1. Read the story "How We Kept Mother's Day" and make a topic outline of Its contents.
2. Make a sentence outline of the story.
3. Make a plan of your narration about the people presented is the picture (see p. 138).
LABORATORY EXERCISES (II) 1. a) listen to the test "An Englishman's Meals", mark the stresses and tunes. b) Repeat it in the intervals following the model.
2. a) Listen to the dialogue "At Table".
b) Repeat it in the intervals following the model.
c) Learn the text by heart.
3. Answer the questions using the given patterns.
4. Make up sentences using the given patterns.
5. Write a dictation.
6. Paraphrase the given sentences.
7. Translate the sentences into English. Check them with the key.
8. listen to the text "He Was Too Timid" or some other text on the topic "Meals". Get ready to give the summary in class.
CURIOSITY QUIZ FOR EAGERS 1. What is "Mother's Day"? Where and when is it celebrated?
2. What is a pub? What traditions are connected with if?
3. What is a bank holiday in Britain!
4. Describe some traditions or customs connected with family or public holidays in England.
5. What do the terms "Welsh Babbit", "Pancake Day" and "Dutch Treat" mean?
6. Find a story (an essay) or a passage in a novel by an English or American writer describing a meal. Give its summary in class.
