Respond to the statement

Comment on the following words of the author.

Expand on the following.

Find in the story the sentences with the words or expressions given below, translate them into Russian and ask your fellow students to translate them back into English.

Complete the fixed expressions in these sentences.

Conversation-building expressions. There are some common expressions that help to modify or organize what we are saying.

expression	meaning
As I was saying	takes the conversation back to an earlier point
As I / you say	repeats and confirms something someone has already said
Talking of	starting a new topic but linking it to the present one
If you ask me	if you want my opinion(even if no-one has asked for it
That reminds me	something in the conversation reminds you of something important
Come to think of it	something in the conversation makes you realize that there may be a problem/query about something

a) Come………….., I don’t remember giving her the key. I’d better ring her and check, just in case.

b) I you ……., the economy’s going to get much worse before it gets any better.

c) ………………holidays, have you got any plans for next year?

d) A: It’s going to be expensive.

B: Yes, it’ll be bun, and a great opportunity, but,………….., it will be expensive.

e) That……….., I have a message for you from Sid.

f) As……………., before the postwoman interrupted us, we plan to extend the house next spring.

They rained upon me; my heart was … cast down; the fruits of pious solitude; familiar story; quite unexpectedly; quite away from everything; as long as I believed; extreme rarity; friendly fashion; judging by the smell; a family party.

a) ‘The saloon was long and narrow.’

b) The room was delightful.

c) Mademoiselle Ambatielos was keen on playing the piano.

d) ‘At eight the gong sounded for supper.’

a) ‘ …the great thing to learn in this life is to be content with appearances.’

b) ‘ Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.’

c) ‘…a woman with such sober passions is bound to be quiet and clean, with few babies and a much absent husband.’

a) ‘The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people—that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.’

James Thurber (1894–1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator.

b) ‘No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.’

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian.

12. Challenge the following statement.

‘The sense of humour has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.’

Alice Meynell (1847–1922), English poet, essayist.

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