CHAPTERS 5, 6

I. Read the chapters and find the following words and word combinations:

1. 1. WORDS TO BE STUDIED: laboriously 34, to elude 34, to caper 34, to skip about 37, unsophisticated Anna 38, a record book 38, inferiority complex 39, an exercise book 39, a ball-point pen 39, a juvenile court 40, multiplication sums 41.

2. WORD COMBINATIONS TO BE FUNCTIONALIZED: to do smth. laboriously 34, to emulate smb. 37, out of the corner of one’s eye 37, a rum lot 37, a jejune attempt at lady-killing 38, to make ends meet 39, to have a go at smth. 39, to fall over oneself to do smth. 40, a working-class background 40, it’s life in the raw! 40, a thing that brings money in 41, to do sums 41, to live in the dream of Get-Rich-Quick 41, a retribution will come upon smb. 41, to enter one’s second year of teaching 42.

II. Answer the following questions:

1. What did Joan Berry mean by “a rum lot” when speaking about the staff?

2. What subjects did Anna have to teach in her class?

3. What impressions did Anna get of the Rhythmic Work lesson? In what key is the lesson presented by the author – ironical, humorous, sarcastic?

4. What do you get to know of “the moles”, Andy Craig, Miss Hobbs, Mr. Foster and Tom Drew in chapter 5?

5. How is the home-coming described by the author?

6. What did Anna like about the village, village grocer Mr. Crook?

7. What is Anna’s general attitude to the life in Elm Hill and her native village?

8. What features of Anna’s character do we come to know of after having read chapter 6?