III. Follow-up activities. 1. When were you last in two minds about something?

1. When were you last in two minds about something?

2. When was the last time you spoke your mind? Did you offend anyone?

3. Write a letter, in which you confess having done something wrong. Think of the means you will use to make the addressee as little upset as possible.

The Way up to Heaven

I. Vocabulary work

Study the words and use them in contexts of your own.

Twitch, apprehension, flutter, fidget, irrepressible, foible, gloomy, diminutive, bland.

Match the words and their definitions.

pathological twitch apprehension flutter and fidget bland irrepressible foible gloomy bustling yearning dapper resign yourself to disconsolate hazy flabby

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strong desire feeling of uneasiness or anxiety unhappy, disappointed busy moving neat in appearance move about in a nervous, irregular way smooth dark and cheerless have a sudden, uncontrollable muscle movement accept without complaining personal peculiarity which she couldn’t control like a disease loose and fleshy unclear

II.Discussing the text

1. Read the short story “The Way up to Heaven” by R. Dahl and consider the tasks below.