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Home reading lesson

O. Henry

“Witche’s Loaves”

1. The theme of our lesson is home reading.

Today we are going to work with a novel by famous American writer O’Henry.

We’ve read this text and today my and your aims are:

• To train your skills in reading, speaking and listening:
• To develop your skills in analyzing information from the text

2. So, let’s start. I wish you good-luck.
3. At first, we are going to listen to some interesting facts about O.Henry’s life (students’ answers).
4. What is the main idea of this novel (students’ answers).
5. So, girls, I want you to imagine that you are Miss Martha and tell about yourself (students’ answers).
6. Boys, imagine that you are a customer and tell about yourself (students’ answers).
7. Boys, imagine that you are a young man and tell about yourself (students’ answers).
8. Say what you like about Miss Martha (students’ answers).
9. What you don’t like about her (students’ answers).
10.                 Say what you like about a customer (students’ answers).
11.                 What you don’t like about him (students’ answers).
12.                 Prove that…..

1. Miss Martha wasn’t a poor woman;
2. Mr. Blumberger was like an artist;
3. Miss Martha wanted to become more beautiful;
4. She thought about her customer;
5. She proved herself that Mr. Blumberger was an artist;
6. Mr. Blumberger was a capable draftsman;
7. Miss Martha lost her dreams to get married.

13.                 Answer the following questions:

• How many persons are mentioned in this story?
• What are their names and occupations?
• What kind of woman was Miss Martha?
• What kind of man was a customer?
• What did the customer always buy?
• How much did it cost him?
• What did he need it for?
• Why was Miss Martha sorry for her customer?
• What action did she take?
• How did she feel about what she had done?
• What effect did this have on the customer?
• Who tried to explain the situation?
• What is the end of the story?

14.                 The next task is to set whether the statement is true or false?

• Miss Martha owned a large bakery.
• One of the customers got interested in Miss Martha.
• He always bought a loaf of bread in the bakery.
• One day he brought her a picture of an Italian master.
• Miss Martha was sure she had done the right thing when she put the butter into the loaves.
• The customer brought a young man to encourage him since he was too shy to thank Miss Martha.
• The young man explained the situation.
• The customer had hoped to win the prize competition.
• Miss Martha gave up the idea of getting married.

15.                 Translate into Ukrainian:

• Kept the little bakery;
• To take an interest;
• Middle-aged;
• Stale bread;
• No doubt;
• A garret;
• Chops;
• Dry crust;
• At a sale;
• He kept on buying;
• Meager purchase;
• A mysterious compound;
• Lumbering;
• Inspired;
• Seized the opportunity;
• On the bottom;
• A deep slash;
• Little deception;
• Beyond criticism;
• Jangled viciously;
• Wildly rumpled;
• Draw him away;
• Blazing;
• By the collar;
• Sidewalk;
• A prize competition.