Lesson 11 CHAPTERS 35-38.
I. Active Vocabulary:
1. to bring the conversation round to smb. / sth. (106) - -. ;
2. to think smb. a bore (106) - -. ;
3. to assume (106) - , , ;
4. to lounge (107) - , ;
5. to put on frills (107) - , ;
6. to be very likely to do sth. (108) - -.;
7. to make a blunder (108) - , ;
8. second-rate, adj. (109) - , ;
9. complacency, n. (109) - ; , ;
10. indignant, adj. (109) - , ;
11. shrewd, adj. (110) - , ;
12. to decimate (111) - , ;
13. grim, adj. (112) - , ; , ;
14. taciturn, adj. (112) - , ;
15. unconcern, n. (112) - ; , ;
16. to avenge (113) - ;
17. beggar, n. (114) - , ;
18. to jostle (114) - (), ();
19. to lollop (115) - , , ;
20. frail, adj. (115); , ;
21. expansive, adj. (117) - , , ;
22. to swear by smb. (117) - . -.;
23. scrutinizing, adj. (118) - , ; 24. to attach too much importance to sth. (118) - -. ; 25. to choke (119) - , ( ), .
B) Read and translate the sentences with the words and expressions from the active vocabulary.
C) Learn the words and expressions from the active vocabulary.
II. Transcribe the following:
Eurasian, incisive, to decimate, bizarre, badinage, taciturn, peasant, grim-visaged, Christian, Buddhist, Confucian.
III. a) Match the following words with their synonyms: to assume, second-rate, complacency, indignant, shrewd, to avenge, unconcern, frail, expansive, to choke, scrutinizing.
1. indifference, nonchalance, lassitude, disregard, apathy;
2. to strangle, to stifle, to suffocate, to throttle;
3. crafty, cunning, foreseeing, clever, discerning;
4. inferior, mediocre, common, low-grade;
5. effusive, unrestrained, outgoing, demonstrative;
6. to feign, to pretend, to simulate, to counterfeit, to bluff;
7. inquiring, curious, investigative, prying;
8. contentment, smugness, satisfaction;
9. to take vengeance, to revenge, to retaliate, to requite; 10. righteously angry, piqued, displeased, irate, provoked; 11. feeble, fragile, weak, frangible.
B) Use the words from the text in the sentences of your own.
C) Translate and learn all the synonyms.
IV. a) Explain the meaning of the following expressions or paraphrase them:
1. to bring the conversation round to smb. / sth. (106);
2. to think smb. a bore (106);
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3. not to give s damn for sth. (107);
4. to put on frills (107);
5. to be very likely to do sth. (108);
6. to make a blunder (108);
7. to put a little pluck into smb. (117);
8. to swear by smb. (117);
9. to attach too much importance to sth. (118).
B) Read and translate the sentences with the expressions given above.
C) Use the expressions given above in a context.
V. a) Match the following words with their antonyms:
delightful cheerful, blithe cunning revolting, troublesome droll wordy, garrulous grim naive, gullible taciturn sad, lamentable
B) Use the antonyms in word-combinations to show the contrast.
VI. a) Paraphrase the following expressions according to the text:
1. to stand or sit in a very relaxed way (107);
2. a place which maintains the authority or business interests of a distant government or company (111);
3. an activity or interest which is very popular for a short period of time (111);
4. to kill a large number of (something) or to reduce (something) severely (111);
5. remarks or conversation that are joking and not serious (111);
6. a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food (114);
7. to knock or to push roughly against in order to move past or get more space when you are in a crowd of people (114);
8. to move in an awkward, rolling way (115);
9. soldiers on duty in a large group (117);
b) Read and translate the sentences with the words youve found.
VII. Match the following phrasal verbs with their equivalence: to dash off to stop sth. or doing sth. to get on to begin doing sth
to cut out to do quickly without putting much effort to fall to to advance, to make progress
