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“Health is above wealth”.

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

Unit 4

THE GREEN DOCTORby O. Henry

Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the fexf and use the'm in fhe senfences of your own:

be honest, say smth in surprise, shake hands with smb., a set of tools, get interested in smth, become another man, register at a hotel, be impressed by smth, be a success, fall in love with smb., approve of smb/smth, give up smth for ever, be proud of smth, insist that smb. should do smth, say smth in a trembling voice, stand smth for long, it must be mentioned, watch smb/smth in amazement, be mistaken, recognise smb.

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Questions on the fext:

1) What kind of man was Jimmy Valentine? (age, looks, occupation)

2) Where did he ga immediately after the release?

3) What was the first thing he did on entering his room?

4) There were a number of safe-burglaries in Richmond. Why did Ben Price get interested in them? Why did he suspect Jimmy?

5) How did Jimmy happen to meet Annabel Adams? What did he manage to find out about her?

6) Why did Jimmy register at the hotel under another name?

7) Explain the phrase, "In all respects Jimmy was a success."

8) What final decision did Jimmy make that proved that he wanted to give up his old business for ever?

9) How did the child happen to find himself in the vault? Why was it dangerous?

10) Why did all the present watch Jimmy in amazement while he was opening the safe?

IV Discuss the following:

1) By the time the incident happened Jimmy had completely changed his way of life. What did he risk when he showed everybody his skill? What could the price of this action have been?

2) Analyse Ben Price's behaviour through the cause of events. Why do you think he said he did not reognize Valentine? In what way does it characterise him?

3) Think of another end of the story supposing 1) Jimmy didn't meet the girl, 2) Ben Price revealed everything to the people present in the bank.

V Retell the story on the part of 1) limmy, 2) Ben Price, 3) Annabel, 4) Annabel's father.

Unit 6

Letters in the Mail by E. Caldwell

Almost everybody likes to receive letters. And perhaps nobody in Stillwater liked to get letters more than Ray Buffin. But unfortunately Ray received fewer letters in his box at the post-office than anybody else.

Guy Hodge and Ralph Barnhill were two young men in town who liked to play jokes on people. But they never meant anything bad. One afternoon they decided to play a joke on Ray Buffin. Their plan was to ask a girl in town to send Ray a love letter withoutsigning it, and then tell everybody in the post-office to watch Ray read the letter; then somebody was to ask Ray if he had received a love letter from a girl. After that somebody was to snatch the letter out of his hand and read it aloud.

They bought blue writing paper and went round the corner to the office of the telephone company where Grace Brooks worked as a night telephone operator. Grace was pretty though not very young. She had begun working for the company many years ago, after she had finished school. She had remained unmarried all those years, and because she worked at night and slept in the daytime it was very difficult for her to find a husband.

At first, after Guy and Ralf had explained to her what they wanted to do and had asked her to write the letter to Ray, Grace refused to do it.

"Now, be a good girl, Grace, do us a favour and writethe letter." Suddenly she turned away. She didn'twant the young men to see her crying. She remembered the time she had got acquainted with Ray. Ray wanted to marry her. But she had just finished school then and had started to work for the telephone company; she was very young then and did not want to marry anybody. Time passed. During all those years she had seen him a few times but only a polite word had passed between them, and each time he looked sadder and sadder.

Finally she agreed to write the letter for Guy and Ralph and said that she would send it in the morning.

After they left the telephone office Grace thought about Ray and cried. Late at night she wrote the letter.

The next day Guy and Ralph were in the post-of-fice at 4 o'clock. By that time there was a large crowd in the post-office. When Ray came in and saw a letter in his box he looked at it in surprise. He couldn't believe his eyes. He opened the box, took out the blue envelope and went to the corner of the room to read it. When he finished he behaved like mad. He smiled happily and ran out of the room before Guy and Ralph had time to say anything to stop him. Ray hurried round the corner to the telephone office.

When Guy and Ralph ran into the room where Grace worked they saw Ray Buffin standing near the girl with the widest and happiest smile they had ever seen on his face. It was clear they had not spoken a word yet. They just stood in silence, too happy to worry about Guy and Ralph watching them.

Find in the text English equivalents for the following words and expressions:

Exercises and Assignments on the Text

Упражнения и Задания к Тексту

Assignment # One– Задание № 1

Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов, выражений и оборотов:

было больно двигаться – _________________________________________;

больной и несчастный – _________________________________________;

у него жар – _________________________________________;

форма гриппа – _________________________________________;

записал время приема лекарств – _________________________________________;

темные круги под глазами – _________________________________________;

не слушал, что я читаю – _________________________________________;

немного бредил – _________________________________________;

никого не пускал в комнату – _________________________________________;

это глупости – _________________________________________;

его взгляд уже не был таким напряженным – _______________________________________;

напряжение спало – _________________________________________.

Assignment#Two– Задание № 2

Дайте русские эквиваленты следующих слов, выражений и оборотов из текста; Составьте по три предложения с каждым их этих оборотов:

look ill – _________________________________________;

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take smb's temperature – _________________________________________;

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there is something (nothing) to worry about – _________________________________________;

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