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Give a summary of the text.

3.Use the Topical Vocabulary in answering the questions:

1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of a hiking tour? 2. What must you take with you if you are going on a week's walking tour? 3. What's your daily routine when on a hike? 4. How would you plan your day in hot stuffy weather? 5. What would you do in cold and rainy weather? 6. Do you take the weather forecast into account when going hiking? 7. What do you like for breakfast, dinner and supper when on a hike? 8. What must you do to make a fire, to cook scrambled eggs,' to cook fish soup, to cook porridge? 9. Do you like sleeping out? 10. Which would you prefer: sleeping out or being put up at the village? Give reasons for your choice. 11. Do you make a point of having a swim every day no matter what the weather is? 12. Which would you rather choose: a hiking trip or a river trip? Why? 13. Have you or your friends ever gone fishing? What is characteristic of an experienced angler? 14. What do you do of an evening during a hiking tour?

Read the poem, comment on it and answer the questions.

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care.

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

W.H.Davis (1871—1940)

 

[1] What do you consider to be the author's message of the poem? 2. What is the author's attitude towards the life full of care? 3. Show how the reader is constantly reminded of the poor life he lives. 4. In view of the contents of the poem, what is hinted at in the title "Leisure"? 5. Observe whether irony enters into the author's treatment of the subject. 6. Choose two words or phrases which you find particularly vivid. Comment on each of them so as to con­vey the reasons why you find them effective. 7. The poet treats his subject in a very lovely and interesting manner. One way in which he sustains interest is by using expressions which suggest that there is something "human" about nature. Find in the poem what is often used with reference to human beings. 8. What do the images of the poem suggest are the poet's feelings about nature? 9. Bring out the effectiveness of the repetition in the poem. 10. Would you recommend the poem to a friend? Give your brief reasons. 11. Sup­pose that you had some reasons to get up an hour before dawn. De­scribe the signs and stages by which the rest of the world "wakes up". 12. As a teacher you propose to introduce this poem to your pupils. Prepare your introductory talk.

5. Work in pairs or in small groups. Use the phrase list of the Topical Vocab­ulary:



1. You've been chatting to a friendly fellow-hiker on your way to the meeting place about your last year experience on a hiking tour.

2. You have been invited to join your friend's family on a hiking tour. You've never been before and you want to know much about the new experience.

3. A friend is saying good-bye to you as you are about to go off on a short hiking tour. You are not convinced you are going to en­joy yourself.

4. You have arranged with your friend, Mike, to go out for a pic­nic. But it is pouring with rain.

5. At your English Department you have planned an end-of- term walking tour. You speak to your teacher about the arrange­ments.

6. You and some friends are planning a hiking tour, but you want to do something unusual.

7. You are going on a hiking tour and have discovered that you have no rucksack. You remember your friend Jane has an old ruck­sack that she probably isn't using. You telephone her.

8. Your friend Bob has agreed to come with you and two other friends on a hiking tour. Suddenly he changes his mind and says he wants to go to the seaside. You try to persuade him to stay with you.

9. You and your sister are on a walking tour. Your sister has de­cided that you need to slim and has placed two raw eggs in a glass in front of you as your dinner.

10. Give two descriptions of hiking tours. In one of them de­scribe the tour from the point of view of an ardent hiker, in the oth­er describe the tour from the point of view of a tour-hater.


11. Imagine that you are a newly employed teacher and you are anxious to impress on your Headmistress the importance of hiking tours.

Telling a Story.

We often want to tell people stories in the form of long narra­tives. It may be the story of a film, or a book, or a true story of events that have happened to us — or even a joke or a funny story.

To keep the narrative going you need various "narrative tech­niques" to give variety and interest to the story.

So instead of saying: "He fell into the sea," you can say: "What happened to him was that he fell into the sea," and instead of say­ing: "He opened the letter," you can say: "What he did was open the letter," or even: "What happened was that he opened the let­ter."

Another narrative technique is to involve the listener in the sto­ry by asking him or her to guess what happened next, or how someone in the story felt:

You can guess how he felt.

What do you think he did?

And then do you know what he did?

Imagine my surprise when he ...

You'll never guess what happened next.

Narrative techniques like these will help make a story more dra­matic.


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