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Study the following vocabulary. Give English – English definition and make your own example with these words

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS

BY JOHN BOYNE

Pre-reading tasks:

1) Speak about the author.

2) What different 'associations' (or links in your mind) could you make about the book based on the title alone? You could think about characters, settings and events, or you could make a list of adjectives to describe the kind of story you think this might be. Come up with as many ideas as you can. What is the meaning of the title? Express your ideas.

Chapter 1

Study the following vocabulary. Give English – English definition and make your own example with these words.

smock

to slutter out

a banister

 

Answer the following questions:

1. What did Bruno discovered in his room? How could this discovery change his life?

2. Who was Maria?

3. Describe Bruno’s mother.

4. Why did the family have to move to another place? (Was his father an important person?)

5. What did the boy feel about his compulsory moving to another place?

 

Retell the chapter.

 

 

Chapter 2

Answer the following questions:

1. How did the boy compare his old house with a new one? How was it different?

2. What was Bruno’s wish?

3. Why did Bruno have “a pain in his stomach”?

4. What did the boy think about his father’s job?

5. Why was he afraid and whom did he meet after he had expressed his rough thoughts?

6. What caught the boy’s eye in his room?

 

Retell the chapter.

 

 

Chapter 3

Answer the following questions:

1. How did Bruno describe his sister?

2. How old were the children?

3. What were relations between brother and sister?

4. Why was the house call “Out-With”?

5. What kind of “other children” did Bruno mention about? Was his sister interested in what the boy had said?

6. What do you think: who were these children? And where did the family move (what place)? – your ideas.

 

Retell the chapter.

 

Chapter 4

Study the following vocabulary. Give English – English definition and make your own example with these words

to peer around

to huddle (together)

a wheelbarrow

 

Answer the following questions:

1. What did they see through the window?

2. Describe the view and landscape in front of the house.

3. Why was the boy quietly pleased? What was the matter?

4. What did children decide: what was that place?

5. What were they staring at?

6. What was the final thought of Bruno?

 

Retell the chapter.

Chapter 5

Study the following vocabulary. Give English – English definition and make your own example with these words

overawed

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe their last morning in their old house.

2. How can you explain a large number of soldiers in the life of Bruno and his family?

3. How did Bruno describe his father? What was his real job?

4. What rule existed in the father’s office?

5. How was the father’s office different from the rest of the house?



6. What kind of conversation did the father and Bruno have? What did Bruno want from his father? What kind of actions?

7. What kind of questions did the boy ask?

8. What period in history is depicted in the story? What do you know about it?

 

Retell the chapter.

Chapter 6

Study the following vocabulary. Give English – English definition and make your own example with these words

discarding

perkish

to reverberate

to tire out

 

Answer the following questions:

  1. Translate the first abstract from English into Russian
  2. What did Bruno do in his room? And what did he say to himself?
  3. Who did he have the conversation with? What was it about?
  4. Describe Maria’s connection with this family.
  5. Why did Bruno think that his father made a mistake? What kind of mistake?
  6. How did the maid get the job? What did Bruno’s father do for her?
  7. Who interfered their conversation?
  8. Where did Bruno run away?

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