Home Reading Aid on the Book "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend. Костенко Н.В - 16 стр.

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   2.  Adrian’s birthday.
   3.  Adrian’s time at school.
   4.  Adrian and his father.
   5.  At Nigel’s place. What does Adrian understand about his own father as a result
       of comparing him to Nigel’s father?
   6. Adrian’s mother missing her son.
   7. Auntie Susan.
   8. Easter Sunday.
   9. Adrian’s stay at his mother’s.
   10. Adrian is at the crossroads in his life.
   11. Grandma coming to the rescue again.
   12. Bert Baxter.
   13. Adrian’s trouble because of Barry Kent.
   14. Painting the walls black. How do you account for it?
   15. The father’s redundancy.

TASK 7

Make up short dialogues or conversations using the following everyday phrases:

to pine to death for smb; buddy; to block up drain; to laugh until one’s eyes watered;
to take one’s hat off to smb; to have money to burn; to be up and about; to tell smb
off; here we go; how about a nightcap?; to pour smth down the sink; to be dead
cushy; to have the guts to do smth.


                              ASSIGNMENT 4, pp 80-100

TASK1

Study the active vocabulary. Explain the meaning of words and phrases set forth
in the list below:

   1.   to have a breakdown;
   2.   to drink heavily;
   3.   to spot smb/smth;
   4.   to turn into a raving loonie;
   5.   to let oneself go;
   6.   the old bag;