The Guide to
“Geek Girl”
by Holly Smale
Teacher’s Book
Практикум для розвитку навичок читання
оригінального художнього твору
(до роману Голлі Смейл “Дівчина Гік”)

МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ
ПРИКАРПАТСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ
ІМЕНІ ВАСИЛЯ СТЕФАНИКА
ФАКУЛЬТЕТ ІНОЗЕМНИХ МОВ
КАФЕДРА  АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ ФІЛОЛОГІЇ

The Guide to
“Geek Girl”
by Holly Smale
Teacher’s Book
Практикум для розвитку навичок читання
оригінального художнього твору
(до роману Голлі Смейл “Дівчина Гік”)

Івано-Франківськ
2020

УДК 821.111-31(076.6)
ББК 83.3 (4 Англ) 
А 86
Рецензенти:
Гошилик В.Б., кандидат філологічних наук, доцент кафедри англійської філології факультету іноземних мов Прикарпатського національного університету імені Василя Стефаника
Грибіник Ю.І., кандидат філологічних наук, доцент кафедри англійської мови Івано-Франківського національного технічного університету нафти і газу

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А 86	Артиш О.О. Практикум для розвитку навичок читання
оригінального художнього твору (до роману Голлі Смейл “Дівчина Гік”) Книга для вчителя. Частина перша. – Івано-Франківськ, 2020. – 77 с.
	
А 86	 Artysh O.O. The Guide to “Geek Girl” by Holly Smale. Teacher’s Book. Part One. – Ivano-Frankivsk, 2020. – 77 p.
	
Посібник є додатком до практикуму The Guide to “Geek Girl” by Holly Smale. Student’s Book. Він створений для використання вчителями на заняттях з англійської мови для перевірки навичок читання оригінального художнього твору. 
 Усі завдання  подаються з можливими варіантами відповідей, що полегшує та систематизує роботу вчителя. У посібнику запропоновані питання для обговорення, що сприяють розвитку навичок комунікації у студентів, вмінню аналізувати прочитане та робити власні висновки. 
Матеріал посібника можна використовувати у вищих навчальних закладах, а також для проведення факультативних занять у гімназіях, гуманітарних ліцеях, загальноосвітніх школах із поглибленим вивченням іноземних мов.

                                                                           © Артиш О.О. 2020

CONTENTS

Preface…………………………………………………….…………….5
Geek Girl and Its Author ……………………………………………….9

Assignment 1 (Chapters 1- 8) …………………………………………..11
Assignment 2 (Chapters 9-15) ………………………………………….25
Assignment 3 (Chapters 16-22) ………………………………………...38 
Assignment 4 (Chapters 23-34) ………………………………………...50
Assignment 5 (Chapters 35-43) ………………………………………...63

References ……………………………………………………………...76

PREFACE
You probably know that even in your own language reading is regarded as important because it can be entertaining and educational, can open up new worlds and enrich your life, and can improve hand-eye co-ordination and enhance social skills.
But for learning a foreign language, in this case English, reading in that language has additional important benefits that can help you learn the language faster and more completely.
Reading is an essential skill for language learners. When your reading skills improve, your listening, speaking and writing skills improve too. Here are some of the specific reasons why English learners are encouraged to read in English:
•	The constant repetition of words and patterns in reading helps you learn and remember vocabulary and grammar structures.
•	Reading helps you become familiar with the rhythm of English. Over time it will start to feel natural and you will notice when a sentence or phrase doesn't seem right. 
•	Unlike conversation, reading is something you can do on your own.
•	Reading is not expensive, often free.
•	Good reading skills can improve your other language skills. You need to learn to read before you can write.
•	Reading is the best way to learn and remember the proper spelling of words.
•	Listening as you read along can help you improve your pronunciation skills. 
Here are some pieces of advice how develop your reading skills:
Expand your knowledge by reading essays, novels and other pieces of literature that are outside of your comfort zone. For example, if you are accustomed to reading science-fiction novels, choose a biography of a famous historical figure unrelated to science. This will ensure that you are thinking about what you are reading, making connections to things you have a better understanding of and that the reading you are doing is challenging.
Record notes in the margins as you read through a text. Mark passages that you find interesting, confusing or exciting. Write questions in the margins and speak with a professor or peer about your questions to try to find solutions and gain understanding about the piece you are reading. Highlight sentences that you find inspiring and share them with others. Reading actively, by taking notes, will help you retain information from the piece you read and will give you something to think about and discuss later.
Communicate with other people about pieces that you read. Work in groups of your peers to discuss an article, journal entry or essay that you have all read. Consider the opinions and analyses of everyone in your group. Think about how your peers have read and processed the piece in order to give yourself new ways of thinking about the piece. Don't be afraid to defend your opinion, as this will help build your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
There are some reading strategies that can help you to read more effectively. Although the term reading strategies might sound too mechanical and dry for the ears of a creative book-lover, these strategies can enhance your grasping power and help you get the most out of any book or any text that you lay your eyes on. These skills might not necessarily be learned as rigid theories or rules but if understood well once they can definitely enhance the reading process and increase the quality as well as quantity of output that you get from after reading. Not only can these strategies be taught to children right from school, but can also be used by any person of any age to help improve their reading process. 
Speed-reading is actually a combination of various reading methods. The aim of speed-reading is basically to increase the reading speed without compromising on the understanding or retention. 
Scanning through the text is a reading strategy that can be used if you are particularly looking at the text through a set perspective in mind. You can only scan for portions that interest you. For the highlights or important points you can skim through the summary or the preface of the book or the beginning and the ending chapters.
Active Reading. There are times when you just cannot afford to skim through or scan through the text but need to get an in-depth understanding of the text that you read and hence you need to make sure you're actively involved with the text while reading it. Reading the books about Harry Potter you should use this strategy. There are four important points that you need to keep in mind during active reading which are as follows:
•	Underlining / Highlighting: identify the most important parts of the text according to your own understanding and highlight or underline them using a pencil or a marker while you are reading. You can even use different colors to highlight diverse aspects of the text.
•	Make a Note of Key Words: jot down the headings as you read and detail using one or two keywords for each point.
•	Questions: before you start reading prepare for your reading by writing down all the questions you need to answer. This helps you to read accordingly and ensures you get the answers to all your questions and don't get distracted while reading.
•	Summaries: after you've read one complete section of the text, summarize that portion in your own words. Later, go through the text again to check how accurate your summary is and modify / upgrade it in case you've left out any details.
These tips will help students to answer the questions (Reading Comprehension) and give the summary of a chapter. 
In Text Work students have to find in the text the phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them. Vocabulary Practice gives the opportunity to revise and review key vocabulary.  The typical task in this exercise is matching. When doing a matching task, students need to match the phrases to their synonyms, antonyms and definitions. The task typically contains one or two extra elements, which cannot be matched with any of the phrases. Students must rule them out and match the other ones correctly. They will also practise in translating from English into their native language.
Grammar Practice is based on the most important grammar areas that need to be mastered by second-year students.
 As the book the students are going to read is a piece of fiction they have to read the excerpt with the proper intonation and to make literary translation. These tasks are in Reading Comprehension Section.
In Writing section students are supposed to produce a text (short or long). Most often these will be simple texts of everyday use. The short text (35-80 words) is usually a note, a postcard, an announcement or an invitation. The long text (100-150 words) might be a formal letter, an informal letter or a short story. Each of the text types has its own structure and requirements and one will have to bear that in mind when doing the task. Your students will need to use a variety of appropriate grammar structures, organize their writing in a logical way and pay attention to the spelling. Similarly, they have to use vocabulary which is natural in the given context as well as use appropriate language register. Ask your students to read the instructions carefully as they will give all the necessary information about what type of text asked to write.

Geek Girl and Its Author

Holly Smale (born 7 December 1981) is a British writer. Her first published book, Geek Girl, won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013. Smale is writing a 6-book teen fiction series, also called Geek Girl. The final book, Forever Geek, was published by Harper Collins in March 2017.

Personal life
Smale was born on 7 December 1981 in England. From an early age she loved reading and writing, and has stated that her childhood experiences of being bullied have influenced the subjects she chooses to write about. At the age of 15, Smale was recruited by a London modelling agency and became a fashion model. She modelled for two years and has stated in interviews that she didn't enjoy it.

Smale studied at University of Bristol, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Master of Arts in Shakespeare studies. She has held various jobs, including teaching English in Japan, and has travelled extensively.

Geek Girl series
Originally meant to be a trilogy, the Geek Girl series will be six books upon completion.[4] The humorous fiction follows the life of Harriet Manners, a nerdy 15-year-old girl who tries out modelling to "reinvent herself". The first book in the series, Geek Girl, received favourable reviews and was the Number 1 debut teen fiction book of 2013 in the UK. It won the 2014 Waterstones' Children's Book Prize in the young adult category.[5][6] It also received the 2014 Leeds Book Award in the ages 11–14 category.[7] and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013,[8] the Queen of Teen award 2014 and the Branford Boase Award 2014.

    2013 Geek Girl
    2013 Model Misfit
    2014 Picture Perfect
    2015 All That Glitters
    2016 Head Over Heels
    2017 Forever Geek

For World Book Day (UK and Ireland) 2015, Smale also wrote an extra spin-off book titled Geek Drama set between Model Misfit and Picture Perfect. Also, not part of the main series a Christmas special named All Wrapped Up was published in 2015, and a summer special named Sunny Side Up was published in 2016.

Assignment 1
(Chapters1-8)

TEXT WORK
1.	Check the meaning of the following words. Write the translation next to the word: 
a geek       I [gɪ:k] 1) ; цирковий або балаганний актор, який показує огидні номери (відкушування голови у живої курки) 2) заклинатель змій 3) дегенерат, покидьок 4) нудотний, огидний 5)гік, заучка, «поведений» на чомусь
a school satchel     ранець; сумка (для книг)
suspicion       підозра
illegible   [i'ledʒəb(ə)l] нерозбірливий, нечіткий, важкий для читання
eventually   у кінцевому підсумку, врешті-решт
clammy  холодний, вологий на дотик (про руки)
to churn     крутитися
a hand-held mirror       ручне дзеркало
a duvet   ['du(:)'veɪ]  пухова ковдра
cross adj. сердитий, злий, роздратований
feebly   слабко; немічно
a faker  ошуканець; фальсифікатор; симулянт; шахрай
a teensy bit   трішечки
minuscule   [ˈmɪnəskjuːl] незначний
presumably  можливо, імовірно; очевидно
to huff  пихкати, важко дихати
nativity   Різдво; (the .); вертеп
a baby tooth  молочний зуб
a moron  ['mɔ:rɔn] недоумкуватий, ідіот
a nemesis  pl. nemeses  ['neməsɪs]  заклятий, запеклий ворог
adversary  ['ædvəs(ə)rɪ] супротивник; ворог; суперник
arch enemy  заклятий, запеклий ворог
for absolute certain  безсумнівно
distracted  спантеличений, той, що легко відволікається, розсіяний
brand-new   новісінький
to contemplate  споглядати, пильно розглядати, міркувати; обдумувати
anon  [ə'nɔn] негайно, зараз; незабаром
consternation  жах, переляк; заціпеніння (від страху)

2.	Find in the text the following phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them:

To look smth. up – шукати (у довіднику) ; наводити (довідки)
I know I’m a geek because I’ve just looked it up in the Oxford English
Dictionary.

To be candid with smb. – бути щирим, відвертим з кимось
To be absolutely candid with you, I don’t actually know who decided to
write on my bag – although I have my suspicions – but I can tell you that their
writing is almost illegible.

To alarm smb. – стривожити, схвилювати; налякати; насторожити; викликати тривогу
In fact, I don’t want to alarm you or anything, but I think I might be really sick.

To battle through smth. – пройти через щось, побороти щось
I shall just have to battle through this illness alone.

On cue – вчасно, по команді
At which point, absolutely on cue as always, the door opens and the room explodes: hair and handbag and coat and arms everywhere.

To be in tune with smb. – ладнати, бути в гарних стосунках з ким-н.
Nat – for the record – is my Best Friend, and we are so utterly in tune that it’s like we have one brain, divided into two pieces at birth.

To press against smth.  – притискати до чогось
“Nat,” I say feebly, closing my eyes and pressing my hand against my head.

To take a peek – глянути, подивитися крадькома
I open one eye and take a peek round the room.

To be bedridden – бути прикутим до ліжка хворобою
I give a weak but courageous smile: the sort Jane gives Lizzie in Pride and Prejudice when she’s bedridden with a really bad cold, but is being very brave about it.

To roll one’s eyes – закочувати очі 
Nat’s nose twitches and she rolls her eyes.

To live with oneself – поважати себе після чогось
How will you live with yourself?

To be snappy with smb.  – буркотіти на когось, дратуватися через когось
And why Nat is a bit snappy with me as we run towards the school coach
as fast as my legs will carry me.

To have a point – бути правим, мати рацію 
To be fair, I think I have a point.

On a syllabus – в навчальній програмі
It’s not even on our exam syllabus.

To get on/off the bus – сідати в/ сходити з автобуса
So, before we get on the bus, you might want to know a little more about me.

Get on with it!  – Давай швидше! 
You might be thinking, Just get on with it, Harriet, because I haven’t got all day, which is what Annabel says all the time.

Not have all day – не мати багато часу
You might be thinking, Just get on with it, Harriet, because I haven’t got all day, which is what Annabel says all the time.

To be destined to smth. – бути приреченим на щось, призначеним для чогось
Thanks to my parents, I am destined to a life of never having anyone to squabble with in the back seat of the car.
To put things in lists – складати списки
And put things in lists. Like this one.

To work smth. out – вирахувати щось, зрозуміти щось
I know you could have worked that out by yourself, but I can’t assume people like doing equations in their heads just because I do.

To get away with – легко збутися чогось, вийти “сухим” з води 
I got away with it until I was about ten.

To keep up – дотримуватися, зберігати, не порушувати
If there had been consistent rules, I’d have done my best to keep up.

To hang out – постійно бувати (де-небудь); ошиватися
And suddenly the sheep and the angel – who hung out quite happily in the fields of Bethlehem together – didn’t have as much in common any more.

To hate smb’s guts – смертельно ненавидіти когось 
Whatever you want to call somebody who hates your guts.

To be written in the stars – бути визначеним долею, на небесах
It’s simply written in the stars.

To pull a face – кривитися, робити гримаси
Alexa bows a couple of times, pulls a face at me and then goes back to reading her magazine.
On a daily basis – щоденно
Something that will give Alexa just an ounce of the hurt she gives me on an almost daily basis.

To get smth. straight – уточнити щось, розтлумачити
And let me get something straight: I’m not going to have a romance with
someone just because they’re made out of the same stuff as me.

To beam at smb. – посміхатися променистою посмішкою до когось
He promptly wipes it on his jumper sleeve and beams at me.

Not take kindly to smth. – не сприймати щось, зустрічати в штики.
I don’t take too kindly to vehicles, particularly the ones that move.

To pull up – зупинятися; робити зупинку в дорозі
She’s so unhappy about it that when the coach finally pulls up to The Clothes Show at the NEC, Birmingham – two and a half hours later – she’s still shouting at him.

To grit one’s teeth – зціпити зуби
Nat grits her teeth.

To clench one’s fists – стискати кулаки
Nat scrunches her mouth up, clenches her fists and furrows her brow right in the centre.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.	Match the beginning to the end of the phrase. There are two extra choices you do not need to use:
1.	to hate smb’s 	a.	basis	
2.	to live	b.	the door	
3.	to put  things	c.	with oneself	
4.	on a daily	d.	with it	
5.	Get on	e.	guts	
6.		f.	down	
7.		g.	in lists	

1e, 2c, 3g, 4a, 5d.

2.	Match the words/phrases to their definitions. There are two extra choices you do not need to use:
1.	not take kindly to smth.	a.	to be unable to leave your bed, especially because you are old or ill	
2.	to be written in the stars	b.	to do something without experiencing any problems or difficulties, even though it is not the best thing to do	
3.	to get away with	c.	used to say that what happens to a person is controlled by fate	
4.	to be bedridden	d.	to eat something very quickly, swallowing it in big pieces	
5.	to hang out	e.	to be unwilling to accept a situation because it annoys you	
6.		f.	to behave in a friendly way towards someone, especially someone who is younger or needs help	
7.		g.	to spend a lot of time in a particular place or with particular people	

1e, 2c, 3b, 4a, 5g.

3.	Find the antonyms to the following words: 
old, out-of-date           brand-new
decipherable                illegible
doubtfully, unlikely    presumably
a friend, ally               adversary
cheerful, happy          cross

4.	Translate the sentences into English:
1.	В моєму шкільному рюкзаку завжди лежить англійський словник, щоб я могла подивитися незнайоме слово в будь-який момент. There is always an English dictionary in my satchel to look unknown words up at any moment.	
2.	Ми зовсім різні і не завжди добре ладнаємо з Аннабел. Але нам довелося багато через що пройти разом, тому повністю відвертою я можу бути тільки з нею.We are quite different and not always in tune with Annabel. But we’ve battled through many things together, that’s why only with her I can be absolutely candid.	
3.	“Ти приречений бути недоумкуватим ідіотом все своєжиття!” - сказав Мейсіс, мій заклятий ворог. Мені нічого не лишалося, як скривитися йому у відповідь.”You’re destined tobe amoron for all your life!”- said Maisis, my arch enemy. I had nothing left as to pull a face at him in response.	
4.	Здається, нам було визначено долею бути заклятими ворогами. Тому не дивно, що він смертельно ненавидить мене, і я також сприймаю його в штики. It seems to have been written in the stars for us to be nemeses. So no wonder he hates my guts and I don’t take kindly to him either.	
5.	Він взяв за звичку щоденно ошиватися в барах та пабах, напиваючись та почуваючись спантеличеним. Але врешті-решт він зрозумів, що це не вирішить його проблем. He used to hang out at bars and pubs on a daily basis, getting drunk and feeling distracted. But eventually he worked out that that wouldn’t solve his problems.	

5.	 Make up 5 sentences with the phrases and word combinations mentioned above. 
6.	Make up a dialogue using as many active words and word combinations as possible.
7.	Find in the text and write out all the descriptives to the word “voice” (e. g. to say smth. in a gloomy voice). Make up sentences with each of them.

a dry voice
“Let me guess,” she says in a dry voice. “You’re sick.”

a small voice
        “It’s not lipstick,” I say in a small voice. “It’s a dangerous infection.”
“OK,” I say in a small voice. “I’m sorry, Nat.”
 a sad and simultaneously triumphant voice
“Oh, Harriet,” Nat eventually says in a sad and simultaneously triumphant
voice.

a sarcastic voice
“Really?” I say in the most sarcastic voice I can find, considering that I’m
now running so fast that my breath is starting to squeak.

a loud  voice
“Seriously,” Nat snaps in a loud voice from a few metres in front of me.

a tiny voice
“You suck,” I say in the tiniest voice I’ve ever heard.
“Because I need you today,” she says in a tiny voice.

a delighted voice
 “Harriet!” a delighted voice says, and a little pale face pops over the back of the seat in front of me.
a little voice
“I don’t want you to think I’m easily distracted, Harriet,” he finally continues in a little voice, “but I’m suddenly not feeling so well.”

a low, warning voice
“Toby,” Nat snaps in a low, warning voice.
 
a low voice
“Toby,” I say in a low voice, taking him by the arm.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
1.	Learn the constructions:
•	to appear to (have, feel, agree)
•	to happen to be/ to do
•	can’t help doing smth.
Write out the sentences with them from the text and make up your own ones.
I drew a little tick next to all the symptoms I recognise, and I appear to have them all.
Anyway, the point is: as my satchel, the anonymous vandal and the Oxford English Dictionary appear to agree with each other, I can only conclude that I am, in fact, a geek.
“Then your dangerous infection is glittery, Harriet, and just so happens to match my new shoes perfectly.”

She can’t help hating me any more than Heathcliff could help loving Cathy.

2.	Insert the correct tense form of the verb in brackets:
Anyway Nat (to take) one step into the room, (to look) at me, and then (to stop) and (to put) her hands on her hips.
“Good morning,” I (to croak) from under the covers, and then I start (to cough) violently. Human coughs (to release) air at roughly 60mph, and without (to be) vain, I (to like) (to think) that mine (to reach) 65mph or 70mph minimum.
“(Not) even (to think) about it,” Nat (to snap).
I (to stop) (to cough) and (to look) at her with my roundest most confused eyes. “Hmmm?” I (to say) innocently. And then I (to start) (to cough) again.
“I (to mean) it. (Not) even (to think) about (to think) about it”.
I (to have) no idea what she (to talk) about. The fever must (to make)  my brain (to swell).
“Nat,” I (to say) feebly, (to close) my eyes and (to press) my hand against my head. I (to be) a shell of the person I (to use) (to be). A husk. “I (to have) bad news.” I (to open) one eye and (to take) a peek round the room. Nat still (to have) her hands on her hips.
“Let me (to guess),” she (to say) in a dry voice. “You (to be) sick.”

Anyway Nat takes one step into the room, looks at me, and then stops and
puts her hands on her hips.
“Good morning,” I croak from under the covers, and then I start coughing
violently. Human coughs release air at roughly 60mph, and without being vain, I’d like to think that mine reaches 65mph or 70mph minimum.
“Don’t even think about it,” Nat snaps.
I stop coughing and look at her with my roundest, most confused eyes.
“Hmmm?” I say innocently. And then I start coughing again.
“I mean it. Don’t even think about thinking about it.”
I have no idea what she’s talking about. The fever must be making my
brain swell.
“Nat,” I say feebly, closing my eyes and pressing my hand against my
head. I’m a shell of the person I used to be. A husk. “I have bad news.” I open
one eye and take a peek round the room. Nat still has her hands on her hips.
“Let me guess,” she says in a dry voice. “You’re sick.”
3.	Report the excerpt (change direct speech into reported):

When he’s gone and I know that Nat can’t rip his head off and feed it to a large flock of pigeons, I turn to her.
“Nat,” I say, chewing on a fingernail anxiously. “It’s not that bad. Honestly. We smell fine. And if you put my coat on over the top, nobody will see what you’re wearing. It’s longer than yours.”
“You don’t get it,” Nat says and suddenly the anger pops: she just sounds miserable. “You just don’t get it.”
I think Nat underestimates my powers of empathy. Which is a shame because I am a very empathetic person. Empathetic. Not pathetic.
“Sure I do,” I say in a reassuring voice. “You don’t like football. I get that.”
“It’s not that. Today was really important, Harriet. I really needed to look good.”
I stare at her blankly. After a few seconds, Nat rolls her eyes and hits herself on the forehead in frustration. “They’re in there.”
I stare at the revolving doors. “Who’s in there?” I whisper in terror. I think about it for a few seconds. “Vampires?”
“Vampires.” Nat looks at me in consternation. “You have got to start reading proper books.”

READING COMPREHENSION
1.	Answer the questions:
1.	Who is a geek?
geek
/gi:k/h noun informal, chiefly N. Amer.
1. an unfashionable or socially inept person.
2. an obsessive enthusiast.
3. a person who feels the need to look up the word ‘geek’ in the dictionary.
DERIVATIVES geeky adjective.
ORIGIN from the related English dialect word 
geck ‘fool’.	
2.	How does Harriet describe the symptoms of her illness?
My hands are clammy, my stomach’s churning and I’m significantly paler than I was ten minutes ago. Plus, there’s what can only be described as a sort of... rash on my face. Little red spots scattered at totally random and not at all symmetrical points on my cheeks and forehead. With a big one on my chin. And one just next to my left ear.	
3.	How close are Harriet and Nat?
Nat – for the record – is my Best Friend, and we are so utterly in tune that it’s like we have one brain, divided into two pieces at birth. Or (more likely) two brains, entwined shortly afterwards. Although we didn’t meet until we were five years old, so obviously I’m speaking metaphorically or we’d both be dead.
What I’m trying to say is: we’re close. We’re harmonised. We’re one and the same. We’re like a perfect stream of consciousness, with never a cross word between us. We work with perfect, unquestioning synergy. Like two dolphins that jump at exactly the same time and pass the ball to each other at Sea World.	
4.	How does Nat explain that it is Harriet’s turn to do her a favour and go shopping with her?
“Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown by Lenin in 1917.”
I blink in surprise. “Yes,” I say. “He was.”
“And do you think I want to know that? It’s not even on our exam syllabus. I never had to know that. So now it’s your turn to pick up a few pairs
of shoes and make ooh and aah sounds for me because Jo ate prawns and she’s allergic to prawns and she got sick and couldn’t come and I’m not sitting on a bus on my own for five hours. OK?”	
5.	What type of clothes did Harriet usually wear under the age of ten?
I got away with it until I was about ten. Under that age, non-uniform didn’t really exist: we were either in our school uniform, or our pyjamas, or our swimming costumes, or dressed like angels or sheep for the school nativity. We had to go and get an outfit especially for non-uniform days.	
6.	How did Harriet meet Alexa on the bus?
And then it all goes wrong. On the third step, the driver sees a family of ducks on the road, hits the brakes and sends me flying towards the end of the bus. I instinctively grab whatever will protect me from slamming my face on the floor. A headrest, a shoulder, an armrest, a seat.
Somebody’s knee.
“Ugh,” a voice shouts in total disgust, “she’s 
touching me.”
And there – staring at me as if she just sicked me up – is Alexa.	
7.	What times does the phrase “rule of a tumb” come from?
Do you know what I learnt this morning, Harriet? I learnt that the phrase rule of thumb came from a time when a man was only legally allowed to beat his wife with something the width of his own thumb.	
8.	What are Harriet and Nat wearing after the incident with Toby on the bus?
We’re both now wearing PE kit: luckily two of the boys had football practice straight after the trip, so – after a lot of whining – Miss Fletcher managed to convince them to lend us their kit. We’re wearing orange football shirts, green football shorts and white knee socks.	
9.	Why did Nat put prawns in Jo’s dinner?
“Because I need you today,” she says in a tiny voice. 
“I need you for support. They’re in there.” And she looks again at the doors and swallows.
“Who?”
“Model agents, Harriet,” Nat says as if I’m an idiot. “Lots and lots of model agents.”	

2.	Give the brief summary of the chapter (~50 words).
3.	Read the following excerpt with proper intonation and pronunciation:
Imagine you’re a polar bear and you find yourself in the middle of a rainforest. There are flying squirrels, and monkeys, and bright green frogs, and you have no idea how you got there or what you’re supposed to do next. You’re lonely, you’re lost, you’re frightened and all you know – for absolute certain – is that you shouldn’t be there.
Now imagine you find another polar bear. You’re so happy to see another polar bear – any polar bear – that it doesn’t matter what kind it is. You follow that polar bear around, just because it’s not a monkey. Or a flying squirrel. Because it’s the only thing that makes it OK to be a polar bear in the middle of a rainforest.
Well, that’s how it is with Toby. One geek, incoherently happy to find another geek in the middle of a world full of normal people. Thrilled to discover that there is someone else like him. It’s not me he wants. It’s my social standing. Or lack thereof.
And let me get something straight: I’m not going to have a romance with someone just because they’re made out of the same stuff as me. No. I’d rather be on my own. Or – you  know – in unrequited love with a parrot. Or one ofthose little lemurs with the stripy tails.

4.	Translate the excerpt above into Ukrainian:
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Уяви себе білим ведмедем, що опинився у тропічному лісі. Там є летючі білки, і мавпи, і яскраві зелені жаби, і ти поняття не маєш, як ти туди потрапив, і що тобі робити далі. Ти самотній, ти розгублений, ти наляканий, і єдине, у чому ти абсолютно впевнений, - це те, що ти не повинен там бути.
Тепер уяви, що ти зустрічаєш іншого білого ведмедя. Ти такий радий бачити іншого білого ведмедя – будь-якого білого ведмедя – що вже немає значення, який він є. Ти всюди ходиш за цим білим ведмедем, тому що це не мавпа. І не летюча білка. Тому що це єдине, що робить нормальним бути білим ведмедем посеред тропічного лісу.
Ну, отак і з Тобі. Один гік підсвідомо радий зустріти іншого гіка посеред світу, повного нормальних людей. У захваті від відкриття, що є ще хтось такий, як він. Йому потрібна не я, а моє соціальне становище. Чи то пак відсутність останнього.
І дозвольте мені дещо уточнити: я не збираюся заводити романтичні стосунки з кимось, тільки тому, що він зліплений з того самого тіста, що й я. Ні. Я радше буду самотньою. Або, наприклад, закоханою без взаємності у папугу. Або в одного з тих маленьких лемурчиків із смугастими хвостиками.

5.	Role-play:
Harriet says she met Nat when they were five. She also mentions that she has known Alexa three days longer than she has known Nat. Think of how Harriet could have meet Alexa and role-play the situation.
6.	Discuss the following: 
1.	Would you like to have such a friend as Harriet? Why? Why not?
2.	Why do you think people behave as Alexa? Do you know how to deal with haters?
3.	How would you feel being inappropriately dressed or looking embarrassing in public?
4.	What is your attitude to geeks? Why do you think they are the way they are?
5.	Have you got a Best Friend? Are you utterly in tune or completely different?
6.	Express your attitude to Harriet, Nat, Alexa and Toby.
WRITING
1.	In Capter 6, Harriet gives Tobi Pilgrim compound nicknames, when a descriptive phrase is placed between the name and the surname. Find them in the text and make up three to describe yourself.
e. g. Tanya “I have trouble remembering my friends’ birthdays” Petrenko
Toby “my knees buckle when I run” Pilgrim
Toby “I bring my own Bunsen burner to school” Pilgrim
Toby “I wear bicycle clips on my trousers and I don’t even have a bike” Pilgrim

2.	In Chapter 4, Harriet gives personal information about herself in the form of a list. Make up a similar list about yourself.

Assignment 2
Chapters 9-15

TEXT WORK
1. Check the meaning of the following words. Write the translation next to the word: 
Gosh!       о господи! (виражає подив, досаду)
gorgeous     чудовий, блискучий, розкішний
ridiculous       сміховинний, смішний, безглуздий, обурливий, образливий
a hair bobble   резинка для волосся
a crease   складка, зморшка
grounding  домашній арешт, як вид покарання дитини
impromptu     експромт, імпровізація, імпровізований, без підготовки, експромтом
to doodle       машинально малювати, креслити (що-небудь) , думаючи зовсім про інше
a canine tooth   ['keinain,'kænain]  ікло
a maggot безнога личинка (особл. мухи)
mesmerising   чарівний
relentlessly  безперервно, постійно
reluctantly   неохоче
embarrassment   зніяковілість, замішання, сум'яття; нерішучість, вагання
a total plonker  повний придурок
albeit  [ɔ:l'bi:ɪt] хоча, навіть хоча, проте

2. Find in the text the following phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them:
If you ask me – якщо запитати мене
“Just hope you grow tall and thin,”the mum added bitterly, “because if you ask me, they all look like aliens.”

To peer into – вдивлятися; заглядати
I peer into the crowd, but I can’t see anything.

In spirit – подумки, в душі
“In spirit will do just fine, Harriet,” Nat shouts back.

To kid smb. – розігрувати, дурити (кого-небудь), жартувати (над ким-небудь) ; дражнити (кого-небудь)
Is she kidding me?

To benefit from smth. – отримувати користь, допомогу; мати зиск
Not everyone benefits equally from a full education system.

To back away – задкувати, відступати
“You know,” I say, backing away a little bit faster.

To choke on smth. – подавитися; поперхнутися чимось
The playwright Tennessee Williams died from choking on a bottle cap.

To gape at smb./smth.  – широко роззявляти рот, видивлятися; витріщатися; здивовано дивитися (на що-небудь)
I gape at him, totally speechless.

To be against the law – бути проти закону
I think it might be against the law or something.

To go to jail – потрапити до в’язниці
Too young to go to jail, I want to add, but I don’t want to give him any ideas.

It’s a blast! – Це просто ''бомба’’!
Actually, it’s quite far down the list, but hey, it’s still a blast.”

Not in the slightest – ані трохи, аж ніяк, зовсім ні
Darling, you could climb up a tree with no help at all and I wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest.”

In the margin – на полях сторінки
For example, during English exams I’ve normally completed the essay with plenty of time to doodle little relevant pictures in the margin in the hope that it gets me extra points.

To weigh up the pros and cons – зважити всі “за’’ та “проти”
So I’ll give you a few more seconds to weigh up the pros and cons.

To use smth./smb. as bait– використовувати щось/когось як наживку
He’s using me as bait.

I don’t make a habit of it! – Я не часто це роблю!
“I don’t make a habit of it. You?”

To take a shine to smb. – відчути симпатію до когось
Alexa had already taken a shine to me – or whatever the opposite of that is – and I had become the butt of all of her most intricate five-year-old jokes.

To be/become the butt of smth.  – перетворитися на об’єкт глузувань
Alexa had already taken a shine to me – or whatever the opposite of that is – and I had become the butt of all of her most intricate five-year-old jokes.

To be spotted – бути поміченим, виявленим
Then I realise, in a horrible rush Nat doesn’t know I’ve just been spotted.

To excel at smth. – виділятися (чим-небудь хорошим) ; відрізнятися, вирізнятися
She just saw me here and assumed I’d followed her and then crawled under a table because being a total plonker is the only thing I really excel at.

To crush smb’s dream – “розбити” чиюсь мрію
I don’t have to break Nat’s heart and crush her dream, and I don’t have to do it in the most humiliating way possible.
To be high on smth. – бути під впливом ( наркотиків, алкоголю)
By the time we get back to school I’m so high on my own carbon dioxide and deodorant fumes that my powers of apology have been severely stunted.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

1. In each phrase or word combination one word is not correct. Cross out this word and write the necessary one:
To use smth./smb. like bait       To use smth./smb. as bait
To benefit on smth.                  To benefit from smth.
Not in the slight                       Not in the slightest
To take the sun to smb.            To take a shine to smb.
I don’t make a blast of it!        I don’t make a habit of it!

2. Unscramble the words. Give Ukrainian translation:
puopimtrm             impromptu     експромт, імпровізація, імпровізований
orgsuoeg                gorgeous     чудовий, блискучий, розкішний
atnyulerlct              reluctantly   неохоче
tggoam                   maggot безнога личинка (особл. мухи)
mmnbstaaresre       embarrassment   зніяковілість, замішання
iltbea                       albeit  [ɔ:l'bi:ɪt] хоча, навіть хоча, проте

3. Complete the sentences. Use the phrases and word combinations mentioned above:
1.	Don't get mad, I …….. . (просто пожартував) Don't get mad, I was only kidding.	
2.	Philippa …………… the darkness. (вдивлялася) Philippa peered into the darkness.	
3.	Griffiths ……….. for three days after pushing a policeman. (потрапив до в’язниці)  Griffiths went to jail for three days after pushing a policeman.	
4.	Most people there were …… cocaine. (під впливом) Most people there were high on cocaine.	
5.	Someone had scribbled a note ……….. (на полях)  Someone had scribbled a note in the margin.	

4. Translate the sentences into English:
1.	О господи! Якщо мене помітять просто зараз, я потраплю до в’язниці на довгі 10 років. А я аж ніяк цього не хочу!  Gosh! If I am spotted right now I will go to jail for long 10 years. And I don’t want it in the slightest.	
2.	- Перед тим, як прийняти важливе рішення, тобі потрібно зважити усі за та проти. – Я не часто це роблю! Я надаю перевагу діяти спонтанно.  - Before making an important decision you have to weigh up all pros and cons. – I don’t make a habit of it! I prefer acting impromptu. 	
3.	Ти, напевно, повний придурок, якщо записав цей секретний код просто на полях свого записника!  You must be a total plonker to have written this secret code just in the margin of your notebook!	
4.	Вона посміхнулася до мене тою своєю чарівною посмішкою і я відразу відчув симпатію до неї. Чим більше я витріщався на неї, тим більше вона мені подобалася.  She smiled at me with that mesmerising smile of hers and I took a shine to her at once. The more I gaped at her the more I liked her.	
5.	В школі вона, на жаль, не вирізнялася ні в чому, і ,будучи сором’язливою дитиною, швидко перетворилася  на об’єкт глузувань більш впевнених в собі однокласників. While at school she, unfortunately, didn’t excel at anything and being a self-conscious girl she quickly became the butt of her more confident classmates’ jokes. 	

5.	In Chapter 15 find and write out all the English equivalents to the word “зрадник”. Make up sentences with them.

Back stabber   зрадник, той, хто встромляє ножа у спину
Betrayer  зрадник
Fink    [fink]  донощик; пройдисвіт, негідник
Apostate [ə'pɔsteɪt] відступник, зрадник; ренегат
Miscreant ['miskriənt] негідник; лиходій
Quisling ['kwizliŋ] зрадник
Snake негідник, гадина, змія; нікчема

6. Find in the text and write out all the nicknames Wilbur gives Harriet. (e. g. Sugar-kitten). Make up three nicknames of your own to describe each of the following:
a)	the person who usually sits next to you;
b)	your sibling;
c)	your teacher.

Cherub-cheeks
Sugar-kitten
Mini-treetop
Peach-melba
Baby-baby Panda
Darling-foot
Pot of Tigers
Baby-pudding

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
1. Find in the text the examples of Passive Voice (Simple, Continuous and Perfect Passive). Make up your own sentences.
I looked at Nat and already I could see her eyes starting to glow: the seed of the dream being planted.
I’ve just been arrested.
This is what happens when I’m forced to go out in public.
He’s holding my hand and – I have to be honest with you – I’m not sure he’s allowed.
Sooo much better to be pushed out of it.
“I haven’t been pushed out of it,” I tell him indignantly.
Maybe not, actually, but hey, clarity is so overrated.
Darling, you could climb up a tree with no help at all and I wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest.
“Chewing gum is banned in Singapore,” I whisper.
I’m just making the point that if we were in Singapore, we could be arrested for even having chewing gum in our possession.
Nat doesn’t know I’ve just been spotted.
She hasn’t been spotted.
But it has to be said: today is turning out to be just full of sugar cookies.
I am forced to sit next to Toby for the entire two-and-a-half hour return coach journey.
By the time we get back to school I’m so high on my own carbon dioxide and deodorant fumes that my powers of apology have been severely stunted.
Before I can even focus my eyes properly Nat has raced off the bus and disappeared, and I’m left to walk home on my own.
2.  Learn the constructions:
 So do I
 Neither do I
 I do not either. 
Find the example(s) of them in the text and provide your own.

They just aren’t stable enough.Clearly, neither am I.

Grammar point
•	We use so after a positive statement;
•	The verb we use after so depends on the verb used in the positive statement.
e.g. My flat is quite small. – So is mine.
They have been waiting. – So has she.

•	Instead of So am I we can say I am too.
e. g. I am tired. – I am too.
We’ve got a small flat. – We have too.

•	We use expressions like Neither am I to reply to a negative statement.
e. g. I am not tired. – Neither am I.
His sister can’t drive and neither can he. 

•	We can say I’m not either to mean the same as Neither am I.
e. g. I am not tired. – I am not either.
His sister can’t drive and he can’t either.

1.	Complete the sentences with so, too, either or neither.
I really enjoyed the meal. – …So…… did I.
I haven’t done the homework. – I haven’t ….either… .
I live in the centre of town. – We do …too… .
1) I don’t like football. - …Neither…. do I.
2) I haven’t been to America. - … Neither …. have I.
3) My father works in an office. - …So… does mine.
4) I haven’t read a newspaper today. - … Neither … have I.
5) I play a lot of different sports. – I do …too.. .
6) I’ve been working very hard lately. - …So…. have I.
7) Ann will be at the party and …so… will Jane.
8) My brother can’t speak any foreign languages and … neither.. can my sister.
9) Helen sent me a birthday card and Robin did …too…. .
10) George isn’t going to the meeting and I’m not …either… .
11) Tony arrived late and …so… did I.
12) Kathy didn’t go to the concert and … neither... did I.

2.	Put in the replies using so or neither and the words in brackets (), as in the examples.

QUESTIONS                                                            ANSWERS
I’ve got a cold. (I)                                              ……So have I………………..
I haven’t got much money. (I)                           ……Neither have I…………...
1)	We’re going to the concert. (we)                  ……So are we…….………….
2)	My pen doesn’t work. (mine)                       ……Neither does mine………
3)	I haven’t read today’s paper. (I)                   ……Neither have I…….……..
4)	My meal was excellent. (mine)                    ……So was mine……………..
5)	I’ve been ill. (Frank)                                     ……So has Frank…..………..
6)	Ron didn’t go to the party. (George)             ……Neither did George….….
7)	I can’t understand this game. (I)                    ……Neither can I…..……….
8)	I’m not working tomorrow. (I)                      ……Neither am I…………….
9)	Ruth passed the exam. (John)                       ……So did John….…………
10)	I’ve eaten enough. (I)                               ……So have I…..……………
11)	I’m going to see that film. (we)                ……So are we.………………
12)	My car is very old. (mine)                        ……So is mine………………                    

3.  Learn the constructions:
The more – the more
The less – the less
The more – the less
Find the example(s) of them in the text and provide your own.
But Nat’s looking for it, and the harder she looks, the less likely it is to turn up.

1. Complete each sentence as in the example.
(It is dangerous). The faster you drive….the more dangerous it is… .
1)	(Your marks will be good). The harder you work, …the better your marks will be… .
2)	(I feel fit.) The more I exercise, …the fitter I feel… .
3)	(We’ll get there late.) The later we leave, …the later we get there… .
4)	(It is quiet.) The further we are from the city, … the quieter it is… .
5)	(The roads become busy.) The nearer we got to the city centre, … the busier the roads became… .

2. Complete the sentences using the + comparative, as in the example.
The children got noisy. The teacher got angry.
…The noisier… the children got, …the angrier… the teacher got.
1) We worked hard. We earned lots of money.
…The harder…we worked, … the more … money we earned.
2) I pushed the swing high. The little boy laughed a lot.
…The harder…I pushed the swing, …the more…the little boy laughed.
3) If you eat lots of chocolate, you’ll get fat.
…The more…chocolate you eat, …the fatter…you will get.
4) If a car is new, it is valuable.
…The newer … a car is, …the more valuable… it is.
5) It grew dark. I became scared.
…The darker…it grew, …the more scared…I became.

4.  Learn the construction as( heavy) as
Find the example(s) of it in the text and provide your own.

She looks terrified and as stiff as a board standing, totally still, in the middle of the NEC entrance.
Which is actually not as unpleasant a sensation as you might think.

Grammar point
•	We use as + adjective + as (e. g. as old as) to say that two things or people are the same in some way.
e. g. You are as old as me.
The chair is as expensive as the table.

Note that we say as me/as him/as her/as us/as them (NOT as I/as he…)

•	We use not as …  as to talk about the difference between two things or people.
e. g. The two-star hotel isn’t as big as the four-star hotel.
I’m not as clever as her.

•	We can also use as +adverb + as (e. g. as well as).
e.g. Jean cooks as well as Tom.
He couldn’t run as quickly as Maria.

•	We use as many as + plural noun + as (e. g. as many friends as) to say that the numbers of two things are equal.
e. g. Jane has got as many friends as Mary.

•	We use not as many as + plural noun + as to say that the numbers of two things are not equal.
e. g. I don’t have as many books as you.

•	We use as much as + uncountable  noun + as (e. g. as much money as) to compare two things. Uncountable nouns are words for things we cannot count, and so they do not have a plural form ( e. g. money, work, luggage, traffic).
e. g. Helen earns as much money as Colin.
They aren’t carrying as much luggage as us.

1.	Complete each sentence so that it means the same as the one above it. Use as + adjective/adverb + as.
Sweden is bigger than Britain.
Britain isn’t …as big as Sweden.
1)	The other students learn more quickly than me.
I don’t learn…as quickly as … the other students.
2)	You are very angry and I am very angry also.
I’m …as angry as…you.
3)	The seats at the front are more expensive than the seats at the back.
The seats at the back aren’t … as expensive as… the seats at the front.
4)	Central Park in New York is bigger than Hyde Park in London.
Hyde Park in London…isn’t as big as… Central Park in New York.
5)	Her last film was very good and her new film is also very good.
Her new film is…as good as…her last film.
6)	The other students work harder than him.
He doesn’t work …as hard as… the other students.

2.	Join each pair of sentences in brackets (), using am much… as or as many…as.
(I’ve got about 50 books. Jack’s got about 100)
I haven’t got … as many books as … Jack.
(You’ve done a lot of work. I’ve done a lot of work also.)
I’ve done … as much work as …you.
1)	(Alan earns a lot of money. Sheila only earns a little.)
Sheila doesn’t earn…as much money as…Alan.
2)	(George has been to five countries. I’ve also been to five countries.)
I’ve been to… as many countries as… George.
3)	(You’ve had five jobs. I’ve only had two.)
I haven’t had… as many jobs as… you.
4)	(Tom has a lot of luggage. Jane has a lot of luggage too.)
Jane has… as much luggage… as Tom.
5)	(Mary answered most of questions. I only answered about half.)
I didn’t answer… as many questions as…Mary.
6)	(Ruth spent £50. I also spent £50.)
I spent… as much money as… Ruth.

READING COMPREHENSION
1.	Answer the questions:
1.	Who is a model from the point of view of Harriet’s mom?
“A model,” she explained, looking at Nat, “is a girl or a boy who gets paid ridiculous quantities of money to wear clothes they don’t own and have their photo taken.”	
2.	Describe how Harriet broke the first hat.
…I pat it and put it back on the stall. At which point my chewed nail snags on a flower.
We both watch as the flower separates itself from the hat andthrows itself on the floor, like a little child having a hissy fit. And then – as if in slow motion – what was clearly just one piece of thread breaks and, one by one, every other flower on the ribbon follows it.	
3.	How many hats did Harriet damage when he fell onto the stalls?
From my position on the floor I can see that the tables have crushed at least seven hats, and another three have been hit by the jug of water on one of the now tipped-over chairs. Along with the sign. Another four hats have shoe-shaped dents in them and footprints on the brim. I’m sitting on at least three.(17)	
4.	What animal does Wilbur compare Harriet to?
“Baby-pudding,” Wilbur interrupts, “you know you look just like a treefrog?”	
5.	How does Harriet describe the boy she met while hiding under the table?
He’s about my age and he looks like a dark lion. He has large black curls that point in every direction and slanted eyes and a wide mouth that curves up at the edges. He’s so beautiful that all I can hear in my head is a high-pitched white noise like a  recently switched-off television…
… He has really sharp canine teeth, and when he says Fs, they catch on his bottom lip.There’s a mole under his left eye and he smells sort of green, like... grass. Or vegetables. Or maybe lime sweets.
One of his curls is sticking up at the back, like a little duck tail.	
6.	What questions did Harriet feel the need to ask the Lion Boy, but didn’t?
With Lion Boy apparently unconscious, I suddenly feel a great need to ask him all sorts of questions. I want to know everything. For instance, what is his accent and where is he from? If I get a world map out of my bag, can he point to it for me? Does it have strange animals and really big insects? Is he an only child too? Were the holes in his jeans there when he bought them, like Dad’s, and if not, how did he get them?	
7.	Where and when did Harriet meet Nat for the first time?
In case you’re wondering, I met Nat under a piano.
It was the second day of school and I’d had enough.	
8.	How did Harriet explain her hiding under the table to Nat?
“I was looking for unusual table joints,” I say as quickly as I can. “For woodwork homework.”	
9.	How did Harriet happen to cause the damage worth of £3,000? 
This is what happens when you set tables covered in ink pots next to tables covered in dresses next to tables covered in hats next to tables covered in hot wax candles and every single one of them has a YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY ITsign and insufficient insurance.	

2.	Give the brief summary of the chapter (~50 words).
3.	Read the following excerpt with proper intonation and pronunciation:

Nat doesn’t look as excited as I thought she would. She looks terrified and as stiff as a board standing, totally still, in the middle of the NEC entrance. She’s staring at the crowd as if it’s a pond full of fish and she’s a really hungry cat, and – honestly – I’m not even sure she’s breathing. I’m tempted to put my head on her chest just to check.
The thing is: she’s doing it all wrong.
I know a lot about stories and magic – thanks to reading loads of books and also belonging to a forum on the internet – and the most basic rule is that it has to come as a surprise. Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn’t climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny.
It’s the first and only rule. Magic comes when you’re not looking for it.
But Nat’s looking for it, and the harder she looks, the less likely it is to turn up. She’s scaring the fashion magic off with her knowing, waiting vibes.
4.	Translate the excerpt above into Ukrainian:
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Нет зовсім не виглядає такою схвильованою, як я від неї очікувала. Вона виглядає нажаханою і закляклою, як камінь, стоячи абсолютно нерухомо посеред входу до Національного Виставкового Центру. Вона вдивляється у натовп, ніби це ставок, повний риби, а вона дуже голодна кішка, і – чесно – я навіть не впевнена, чи вона дихає. Мені так і хочеться прикласти голову до її грудей, щоб перевірити.
Справа в тому, що вона робить усе неправильно. 
Я знаю багато про всілякі історії з магією – завдяки усім тим прочитаним книжкам і форуму в інтернеті – і основним правилом є те, що це має бути несподівано. Ніхто не стрибав у шафу, щоб знайти Нарнію; вони стрибнули туди, думаючи, що це просто шафа. Вони не лізли на чарівне Далеке Дерево, знаючи, що це Далеке Дерево; вони думали, що це просто величезне дерево. Гаррі Поттер думав, що він нормальний хлопець; Мері Поппінс мала бути звичайною нянею.
Це найперше і єдине правило. Магія з’являється, коли ти її не шукаєш.
Але Нет шукає її, і чим старанніше вона шукає, тим менш вірогідно, що вона з’явиться. Вона відлякує магію моди своїм знанням і очікуванням.

5.	Role-play:
Imagine yourself hiding under the table with the Lion Boy. What would you say? What do you think he would answer? Role-play your conversation.
6.	Discuss the following:
1.	Would you like to be a model? Make up a list of pros and cons.
2.	Talk about spoiling goods in a store.
a)	Have you ever spoilt anything?
b)	Who is to be blamed in such a situation?
c)	Who is to pay for the damage?
d)	Is there a law about that?
3.	How do you behave with strangers? Do you start the conversation or keep silent and wait for them to speak first?
4.	Harriet met Nick when she was hiding under the table. Have you ever met anyone in an unusual way?
5.	Have you ever crushed anyone’s dreams (accidentally or on purpose)? Have your dreams been crushed by anyone?

WRITING
1.	Write an advertisement of a model agency looking for models.
2.	Write a letter of complaint about the stalls placement at the market.

Assignment 3
(Chapters 16-22)

TEXT WORK
1.	Check the meaning of the following words. Write the translation next to the word: 
meticulous  ретельний
inexplicably  нез'ясовно
maverick індивідуаліст; "біла ворона"; інакомислячий;
stingray   скат
to bet  1) битися об заклад 2) бути впевненим у чому-небудь
locust сарана перелітна або звичайна
apparently очевидно, імовірно
palpable   відчутний; який прощупується; очевидний, явний
circa   ['sɜ:kə] приблизно, біля (про дати)
detention  затримка, залишення (після уроків) ;
to stalk  [stɔ:k] підкрадатися, (крадькома) переслідувати; вистежувати
cramming  нахапані знання; зубріння
to procrastinate   зволікати, відтягувати
bridge of the nose  перенісся
braces   брекети, пластинки (для виправлення зубів)
to hiccup  гикати
to stammer  заїкатися
topsy-turvy  безлад, плутанина, гармидер

2.	Find in the text the following phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them:
To stick to smth. – дотримуватися чого-небудь, бути вірним чому-небудь
Not me; I stick to them religiously.

For the love of…. / for God’s sake – заради Бога!
“Annabel!” Dad exclaims. “For the love of… Don’t just throw that at her! Lead up to it, for God’s sake!”

To lead up to smth.– поступово переходити до чогось
“Annabel!” Dad exclaims. “For the love of… Don’t just throw that at her! Lead up to it, for God’s sake!”

To get a pay rise – отримати підвищення зарплати
I’ll probably get a pay rise for being such a maverick.”

On second thoughts – обміркувавши, після роздумів
On second thoughts, maybe I won’t tell them about the money right now.

Spit it out! – Та кажи вже!
“Well?” Annabel prompts after a pause. “Spit it out, sweetheart.”

At the top of the voice – дуже голосно
“Oh my God,” Dad yells at the top of his voice.

I am starving! – Я вмираю, як хочу їсти!
“Can I have the other half, though? I’m totally starving.”

To get mad at smb. – дуже розсердитися на когось
“I’m sorry. For getting mad at you and stomping off.”

That’s a shame! – Як прикро! 
“That’s a shame. I’m sorry.

To put smth. behind you – спробувати забути про щось неприємне
So let’s just put it behind us, right?”

For the record – до речі, щоб ви розуміли
For the record, Nat and I don’t have any lessons together.

In private – наодинці
Which I can only conclude means that you go in there to cry in private.

To lose one’s temper – виходити з себе
I can sense that I’m about to lose my temper.

To bear the brunt – прийняти на себе головний удар
I’ve hurt Nat, it’s been a rubbish day and I suspect that Toby is about to bear the brunt of it.

To look up – піднімати очі
Alexa looks up from where she’s been texting somebody under the desk and snorts with laughter.

To take revenge – мстити, помститися
Laertes is a sort of alternative universe Hamlet, because when Hamlet murders his father, Laertes takes immediate revenge and pushes the play to its conclusion straight away.

In public – на людях
You know in romantic films, there’s always that moment where the love interest just can’t hold back how they feel any more and has a sudden need to declare themselves in public?

Out of the blue – раптово, зненацька
It’s always totally predictable, and always totally expected, yet the heroine is always shocked and surprised, as if it’s out of the blue.
To score a goal – забити гол
“Yesssss,” Dad shouts as if he’s just scored a goal, and – when Annabel gives him a short, sharp look – he clears his throat.

To be/get carried away – відволікатися, захопитися чимось, замріятися
“Don’t get carried away, Richard,” Annabel snaps.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

1. Match the phrases and word combinations on the left to their synonyms on the right:
1.	out of the blue	a.	on your own 	
2.	to lose one’s temper	b.	suddenly	
3.	on second thoughts	c.	very loudly	
4.	in private	d.	to become very angry	
5.	at the top of the voice	e.	on reflection	

1b, 2d, 3e, 4a, 5c.

2. Fill in the gaps with the missing letters: 
a_p_r_n_ly              apparently
to _ic_u-                 to hiccup  
me_ic_lo-s              meticuluos
_a_eri_k                 maverick
pa_p_bl_                  palpable

3. Match the phrases and word combinations to their translation:
1.	to look up	a.	отримати підвищення зарплати	
2.	for the record	b.	дотримуватися чого-небудь	
3.	to get mad at smb. 	c.	прийняти на себе головний удар	
4.	to get a pay rise	d.	піднімати очі	
5.	to stick to smth.	e.	дуже розсердитися на когось	
6.	to bear the brunt	f.	до речі, щоб ви розуміли	

1d, 2f, 3e, 4a, 5b, 6c.

4. Translate the sentences into English:
1.	Заради Бога, давай спробуємо забути про це, добре? Якщо ти помстишся, це не принесе тобі ніякого полегшення. For God’s sake, let’s try to put it behind us, shall we? If you take revenge, it won’t bring you any relief.	
2.	Після роздумів він зрозумів, що не було сенсу сердитися на неї. Очевидно, це було більше його помилкою, ніж її. On second thoughts, he realized that there was no point in getting mad at her. Apparently, it was more his mistake than hers.	
3.	-Б’юся об заклад, ти ніколи не здогадаєшся, що трапилося зі мною сьогодні! Це щось неймовірне! Світ перевернувся!( поринув в безлад) – Та кажи вже! Не відволікайся! – I bet, you’ll never guess what has happened to me today! It’s unbelievable! The world has gone topsy-turvy! – Spit it out! Don’t get carried away!	
4.	“Я думаю, ми повинні дотримуватися нашого ретельно-складеного плану”, сказав Джім та підняв на мене очі. “Перестань зволікати, інакше тобі доведеться прийняти головний удар на себе!” “I think we should stick tour meticulous plan”, said Jim and looked up.” Stop procrastinating, otherwise you’ll have to bear the grunt!”	
5.	- Я змучений і вмираю, як хочу їсти! І, до речі, я забив сьогодні 3 голи!  - I am tired and I am starving! And, for the record, I scored 3 goals today!	

5.	 Make up 5 sentences with the phrases and word combinations mentioned above. 
6.	Make up a dialogue using as many active words and word combinations as possible.
7.	In Chapter 16 find and write out all the English equivalents to the word 
a) “бути поміченим,  пійманим”. 
Scouted
Spotted
Picked up
Discovered
Found
b) In Chapter 20- to the word “очевидно”
Apparently
Ostensibly
Supposedly
Make up sentences with them.
8. A simile (/ˈsɪməli/) is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes are a form of metaphor that explicitly use connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble), though these specific words are not always necessary ( e. g. She is as innocent as an angel. They fought like cats and dogs.).

 Find examples of similes in the text. Make up your own similes (3-5) to describe:
•	your current mood;
•	your attitude to activities you don’t like;
•	the way you look when you are tired or sleepy.
I’ve decided to lead with the modelling because hopefully my parents will be so paralysed with confusion and shock that I can slip the vast quantity of money they now owe various stallholders in there without them noticing: like doing a root canal after local anaesthetic.

OK, I didn’t expect them to start dancing round the coffee table, waving their Sudoku books in the air like exotic bird feathers, but a bit more enthusiasm would be nice. 

Look at the palpable tension between you! It’s like the Cold War, circa 1962.

Toby has been making the most of Nat’s absence to follow me around like a small kitten follows a ball of wool; he even pats me now and then to check that I’m still there.

And then he leaves. Like a circus master who has just bashed an angry tiger on the nose and then locked it in a cage with his assistant.

It’s not a violent tug; it’s gentle, almost like a mother trying to stop her child from walking across the road when a car is coming.

I can feel the entire class staring at me the way they stared at the monkey at the zoo with the red bottom.

“Yes, you do,” she hisses, getting even closer, and even in my shock I can’t believe the expression on her face: pure, almost shining, hatred. As if it’s burning on the inside of her and lighting her up like one of those little round candles with pictures of penguins on the outside.

By the time I get home, I’m crying so hard it sounds like somebody sawing wood.

I’m tired of having everything I am ripped up and strewn around the room the way a puppy wrecks an abandoned toilet roll.

I look at my parents – Annabel with her hands on her hips and Dad bobbing around like a happy little duck – and suddenly I can’t really see them.

I can’t really see anything at all. It’s as if the whole world has just gone strangely dark and quiet and I’m standing in the middle, waiting for everything to start making light and noise again.

And then it hits me, like a metaphorical train or a hammer or a fist or something fast and heavy and absolutely inescapable.

She’s looking at my face as if it’s a maths sum and the answer is harder than she was expecting it to be.

“You actually want this?” she asks in a totally shocked and slightly disgusted voice, as if I’ve just said I’d like to pick fleas from stray cats for the rest of my life, and possibly eat them. 

“Yesssss,” Dad shouts as if he’s just scored a goal, and – when Annabel gives him a short, sharp look – he clears his throat. 

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
1. Find the examples of linking verbs that can be used as both, linking and action ones. Mind the use of adjectives and adverbs after them. Write out sentences that illustrate both cases of use of these verbs. State whether the verbs are linking or action. Mind that to be, to become and to seem are ALWAYS linking verbs.
 Grammar point
Linking verbs connect the subject of a sentence to a word that describes it.
The verbs most often used as linking verbs are forms of be, become, seem, get,  appear , stay, and verbs associated with our five senses (look, sound, smell, feel, taste). 

Some verbs can be used as both action verbs and as linking verbs. One test is to replace the verb with the same form of 'be' and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does, the verb is being used as a linking verb and so needs an adjective, not an adverb. 
•	He smells the hot soup carefully. (Here we are talking about the action of smelling and using smell as a normal verb, so we need an adverb.) 
•	The soup smells good. (Here we are using 'smell' as a linking verb, to describe the soup. We can replace 'smells' with 'is' and the sentence still makes sense. So, we need an adjective.)
•	He looked tiredly at the dirty kitchen. (Here we are talking about the action of looking and using 'look' as a normal verb, so we use an adverb to describe the way of looking.)
•	You look beautiful. (Here we are using 'look' as a linking verb, to give more information about the person. We can replace 'look' with 'are' and the sentence still makes sense. So we need an adjective.)
“Hey, Hugo,” I add, bending down. “You’re looking very elegant.”( linking)
Under a cosy layer of flippancy she looks really worried.( linking)
I’m creative: I’m supposed to be unpredictable. ( linking)
She looks carefully at my face, and then she looks at my hand and turns it over. (action) 
Annabel looks even more confused. ( linking)
You’re too young and you’ve got exams coming up. ( linking)
This is so unfair. ( linking)
What’s there to be excited about? ( linking)
Why is everyone getting so worked up? ( linking)
Dad still looks totally shell-shocked. ( linking)
I sulk for about twenty-five minutes and then get bored and spend the rest of Thursday night a) not thinking about Nick and b) getting ready to woo Nat into Best Friendship again. ( linking)
“For breakfast?” she says, looking pointedly at the other half, which is perched in my left hand. (action)
“I’m sorry. For getting mad at you and stomping off.” ( linking)
I was being neurotic and oversensitive as normal. ( linking)
Nat clears her throat and I look at her again, but a little more carefully this time. (action)
Suddenly I can see what I didn’t notice before: that her neck is tense and her shoulders are all bunched up. ( linking)
Her collarbones have gone red and splotchy. (action)
The rims of her eyes are pink. ( linking)
Nat has stared into the distance, nodded and grown progressively quieter, stiffer and pinker around the collarbone. ( linking)
I whisper and I can feel my voice getting louder with every word. (action)
Toby looks astonished. ( linking)
My voice is getting more abrasive. ( linking)
Well,” Mr Bott says, but he doesn’t look happy either. ( linking)
In fairness, he rarely looks happy. ( linking)
My cheeks are getting hotter and hotter.( linking)
Alexa looks uncomfortable. .( linking)
Alexa’s face suddenly goes bright red( linking) and she looks utterly humiliated. ( linking)
I feel really sorry for her, actually. ( linking)
I look at the door desperately. (action)
“Could you have made me look any more stupid?” Alexa asks, almost conversationally. ( linking)
Even my tongue feels numb. ( linking)
“Don’t get carried away, Richard,” Annabel snaps. ( linking)

2. Make up 3 pairs of sentences where the verbs appear as linking and action ones.

3. Fill in the correct adjective or adverb using the words in brackets.
1. Gillian behaved very…….badly……..at the party last night. (bad)
2. You are quite ………good…..at playing the piano, aren’t you? (good)
3. Think about it…………carefully……..before you make a decision. (careful)
4. I like my bedroom because it’s so …..cosy…….(cosy)
5. It makes me feel …….sad…….to thinkof you living alone. (sad)
6. If you can’t talk ……sensibly…., don’t talk at all. (sensible)
7. Her whole family died in a …….tragic……..accident. (tragic)
8. I was not ……wholly….. convinced by her reasoning. (whole)
9. ……Unfortunately….., I can’t help you. (unfortunate)
10. You look……lovely…..in your new dress . (lovely)
11. The ability to think……logically…. is an important skill. (logical)
12. I ……truly ………believe this to be the finest novel ever written. (true)
13. You’d better work ……..hard….. if you want to keep your job. (hard)
14. Please don’t drive so…......fast………. (fast)
15. Linda washes her hair……daily…… (daily)
16. That chicken tastes…….deliciuos…… (delicious)
17. You’re bound to make mistakes if you write so…….carelessly….. (careless)
18. Your perfume smells ……..beautiful………. (beautiful)
19. Charles and Camilla have been living together …….happily…. for years. (happy)
20. Although I had only met him once, he greeted me……..friendlily……. (friendly) 

4. Report the excerpt (change direct speech into reported):
Now that I just want to go straight to bed without being hassled my parents have finally started working on the house’s welcoming atmosphere?
“What’s going on?” I ask, embarrassed and quickly rubbing my eyes with my hand. Hugo jumps up at my trousers and starts experimentally licking at the mud. “Is everything all right? Dad, did you have your meeting?”
Annabel frowns and peers at me. “What’s wrong, Harriet? Have you been...” And then she stops, confused. I can see her searching her mind for a word that matches my face. “Crying?” she finishes uncertainly.
“I have a cold,” I explain firmly, sniffing. “It started this morning.” And then I look at Dad, who has his mouth clamped shut. “Dad? Your important meeting? Did it go OK?”
“Huh?” Dad makes a face. “Yeah, no problem. They said I was a maverick like I predicted they would, but I asked for a pay rise and they said no.” Then he looks at Annabel and bounces up and down on his toes a couple of times. “Tell her, Annabel.” Dad nudges her with his elbow. “Tell her.”

READING COMPREHENSION
1. Answer the questions:
1.	How does Harriet describe Annabel’s clothes?
Annabel’s either in her suit, or her dressing gown, or she puts her dressing gown on top of her suit. When she goes out for dinner, she has to buy an outfit especially.	
2.	What was Annabel’s reaction when Harriet said that she had been spotted?
There’s another silence and then Annabel frowns. “What?” she snaps. “Let me see.” She puts the sardine can down and drags me up from the chair and pulls me under the light. She looks carefully at my face, and then she looks at my hand and turns it over. She stares at my wrist and the inside of my upper arm. Then she gets Dad to stand up and look at my wrist and the inside of my upper arm. What the hell are they doing?
“No, Harriet,” she finally says firmly. “There’re a couple on your
forehead, but I think that’s just teenage acne.”	
3.	What did Harriet’s father say after she explained she had been picked to be a model?
They’re my genes, you know,” he says, pointing to me. “Standing right there. That’s my genetics.”	
4.	What in Nat’s opinion was the main problem between Harriet and herself?
“The lying was the main problem, Harriet.”	
5.	To what countries during the Cold War does Toby compare Harriet and Nat?
Harriet, I think you’re probably America. You’re sort of trying to make lots of noise in the hope it goes away. Nat, you’re more like Russia. All kind of cold and frosty and covered in snow.	
6.	How many teens raised their hands when Alexa asked who hated Harriet Manners?
Every single hand in the classroom is up.	
7.	Did they finally ring Harriet from the modeling agency?
Annabel sighs. “They rang, Harriet,” she finally says in a reluctant voice.“The modelling agency. They rang. While you were at school.”	
8.	What was Annabel’s first reaction when Harriet said she wanted to see the people from the modeling agency?
Annabel opens her mouth and then shuts it again. She’s looking at my face as if it’s a maths sum and the answer is harder than she was expecting it to be.“You actually want this?” she asks in a totally shocked and slightly disgusted voice, as if I’ve just said I’d like to pick fleas from stray cats for the rest of my life, and possibly eat them. “Clothes, Harriet? Photographs? Fashion?Modelling?”	

2. Give the brief summary of the chapter (~50 words).

3. Read the following excerpt with proper intonation and pronunciation:

“So, Alexa Roberts and Harriet Manners.” Mr Bott sits down and gestures gracefully to the board. “As you are both clearly fascinated by this text, would you like to explain the significance of Laertes in Hamlet?” He looks at Alexa. “Please go first, Miss Roberts.”
“Well...” Alexa says hesitantly. “He’s Ophelia’s brother, right?”
“I didn’t ask for his family tree, Alexa. I want to know his literary significance as a fictional character.”
Alexa looks uncomfortable. “Well then, his literary significance is in being Ophelia’s brother, isn’t it? So she has someone to hang out with.”
“How very kind of Shakespeare to give fictional Ophelia a fictional playmate so that she doesn’t get fictionally bored. Your analytical skills astound me, Alexa. Perhaps I should send you to Set Seven with Mrs White and you can spend the rest of the lesson studying Thomas the Tank Engine. I believe he has lots of buddies too.”
Alexa’s face suddenly goes bright red and she looks utterly humiliated. I feel really sorry for her, actually.
Mr Bott then turns to me. “It’s your go, Miss Manners. Anything to add?”
4. Translate the excerpt above into Ukrainian:
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«Отже, Алекса Робертс та Гаррієт Меннерс,» - містер Ботт сідає та робить граційний жест в напрямку дошки. – «Оскільки ви обидві, вочевидь, зачаровані текстом, чи не могли б ви пояснити значення постаті Лаерта у «Гамлеті»? Він дивиться на Алексу. «Будь ласка, починайте, міс Робертс».
«Ну…, - Алекса вагається. – Він брат Офелії, так?»
«Я не питав про дерево його родоводу, Алексо. Я хочу дізнатися його цінність як літературного персонажу».
Алекса виглядає збентеженою. «Ну, тоді його літературна цінність у тому, щоб бути братом Офелії, чи не так? Щоб вона мала, з ким тусуватися».
«Як мило з боку Шекспіра дати вигаданій Офелії вигаданого товариша по іграх, щоб вона вигадано не нудьгувала. Ваші аналітичні здібності вражають, Алексо. Можливо, мені слід відрядити вас у сьомий клас до місіс Вайт, де ви зможете провести решту уроку, вивчаючи «Пригоди паровозика Томаса». Ручуся, він теж має багато приятелів».
Обличчя Алекси раптом стає яскраво червоним, і вона виглядає зовсім приниженою. Насправді, мені її дуже шкода.
Містер Ботт обертається до мене: «Ваша черга, міс Меннерс. Маєте щось додати?»

5. Role-play:
At the beginning of Chapter 16, Harriet invents three options of starters for her conversation with Dad and Annabel. Think of their possible continuations and role-play them.

6.	Discuss the following: 
1. How do you usually tell unpleasant news to your parents? Do you spit it out immediately or try to postpone telling the truth? Why?
2. When you and your best friend quarrel, who usually makes the first step towards reconciliation?
3. Do you know what bullying is? Have you ever been the object of bullying or the one who bullied someone?

 * Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.

WRITING
Write an essay on one of the following topics:
1.	Why is there a problem of bullying among students?
2.	No one should ignore the bullying.
3.	Do you consider bullying fun or crime?

Assignment 4
(Chapters 23-34)

TEXT WORK
1. Check the meaning of the following words. Write the translation next to the word: 
a bullet-pointed list   маркований список
snooze button кнопка повтору на будильнику
admittedly   (як вставне слово) правда, звичайно; треба зізнатися
an all-in-one   комбінезон
indignantly  обурено
a short cut короткий прямий шлях, найкоротший шлях, дорога навпростець
sheepish    сором'язливий, боязкий
to sue  пред'являти позов
dodgy  оманливий, той, що не викликає довіри
a mouthful  повний рот; шматок; ковток
to mouth  вимовляти губами,беззвучно
to assess  оцінювати, давати оцінку (чому-небудь)
pitch-black чорний як смола
to flick  злегка вдарити
unplussed  (тут) незворушний

2. Find in the text the following phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them:
On the dot – хвилина в хвилину, точнісінько в 
Leave the house at 8.34am on the dot, to catch the 9.02am train to London.

To scratch each other’s eyes out – видряпати один одному очі
It’s already not going well: I pressed snooze fifteen times, and finally got out of bed to the calming, dulcet sounds of my parents trying to scratch each other’s eyes out.

To lose it – втратити контроль над собою, “вийти”з себе
At which point I lose it completely.

Peals of laughter– регіт, вибух сміху
Which – as my spare leg gets caught in the door frame until Annabel unhooks me in peals of laughter – isn’t much.

To get smth. out of the head – викинути щось з голови, не думати про щось
And I can’t get it out of my head.

To go on about – торочити про щось
So, yes, I’m pretty irritated with my parents for going on about insects, and I’m also a bit frustrated that the inherent style I was hoping I might have is either not there or is so inherent that it’s never going to come out.

To help oneself to smth. – пригощатися чимось
Annabel says as I’m huffing and puffing and helping myself to one of the chocolate bars I keep stashed in my bedside table.

To wind smb. up – “завести” когось, дражнити, сміятися з когось
“Sorry we wound you up,” she says, brushing a strand of hair out of my eyes.

You are all over the place! – Ти сама не своя!
“You’re all over the place at the moment.

To unzip smth. – розстебнути блискавку на чомусь.
And she unzips the bag.

To make matters worse – в довершення всього /всіх неприємностей
To make matters worse, when we finally locate the right street in Kensington, we can’t find the building: mainly because we’re not looking for a blob of cement tucked behind a local supermarket.

As a last resort – в останній надії 
So, as a last resort, I close my eyes, cup my hands together and puff in and out of them instead.

To cup one’s hands together – складати руки пригорщею 
So, as a last resort, I close my eyes, cup my hands together and puff in and out of them instead.

In hindsight – зараз, з часом
Which, in hindsight, sounds even worse.

To cut back– “зав’язати” з чимось, покинути звичку
“I’m trying to cut back,” he says, lifting an eyebrow.

For starters – по-перше, перш за все, для початку 
“Your mum is wearing exactly the same thing as you, for starters.

Don’t be daft! [dɔ:ft] – Не кажи дурниць!
Nick laughs again, even though I’m being totally serious. “Don’t be daft, Harriet Manners.”

Take your pick!  – Обирай!
If you decide you don’t like it, you can literally take your pick.”

To high-five smb. – дати “п’ять”, привітати когось відкритою долонею
“Right!” Dad says and high-fives him.

In dismay – в розпачі
“A tortoise?” I repeat in dismay. “I’m named after a tortoise?

It was worth a punt! – Це було варте того! Це мало сенс!
“You have to admit it was worth a punt,” Wilbur whispers to me, but I’m too busy giving my father the evil eye to say anything back.

To make peace with smb. – помиритися з кимось 
“No, your daddy does too,” Dad says, leaning over and ruffling my hair in an attempt to make peace with me.

To click one’s tongue – цокати язиком 
Annabel clicks her tongue in frustration.

To be on the plan – бути у плані
This is not on the plan.

The penny dropped – нарешті зрозуміти щось, до мене “дійшло” 
Wilbur waits a little longer for the penny to drop and then sighs because the penny is clearly going nowhere at all.

To go into labour – народжувати, бути в пологах
But keep them subtle: I don’t want Yuka Ito to think I’m going into labour.

To blow a chance – втратити нагоду
That was my chance and I blew it.

To go downhill – погіршуватися, йти коту під хвіст 
Today is really going downhill.

On telly – по телевізору
I saw a documentary about it on telly.

Don’t get me started! – Не “заводь” мене! 
“Don’t get me started on what’s wrong with lawyers!”

To have a say in something – мати право щось сказати 
“Do I get a say in this?” I ask, standing up.

Drop the jazz! – Закінчуй з цим!
“Drop the jazz, Wilbur, and just tell us.”

To be street – поводитися невиховано 
I wish Dad would stop trying to be ‘street’.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Match the phrases to the prepositions. There are two extra prepositions which you do not need to use:
1.	to scratch one’s eyes	a.	up	
2.	to wind smb.	b.	to	
3.	to cut 	c.	in	
4.	to go on	d.	out	
5.	to help oneself 	e.	between	
6.		f.	about	
7.		g.	back	

1d, 2a, 3g, 4f, 5b.

2. Complete the sentences. Use the phrases and word combinations mentioned above:
1.	You've got a great future ahead of you. Don't …….. . (втратити нагоду) You've got a great future ahead of you. Don't blow your chance.	
2.	Try to ……….  for the time being. (викинути з голови) Try to put it out of your head for the time being.	
3.	Drug treatment should only be used as ………. . (остання надія) Drug treatment should only be used as a last resort.	
4.	Mr Green arrived at six …………. . (рівно, точно) Mr Green arrived at six on the dot.	
5.	Have a look at the menu and ……….. . (робити вибір) Have a look at the menu and take your pick.	

3. Find the synonyms to the following words: 
to evaluate        to assess
coal black        pitch black
self-conscious  sheepish
deceptive      dodgy  
a bite     a mouthful

4. Translate the sentences into English:
1.	Мр. Карсон прийшов додому рівно в 7. Стіл вже був накритий, а по телевізору показували якусь комедію. “Спробуй шматочок цього шоколадного торта, любий!”, сказала йому дружина.  Mr. Carson came home at 7 on the dot. The table had been already laid and there was some comedy on the telly. “Help yourself to a piece of chocolate cake, honey!”, his wife said.	
2.	- Що сталося? Ти сама не своя!
- Я не знаю, що робити далі! – сказала Тесс в розпачі. – Все моє життя йде коту під хвіст, а майбутнє ввижається чорним як смола. – What has happened? You are all over the place!   - I have no idea what to do! All my life is going downhill and the future seems to be all pitch black.	
3.	- Заспокойся і перестань поводитися невиховано! – О, так! Зараз ти почнеш цокати язиком і торочити мені про гарні манери!  - Please, calm down and stop being street! – Oh, yeah! Now you’ll start clicking your tongue and going on about good manners!	
4.	- Якби ти втратив цю нагоду, я б буквально видряпала б тобі очі! – Не кажи дурниць! По-перше, це було надзвичайно легко та й до того ж я робив все як було у плані.  – If you had blown this chance, I would have really scratched your eyes out! –Don’t be daft! For starters, it was a piece of cake and, moreover, I was doing everything as it was on the plan.	
5.	Шкода, що я не можу не думати про це. Мені не слід було так кричати на неї. І зараз, коли я згадую про це, воно виглядає навіть гірше.  I wish I could get it out of my head. I shouldn’t have shouted at her. And, in hindsight, when I think about, it looks even worse. 	

5. Find English collocations with the word “zip” 
1to fasten something using a zip opposite unzip: 
▪ 'I'll see you tomorrow,' said John, zipping his jacket.
zip something shut/open 
▪ Olsen zipped the bag shut.
▪ He zipped open the case (=unfastened it).
zip something together 
▪ The two sleeping bags can be zipped together to make a double.

2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] informal to go somewhere or do something very quickly synonym whizz, zoom
zip through/past/along etc 
▪ We zipped through customs in no time.

3 zip it/zip your lip American English spoken informal used to tell someone not to say anything about something, or to tell them to be quiet: 
▪ You'd better zip your lip or you'll be in trouble!

zip up phrasal verb
to fasten something using a zip, or to become fastened using a zip opposite unzip
zip something ↔ up 
▪ He was zipping up a small brown suitcase.
▪ The dress zipped up at the front.
zip somebody up 
▪ Could you zip me up (=fasten my dress) please? I can't reach.
do up/undo a zip 
▪ Your zip's undone at the back.

7.	Make up 5 sentences with the phrases and word combinations mentioned above. 
8.	In Chapter 29 Wilbur explains that an abbreviation ASAP stands for As Soon As Possible. Study the following abbreviations commonly used on social media sites and write a post on Instagram using them.

AFAIK – As far as I know
AMA – Ask me anything. Often used by celebrities, influencers, industry experts and regular social media users as an open invite for questions.
BRB – Be right back
BTS – Behind the scenes. Use this social media acronym when you’re giving your followers a behind-the-scenes look at what your brand is doing.
BTW – By the way
DAE – Does anyone else…?
DYK – Did you know…?
FBO – Facebook official. When you make a public announcement on Facebook about a live event such as a new relationship, a change of job, etc.
FYI – For your information
G2G or GTG – Got to go
GG – Good game
GTR – Got to run
HBD – Happy birthday
HIFW – How I feel when…
IDC – I don’t care
IDK – I don’t know
IKR – I know, right?
ILY – I love you
IMHO – In my humble opinion
IMO – In my opinion
IRL – In real life
JK – Just kidding. Used for conveying a light-hearted tone.
LMK – Let me know
LOL – Laughing out loud
MFW – My face when…
NBD – No big deal
NM – Not much
NVM – Never mind
OMW – On my way
OOTD – Outfit of the day
PPL – People
ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing
SMH – Shaking my head. Used to express shock or disappointment.
TBH – To be honest
TFW – That feeling when… Used for sharing a relatable experience.
TGIF – Thank God it’s Friday
TIL – Today I learned…
TMI – Too much information
WBU – What about you?
WFH – Work from home
 YOLO – You only live once

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
1.	Insert the correct tense form of the verb in brackets:
“What you (to talk) about?” Annabel (to shout) and her voice (to get) higher with every sentence, as if she’s singing it. “Harriet (not to have) a lazy eye.”
“Sorry, sorry,” Wilbur says, waving his hands around in an attempt to calm her down. “What’s a more politically acceptable way of putting it? Directionally challenged?”
Annabel (to look) like she’s about to bite him.
“you (To be) sure?,” I finally manage to interrupt before Annabel (to rip) the entire room to shreds, “that I’m what you’re looking for? That there isn’t some kind of mistake?”
Because with all of the nerves and the tension and the shouting, I (to be able) to get a word – or a thought – in edgeways, but some of the things (to hear) have kind of stuck. Words like: ginger, tortoise, alien, duck, lazy and eye. This isn’t quite the magical metamorphosis moment I (to look for). I (not to feel) very beautiful at all. In fact, I think I feel worse than I did before I came in here.

“What are you talking about?” Annabel shouts and her voice is getting higher with every sentence, as if she’s singing it. “Harriet does not have a lazy eye.”
“Sorry, sorry,” Wilbur says, waving his hands around in an attempt to calm her down. “What’s a more politically acceptable way of putting it? Directionally challenged?”
Annabel looks like she’s about to bite him.
“Are you sure,” I finally manage to interrupt before Annabel rips the entire room to shreds, “that I’m what you’re looking for? That there isn’t some kind of mistake?”
Because with all of the nerves and the tension and the shouting, I haven’t been able to get a word – or a thought – in edgeways, but some of the things I’ve heard have kind of stuck. Words like: ginger, tortoise, alien, duck, lazy and eye. This isn’t quite the magical metamorphosis moment I was looking for. I don’t feel very beautiful at all. In fact, I think I feel worse than I did before I came in here.
2.	Report the excerpt (change direct speech into reported):

I look down indignantly. “It’s a black all-in-one,” I say with my nose as high as I can get it. “I don’t expect you to understand because you’re old. It’s called fashion. Fash-ion.”
Now it’s Annabel’s turn to look confused. “Is that last year’s Halloween outfit, Harriet?” she says, scraping some of the jam off Dad’s toast and putting it on her own. “Are you dressed as a spider?”
I cough. “No.”
“Then why do you have a leg hanging off your shoulder?”
“It’s a special kind of bow.”
“And why are there seven remaining circles of Velcro down your back?”
“Style statement.”
“And the cobweb stuck to your bottom?”
Oh, for God’s sake.
“Fine,” I snap. It’s not that I’m unnecessarily emotional or worked up, but why won’t anyone just stick to the plan? “It’s my Halloween Spider outfit,
OK? Happy now?”
“I’m not sure that’s the best choice for today,” Dad says dubiously as he starts stealing his jam back, and I can tell he’s trying not to laugh. “I mean, there are other trendier insects. Bees, I hear, are very big this season.”
“Well, tough,” I bark again. “Because it’s all I have, OK?”
“What about a wasp?” Dad offers, voice breaking.
“Everything else I own has a cartoon on the front.”
“Or a grasshopper?” Annabel suggests, winking at Dad. “I like grasshoppers.”
At which point I lose it completely. They’re not being calm or supportive at all. “Why are you such terrible parents?” I yell.

READING COMPREHENSION
1.	Answer the questions:
1.	What was on Harriet’s list that day?
Wake up at 7am, and press the snooze button precisely three times.
Don’t think about Nat.
Find an outfit from my wardrobe suitable for a visit to a modelling
agency.
Go downstairs wearing said outfit. My calm and supportive parents say things like ooh and aah and tell me they didn’t realise I had so much inherent style.
Blush prettily and agree because I probably do have inherent style.
Don’t think about Nat.
Leave the house at 8.34am on the dot, to catch the 9.02am train to
London.
Arrive just in time to eat a pain au chocolat and drink a cappuccino in the local café because this is what models do every morning.
Get transformed into something amazing. 	
2.	What was Harriet’s reaction when she with her parents eventually found the modelling agency?
Leaving me – shaking like the proverbial leaf in a very enthusiastic
proverbial breeze – to sit down on the kerb, put my head between my knees and have a very non-proverbial panic attack.	
3.	What did Harriet do to get over panic?
haven’t got a paper bag, so I try a crisp packet, but the salt and vinegar smell makes me feel sick. I think about trying the plastic bag that came with the crisp packet, but realise that if I inhale too hard, I’m going to end up dragging it into my windpipe, and that would cause problems even for people who weren’t struggling to breathe in the first place.So, as a last resort, I close my eyes, cup my hands together and puff in and out of them instead. I’ve been puffing into my hands for about thirty-five seconds when I hear a human kind of noise next to me.	
4.	Whom did she meet sitting on the kerb?
I open one eye and peek through my fingers, and there – sitting on the kerb next to me – is Lion Boy.	
5.	What were Wilbur and the Manners talking about?
Chapter 29	
6.	Who is Yuka Ito?
“Legendary designer, personally discovered at least five supermodels? Best friends with eight Vogue editors around the world? Has her own personalised seat at New York Fashion Week? Current Creative Director of Baylee?” Wilbur pauses and then
sighs again. “Bunny-button, this woman doesn’t work in fashion, she is fashion. She is the beginning of it and she is the end of it.	
7.	What did she look like that day?
She’s very still, and very silent, and she’s wearing black from head to toe.
Everything is black: her long hair is black, her minuscule hat is black and the lace hanging over one eye is black. Her dress is black and her shoes are black and her tights are black. The only thing on her that isn’t black is her lips, and they’re bright purple. Her hands are folded very neatly in her lap, and the only other way I can think of to describe her is that she’s everything that Wilbur isn’t: quiet, controlled and absolutely rigid. She looks exactly like a fashionable spider.	
8.	Did Annabel allow Harriet to go into modelling?
“I said I would think about it and I have. I’ve even made notes and I have seen nothing that convinces me that this is right for Harriet. In fact, I’ve only seen things that convince me of exactly the opposite: that this is a stupid, sick, damaging environment for a young girl, it was a terrible idea and it needs to stop now before it goes any further.”
“But—”
“This conversation is over. Do you understand? Over. Harriet is going to go to school like a normal fifteen-year-old and she is going to do her exams like a normal fifteen-year-old and have a normal, fifteen-year-old life so that she can have a brilliant, successful, stable adult one. Do I make myself clear?”	
9.	Did Harriet get the job?
Yuka Ito wants Harriet to be the new face of Baylee. We’re on a deadline, so we start shooting tomorrow. In Moscow. For a twenty-four-hour whirlwind of fashion.”	

2.	Give the brief summary of the chapter (~50 words).
3.	Read the following excerpt with proper intonation and pronunciation:
OK. Deep breaths. In, out. In, out. But keep them subtle: I don’t want Yuka Ito to think I’m going into labour.
Everything is dark, except I don’t know whether it’s just my brain closing down in shock or my eyes adjusting to the light. The whole room is pitchblack, and there’s just a small lamp in the corner. And right in the middle, sitting in a chair, is a very small woman.
She’s very still, and very silent, and she’s wearing black from head to toe. Everything is black: her long hair is black, her minuscule hat is black and the lace hanging over one eye is black. Her dress is black and her shoes are black and her tights are black. The only thing on her that isn’t black is her lips, and they’re bright purple. Her hands are folded very neatly in her lap, and the only other way I can think of to describe her is that she’s everything that Wilbur isn’t: quiet, controlled and absolutely rigid. She looks exactly like a fashionable spider.
I knew I should have stuck to my first outfit choice.
4.	Translate the excerpt above into Ukrainian:
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Все добре. Глибокі вдихи. Вдих, видих. Вдих, видих. Але треба робити це непомітно: я не хочу, щоб Юка Іто думала, що у мене почалися пологи.
Усе темно, за винятком того, що я не знаю, чи це просто мозок відключається від шоку, чи очі пристосовуються до світла. Вся кімната темно-чорна, лише в кутку світиться маленька лампа. І прямо посерединікімнати сидить на стільці дуже маленька жінка.
Вона дуже нерухома і дуже мовчазна, і вона вдягнута  у чорне з голови до ніг. Усе чорне: довге волосся у неї чорне, крихітний капелюшок чорний, і мереживо, що звисає над одним оком, чорне. Її сукня чорна, черевики чорні, колготки чорні. Єдине, що на ній не чорне - це губи, і вони яскраво-фіолетові. Її руки дуже акуратно складені на колінах, і єдиний інший спосіб, яким я можу придумати, щоб описати її, - це все, чим Вілбур не є: тиха, контрольована і дуже строга. Вона схожа на модно одягнутого павука.
Я знала, що мала зупинитися на своєму першому виборі одягу.

5.	Role-play:
Role-play Harriet and her Dad telling Annabel the news about going to Moscow.
6.	Discuss the following: 
1.	Harriet always makes plans. What about you? Are you a planner or a procrastinator?
2.	Do you choose the clothes you wear yourself? Does anyone influence your choice?
3.	What is your way to calm down and pull yourself together?
4.	Who were you named after?
5.	Would you like to go into modelling? Why? Why not?
WRITING
1.	Write your own bullet-pointed list of your plan for tomorrow.
2.	Write a letter of enquiry to the modelling agency asking about further details concerning Harriet’s job in Moscow.

Assignment 5
(Chapters35-43)

TEXT WORK
1. Check the meaning of the following words. Write the translation next to the word: 
a launderette   [lɔ:n'dret]   пральня  самообслуговування  
a stalker     завзятий переслідувач
a sleepover       ночівля вдома у друзів
to swap   міняти, обмінювати
a zit   прищ
humiliation  приниження, образа
to wince     здригатися, відсахнутися (від переляку, відрази) ; морщитися (від болі)
a cutey (cutie)      красунечка, хитрун, спритник, пройда
a paired shoot  парна зйомка
mind-boggling приголомшливий
rollercoaster  "американські гірки" (парковий атракціон)
majesticaally  велично, царствено, по-королівски 
to scowl at сердито дивитися, кидати сердитий, злий погляд, супитися, супити брови
in bewilderment  в розгубленості
a perm  перманент (завивка)
tentatively  нерішуче, непевно
be gutted   бути пригніченим, розчарованим
tipsy  підхмелений, під мухою, навеселі, веселий

2. Find in the text the following phrases and word combinations and write out the sentences with them:
To work out a cunning plan – придумати хитрий план
So Dad and I have worked out a cunning plan.

To be bonkers – бути несповна розуму
As Dad says, “Annabel is absolutely bonkers at the moment, Harriet.

The right timing – підходящий, правильний час
We’re just going to keep the truth from them until the timing is right.

To jerk awake– різко, з поштовхом прокинутися
I don’t know how long I sit with my head on the dryer, but I must nod off because I suddenly jerk awake to the sound of: “Did you know that the average American family does eight to ten loads of laundry each week, and a single load of laundry takes an average of one hour and twenty-seven minutes to complete from wash to dry?

A kindred spirit – споріднена душа
“So that makes this a secret between the two of us, right?” I glare at him. “Which makes us kindred spirits?

To screw over smb. – обманювати когось
I’m about to screw over my Best Friend while she defends me, my stepmother while she protects me and possibly – depending on exactly how bad I am at this modelling thing – Wilbur and the entire fashion industry.
To live the dream – жити мрією, втілювати мрію
“You’re living the dream,” Dad smiles at me, looking back out of the window.

To squint at smb – дивитися нишком, скоса
I squint at him and then look down. “My Winnie the Pooh jumper?” I say in disbelief. “And my school skirt?”

To be on fire – горіти, палати, бути у вогні
He’s started walking towards the taxi rank and is waving his hands around as if his feet are on fire. “

To stumble upon smth.  – наштовхуватися, натикатися на щось
But if, say, I happened to stumble upon all the main modelling agency websites while I was bored last night, and I happened to count up all the male models, and I happened to calculate the chances of seeing Nick again soon, then that would be my prognosis.

It’s no biggy!  – Це дрібниці! Нема нічого страшного!
“We rock up, we do our job, we get snowed on, we go home again. It’s no biggy.”

To rock up – з'являтися, приходити
“We rock up, we do our job, we get snowed on, we go home again. It’s no biggy.”

To get out of the taxi – виходити з таксі 
As soon as we get out of the taxi in Red Square – which is where I’ve already worked out we are – we’re surrounded.

In the meantime– тим часом
Dad, in the meantime, is sucking the attention up as fast as physically possible. 

To press the lips in a straight line – стиснути губи в пряму лінію
Yuka’s lips press together in a straight line and then she looks at me.

To make a confession – зізнатися в чомусь 
So I have a confession to make: I haven’t come here totally unprepared.

On the internet – в інтернеті
So I spent a few hours last night doing some research on the internet.

To gear up for smth. – готуватися до чогось
This isn’t quite the conversation I was gearing up for, but I shall do my best to keep up.

To be hip – бути стильним, бути в моді
I add quickly, mentally trawling through the research I did last night, “did you know that in the eighteenth century it was very hip to stick on eyebrows made out of mice skin?”

To wipe the nose – витирати носа
I add, determined to keep going until they’re impressed, “did you know that there are buttons on coat sleeves because Napoleon ordered them to stop his soldiers wiping their noses on their jackets?”

That’s gross! – Це огидно!
“That’s gross,” one of them points out.

To pay off– окупатися; приносити плоди
See? I told you my research would pay off.

To kiss on the cheek – поцілувати в щоку
And he leans forward and kisses Wilbur three times on the cheeks and then once lingeringly on the lips.

To look into the mirror – дивитися в дзеркало 
He grabs my face and stands behind me, looking into the mirror.

To have a breakdown – мати нервовий зрив
My dad is having a breakdown.

To pat smb. on the shoulder – поплескати по плечу
“Darling,” the stylist says, patting me on the shoulder, “I know you must be gutted: the loss of your femininity and so on.

To pull myself together – зібратися, опанувати себе
I nod, and then pull myself together and get off the bed.

To bore to death – наганяти смертельну нудьгу 
Which is, apparently, bore me to death.

You are the apple of my eye! – Ти найдорожче, що у мене є!
You’re my only child and the apple of my eye and whatnot.

To walk in heels – ходити на підборах
“Oh.” Dad frowns. “Why hasn’t Annabel been teaching you how to walk in heels?

Don’t get me wrong! – Зрозумій мене правильно!
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m taking full credit for the hair.

To take credit for smth. – бути чиєюсь заслугою
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m taking full credit for the hair.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.	Match the beginning to the end of the phrase. There are two extra choices you do not need to use:
1.	to bore	a.	the dream	
2.	to live	b.	the door	
3.	to walk	c.	me wrong!	
4.	Don’t get 	d.	to death	
5.	to pull 	e.	oneself together	
6.		f.	down	
7.		g.	in heels	

1d, 2a, 3g, 4c, 5e.

2.	Unscramble the phrases and word combinations. 
ot pat msb no the lroeudshto    To pat smb. on the shoulder  
kloo noit eht rimrro to       To look into the mirror
to iepw hte sneo              To wipe the nose
serps eth lips ni a tgsihrta nlei to To press the lips in a straight line
to ebutmsl oupn shtm      To stumble upon smth

 3. Match the phrases and word combinations to their translation:
1.	To pay off	a.	бути стильним, бути в моді	
2.	That’s gross! 	b.	підходящий,правильний час	
3.	To be hip 	c.	з'являтися, приходити	
4.	To rock up 	d.	окупатися; приносити плоди	
5.	The right timing 	e.	споріднена душа	
6.	A kindred spirit 	f.	Це огидно!	

1d, 2f, 3a, 4c, 5b, 6e.

4.Translate the sentences into English:
1.	“Зберися! В тебе може бути нервовий зрив. Я розумію, що ти надзвичайно пригнічений, але це дрібниці!” Pull yourself together! You may have a breakdown. I see that you are gutted but it’s no biggy!	
2.	“Ти найдорожче, що у мене є!” – сказала мама і поцілувала свого маленького синочка в щоку. “You’re the apple of my eye!” said Mom and kissed her little son on the cheek.	
3.	“Вчора я прочитала в інтернеті, що речі з 90-х знов у моді” – сказала Джо, дивлячись у дзеркало. “Yesterday I read on the internet that clothes from the 90s are hip again”- said Joe, looking into the mirror.	
4.	Нещодавно я наштовхнулася на свого старого друга на вулиці. Колись я думала, що ми з ним споріднені душі, але тепер наша з ним розмова нагнала на мене смертельну нудьгу. I’ve bumped into my old friend in the street recently. I used to consider us kindred spirits, but our talk bored me to death.	
5.	Вона велично вийшла з таксі і з губами стиснутими в пряму лінію, навіть скоса не подивившись ні на кого, пішла до входу в готель . She majestically got out of the taxi and with her lips pressed in a straight line, not even having squinted at anyone; she headed for the hotel entrance.	

5. Make up 5 sentences with the phrases and word combinations mentioned above. 
6. Make up a dialogue using as many active words and word combinations as possible.
7.	In Chapter 36 find and write out words meaning different kinds of charts. Match them to the pictures.

a)	a bubble chart

b)	a flow chart

c)	a pie chart

d)	a timeline graph

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
1.	Find in the text – ED/- ING Adjectives. Write out the sentences with them from the text and make up your own ones.
They can be devastating to mental health, and to confidence, and also – I’d imagine – to modelling careers.
I’m so excited now that little insects feel like they’re rocketing around my stomach, the way they rocketed around the jam-jar trap we made at primary school.

It’s not possible to be this embarrassed.

And what’s the point if I’m so scared I can’t enjoy my own transformation?

Grammar point
•	We use adjectives that end with –ed to describe people’s feelings;
•	We use adjectives that end with –ing to talk about a thing or person that makes us have a feeling.
e.g. I was very tired at the end of the journey. (= I felt tired)
The journey was tiring. ( = The journey made us feel tired)

1.	Choose the correct adjective in brackets to put in the gaps:

1) It was a terrible play and I was ……. (bored/boring) from start to finish.
2) I am very ….. (excited/exciting) because I am going to New York tomorrow.
3) Visit our ….. ( excited/exciting) new shop.
4) I’m reading a very ……. (interested/interesting) book at the moment.
5) His speech was very long and very …… (bored/boring).
6) He told me a very ….. (amused/amusing) story.
7) Were you …… (disappointed/disappointing) by the film?

1) It was a terrible play and I was bored from start to finish.
2) I am very excited because I am going to New York tomorrow.
3) Visit our exciting new shop.
4) I’m reading a very interesting book at the moment.
5) His speech was very long and very boring.
6) He told me a very amusing story.
7) Were you disappointed by the film?

2.	Insert the correct tense form of the verb in brackets:
I (to look) out of the window. There’s a flurry of soft white snow and everything (to cover) in white powder, like a postcard. Russia (to look) exactly as I (to imagine) it would. And trust me, I (to imagine) it a lot. It ( to be) on my Top Ten List of Countries to Visit. Number Three, actually. After Japan and Myanmar.
I swallow hard. Things (to start) to change already. From this point on, everything is going to be different.
“You (to live) the dream,” Dad ( to smile) at me, looking back out of the window.
“Yes,” I say, smiling back at him. “I think I just might be.”

I look out of the window. There’s a flurry of soft white snow and everything is covered in white powder, like a postcard. Russia looks exactly as I imagined it would. And trust me, I’ve imagined it a lot. It’s on my Top Ten List of Countries to Visit. Number Three, actually. After Japan and Myanmar.
I swallow hard. Things are starting to change already. From this point on, everything is going to be different.
“You’re living the dream,” Dad smiles at me, looking back out of the window.
“Yes,” I say, smiling back at him. “I think I just might be.”

3.	Report the excerpt (change direct speech into reported):

Yuka stops two metres away from where we’re all standing, totally mesmerised. She doesn’t look happy. Although obviously I’m not sure what happiness looks like for Yuka Ito. Let’s just say the snow on her shoulders doesn’t appear to be melting in the slightest.
“Wilbur,” she says in a voice so appropriately icy it’s like it’s coming from the sky. “What, precisely, do you think your job is?”
“Other than being generally fabulous?”
“Debatable,” Yuka snaps. “Would you say that your job entails getting my models to me at the time I’ve asked you to get them to me?”
Wilbur thinks about this for a few seconds. “I would say it’s definitely on the list, yes.”
“Then could you explain why they’re both forty-five minutes late?”
“Darling,” Wilbur sighs, rolling his eyes. “Turning up on time is so keen. Not cool. Plus –” and he makes a little gesture and lowers his voice, as if telling us a secret –“it’s snowing.”
“Yes, I was vaguely aware of that. Although everybody else managed to get here on time because in Russia snow is not, shall we say, unexpected.”
Yuka’s lips press together in a straight line and then she looks at me. “Could you also explain why the female face of my new collection is sporting some kind of head accessory?”

READING COMPREHENSION
1.	Answer the questions:
1.	What did Harriet and her father decide to do?
So we’re going to lie to Annabel. And – I add this silently in my head – Nat. We’re obviously not going to lie to them forever. That would be ridiculous. We’re just going to keep the truth from them until the timing is right.	
2.	Why did Harriet go to the launderette?
It’s about 300 metres away from my house, and I’ve been coming here since I was allowed to leave the house on my own. For some reason it always makes me feel better. I love the soft whirring sounds, I love the soapy smells, I love the bright lights, I love the warmth coming out of the machines. But most of all I love the feeling that nothing could ever be bad or wrong in a place where everything is being cleaned.	
3.	Whom did Harriet meet at the launderette? What was their conversation about?
And there – sitting on top of a washing machine – is Toby.
“By the way,” he adds, “did Nat tell you what
she did yesterday? She was amazing, Harriet. Like Boadicea, except without the chariot. Or the horses, or the swords, but still: it was awesome.”
I stop near the door. “Nat?” I say, totally confused. “What are you talking about?”
“She heard what happened to you in Mr Bott’s English class and she went crazy. She stormed into the changing rooms while Alexa was getting ready for hockey and did a whole world of yelling.” Toby pauses. “I didn’t see this because they wouldn’t let me in. Apparently that room is only for girls and I am not one of those, Harriet. I assure you. Whatever Alexa might say. I am all man.”	
4.	What was Harriet’s first impression of Moscow?
I look out of the window. There’s a flurry of soft white snow and
everything is covered in white powder, like a postcard. Russia looks exactly as I imagined it would. And trust me, I’ve imagined it a lot. It’s on my Top Ten List of Countries to Visit. Number Three, actually. After Japan and Myanmar.
I swallow hard. Things are starting to change already. From this point on, everything is going to be different.
“You’re living the dream,” Dad smiles at me, looking back out of the window.
“Yes,” I say, smiling back at him. “I think I just might be.”	
5.	What was Wilbur surprised by?
“Oh, my Billy Ray Cyrus,” he sighs when we finally find him. He’s sitting on top of a pink suitcase, wearing a silk shirt covered in little pictures of ponies, and the second he gets close to me he puts his hands over his eyes as if I’m about to poke them out with my zit. “Where did that come from? What have you been eating?”	
6.	Whom was Harriet going to have a paired-shoot with?
“Finally,” Wilbur says, turning round and waving. Because there – leaning against a lamp-post in the snow, wearing a big army jacket and looking impossibly beautiful – is Nick.	
7.	What was the first place they visited in Moscow?
Then I stop. Because in front of us is a huge square, filled with snow. On one side is an elaborate red wall and on the other side is a large white palace, delicately carved. I know that if I was to turn round, there would be a red castle behind us, but directly in front of us is the most beautiful building I have ever seen. Red, and blue, and green, and yellow, and striped and starred and carved like the most expensive cake you could possibly imagine.
And in front of that are about thirty-five people, sixty lights, trailers,
chairs, hangers full of clothes, clusters of passers-by and inexplicably – a small white kitten on a pillow, wearing a lead.
And it looks like every single one of them is waiting for us..	
8.	What was Harriet transformation for the shoot?
Next to a reflection that looks exactly like my dad is a girl. She’s got white skin and sharp cheekbones and a pointed chin and green eyes. She has thin long legs and a long neck and she’s sort of graceful yet clumsy-looking, like a baby deer. It’s only when I lean forward a bit and see that her nose turns up at the end just like mine does that I fully register that it’s me	
2.	Give the brief summary of the chapter (~50 words).
3.	Read the following excerpt with proper intonation and pronunciation:
The really great thing about Moscow airport is that it’s so Russian. The signs are in Russian. The books are in Russian. The brochures are in Russian. The shops are in Russian. All the things in the shops are Russian. All the people are Russian. OK, maybe all the people aren’t Russian – most of them are getting off planes from the UK and America, and if I’m totally honest, everything is also in English – but everyone looks sort of… different.
Exotic. Historical. Revolutionary.
Even Dad looks more sophisticated, and he’s still wearing that nasty Tshirt with the robot on the front of it. None of which seems to have made any impression on Wilbur.
“Oh, my Billy Ray Cyrus,” he sighs when we finally find him. He’s sitting on top of a pink suitcase, wearing a silk shirt covered in little pictures of ponies, and the second he gets close to me he puts his hands over his eyes as if I’m about to poke them out with my zit. “Where did that come from? What
have you been eating?”
“Chocolate-chip cereal bars,” Dad informs him helpfully. “She had three for breakfast.”
“You look like a baby unicorn, Twinkletoes. Could you not have held off for another twenty-four hours before you started sprouting horns?”
4.	Translate the excerpt above into Ukrainian:
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Справді чудовою річчю в московському аеропорту є те, що він такий російський. Знаки російською мовою. Книги російською мовою. Брошури подані російською мовою. Магазини російською мовою. Всі речі в магазинах російські. Всі люди росіяни. Добре, можливо, не всі люди  росіяни - більшість з них сходять з літаків з Великобританії та Америки, і якщо бути абсолютно чесною, все також англійською мовою - але все виглядає якось ... по-іншому.
Екзотично. Історично. Революційно.
Навіть тато виглядає вишуканішим, а він все ще вдягнутий в цю неприємну футболку з роботом спереді. Але, здається, нічого з цього не справляє жодного враження на Вільбура.
"О, мій Біллі Рей Сайрус", - зітхає він, коли ми нарешті його знаходимо. Він сидить на рожевій валізі, одягнений у шовкову сорочку, вкриту маленькими малюнками поні,  і коли він наближається до мене вдруге, він прикриває очі руками, ніби я збираюся виткнути їх своїм прищем. “Звідки це взялося? Що ти їла? "
«Шоколадні батончики із злаками», - прислужливо повідомляє йому тато. "Вона з’їла три на сніданок".
“Ти схожа на дитину єдинорога, Твінклето. Чи не могла б ти протриматися ще двадцять чотири години, перш ніж почали проростати роги? "
5.	Role-play:
Toby says Nat started a war with Alexa in defence of Harriet and tells about the episode in the changing room. Role-play the situation.
6.	Discuss the following: 
1.	Harriet says that launderette is the only place in the world where she goes when she needs to run away. Do you have such a place? Tell about it.
2.	Do you know what white lie is? Do you always tell the truth?
3.	How would you feel having a zit before an important event? What would you do?
4.	What is your attitude to Harriet’s father? Do your think he is a good parent? Who is more important for a girl: a mother or a father?
WRITING
1.	Write a letter of apology from Harriet to Nat in which she asks to forgive her for having told a lie.
2.	Write a page in the diary as if you were Harriet telling about her first day in Moscow. 

REFERENCES

1.	http://www.ehow.com/reading-skills/
2.	http://esl.about.com/od/englishreadingskills/a/readingskills.htm
3.	http://www.mindtools.com/rdstratg.html
4.	 Benfield Reading Activists; Smale, Holly (18 June 2014). "Holly Smale: I think people are starting to embrace what being 'a geek' actually means". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2014. 
5.	Chilton, Martin (5 June 2014). "Geek Girl was a cathartic book to write, says Holly Smale". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 October 2014. 
6.	 Smale, Holly. "About TWG". The Write Girl. Retrieved 11 October 2014.

НАВЧАЛЬНЕ ВИДАННЯ

Артиш О.О.

The Guide to 
“Geek Girl”
by Holly Smale
Teacher’s Book
Практикум для розвитку навичок читання 
оригінального художнього твору
(до роману Голлі Смейл  “Дівчина Гік ”)