Методические рекомендации
по английскому языку
для 9 класса.
Учитель английского языка
Марина Александровна Бондаренко

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A Mysterious Visit
after Mark Twain
The first visitor that came to see me was a gentleman who said he was an assessor, and connected with the U.S. Internal Revenue Department. I said I had never heard of his branch of business before, but I was very glad to see him. Would you like sit down? He sat down. I did not know anything particular to say, and I asked him if he was opening his shop in our neighborhood.
He said he was. (I did not wish to appear ignorant, but I hoped he would say what he was going to sell.)
I asked him, “How was trade?” And he said, “So-so”.
I then said we would visit him, and if we liked his shop as well as any other, we would become his customers.
He said he thought we would like his establishment and added he never saw anybody who would leave and search for another man in his line after trading with him once.
I do not know how it happened, but we began talking.
We talked, and talked, and talked – and we laughed, and laughed, and laughed. But all the time I had my presence of mind about me. I decided to find out all about his business - band thought I would have it out of him without his suspecting what I wanted. I would tell him all about my own business, and he would naturally forget himself, and tell me about his affairs. I said:
“Now you never would guess what I made lecturing this winter and last spring?”
“No – I could not. Say seventeen hundred, maybe?”
“Ha! I knew you could not! My lecturing money for last spring and this winter were fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.”
“Why, it is amazing – perfectly amazing, even this wasn’t all?”
“All! Why, bless you, there was my income from the newspaper for four months eight thousand dollars, for example?”
“Eight thousand! I’ll make a note of it”.
“There’s my book, The Innocents Abroad – price from $3, 50 to $5. Listen to me. During the last four months and a half, we’ve sold ninety-five thousand copies of that book. Average four dollars a copy. It’s nearly four hundred thousand dollars, my son. I get half”.
“My God! Fourteen – seven – fifty – eight – two thousand”.
“Possible! If there’s any mistake it’s the other way. Two hundred and fourteen, cash, in my income for this year if I know arithmetic”.
 
 
Заданиектексту «A Mysterious Visit»
 
1.     1.Read and translate the text in a literary form.
 
2.     Make your own sentences with such words:
income                                                       amazing
Assessor                                                    arithmetic
neighborhood                                             business
ignorant                                                      to bless
establishment                                              copy.
 
3.     Retell the text. Share your opinion by this text. Make questions to the text and ask your classmates.
 
4.     What can you say about the biography of Mark Twain name other stories written by him?
 
Автор: Бондаренко М.А.

УВК школа-лицей №2, 2008. Последнее обновление: 2010-01-15 11:28:54