Answer the questions

What happened once in New York city?

Was a TV blackout a trifle or a real disaster?

How did the family of Bufkin react when a TV blackout happened?

Who was to be blamed for the TV blackout?

Were there any advantages of a few hours’ break from watching TV?

Give Russian equivalents

created tremendous crises

shyly

to hang up

to set in

to go off

a dead silence

an accountant

a department store

Translate into English

Я полагаю, что все эти дети мои.

Когда телевидение отключили, дом охватила паника.

Ты должен был сказать об этом раньше.

Ты все еще работаешь в универмаге?

Надеюсь они не починят антенну в ближайшие несколько часов.

Она вышла замуж год назад, как раз в то время, когда ты смотрел чемпионат мира.

Retell the text briefly. Give a character sketch of the main hero(es).

Give a character sketch of the main hero.

What is your attitude towards the main character of the story?

What are your emotions after reading the story? Did you like the plot?

Find grammatical phenomena and structures which you have studied during the semester

Part 2 Listening Tasks

№1 Прослушайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

I. Выберите и запишите правильный вариант окончания предложения.

1. The young men ran away

a) when they saw the old lady in the window

b) when they saw that the window was broken

c) as soon as they heard the explosion

2. When the detective came to the old lady's house

a) she told him who had fired the gun

b) she told him where one of the young men lived

c) she told him where the young men were hiding the gun

3. The chief officer told the detective to give the gun back to the young men

a) because the detective hadn't got a permission to take it away

b) because the young man had been just playing with the gun

c) because he wanted to know who the gun belonged to

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. Where were the three young men playing with a gun?

2. Why was the old lady able to recognize one of the young men?

3. Why was the owner of the gun afraid to admit it?

4. How did the owner of the gun give himself finally away?

Ml. Восполните пропущенную часть предложения.

1. One of the men fired the gun______________________________

2. The detective found the men and the gun___________________

3. When the detective said he hadn't got an officer's permission the young men______________________________

№2

Прослушайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

I. Выберите и запишите правильный вариант окончания предложения.

1. Polly decided to go to art college

a) because she had a friend there

b) because she had left school

c) because she knew the head of the art college

2. Polly's parents didn't have objections to her going to art college but

a) they had no money to pay for her college course

b) they had no money to keep her at home any longer

c) they did not think Polly would do well at college

3. At the museum which Polly took her parents to one day

a) her father saw a copy of the picture he had bought ten years before

b) she showed them Van Gogh's «Sunflowers»

c) they recognized a lot of famous paintings

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. What were Polly's father and mother?

2. What were they saving money for?

3. What had they expected Polly to do after leaving school?

4. Why did Polly's parents feel proud of their daughter?