячее, острое и сытное; наверняка ее возраста; глупый, действующий на нервы разговор; шевеля губами; эскалатор; она чуть не расплакалась; отговорка была шита белыми нитками; рыжие волосы; им было трудно угодить; замшевые перчатки; вот это настоящая жизнь; обыденные вопросы; полусонная.

a) The car was parked in the small weedy lot next … the hotel.

b) She looked … … the window; there was nobody … the street.

c) The veranda was equipped … heavy wooden rain doors that were kept close … night.

d) Try … clothing and shoes to make sure they fit.

e) The desk was covered … papers.

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