PART I: BEFORE LISTENING AND READING
Give the gist of the third chapter.
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PART II. VOCABULARY
Before listening to the recording find out the meaning of the following words and expressions.
- to drive smb quite out of his/her mind
- on a market-day
- to assist smb in doing smth
- to be wrapped to the eyes
- in great haste
- grateful
- puzzled
- dismal
- to be barred like a prison
- to shut oneself away from the world
- astonished
- sensible
- to make a fortune
- from head to foot
- to spring upon smb
- soaped
- scrubbed
- to rub
- on earth
- bars
- coolly
- to lock the gate in smb’s face
- with smb’s mouth hanging open
- scornful
- to knock at the door
- glimpse of daylight
- within smb’s view
- faded
- to have a sick fancy
- to flicker
- to turn up smb’s nose
- in wait
- to go red in the face
- tell me in my ear
- to say in a whisper
- to insult
- to give a laugh at smth
- to beat smb
- to despise
- to push smb out
- tap
- jewel
- to break smb’s heart
- to sit down to smth
- to be ashamed of smth
- to remark
- rush of the daylight
- to set off
- to be filled with a deep regret
- to be in a thoroughly bad way
PART III. LISTENING
You are going to listen to the first part of the 1st chapter of the story. Fill in the gaps with the missing words that are given below.
forge haste by grateful mind at sensible thick with dirt drove puzzled assist iron shoes market-day judgment convict astonished sprang upon habit wrapped stuffs scrubbed fixing on dismal on earth to be sure Stupid soaped put into my best rubbed fortune rent from head to foot driven off on earth
Time went ____, and I thought less and less of my friend, the _________, as the months passed and we heard no more of him. Then there happened something which _______ him quite out of my ___________ for a long time to come....
It was on a ____________it happened. My sister, as was sometimes her _______, had driven into town with Uncle Pumblechook to ________ him in buying such _______ and goods as required a woman’s ___________. They were late coming back to the ______. It was dark before we heard the sound of ________________upon the road, and the two of them drove up, ___________ to the eyes. We were soon all in the kitchen, and my sister began unwrapping herself in great ___________ and excitement.
“Now,” she said, ________ her eyes ____ me, “if this boy isn’t _________ this night, he never will be!”
“Why?” asked Joe, a _______ look on his face.
“Because,” said my sister, “Miss Havisham up town wants this boy to go to her house and play there. And of course he’s going. And he had better play there,” she added, “or I’ll give him something to remember!”
I had heard of Miss Havisham up town— everybody for miles around had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as a wonderfully rich old lady who lived in a large and ________ house that was barred like a prison, and in which she had shut herself away from the world.
“Well, _____________!” cried Joe, __________. “I wonder how she comes to know Pip?”
“_____________!” answered my sister. “Who said she knew him? Uncle Pumblechook has to go there sometimes to pay his ___________, and she asked him if he knew of a boy to go and play there. He, being a ___________ man, unlike some, mentioned this boy here—whose _________ may be made by his going to Miss Havisham’s. Uncle has offered to take him into town tonight and then to Miss Havisham’s in the morning. And here I stand talking, with Uncle waiting, and this boy _________________ ____________________!”
With that, she _______________me, and my face was put under the tap, and I was __________ and ______________ and ____________ with towels until I was quite beside myself. When that was done, I was ________________and tightest suit, delivered over to Uncle Pumblechook, and _______________to town without any idea why ____________I was going to play at Miss Havisham’s, and what _______I was expected to play _______.
Task 2. Listen to the recording 04_02 – 04_04 and answer the following questions:
1. When did Pip and uncle Pumplechook stand before the gate of Miss Havisham’s house? Was the gate locked?
2. What was the house like (outside and inside)?
3. What was the reason Pip came to Miss Havisham’s house?
4. What was Miss havisham like?
5. What did Miss havisham want Pip to do?
6. Who is Estella?
7. Was Pip ashamed of something? Why?
8. What was Pip’s attitude to Estella?
9. How do you understand Miss havisham’s phrase told Pip : ‘I know nothing of the days of the week. Come again after six days’?
10. How far was the village Pip lived in?
PART IV. TRANSLATION
Task 2. Translate the sentences and pay attention to the English grammar constructions:
1. Time went by, and I thought less and less of my friend, the convict, as the months passed and we heard no more of him.
2. I had heard of Miss Havisham up town— everybody for miles around had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as a wonderfully rich old lady who lived in a large and dismal house that was barred like a prison, and in which she had shut herself away from the world.
3. With that, she sprang upon me, and my face was put under the tap, and I was soaped and scrubbed and rubbed with towels until I was quite beside myself.
4. I was put into my best and tightest suit, delivered over to Uncle Pumblechook, and driven off to town without any idea why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham’s, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
5. She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and very beautiful and confident; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.
6. “What coarse hands this boy has!” said Estella before our first game was done. “And what thick boots!”I had never been ashamed of my hands or boots before, but I was from that moment on.
PART V. SELF-STUDY WORK
1. Listen to the track 04_01-04_04 and practice reading them. Be ready to record yourself (choose one of four tracks)