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II. Study the following words and word combinations.

 

1. Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).

2. Translate them into Russian

3. Recall the situation they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

 

1. excitement 2. to sail 3. to chatter 4. knob 5. to be covered by 6. mysterious-looking 7. shoots 8. weeds 9. to plant 10. seed 11. fork 12. climbing roses 13. bridge 14. still 15. to lift

 

III. Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.

 

1. Martha didn’t enjoy her visit home and had nothing to tell Mary about it.    
2. When a strong wind lifted the ivy from the wall Mary saw there a round knob.  
3. Mary put the key into the keyhole but it didn’t fit.    
4. When Mary entered the secret garden she saw a lot of thick climbing roses on the walls.  
5. Mary hoped that not all the roses in the garden were dead.    
6. Mary could see some green shoots coming out from the earth.    
7. Mary decided not to dig out any weeds from the ground.    
8. Martha was delighted to see Mary’s bright red cheeks and bright eyes.    
9. Mary told Martha she wanted to make a little garden of her own.    
10. Martha and Mary wrote a letter to Ben Weatherstaff asking to buy some seeds and tools.  

 

IV. Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.

 

1. Last year my friend ________ to Europe on board the ship.

2. Teachers do not like when pupils ____________ at the lesson.

3. In spring many people plant _________.

4. The wind _________ some of the dust from the road.

5. In winter the earth __________ snow.

6. When people grow vegetables, they remove all the __________ around them.

7. I am going to __________ some new flowers in spring.

8. The place was big, dark and ____________.

 

 

V. Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.

 

1. knob 2. shoots 3. seed 4. fork 5. bridge 6. still 7. to chatter 8. to plant 9. to sail 10. excitement parts of plants which appear in spring a tool used to work in the garden a hard small part of a plant that you put into the earth a round metal part of the door to open it to travel by ship quiet to talk a lot an action of putting smth into the earth to grow a construction to cross a river a feeling of being happy, interested or hopeful

 

 

VI. Answer the following questions.

 

1. What did Martha tell Mary about her visit home?

2. What happened when the strong wind blew?

3. Did Mary manage to open the secret door?

4. What was the garden like?

5. Why did the garden look mysterious?

6. What did the Robin do?

7. What did Mary notice sticking out of the earth?

8. What work did Mary do in the garden?

9. Did Mary tell Martha anything about her wish to have a garden?

10. Whom did Mary and Martha write a letter to?

 

VII. Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.

 

1. Mary went out into the gardens.

2. Mary found a door behind the ivy.

3. Mary started to weed around the new shoots.

4. Mary wanted to have a garden of her own.

5. Martha and Mary wrote a letter to Dickon.

 

VIII. Retell the text using new words and word combinations.

 

 

Chapter V

Dickon

 

I. Intone the following sentences.

 

1. Mary loved the feeling that when she shut the door, no one knew where she was.  
2. Why do you care so much about roses all of a sudden?  
3. His nose turned up, his cheeks were as red as poppies, and he had round, blue eyes.  
4. Don’t move. It will frighten them away.    
5. They’ll grow wherever you throw the seeds.    
6. Sometimes I think perhaps I am a bird, or a fox or a rabbit.  
7. Could you keep a secret, if I told you one?    
8. I’ve stolen a garden. Nobody wants it. Perhaps everything in it is dead already.  
9. Mr. Craven came back this morning and he wants to see you.  
10. You remind me of someone else who loved the earth and the things that grow.  

 

II. Study the following words and word combinations.

 

1. Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).

2. Translate them into Russian

3. Recall the situation they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

 

1. particularly 2. to cut back 3. to weed around 4. lump 5. curiously 6. edge 7. pipe 8. poppies 9. squirrel 10. to know nothing about smth 11. nest 12. underneath 13. to breathe out with surprise 14. freshly-turned earth 15. thrush 16. slightly 17. ugly 18. miserable

 

III. Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.

1. Mary enjoyed working in the garden.    
2. Ben Weatherstaff seemed more pleasant to talk to Mary.    
3. When Mary came closer to the wood she saw just a few animals.    
4. The boy Mary met was unfriendly and didn’t want to talk to her.    
5. Mary knew a lot about boys and was not shy at all.    
6. Mary took Dickon to the secret garden.    
7. The children didn’t want the garden to be too tidy.    
8. When Mary came home she learned that Mr. Creven wanted to see her.    
9. Mr. Craven didn’t want Mary to have a garden of her own.    
10. Mary realized that the meeting with Dickon was a dream.    

 

IV. Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.

 

1. There were a lot of mushrooms growing at the ________ of the forest.

2. If one wants to grow good flowers, one must ____________ them.

3. When we went to the forest we took some nuts to feed _________.

4. I ______________ about the tribes of Indians, so I looked it up in the Internet.

5. When I saw my new car I __________.

6. The frog was not pleasant to look at as it was __________.

7. When I lived in the country my grandfather and I had to __________ the dead brunches of the apple trees.

8. Once I found a bird’s ____________ in one of the bushes in the garden.

 

V. Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.

 

1. pipe 2. lump 3. squirrel 4. nest 5. curiously 6. slightly 7. miserable 8. underneath 9. to weed 10. ugly extremely unpleasant to look at a small piece of something solid without a shape a home for birds where they lay eggs a small animal with a long furry tail that climbs trees extremely unhappy a little bit (adv.) wanting to know about something (adv.) to remove unwanted plants directly under or below another object a simple musical instrument

 

VI. Answer the following questions.

 

1. What was Mary doing in the secret garden?

2. What did Mary ask Ben Weatherstuff one day?

3. What did she learn from him about Mrs. Craven and the roses?

4. What strange sight did Mary see under one of the trees?

5. What did Dickon bring Mary?

6. What big secret did Mary tell Dickon?

7. Was Dickon impressed by the garden?

8. Were all the roses in the garden dead?

9. Did the children decide to make it a neat garden?

10. What impression did Mr. Craven produce on Mary?

 

VII. Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.

 

1. Ben Weatherstuff loved roses most of all.

2. Dickon was playing the pipe.

3. There were many animals that knew Dickon.

4. Mary took Dickon to the secret garden.

5. Martha told Mary that Mr Craven was waiting for her.

 

VIII. Retell the text using new words and word combinations.

 

Chapter VI

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