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A. Training Exercises
1. Give Russian equivalents and use the expressions in sentences of your own:
to reflect on; conduct; on this occasion; a puzzled look; a dense line; a bold stare; to
give an exultant leap; a wash-out; to come into money; to tear smb, smth to pieces; to
be/live in each other’s pockets.
2. Explain the meaning of the following phrases:
to doll up; to get off with smb; to pay on the nail; to be absorbed; to jump (leap) out
of smb’s skin; to be taken aback; to catch smb’s breath; not to turn a hair; to kick smb
out; to draw smb out; to get down to brass tacks.
3. Reproduce the situations in which the phrases from the list occur.
4. a) Write out of the text all the adjectives and adverbs describing:
1) appearance;
2) smile.
b) Find in the text sentences with the verbs:
walk, saunter, stroll, wander; step, tiptoe.
Look up these verbs in the dictionary and explain the difference in their
meaning.
B. Speech Exercises
1. Explain what is meant by the following sentences and comment on them:
1. “It’s rather flattering. You know, it’s a most extraordinary thing…”
2. “I don’t know what’s coming to the English. The British Empire!”
3. It was the beginning of a new adventure.
4. “It’s a cast-iron part. She can’t really go wrong in it”.
5. “I want to get down to brass tacks”.
6. “You don’t know the difference between truth and make-believe”.
7. “My greatest wish in the world is that you should be happy… You must seek your
own salvation, I see that.”
2. Find the following allusions in the text and say what you know about them:
Connaught Square; the Edgware Road, Oxford Street; Cockney; Charlie Chaplin; St.
Malo; Cambridge.
3. Explain the meaning of the proverb let bygones be bygones and comment on
how it is used in the text.
4. Make-up key-questions that will cover the contents of the chapters under study. 
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                                 A. Training Exercises
  1. Give Russian equivalents and use the expressions in sentences of your own:
to reflect on; conduct; on this occasion; a puzzled look; a dense line; a bold stare; to
give an exultant leap; a wash-out; to come into money; to tear smb, smth to pieces; to
be/live in each other’s pockets.

  2. Explain the meaning of the following phrases:
to doll up; to get off with smb; to pay on the nail; to be absorbed; to jump (leap) out
of smb’s skin; to be taken aback; to catch smb’s breath; not to turn a hair; to kick smb
out; to draw smb out; to get down to brass tacks.

 3. Reproduce the situations in which the phrases from the list occur.

 4. a) Write out of the text all the adjectives and adverbs describing:
            1) appearance;
            2) smile.
      b) Find in the text sentences with the verbs:
            walk, saunter, stroll, wander; step, tiptoe.

 Look up these verbs in the dictionary and explain the difference in their
meaning.

                                 B. Speech Exercises

  1. Explain what is meant by the following sentences and comment on them:
1. “It’s rather flattering. You know, it’s a most extraordinary thing… ”
2. “I don’t know what’s coming to the English. The British Empire!”
3. It was the beginning of a new adventure.
4. “It’s a cast-iron part. She can’t really go wrong in it” .
5. “I want to get down to brass tacks” .
6. “You don’t know the difference between truth and make-believe” .
7. “My greatest wish in the world is that you should be happy… You must seek your
own salvation, I see that.”

 2. Find the following allusions in the text and say what you know about them:
Connaught Square; the Edgware Road, Oxford Street; Cockney; Charlie Chaplin; St.
Malo; Cambridge.

 3. Explain the meaning of the proverb let bygones be bygones and comment on
how it is used in the text.

 4. Make-up key-questions that will cover the contents of the chapters under study.

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