The Secret Garden: Учебно-методические материалы по произведению (стр. 2 )

1. When spring comes all the fruit trees _____________ and the smell is wonderful.

2. I could easily understand that he was a foreigner because he _______________.

3. I _____________ my dog when it fell ill and was taken to a vet.

4. As soon as I learnt the results of my state examinations I ___________.

5. We hope that here at the University you will ______________ a lot of new people.

6. In winter all trees and bushes are ______________ but the fur tress are not.

7. My teacher of English ______________ learn a lot of useful things and that helped me at the state examination.

8. A person with a horrible ____________ is not pleasant to deal with.

V. Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.

1. robin redbreast 2. to disobey 3. locked up 4. fountain 5. orchard 6. rough 7. to dig 8. to realize 9. to bury 10. spade

to put smth into the ground and to cover it with earth smth with a help of which water is sent up into the air a tool used for digging not to do what you are told a garden with fruit trees an action one performs with a spade to understand a small brown European bird closed having uneven surface; not gentle.

VI. Answer the following questions.

1. Why didn’t the room look like a child’s room?

2. What did Mary see out of the window?

3. How did Martha look like?

4. What couldn’t Mary do herself? Why?

5. Why did Mary get interested in Dickon?

6. What did she learn from Martha about one of the gardens?

7. What did Mary see in the gardens?

8. What did Mary see on the top of one of the trees?

9. What did Mary realize while talking to Ben?

10. Did the gardener tell Mary anything about the door to the secret garden?

VII. Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.

1. She spoke with a strong Yorkshire accent.

2. There are twelve children in our house.

3. Dickon made friends with a pony.

4. In the garden Mary met a man, who was digging in the corner.

5. He lives there among the rose-trees.

VIII. Retell the text using new words and word combinations.

Chapter III

Mary Finds the Key

I. Intone the following sentences.

1. The fresh air of the moor is making you hungry.
2. Mary began to feel very interested in the secret garden.
3. Can you hear someone crying?
4. She did not believe that Martha was telling the truth.
5. Look at the moor! Look at the moor!
6. She especially liked to hear about Martha’s mother and Dickon.
7. Do you think he remembers me?
8. You do remember me!
9. It was an old key, and it looked as if it had been buried for a long time.
10. Perhaps it is the key to the garden!

II. Study the following words and word combinations.

1. Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).

2. Translate them into Russian

3. Recall the situation they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

1. indoors 2. to keep oneself warm 3. several 4. to feel hungry 5. to pick up 6. busy 7. to be covered with smth 8. ivy 9. twitter 10. carefully

11. roaring (sound) 12. to rush 13. to beat against (the wall) 14. to be allowed to do smth 15. branch 16. to hurt 17. to go mad 18. to cry

19. confused 20. to seem worried 21. crow 22. crocus 23. snowdrop 24. daffodil 25. to find out smth about smb 26. to tremble 27. to hide – hid – hidden

III. Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.

1. Mary enjoyed staying indoors because there were many toys and books.
2. One day Mary woke up with a strange feeling – for the first time in her life she felt hungry.
3. Ben Weatherstaff was very friendly with Mary and played with her a lot in the gardens.
4. Mr. and Mrs. Craven used to come to the garden to sit and to read.
5. Martha’s mother was rough and lazy, and cross and untidy.
6. After Martha had gone home, Mary felt very happy.
7. Ben explained Mary that the spring flowers were going to appear soon.
8. While Mary was talking to Ben a crow flew down to her feet.
9. Robin showed Mary the door to the secret garden.
10. Mary decided to throw away the key she found in the earth.

IV. Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the text.

1. After talking over the telephone my friend _____________ because the news were not pleasant.

2. Some poor people go to psychiatric hospitals because they _______________.

3. My sister _____________ her leg while riding a bicycle.

4. I’d like to go to the UK, so I need to ___________ some information _____ the places to visit.

5. In the 19th century people had to use fireplaces ______________.

6. After a long walk we were very tired and ______________, so we decided to eat in a café.

7. It snowed the whole night and in the morning everything ______________ thick snow.

8. During the lesson you ____________ use the mobile phones.

V. Match the words in the left column with their meaning in the right one.

1. indoors 2. several 3. busy 4. ivy 5. twitter 6. branch 7. confused 8. crow 9. to tremble 10. to hide

to put something away so that no one can find it more than a few, but not a lot a plant that grows up walls occupied with some activity a hard brown part of a tree a sound produced by a bird a large black bird that makes a loud sound shaking because one is nervous or weak inside unable to understand smth clearly

VI. Answer the following questions.

1. What kind of feeling did Mary have one morning?

2. What did Mary learn about Mr. and Mrs. Craven from Martha?

3. What did Mary suddenly realize?

4. What did Mary hear one night?

5. Where did Martha want to go that morning?

6. What did Martha tell Mary about Dickon?

7. What did Ben tell Mary about the gardens?

8. Why was robin interested in Mary?

9. What did Mary find with the robin’s help?

10. What was her plan?

VII. Write questions to the underlined parts of the sentences.

1. Our children play with sticks and stones.

2. She didn’t believe that Martha was telling the truth.

3. Everyone likes Dickon, even the animals.

4. The robin hopped among the bushes in the flower-bed.

5. Mary decided to keep the key in her pocket.

VIII. Retell the text using new words and word combinations.

Chapter IV

Inside the Secret Garden

I. Intone the following sentences.

1. You should really show me where the door is today.
2. The robin kept singing and twittering, as if he was excited too.
3. She was inside the secret garden!
4. It was a lovely, mysterious-looking place.
5. Are they all completely dead?
6. Even if the roses are dead, there are other things that are alive.
7. And now look at the colour in your face!
8. What do you want a spade for?
9. Perhaps I could make a little garden and plant some seeds in it!
10. We can ask him to go and buy the spade and fork and some seeds at the same time.

II. Study the following words and word combinations.

1. Give their explanation in English (use English-English dictionary).

2. Translate them into Russian

3. Recall the situation they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

1. excitement 2. to sail 3. to chatter 4. knob 5. to be covered by

6. mysterious-looking 7. shoots 8. weeds 9. to plant 10. seed

11. fork 12. climbing roses 13. bridge 14. still 15. to lift

III. Mark the following sentences as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). If a sentence is false, write the right variant.