Номер 2, страница 61 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

2a. Listen and read the story. Do you think the boys liked their school?

1. In September 1925, when I was just nine, I started the first great adventure of my life – a boarding school called St Peter’s. We lived in South Wales then, but my parents had chosen a school in England for me because they believed that English schools were the best in the world, and St Peter’s was the nearest boarding school to our home.

2. In the morning I put on my school uniform: black shoes, grey and blue stockings, grey shorts, a grey shirt, a red tie, a grey blazer and a grey cap with the school emblem on them. Every-thing I wore and my tuck-box were new and had my name on them.

a tie

a blazer

a tuck-box

3. No boy had ever gone to an English boarding school with-out a tuck-box where boys kept their tuck, food which their mothers sent to them. All tuck-boxes usually had some home-made cake, a packet of biscuits, some oranges, an apple, a ba-nana, a pot of strawberry jam and a bar of chocolate.

In a tuck-box there also were all kinds of treasures¹ such as a magnet, a pocket-knife and a compass, and I remember one boy called Arkle who kept a pet frog there. Tuck-boxes were boys’ own secret place, and no other boy, or even the Headmas-ter, had the right to open them.

a cane

4. St Peter’s stood on a hill above the town. It was a long three-storied building, one-third of which was for the Headmaster and his family. The rest of the building housed about one hun-dred and fifty boys. At St Peter’s, the ground floor was all classrooms. The first floor was dor-mitories (bedrooms), the Matron’s territory. She knew everything that was going on there, and when we did something wrong, she learnt about it immediately² and sent us downstairs to the Headmaster’s office where we were pun-ished³ on the spot with the crack… crack… crack of a cane going down our bodies.

5. Once, after the lights went out, a brave boy called Wragg sprinkled⁴ some sugar all over the floor of the corridor. When he returned, we were excited very much, and we lay in our beds waiting for the Matron to walk along the corridor. Nothing happened for a couple of minutes, but suddenly we heard crunch… crunch… crunch and a loud shrieking, “Who did this?” The Matron ran crunching along the corridor, opened all the dormitory doors and switched on all the lights. “I want the name of the naughty little boy who put down the sugar!” she cried. “Be quiet,” we whispered to Wragg. “We won’t give you away!” Then came up the Headmaster and also cried at us. Every-body kept quiet as we stood freezing barefoot in our pyjamas. The Headmaster was getting very, very angry. “Very well,” he said at last, “Everyone will give the keys to the Matron, and she will keep them till the end of the term¹. No one will get anything from your tuck-boxes! And forget about the food from your homes! We will teach you a lesson!”

So, we had to give our keys away, and for six weeks we went very very hungry. But during all those weeks, Arkle continued to feed his frog through the hole in his tuck-box. Using an old teapot, he also put some water in.

a teapot

6. At St Peter’s Sunday morning was letter-writing time. At nine o’clock everybody had to go to their desks and spend one hour writing a letter home to their parents. Letter-writing was a serious business at St Peter’s. It was like a lesson in spell-ing and punctuation² because while we were writing our let-ters, the Headmaster was walking around the classroom look-ing over our shoulders to point out our mistakes.

But that, I am sure, was not the main reason³ for his inter-est. He was there to make sure we said nothing bad about his school. So we could tell our parents what was really going on there only on holidays, but we had usually forgotten about a lot of things feeling happy to return home.

(Based on Roald Dahl’s autobiography “Boy: Tales of Childhood”)

2b. Match the headings to the parts of the story. One heading is extra.

A. Writing home. B. School life downstairs. C. The best day at St Peter’s. D. Boys’ treasures. E. How it started. F. School life upstairs. G. What we had to wear.

2a. Как вы думаете, мальчикам нравилась их школа?

Ответ: No, it is unlikely the boys liked their school. The text describes harsh punishments, such as being hit with a cane, and strict rules, like having their personal food boxes confiscated, which led to them being very hungry. Furthermore, they could not complain to their parents in letters because the Headmaster supervised them, suggesting an oppressive environment rather than an enjoyable one. They were only happy when it was time to return home.

Перевод: Нет, маловероятно, что мальчикам нравилась их школа. В тексте описываются суровые наказания, такие как удары тростью, и строгие правила, например, конфискация их личных коробок с едой, из-за чего они сильно голодали. Более того, они не могли пожаловаться родителям в письмах, так как директор следил за ними, что указывает на гнетущую, а не приятную атмосферу. Они были счастливы только тогда, когда приходило время возвращаться домой.

2b. Сопоставьте заголовки с частями рассказа. Один заголовок лишний.

Ответ:

Extra heading: C. The best day at St Peter's.

Перевод:

Лишний заголовок: C. Лучший день в Сент-Питерс.