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A. 1. Pick out from the text all the irregular verbs and give their four forms. 2. Search the text for - ing -forms and classify them according to their functions in the sentences. 3. Mark all the cases of Sequence of Tenses in the text and comment on them (explain the rules). 4. Select sentences with the verb go used as a link verb; what other verbs can be used in the same function?
B. 1. Pick out from the text words and phrases describing appearance. 2. Tick off all introductory phrases used by Burton; use them in sentences of your own. 3. Pick out all the sentences with the word rather and translate them into Russian. 4. Paraphrase all the sentences with the verb get.
C. 1. Pick out from the text all compound words and identify their type. 2. Construct some compounds modelling them after well-dressed and smart-looking. 3. Search the text for verbs and nouns formed by means of conversion.
II. Translate in writing three paragraphs from the text: 1) the first paragraph, 2) the paragraph beginning with "He didn't move" and 3) the paragraph from "Swim!" up to "Suddenly I had an idea".
Read the translation in class and discuss it with your fellow-students.
III. a) Transcribe these words:
handsome, well-dressed, quarter, experience, lose, suicide, pausing, current, aback, shoulder, drowned.
b) Transcribe and explain the rules of reading these words:
wild, rather, curl, pawn, pass, constitution, dissipation, beacon, question, half, vacancy, poker, trifle.
IV. Write twenty special questions about the text In each question use one of the phrases from Essential Vocabulary (I).
V. Fill in prepositions:
1. handsome... a way; 2. to know... one's own experience; 3. He could lose money... bridge... a good grace. 4. to have bad luck... cards; 5. He did not want to stick... bridge. 6. He was all... pieces. 7. Iunderstand what he was driving.... 8. I landed... the creek of Tarumi. 9.... account...; 10. He never turned....
