Exercises and Assignments on the Text Assignment № 1 Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them in the sentences of your own: нет ни одной красной розы –
дает бал –
пройдет мимо меня –
дороже драгоценностей –
закрыл лицо руками –
зеленая ящерица –
причина его печали –
промелькнул как тень –
мои почки померзли –
окрасить ее кровью своего сердца –
прижавшись грудью к шипу –
слезы еще не высохли –
сильнее, чем власть –
все художники эгоисты –
прижмись сильнее –
не пойдет к моему платью –
в конце концов –
Assignment № 2 Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them in the sentences of your own: depend on smth. –
suffer smth. –
shake one’s head –
there is a (no) way how to do smth. –
it is pleasant to do smth. –
compared to smth./smb. –
fall asleep –
feel a sharp pain –
Assignment № 3 Answer the following questions: 1) Why was the young student upset?
2) Why did the Nightingale make up her mind to help the student?
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3) What way out did the rose-tree propose to the Nightingale?
4) It was a great sacrifice for the bird, wasn't it? Why did she still decide to make it?
5) Why was the Nightingale's sacrifice made in vain?
