bracken – заросли папоротника
take notice of smb – уделять внимание кому-либо
What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door! – Кто бы здесь ни жил, что-то он долго подходит к двери!
as late as that – так поздно
What shall I do? – Что же мне теперь делать?
wobbly – зд. шатающийся, прыгающий, неустойчивый
he ran as fast as he could– он бежал как можно быстрее
1. Найдите в тексте синонимы к следующим словам:
Miserable – …; pleased – …; cautiously – …; damp – …; sadly – …; glad – …; little – …; fast – …; to stare (e.g. at somebody) – …; earnestly – …; to break down – …; to wonder – … .
2. Кому из персонажей принадлежат следующие реплики?
1. I just came round.
2. You ran too fast, I expect.
3. Balloons are too big to go into Pots.
4. This jar is for keeping honey in it.
5. You were so busy getting his party ready for him.
6. No better from this side.
7. I gave him a box of paints to paint things with.
8. You seem so sad, Eeyore.
9. That would not be a good plan.
10. It takes a good deal of pencil to say a long thing like that.
11. I’ve never made such a noise just falling down.
3. Верны ли следующие высказывания?
1. Eeyore felt miserable because it was his birthday.
2. Pooh ran home because he felt pity for Eeyore.
3. He met Piglet on the way home.
4. Piglet ran for his balloon as soon as he heard about Eeyore’s birthday.
5. Pooh ate the honey because he was very selfish.
6. Owl agreed to help Pooh.
7. Piglet fell down because he stumbled over a big stone.
8. Eeyore got very surprised when Piglet congratulated him.
9. Eeyore was very kind to others, especially Piglet.
4. Ответьте на вопросы.
1. How did Pooh and Eeyore meet? Did Eeyore pretend to look happy? Was he able to do it?
2. What did Pooh and Piglet decide to present to Eeyore? How did they come to agreement about this matter?
3. What happened to Pooh’s present? How did he solve the problem?
4. Why did Piglet burst the balloon?
5. Was Eeyore disappointed to hear about this misfortune?
6. What made Eeyore happy at last?
7. Describe Eeyore’s character. What qualities does he possess? Do you know any people who resemble Eeyore?
5. Перескажите текст от имени одного из персонажей.:
a) Eeyore; b) Winnie-the-Pooh; c) Piglet; d) Owl; e) Christopher Robin.
Pre-reading task
1. Переведите с английского на русский.
Among, to steal, to be deprived of something, in this case, pluck, to be eager, to capture, now and then, to wink, cough, hail, to unbutton, to make faces, lathery, on purpose, to splutter, to rub dry.
2. Подберите синонимы к следующим словам:
Foolish – …; disappointed – …; trouble – …; splendid – …; to wonder – …; to be fond of somebody – …; anxiously – … .
3. Ответьте на вопросы.
а) Have you ever been a newcomer in your class or your group? How did you feel? How did your mates behaved themselves with you?
б) Have you ever been taken for a wrong person? How did you get out of the problem?
4. Переведите предложения с английского на русский.
1. Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.
2. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own house, and felt more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the Forest, practising jumps.
3. She was quite sure that Christopher Robin could never let any harm happen to Roo.
4. If you go on making faces like Piglet’s, you will grow up to look like Piglet.
5. Прочитайте и переведите текст.
NOBODY knew where they came from, but there they were in the Forest: Kanga and Baby Roo.
‘What I don’t like about it is this,’ said Rabbit. ‘We wake up one morning, and what do we find? We find a Strange Animal among us. An animal who carries her family in her pocket! If I carried my family in my pocket, how many pockets should I want?’
‘Sixteen,’ said Piglet.
‘Seventeen, isn’t it?’ said Rabbit. ‘And one more for a handkerchief – that’s eighteen. Eighteen pockets in one suit!’
There was a long and thoughtful silence… and then Pooh said: ‘I think fifteen.’
‘Never mind, Pooh,’ said Piglet impatiently. ‘The question is, What are we to do about Kanga?’
‘The best way,’ said Rabbit, ‘would be this. The best way is to steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when Kanga says, “Where’s Baby Roo?” we say, “Aha!”
‘Aha!’ said Pooh, practising. ‘Aha! Aha!..’
‘Pooh,’ said Rabbit kindly, ‘you haven’t any brain.’
‘I know,’ said Pooh humbly.
‘We say “Aha!”, and Kanga knows that we know where Baby Roo is. “Aha!” means “We’ll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go away from the Forest and never come back.”
‘There’s just one thing,’ said Piglet anxiously. ‘Christopher Robin said that a Kanga is One of the Fierce Animals. It is well known that if One of the Fierce Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fierce Animals. In this case “Aha!” is perhaps a foolish thing to say.’
‘Piglet,’ said Rabbit, taking out a pencil, ‘you haven’t any pluck.’
‘It is hard to be brave,’ said Piglet, ‘when you’re only a Very Small Animal.’
Rabbit looked up and said:
‘It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in this adventure.’
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to be useful at once.
‘What about me?’ said Pooh sadly. ‘I suppose I won’t be useful?’
‘Never mind, Pooh,’ said Piglet comfortingly. ‘Another time perhaps.’
‘Without Pooh,’ said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, ‘the adventure would be impossible.’
‘Oh!’ said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed. But Pooh went into a corner of the room and said proudly to himself, ‘Impossible without Me! That sort of Bear.’
‘Now listen all of you,’ said Rabbit when he finished writing, and Pooh and Piglet sat listening very eagerly with their mouths open. This was what Rabbit read out:
1. General Remarks. Kanga runs faster than any of us, even me.
2. More General Remarks. Kanga never takes her eye off Baby Roo, except when he’s safely buttoned up in her pocket.
3. Therefore. If we are to capture Baby Roo, we must get a Long Start, because Kanga runs faster than any of us, even me. (See 1.)
4. A Thought. If Roo jumps out of Kanga’s pocket and Piglet jumps in, Kanga won’t know the difference, because Piglet is a Very Small Animal.
5. Like Roo.
6. But Kanga must look the other way first, so as not to see Piglet jumping in.
7. See 2.
8. Another Thought. But if Pooh is talking to her very excitedly, she might look the other way for a moment.
9. And then I can run away with Roo.
10. Quickly.
11. And Kanga won’t discover the difference until Afterwards.
Rabbit read this out proudly, and for a little while nobody said anything. And then Piglet managed to say very huskily:
‘And – Afterwards?’
‘How do you mean?’
‘When Kanga Discovers the Difference?’
‘Then we all say “Aha!”’
‘All three of us?’
‘Why, what’s the trouble, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, ‘as long as we all three say it. As long as we all three say it,’ said Piglet, ‘I don’t mind,’ he said, ‘but I can’t say “Aha!” by myself.’
‘Oh, yes, yes, that’s all right. Well, Pooh, you see what you have to do?’
‘No,’ said Pooh Bear. ‘Not yet,’ he said. ‘What do I do?’
‘Well, you just have to talk to Kanga, so as she doesn’t notice anything.’
‘Oh! What about?’
‘Anything you like.’
‘You mean like telling her a little bit of poetry or something?’
‘That’s it,’ said Rabbit. ‘Splendid. Now come along.’
So they all went out to look for Kanga.
Kanga and Roo were in a sandy part of the Forest. Baby Roo practised very small jumps in the sand, and Kanga said now and then, ‘Just one more jump, dear, and then we must go home.’ And at that moment who should come stumping up the hill but Pooh.
‘Good afternoon, Kanga.’
‘Good afternoon, Pooh.’
‘Look at me jumping,’ squeaked Roo.
‘Hallo, Roo, my little fellow!’
‘We were just going home,’ said Kanga. ‘Good afternoon, Rabbit. Good afternoon, Piglet.’
Rabbit and Piglet, who came up from the other side of the hill, said ‘Good afternoon,’ and ‘Hallo, Roo,’ and Roo asked them to look at him jumping, so they stayed and looked. And Kanga looked too…
Rabbit winked at Pooh twice.
‘Oh, Kanga,’ said Pooh, ‘are you interested in Poetry at all?’
‘Hardly at all,’ said Kanga. ‘Roo, dear, just one more jump...’
‘Go on,’ said Rabbit in a loud whisper behind his paw.
‘Talking of Poetry,’ said Pooh, ‘I made up a little piece this morning. It went like this. Er – now let me see – ’
‘Fancy!’ said Kanga. ‘Now Roo, dear – ’
‘You’ll like this piece of poetry,’ said Rabbit.
‘You must listen very carefully,’ said Rabbit.
‘So as not to miss any of it,’ said Piglet.
‘Oh, yes,’ said Kanga, but she still looked at Baby Roo.
Pooh gave a little cough and began but Kanga didn’t listen. ‘Just one more jump, Roo, dear, and then we really must be going.’
Rabbit gave Pooh a hurrying-up nudge.
‘Talking of Poetry,’ said Pooh quickly ‘have you ever noticed that tree over there?’
‘Where?’ said Kanga. ‘Now, Roo –’
‘Right over there,’ said Pooh, pointing behind Kanga’s back.
‘No,’ said Kanga. ‘Now jump in, Roo, dear, and we’ll go home.’
‘You must look at that tree right over there,’ said Rabbit. ‘Shall I lift you, Roo?’ And he picked up Roo in his paws.
‘I can see a bird in it from here,’ said Pooh. ‘Or is it a fish?’
And then at last Kanga turned her head to look. And that moment Rabbit said loudly ‘In you go, Roo!’ and Piglet jumped into Kanga’s pocket, and Rabbit ran off, with Roo in his paws, as fast as he could.
‘Why, where’s Rabbit?’ said Kanga, turning round again. ‘Are you all right, Roo, dear?’
Piglet made a squeaky Roo-noise from the bottom of Kanga’s pocket.
‘Rabbit had to go away,’ said Pooh. ‘I think he thought of something he had to do suddenly.’
‘And Piglet?’
‘I think Piglet thought of something at the same time. Suddenly.’
‘Well, we must go home,’ said Kanga. ‘Good-bye, Pooh.’ And in three large jumps she away.
Pooh looked after her as she went. ‘I wish I could jump like that,’ he thought.
But Piglet didn’t think so. As he went up in the air he said, ‘Ooooooo!’ and as he came down he said, ‘Ow!’ all the way to Kanga’s house.
Of course as soon as Kanga unbuttoned her pocket, she realized everything. Just for a moment, she thought she was frightened, and then she knew she wasn’t: for she was quite sure that Christopher Robin could never let any harm happen to Roo. So she said to herself, ‘If they are having a joke with me, I will have a joke with them.’
‘Now then, Roo, dear,’ she said, as she took Piglet out of her pocket. ‘Bed-time.’
‘Aha!’ said Piglet, as well as he could after his Terrifying Journey. But it wasn’t a very good ‘Aha!’ and Kanga didn’t seem to understand what it meant.
‘Bath first,’ said Kanga in a cheerful voice.
‘Aha!’ said Piglet again, looking round anxiously for the others. But the others weren’t there. Rabbit was playing with Baby Roo in his own house, and felt more fond of him every minute, and Pooh, who decided to be a Kanga, was still at the sandy place on the top of the Forest, practising jumps.
‘It wouldn’t be a good idea,’ said Kanga, ‘to have a bath this evening. Would you like that, Roo, dear?’
Piglet, who wasn’t really fond of baths, said in as brave a voice as he could:
‘Kanga, I see it’s the time to speak plainly.’
‘Funny little Roo,’ said Kanga, as she got the bath-water ready.
‘I am not Roo,’ said Piglet loudly. ‘I am Piglet!’
‘Yes, dear, yes,’ said Kanga soothingly. ‘And imitating Piglet’s voice too! So clever of him,’ she went on, as she took a large piece of yellow soap out of the cupboard. ‘
‘Can’t you see?’ shouted Piglet ‘Haven’t you got eyes? Look at me!’
‘I am looking, Roo, dear,’ said Kanga rather strictly. ‘And you know what I told you yesterday about making faces. If you go on making faces like Piglet’s, you will grow up to look like Piglet. Now then, into the bath.’
Before he knew where he was, Piglet was in the bath, and Kanga began to scrub him with a large lathery flannel.
‘Ow!’ cried Piglet. ‘Let me out! I’m Piglet!’
‘Don’t open the mouth, dear, or the soap goes in,’ said Kanga. ‘What did I tell you?’
‘You – you – you did it on purpose,’ spluttered Piglet, when he could speak again… and then accidentally had another mouthful of lathery flannel.
‘That’s right, dear, don’t say anything,’ said Kanga, and in another minute Piglet was out of the bath, and Kanga began to rub him dry with a towel.
At that moment there was a knock at the door.
‘Come in,’ said Kanga, and in came Christopher Robin.
‘Christopher Robin, Christopher Robin!’ cried Piglet. ‘Tell Kanga who I am! She keeps saying I’m Roo. I’m not Roo, am I?’
Christopher Robin looked at him very carefully, and shook his head.
‘You can’t be Roo,’ he said, ‘because I’ve just seen Roo. He is playing in Rabbit’s house.’