PART I. BEFORE LISTENING AND READING ACTIVITIES
Write a summary of the fifth part of the target reading materials (see Unit 5) to the story.
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PART II. VOCABULARY

Find out the meaning of the following words and expressions before you listen to the recording.

• in the meantime 
• apprentice 
• dread 
• lift up one’s eyes 
• to despise 
• a great deal 
• the flames of the fire 
• to make up one’s mind 
• persuasion 
• to let smb in 
• to bring a sharp message 
• to be grateful to smb 
• now and then 
• to look round to smb 
• to be at a loss 
• to spare smb 
• to dismiss 
• to set out 
• inn 
• to keep up with smb 
• to draw back 
• to knock smb down 
• to take smb into one’s confidence 
• on smb’s account 
• to spite smb 
• to gain smb over 
• to break into the house 
• thrown open (about the door) 
• well-remembered 
• to fetch 
• to become aware of smth 
• disturbed 
• fate took a hand in the game

PART III. LISTENING

Task 1. Listen to the recording 06_01 and put the given excerpts in the correct order
____a) I was at a loss what to say.
____b) When the gate had closed behind me, I felt more than ever ashamed of my home and my trade and with everything in my life.
____c) She spared me the trouble of answering by dismissing me.
____d) “Abroad still,” answered Miss Havisham. “Far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her. Do you feel that you have lost her?”
____e) “There, there!” she said. “Come and see me now and then; come on your birthday. —Ah!” she cried suddenly. “You are looking round for Estella? Hey?”
____f) I had been looking round—in fact, for Estella—and I said that I hoped she was well.
____g)“Well ?” said she. “I hope you want nothing. You’ll get nothing!”
____h)After some persuasion she let me in, and presently brought the sharp message that I was to “come up”. Everything was unchanged, and Miss Havisham alone in her room.
____i)It was a strange feeling to go again to Miss Havisham’s and ring the bell at the gate. It was answered by a little, dry, old woman. No Estella.
____j)“No, indeed, Miss Havisham. I only wanted you to know that I am doing well in my apprenticeship, and am always very grateful to you.”
____k)I had the fear that sooner or later she would find me out, with a black face and hands, and would laugh at me and despise me.
____l)At last I made up my mind that I would call upon Miss Havisham in the hope of seeing Estella. I asked Joe, one Sunday, if he would give me a half-holiday during the week, and told him why I wanted it. I could see that he thought little of the idea, but he agreed that I should have the holiday.
____m)What I wanted, who can say? What I dreaded was that I should lift up my eyes and see Estella looking in at one of the windows of the forge.
____n)In the meantime, I worked with Joe in the forge. Once it had seemed to me that I could ask nothing more than to become Joe’s apprentice; but now I found that I was unhappy and never content, and always wanting something better.
____o)I thought about Estella a great deal. After dark, I would see her face in the flames of the fire, with her pretty hair blowing in the wind and her eyes scorning me; and she was always in my dreams . . . .
____p)I hung about the town for some hours before I set out for the village.
____q)It was a long time before I went to Miss Havisham’s again, and, when I did, I was not invited there....

Task 2. You are going to listen to the 2nd part of the 6th chapter of the story. Fill in the gaps with the missing words that are given below.

convict     marsh      drew back     thrown open     broken into     meanwhile      to nurse      became aware of coarse     well-remembered      to fetch       inn        keeping up        knocked down        were at a loss to        win her over       to take… into my confidence       fate took a hand in the game       to gain her over         Deep in my heart

It was a very dark night, and while I was crossing the ______________ I heard the ______________sound of a big gun from one of the Hulks downriver, announcing the escape of a _____________. I came to the village and was passing its one ________, when the door was ________________________and a man came running out in a great hurry, a bottle in his hand.
“There’s something wrong up at your place,” he said, without stopping. “Run, Pip, run!”
“What is it?” I asked, ____________________________with him.
“I can’t quite understand. The house seems to have been _______________ when Joe was out. By convicts, I suppose. Somebody has been attacked and hurt. They sent me _____________brandy.”
We made no stop until we got into our kitchen. It was full of people; the whole village was there, or in the yard; and there was a doctor, and there was Joe, and there was a group of women, all gathered round something on the floor. They _____________________when they saw me, and so I ___________________ my sister. She lay without sense or movement on the bare boards where she had been ________________by a violent blow on the back of the head, dealt by some unknown hand.
The attacker remained unknown. My sister, _______________, lay very ill in bed, and was of no help in the inquiries that followed. Her sight was disturbed; her memory gone; and she had lost all power of speech. When, at last, she recovered enough to be helped downstairs, she sat in the kitchen as helpless as a child. We ______________________to find someone _____________her, until a circumstance happened conveniently to relieve us. Mr. Wopsle’s sister died, and her orphaned daughter, Biddy, came to live with us.
Biddy was the same age as me, and I had known her all my days. She was not beautiful—she could not be like Estella—but she was pleasant and sweet-tempered.
My sister was never left alone now. Joe always took care of her on Sunday afternoons, when Biddy and I went out together.
One summer’s afternoon, when she and I sat on the river bank, I decided that it was a good time __________Biddy _____________________________.
“Biddy,” I said, “I want to become a gentleman. I am not at all happy as I am. I don’t want to be ______ and common, as somebody once told me I am.”
“That was neither true nor polite,” answered Biddy, watching a ship move upriver. “Who said it?”
“The beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham’s. I want to be a gentleman _____________________.”
“Do you want to be a gentleman ______________her, or ________________?” asked Biddy, after a pause.
“I don’t know,” I answered sadly. “Because, if it is _______________ her,” Biddy went on, “I should think it might be better done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is ______________________, I should think—but you know best—she was not worth winning.”Exactly what I thought myself, but it made no difference. ____________________, I knew that I loved Estella, and could love no other, ever. And the only way I could win her, it seemed, was to become a gentleman. I had no idea how I should do that—and then, suddenly, _____________________________..

PART IV. AFTER LISTENING AND READING ACTIVITIES

Answer the following questions.
1. Was Pip invited to Miss Havisham’s?
2. Was Pip happy and content to work as Joe’s apprentice?
3. What was Pip ashamed of what he had done on his way home?
4. Who told Pip that there was something at his place?
5. What has happened to Pip’s sister?
6. Was the attacker known?
7. Did Pip’s sister recover one day?
8. Who is Biddy?
9. Who was the person Pip was going to take his confidence into?
10. Did Pip love Estella deep in his heart?

PART V. TRANSLATION
Translate the sentences from English into your mother tongue.

1. In the meantime, I worked with Joe in the forge. Once it had seemed to me that I could ask nothing more than to become Joe’s apprentice; but now I found that I was unhappy and never content, and always wanting something better.

2. After some persuasion she let me in, and presently brought the sharp message that I was to “come up”. Everything was unchanged, and Miss Havisham alone in her room. “Well ?” said she. “I hope you want nothing. You’ll get nothing!”

3. I was at a loss what to say. She spared me the trouble of answering by dismissing me. When the gate had closed behind me, I felt more than ever ashamed of my home and my trade and with everything in my life.

4. “I can’t quite understand. The house seems to have been broken into when Joe was out. By convicts, I suppose. Somebody has been attacked and hurt. They sent me to fetch brandy.”

5. I came to the village and was passing its one inn, when the door was thrown open and a man came running out in a great hurry, a bottle in his hand.

6. It was a very dark night, and while I was crossing the marsh I heard the well-remembered sound of a big gun from one of the Hulks downriver, announcing the escape of a convict. 
7. We were at a loss to find someone to nurse her, until a circumstance happened conveniently to relieve us. Mr. Wopsle’s sister died, and her orphaned daughter, Biddy, came to live with us.

8. My sister, meanwhile, lay very ill in bed, and was of no help in the inquiries that followed. Her sight was disturbed; her memory gone; and she had lost all power of speech.

9. They drew back when they saw me, and so I became aware of my sister. She lay without sense or movement on the bare boards where she had been knocked down by a violent blow on the back of the head, dealt by some unknown hand.

10. The only way I could win her, it seemed, was to become a gentleman. I had no idea how I should do that—and then, suddenly, fate took a hand in the game.

PART VI. SELF-STUDY WORK
Listen to one of the tracks and practice recording yourself.