Exercises on the Text. Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.Exercise 1. Answer the following questions. 1. What kind of educational establishment is described in the passage under consideration? What is your general impression of the «Co-educational Progressive Community»? 2. Do you agree that one couldn’t learn anything useful at Rosemount? Give your reasons. 3. What can you say about Pamela? Does she appeal to you? 4. How long had she been to Rosemount? 5. Did she like to live and study there? Why not? 6. What can you say about the art lessons at Rosemount? 7. Will you compare the two art teachers and their teaching methods? 8. What do you know about Daniel.Brett? 9. What is the author’s attitude to the teaching methods and the system of work at Rosemount? 10. How does the author achieve a humorous effect? Exercise 2. Change the questions suggested in exercise 1 into object clauses introduced by I wonder; I’d like to know, etc. Exercise 3. Change all direct questions in the text into indirect ones paying special attention to word order. Exercise 4. Ask several questions on the text using some of the words under discussion or some of the grammatical patterns listed on p. 185—220. Exercise 5. Make up several sentences including some of the words under discussion or some of the grammatical patterns listed on p. 185—220. Exercise 6. Complete the following sentences. (a) 1. Monica Dickens, raises... 2. Daniel was conscious... 3. It is incredible... 4. The pupils looked incredulous when... 5. It was Pamela’s continual dream … 6. Daniel had hardly entered the studio... 7. Pamela, who was a hard-working child... 8. Daniel formed a more favourable opinion... 9. The elementary task set by Daniel... 10. The pupils continually... 11. The drawings of most of the class were incomprehensible... 12. Most of the pupils were contemptuous... 13. Daniel had considerable difficulty... 14. The «Progressive Coeducational Community» at Rosemoimt is an imaginary... 15. Pamela was a sensible... 16. Pamela’s favourite... 17. At Rosemoimt particular stress was laid... 18. No one wanted to work hard... 19. The arrival of a new art teacher awakened... 20. Pamela’s distinctive feature... (b) 1. After her talk with the new teacher, Pamela felt... 2. Though Pamela was... 3. The noise was continual, and no one could hear what... 4. When the others... 5. Daniel made one of the pupils... 6. The news that Daniel had come to Rosemount to teach... 7. One of the girls, Eileen, was made... 8. Pamela didn’t know what... 9. Daniel Brett was a young artist who... 10. The pupils did all... 11. Pamela had many... 12. Daniel took notice of Pamela, who... 13. Eileen looked... 14. Gabriel’s hair... 15. The pupils had not the slightest wish... 16. Daniel asked Pamela how... 17. What makes you...? 18. The girl looked angrily... 19. After a few... 20. I wonder why... 21. None of the pupils... 22. Though Daniel was not a teacher by profession... 23. When the pupils saw Daniel for the first time they were a little... 24. When Daniel looked at the rest of the drawings... 25. Pamela’s drawing looked...
Exercise 7. Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Моника Диккенс, правнучка Чарльза Диккенса,— одна из современных английских писательниц. 2. Даниэль Бретт — молодой художник, который много раз появляется на страницах книги Моники Диккенс «Цветы в траве». 3. Одна из учениц спросила Даниэля, откуда он приехал. 4. В Роузмаунте никто не заставлял учеников учить уроки и соблюдать элементарные нормы поведения. 5. В Роузмаунте было несколько учителей; всех их, включая директора, ученики называли по имени; к новому учителю, естественно, обратились так же, и это его очень рассердило. 6. Из-за абсурдной системы обучения (или, скорее, из-за отсутствия всякой системы) у учеников не было возможности получить необходимые знания. 7. На уроках рисования, как и на всех других, каждый делал то, что ему нравилось; однако Даниэль думал, что заставит учеников изменить отношение к занятиям.
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