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Работала телефонисткой в ночную
смену
Так и не вышла замуж
Оказать услугу
Отвернулась
В конце концов
Много
народу
Глазам не поверил
Быстро пошёл за угол
Assignment № 2
Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them
in the sentences of your own:
receive letters,
watch smb do smth,
read
speak aloud,
explain smth to smb,
refuse to do smth,
get acquainted with smb,
look at smth\smb in surprise,
in silence, worry about smth/smb,
without doing smth.
Assignment № 3
Questions on the text:
1 Did Ray Buffin often receive letters?
2 What was it Guy Hodge and Ralph Barnhill liked to do?
3 What was their plan?
4 Who was Grace Brooks?
5 Why did the two young men ask her to do them a favour?
6 Why didn’t the girl agree at once?
7 What was Rays reaction when he saw a letter in his box?
8 What did he do next?
9 What did Guy and Ralph see when they entered the telephone office?
Assignment № 4
Discuss the following:
1 Why did the girl agree to write the letter in the end?
2 Comment on the phrase “They mere too happy to worry about Guy and Ralph watching
them.”
3 What do you think Grace wrote in her letter?
4 Why do people like to receive letters? Do you agree that it is easier to
express your feelings
in a letter than during a talk? Give your grounds.
5 Why do you think the art of writing letters is dying nowadays?
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