1. Concentrate your attention on the following words while reading the text, translate and remember them.
| Picturesque (55) | peaceful (56) | staircase (56) |
| to recover oneself (56) | gloomy (57) | curiosity-shop (57) |
| plain (58) | sunstroke (59) | to sacrifice (59) |
| to bring up (61) | consequence (61) | to take a turn (62) |
| to charge (62) | to take the first turning to the right (62) | to bless (62) |
| to keep on (63) | to pretend (63) | after a while (64) |
2. Use the words and word combinations from Recommended Vocabulary List in the situations from the text.
1. Make up 7-10 questions to cover the contents of the chapter.
2. Comment on the words. Do you agree? Give your reasons.
a) Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want (58)
b) All our art treasures of today are only the dug-up commonplaces of three or four hundreds years ago. (60)
5. Translate the part of the chapter 6, pp. 64-65 «Anyhow, they had got something...before they got out»
1. Give a character sketch of Harris.