Trace the association of the passage with the Bible

Translate the following passage. Comment on it. Pay attention to the connotation of the underlined words.

Explain the words in bold type.

Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.

TASKS

Being Neighbourly

CHAPTER 5

Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 5 and translate them into your mother-language.

tramp	woo
betoken	tweak
frolic	elate
sally out	prance
tomb	distract
flutter	get out of the scrape
bag and baggage
loan	redoubtable
beckon	poky
poke	conservatory
cross	in a body
fidgety	glower
revel	plague

Find in the text and translate the following passages:

1. Meg went back to toast her feet and read IVANHOE… – “That boy is suffering for society and fun”…

2. Laurie colored up, but answered frankly … - Her face was very friendly and her sharp voice unusually gentle as she said...

3. The atmosphere of the whole house being summerlike… - “Thank you, ma'am,” said a gruff voice behind her, and there, to her great dismay, stood old Mr. Laurence.

4. The old gentleman did not say much as he drank his four cups of tea… - They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, by Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.

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

1. What in the world are you going to do now, Jo.”

2. “I've a great mind to go over and tell the old gentleman so!”

3. “How do you do? Are you sick?”

4. “All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo.”

5. “Yes, that's Beth. She's my girl, and a regular good one she is, too.”

6. “Don't go to school, I'm a businessman-girl, I mean. I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too…”

7. “Mercy me! It's your grandpa!”

8. “I'm sure now that I shouldn't be afraid of him, for he's got kind eyes, though his mouth is grim, and he looks as if he had a tremendous will of his own. He isn't as handsome as my grandfather, but I like him.”

9. “She's right, the lad is lonely. I'll see what these little girls can do for him.”

10. “Mother, why didn't Mr. Laurence like to have Laurie play?”

11. “I don't call myself a child, and I'm not in my teens yet.”

"I was thinking about our `PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'," answered Beth, who had not heard a word. "How we got out of the Slough and through the Wicket Gate by resolving to be good, and up the steep hill by trying, and that maybe the house over there, full of splendid things, is going to be our Palace Beautiful. "

"We have got to get by the lions first," said Jo, as if she rather liked the prospect.

Give the definition of ‘connotation”

Speak on the following:

1. Describe the house Laurie lived in.

2. Speak on the beginning of the relations between Laurie and Jo.

3. Speak on Jo’s meeting with old Mr. Laurence.

4. Speak on Laurie’s parents.

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