I. Listen to this story several times and read it aloud.
II. Find all the names of the fishes from this story, write them down, translate and learn them.
III. Give the Russian equivalents and the situations from the story:
1). to be out of harm’s way; 8). longitude;
2). to say in a small stute voice ; 9). raft;
3). noble and generous cetacean; 10). mariner;
4). nubbly; 11). a jack-knife;
5). to froth up with smth; 12). suspenders;
6). one at a time is enough; 13). to trail one’s toes in the water;
7). latitude; 14). to smack one’s lips.
IV. Find all the verbs characterizing the Mariner’s actions in the Whale’s warm dark, inside cupboards. Write them down, translate, learn them.(Give three forms where necessary).
V. Paraphrase:
1). a man of infinite resource and sagacity;
2). to give smb leave to do smth.
3). to proceed to relate.
VI. Read the paragraph: “ So the Whale swam and swam… I will now proceed to relate. By means of a grating I have stopped your ating” p. 33-35
VII. Give the literary translation of the previous paragraph in a written form.
VIII. Learn the end of the story by heart: “ For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an… The suspenders were left behind, you see, to tie the grating with; and that is the end of that tale.”
IX. Define the theme and the idea of this story.
X.. What inspired R. Kipling to write down the story about the whale? (When did R.Kipling first see the whale? How did he describe the whale in his illustrations of his fairy-tales?)
XI. What other writer described the whale in his fairy-tale? How did he do it in comparison with R.Kipling?
XII. Speak about the word-building in this story . Give the examples ( 10 examples of each type).
XIII. Retell the story in a nutshell.