Answer the questions. Explain the words in bold type

Explain the words in bold type.

Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.

TASKS

THE LAURENCE BOY

CHAPTER 3

Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 3 and translate them into your mother-language

garret	hasty
take out	colt
blithe	forlorn
lace	trip
frill	at one’s ease
pinch	to peg away
lock	grind
tongs	skylark
ringlet	to sprain one's ankle
scorched	wrench
bundle	stable
frizzle	scrub
petulant	to wait on
shorn sheep	motto
mishap	to be at one’s wits’ end
snood	to rumple
twitch	auburn

Find in the text and translate the following passages:

1. After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last… - "How do you learn all the proper ways? I never can. Isn't that music gay?"

2. Down they went, feeling a trifle timid… - Unfortunately, another bashful person had chosen the same refuge, for, as the curtain fell behind her, she found herself face to face with the `Laurence boy'.

3. Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise… - … and boys were almost unknown creatures to them.

4. Jo led the way… - I turned my foot a little, that's all, "and limped upstairs to put her things on.

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

1. "Such fun! Only see! A regular note of invitation from Mrs. Gardiner for tomorrow night!" cried Meg, waving the precious paper and then proceeding to read it with girlish delight.

2. "Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully," began Meg, whose gloves were a tender point with her.

3. "What a queer smell! It's like burned feathers," observed Amy, smoothing her own pretty curls with a superior air.

4. I'll lift my eyebrows if any thing is wrong, and nod if you are all right.

5. "How is your cat, Miss March?" asked the boy, trying to look sober while his black eyes shone with fun.

6. "How nicely you do it! Let me see... you said, `Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers', didn't you?"

7. There's a long hall out there, and we can dance grandly, and no one will see us.

8. “I've sprained my ankle”.

9. "Tell about the party! Tell about the party!"

1. Where did Jo like to spend her leisure hours?

2. What did the girls get one day?

3. Did Jo feel at ease at the party?

4. Whom did he meet in her recess?

5. What happened to Meg?

6. What way did the girls get home?

7. Was Jo right saying that fine young ladies at the party hadn’t enjoyed themselves more than they had, in spite of their burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers?

8. What Jo and Meg could tell their younger sisters about the party?

1. Speak on Jo’s attitude to clothes. Compare it with Meg’s opinion.

2. Describe in detail the preparations for the party. What do you usually get ready for going out?

3. Describe Laurie’s appearance.

4. Explain the expression “a great want of manners”

Reproduce the conversations:

1. Meg and Jo before the party

2. Jo and the Laurence boy at the party

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