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ASSIGNMENT 5
1. Read the text from the words: “The Mouse smiled at David and murmured, "Free period. We’d better go out of hearing" to the words: "Specially for him, they said, as if to atone for something emasculating in the situation, something unfair. He was touched".
2. Answer the following questions:
3. Give a summary of the given part.
4. Read the text of the given part again. As you read, a) find the following words and phrases used in the text, translate them; b) be ready to say what contexts they are used in; c) use them in the sentences of your own:
WORDS AND WORD COMBINATIONS
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to be (within)/ out of earshot to pull/ make face at smb. common sense to be all ears phon(-e-)y n contemplate v corny adj to turn smb. down phr v celebrity hunting (to become/ feel) tongue-tied adj |
nostalgia (for) n foresee v appraise v to establish one’s credentials to catch up (with smb.) phr v alien adj route n to be absorbed in sth. atone (for) v |
6. As you read, a) find out in what context the word "convention" is used. Write out the dictionary mean ing of the word; b) find passages in the text proving that David wasn't devoid of conventions; c) think of the answer to the question why David had a feeling that he was taking a kind of a test on the picnic; d) pick out new traits of the main charac ters that we come to know from the given part; g) think of the means proving that the author likes the Freak.