The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo.

I. Listen to this fairy-tale.

II. Give the Russian equivalents and sentences from the text:

1. wolly; 6. burrow;

2. outcrop; 7. spinifex;

3. inordinate; 8. sandback;

4. sand-flat; 9. salt pan;

5. rock-ledge; 10. ash-pit.

III. Give the English equivalents and sentences from the text:

1. ведёрко для угля;

2. кролик (уменьш.)

3. камыши;

4. голубые эвкалипты;

5. оскаливать зубы;

6. мышеловка;

7. заросли деревьев;

8. заросли кустов;

9. Тропики Рака и Козерога;

10. лошадиный хомут.

IV. Explain these words through English:

1. hop; 6. to chase out;

2. flinders; 7. tuck up;

3. cinders; 8. hind legs;

4. bewildered; 9. stuck out;

5. cricket; 10. howl.

V. Translate into Russian and give situations of your own:

1. He had to… ;

2. to alter one’s shape;

3. to play old scratch with smb’s legs;

4. Your Lordness;

5. That’s your fault;

6. incantatious.

VI. Read and translate the passage in written form:

pp. 96-97 “ Then said Nqong, Perhaps I’m mistaken, but didn’t you ask me to make you different from all other animals”… up to the end of the story.

VII. Describe the way, the talk between the Kangaroo and Three Gods. Use in these three descriptions the following words and word-combinations( indirect speech):

1. with four short legs; grey and wolly; his pride was inordinate; an outcrop

in the middle of Australia; the Little God Nga; to make smb different from

all other animals; the sandflat.

2. grey, wolly; inordinate; a rock-ledge; the Middle god Nquing; make smb

different from all other animals; make smb wonderfully popular; burrow in

the spinifex.

3. grey, wolly; inordinate; a sandbank; the Big God Nqong; to make smb

popular and wonderfully run after…; the salt-pan.

VIII. Describe all the chases of yellow Dog-Dingo after the Kangaroo:

1. … off ran Dingo-Yellow-Dog-Dingo-always hungry, grinning like a coal-

scuttle… He had to!

2. Still ran Dingo-Yellow-Dog-Dingo-always hungry, grinning like a rat

trap… he had to!

3. Still ran Kangaroo-Old man Kangaroo –through the ti-trees, through the

mulga… he had to.

4. Still ran Dingo-Yellow-Dog-Dingo – hungrier and hungrier, very much

bewildered,…

Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt –pans… It’s 5 o’clock”

IX. Explain:

1. Why isn’t the kangaroo grateful to Yellow -Dog-Dingo?

2. What arguments did Nqong tell the Kangaroo?

3. What was the Kangaroo’s wish?

4. What made the Kangaroo change his mind?

5. How is the Kangaroo different from other animals?

X. Define the theme and the idea of this fairy-tale.

XI. Translate into Russian 2 descriptions of pictures on page 74-76 (American edition) (See Appendix 3, Appendix 4.) and a song on page 78 (American edition).

XII. Retell close to the text indirect Speech (by heart):

1. The Kangaroo went to Nqa;

2. The Kangaroo went to God Nquing;

3. The Kangaroo went to Nqong.

XIII. Retell this fairy-tale in a nutshell.