The Secret Garden: Учебно-методические материалы по произведению (стр. 1 )

А.В. Челышева

The Secret Garden

Учебно-методические материалы

по произведению Бёрнетт

Нижний Новгород

2013

Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации

ФГБОУ ВПО «Нижегородский государственный педагогический университет имени Козьмы Минина»

А.В. Челышева

The Secret Garden:

Учебно-методические материалы

по произведению

Нижний Новгород

2013

УДК 43(07) ББК 81.432.1р3 Ч 411 Рецензент: кандидат педагогических наук, доцент Ч 411 The Secret Garden: Учебно-методические материалы по произведению Фрэнсис Ходгсон Бёрнетт для студентов I курса. / . – Н. Новгород: НГПУ им. К. Минина, 2013. – 36 с. Данные учебно-методические материалы предназначены для студентов I курса, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 050100.62 «Педагогическое образование», профиль подготовки «Иностранный язык и дошкольное образование» и направлены на обеспечение руководства самостоятельной и аудиторной деятельностью студентов, направленной на освоение навыков аудирования. Бёрнетт предназначено для отработки британского произношения и интонации, а также обогащения словарного запаса и усовершенствования речевых возможностей студентов. УДК 43(07) ББК 81.432.1р3 ©, 2013 ©НГПУ им. К. Минина, 2013

Chapter I

Mary Comes to England

I. Intone the following sentences.

1. Mary Lennox was born in India.
2. I don’t believe you!
3. Mrs. Medlock took Mary up to Yorkshire by train.
4. It’s big and grand, of course, but very gloomy.
5. It all sounded very different from India, and she liked new things.
6. She watched the grey sky grow heavier and heavier, and then she fell asleep.
7. What is the moor?
8. It sounds just like the sea.
9. I think it’s a dull, wild place.
10. She suddenly felt very small and lost.

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 situations they were used in.

4. Make sentences of your own.

1. to die of cholera 2. to look after smb 3. to be selfish 4. plain-looking 5. to be disagreeable 6. to be going to do smth 7. hunchback 8. delightful

9. housekeeper 10. to be interested in 11. messily 12. spoilt-looking 13. sharp eyes 14. gloomy 15. moor 16. crooked

17. carriage 18. to feel curious 19. heather 20. gorse 21. pony 22. frightening 23. corridor 24. servant

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

1. Mary Lennox was a delightful pretty girl and lived with her parents in England.
2. The servant looked after Mary when she was born and she gave her whatever she wanted.
3. Mary was going to live with her uncle in England.
4. A very nice woman, Mrs. Medlock, met Mary in London and took her up to Yorkshire.
5. The house Mary was going to live in was very cozy, nice, full of light and there where a lot of pictures on the walls.
6. Mr. Craven’s wife had been a sweet, pretty thing.
7. Listening to Mrs. Medlock made Mary extremely happy and she was glad she was going to live in that house.
8. Mary didn’t help Mrs. Medlock to collect her things as she wasn’t used to, because the servants had always done everything for her.
9. Mary looked out of the window and she could see darkness stretching all around them, which was the sea.
10. When Mary entered her room the fire was burning in the room and there was dinner on the table.

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

1. When I finish this university I _____________ become a teacher.

2. Many small children nowadays _______________ computer games.

3. It is not pleasant when a child is always _____________.

4. When people are ___________ they don’t care about anybody, only about themselves.

5. In 19th century a lot of people ______________.

6. Sometimes I ______________ my younger sister.

7. When I read about something I ______________ , I try to find more information about it.

8. In 19th century rich people had ____________ to help them about the house.

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

1. gloomy 2. plain-looking 3. hunchback 4. delightful 5. messily 6. moor 7. frightening 8. crooked 9. pony 10. housekeeper

simple-looking someone who has a round back in a dirty and untidy way making a person sad and without hope an area of land not suitable for crops very nice making you feel afraid or nervous not straight, curved a person working for other people in a big house a small horse

VI. Answer the following questions.

1. What happened to Mary’s parents when she was nine years old?

2. Why did the servant always give Mary whatever she wanted?

3. Where did Mary stay after her parents had died?

4. Where was Mary going to live?

5. Who met Mary in London?

6. Did Mary like Mrs. Medlock?

7. What was the place Mary was going to like?

8. What interesting fact about Mr. Craven did Mary learn from Mrs. Medlock?

9. Why didn’t Mary help Mrs. Medlock to pack the things?

10. What did Mary see when she looked out of the window?

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

1. When Mary was born, a servant looked after her.

2. Mary was going to go back to England.

3. He lives in a great big old house in the country.

4. Mary was met by Mr. Craven’s housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock.

5. The house is six hundred years old; it’s on the edge of the moor.

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

Chapter II

Robin Redbreast

I. Intone the following sentences.

1. It was not like the child’s room at all.
2. Martha was a round, red-cheeked, cheerful-looking person.
3. Are you going to be my servant?
4. Dickon’s a kind boy and the animals like him.
5. There wouldn’t be ponies or sheep in the garden, but there might be birds.
6. I think he was on a tree in the secret garden!
7. They’re the friendliest birds of all.
8. Are you a little girl from India?
9. Would you make friends with me?
10. Where is the door 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. robin redbreast 2. to be in flower 3. humming – to hum 4. cheerful-looking 5. to speak with an accent 6. to disobey 7. to hit smb back 8. it’s time smb did smth 9. to feel sorry for smb 10. to look relieved 11. fatten up

12. to make friends with smb 13. bare 14. locked up 15. to bury 16. lawn 17. fountain 18. couldn’t stop thinking about (doing) smth 19. to wonder 20. orchard

21. make smb do smth 22. to dig - digging 23. rough (voice) 24. to whistle 25. to land 26. to hop 27. to realize 28. to nod 29. temper 30. spade

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

1. When Mary woke up in the morning there was Mrs. Medlock cleaning out the fireplace in her room.
2. The room was full of toys, books and bright pictures.
3. Martha was not at all like the servants Mary had had in India.
4. Martha was going to be Mary’s servant.
5. Mary could easily get dressed herself.
6. Mary was very hungry, so she ate a large breakfast.
7. Martha told Mary about the locked garden.
8. Mary went out into the gardens and saw the fountain playing and the flower-beds in bloom.
9. The bird’s unpleasant voice gave Mary an unpleasant feeling.
10. Ben Weatherstuff told Mary where the door to the secret garden was.

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