Task1. Read the words and word phrases and see if you can translate them into you native language.
Air-raids-
Shaggy hair –
Moth-ball-
Jollification-
Copper –
Turkish Delight-
Creepy-
Spiteful -
Pitter-patter sound-
to be accustomed to do smth -
to say one’s sorry=to apologize to smb -
to ps smb -
to ask smth of smb -
to be hard on smb -
to go the wrong way -
to troop out –
to rub one’s face against smth -
to shut oneself into a wardrobe-
to bump one’s face into smth-
to feel smth against the tips of the fingers-
to crunch under one’s feet-
to stoop down-
to trail in the snow-
to give smb a start of surprise -
to trickle down one’s cheeks (tears)-
to say smth in great distress –
to bawl smth in one’s ear –
to be in the pay of smb –
to be under smb’s thumb –
to give smb up to smb –
to be on smb’s side –
to get into a dreadful trouble on smb’s account -
to be away for hours and hours –
to grow red in the face –
to be in the right –
to play hide-and-seek-
to tease smb about smth-
to say smth to oneself –
to enter smb’s dominions-
to speak with one's mouth full-
to shovel down –
to have no children of smb’s own-
to keep it a secret between us two –
to sweet away out of sight-
to speak snappishly -
Every stick and stone you see-
Do as you are told-
Off you go-
I’ve been worrying sick-
I’ve never thought to see this day-
It’s out of your hands-
You are not a total loss then-
How nice of you to drop in-
What’s done is done-
Grave news-
Numbers do not win a battle-
It’s no use pretending any different-
Untimely interruption -
Things never happen the same way twice-
This is very queer-
Goodness gracious me!-
Arm in arm-
It's no good now, you know-
as quickly as one’s legs would carry one-
Batty! –
Goose!-
no sign of a break in the weather-
Thank goodness!-
in every direction –
Make it Pax –
Just like a girl –
Task 2. Read the verbs and match the definitions to them.
A
1. to exterminate
2. to shiver
3. to lull
4. to crunch
5. to tease
a) to destroy (living things, esp pests or vermin) completely; annihilate; eliminate
b) to make or cause to make a crisp or brittle sound
c) to soothe (a person or animal) by soft sounds or motions
d) to shake or tremble, as from cold or fear
e) to annoy (someone) by deliberately offering something with the intention of delaying or withdrawing the offer
B
1. daughter of Eve/son of Adam
2. dwarf
3. faun
4. stag
5. hawk
6. badger
7. robin
a) any of various other falconiform birds, including the falcons but not the eagles or vultures
b) large burrowing animal, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head
c) a human being; person
d) a small ugly manlike creature, often possessing magical powers
e) (in Roman legend) a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs
f) any of various similar birds having a reddish breast
g) the adult male of a deer, esp a red deer
Focus on Translation
1. It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. The first few doors they tried led only into spare bedrooms, as everyone had expected that they would; but soon they came to a very long room full of pictures and there they found a suit of armour; and after that was a room all hung with green, with a harp in one corner; and then came three steps down and five steps up, and then a kind of little upstairs hall and a door that led out on to a balcony, and then a whole series of rooms that led into each other and were lined with books - most of them very old books and some bigger than a Bible in a church. And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill."
2. Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.)
3. He had a red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead.
4. Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place. It was a little, dry, clean cave of reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs ("one for me and one for a friend," said Mr Tumnus) and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire and above that a picture of an old Faun with a grey beard. In one corner there was a door which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full of books. Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things. They had titles like The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?
5. But behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person - a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore a golden crown on her head. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow or paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other respects, but proud and cold and stern.
