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IV. Match the words on the left with the ones on the right (according to the story) and use them in the situations from the text.
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II. Answer the following questions.
1) How many people are mentioned in this story?
2) What are their names and occupation?
3) Where do the events take place? What tells you about it?
4) How old are the main characters?
5) Where do they live?
6) What is the time of the action?
7) What is the plot of the story?
8) Who did the young man look for?
9) Where did he look for that woman?
10) Did he find the woman he had looked for?
11) Does the story have a happy end?
III. Say whether the statement is true or false. Correct the false one.
1) The young man looked for Eloise Vashner in luxurious hotels.
2) The woman who owned the house was very beautiful.
3) It was the back room on the third floor.
4) It was the part of the city where theatre people lived.
5) The young man was going to stay in that room for a week.
6) The young man asked the owner of the house if Eloise had ever stayed in her house.
7) The young man loved Eloise very much.
8) The people who had stayed in that room before did not like it.
9) While resting in the room the young man suddenly felt smell of fresh grass.
10) The young man found in the room many things which once had belonged to other people.
11) The owner of the house told the young man that Eloise had stayed in the room some time before.
12) The young man found Eloise at last.
Working with vocabulary and grammar
I. Consult the Dictionary on the correct pronunciation of the following words. Write the transcription of these words:
Mignonette, transient, though, trouble, island, warmth, cloth, sign, cause, through, breath, knees, alive, to tear, to push, except, therefore, ragged.
II. Translate the following words. What similar suffixes do the have? Give some more words with the same suffixes. Colorless, legless, homeless, coldness, brightness, careless.
III. Match the words which have the same or very close meaning.
| 1) spirit | a) old and torn | 7) put on | g) useful |
| 2) to suffer | b) to cry | 8) ragged | h) to endure |
| 3) spot | c) reason | 9) cause | i) to pour out |
| 4) valuable | d) soul | 10) to seek | j) living |
| 5) to weep | e) worry | 11) trouble | k) stain |
| 6) fill up | f) look for | 12) alive | l) get on |
IV. Match the words on the left with the ones on the right (according to the story) and use them in the situations from the text.
| 1. sing it | a) on the third floor | 11. to ask | k) to be asked again |
| 2. most of these stories | b) the money | 12. received the young man | l) rose up |
| 3. cleaned | c) of middle height | 13. the little signs | m) the dust from his face |
| 4. had come up | d) for work | 14. to feel their way | n) felt the breath of the house |
| 5. the back room | e) with a certain warmth | 15. their deep anger | o) without feeling what it means |
| 6. paid | f) grew clear | 16. the young man | p) would not be interesting |
| 7. they never | g) to speak quietly | 17. he got down | q) by their own hand |
| 8. counted out | h) them into pieces | 18. he tried | r) stay long any place |
| 9. waiting | i) from a hole in the ground | 19. to tear | s) on his hands and knees |
| 10. a girl | j) on time | 20. died | t) to sun and air |
IV. Give four forms of irregular verbs: to go, to feel, to know, to tell, to put, to come, to eat, to make, to have, to pay, to hold, to lie (лежать), to see, to forget, to show, to throw, to write, to hurt, to grow, to rise, to hear, to find, to leave, to begin, to get, to think, to run, to tear, to lay, to sit, to take.