Учебно-методическое пособие для факультативных занятий по английскому языку. Таганрог: Изд-во тти, 2013. 200 с
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1. Is it a good idea to please your relatives only on special dates? 2. What was wrong with this holiday? 3. Can you remember a similar Mother’s Day in your family? V. Retell the text on the part of 1) the mother, 2) the father. TEXT 30. THE TIGRESS AND HER MATE by James Thurber Proudfoot, a tiger, became tired of his mate, Sobra, a few weeks after they had set up housekeeping, and he fell to leaving home earlier and earlier, in the morning, and returning later and later at night. He no longer called her "Sugar Paw", or anything else, but merely clapped his paws when 101 he wanted anything, or, if she was upstairs, whistled. The last long speech he ever made to her at breakfast was "What the hell's the matter with you? I bring you rice and peas and coconut oil, don't I? Love is something you put away in the attic with your wedding dress. Forget it." And he finished his coffee, put down the Jungle News, and started for the door. "Where are you going?" Sobra asked. "Out," he said. And after that, every time she asked him where he was going, he said, "Out", or "Away", or "Hush". When Sobra became aware of the coming of what would have been, had she belonged to the chosen species, 1 a blessed event, 2 and told Proudfoot about it, he snarled, "Growp." He had now learned to talk to his mate in code, and "growp" meant "I hope the cubs grow up to be xylophone players or major generals." Then he went away, as all males do at such a moment, for he did not want to be bothered by his young until the males were old enough to box with and the females old enough to insult. While waiting for the unblessed event to take place, he spent his time fighting water buffaloes and riding around with plainclothes tigers in a prowl car. 3 When he finally came home, he said to his mate, "Eeps," meaning 'Tm going to hit the sack, 4 and if the kids keep me awake by yowling I'll drown them like so many common house kittens," 5 Sobra stalked to the front door of their house, opened it, and said to her mate, "Scat." 6 The fight that took place was terrible but brief. Proudfoot led with the wrong paw, 7 was nailed with the swiftest right cross in the jungle, and never really knew where he was after that. The next morning, when the cubs, male and female, tumbled eagerly down the stairs demanding to know what they could do, their mother said, "You can go into the parlour and play with your father. He's the tiger rug just in front of the fireplace. I hope you'll like him." The children loved him. жүктеу/скачать 1,77 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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