Lesson 35 Reading lesson Miss Honeys house Miss
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Lesson 35 Reading lesson “Miss Honey’s house” • Miss Honey is a teacher in a small school in R. Dahl's book Matilda. One day she invited her pupil Matilda to her house. • Guess what house she lived in.
Check if you've guessed right. • Matilda saw a narrow path to a tiny cottage. The cottage was so small, it looked like a doll's house. There were two little windows at the front and there was no upstairs to the place. On either side of the path there was long brown grass. A big tree stood near the cottage. Matilda was a bit frightened of this place now. It seemed so unreal and fantastic and so totally away from the earth (далеко от земли). It was like an illustration in Grimm* or Hans Andersen. * It was the house where Hansel and Gretel lived and where Red Riding Hood's (Красная Шапочка) grandmother lived and it was the house of the Seven Dwarfs (гномы) and the Three Bears. It was straight out of the fairy tale.
Choose the correct answer. • A tiny house means a small house. a doll's (кукольный) house. a colossal house. • Miss Honey lived in a doll's house. in a cottage. in a fairy-tale house. • The house was in a big city. in the country. away from the earth. • Miss Honey lived with the Seven Dwarfs. with Hansel and Gretel. alone.
• How did the author describe the house? What adjectives did he use? Narrow - wide - big small - big little - short long big - small, little unreal - real fantastic - normal, real • What are the antonyms to them?
Use your antonyms and put them in the description. What house did you get? The cottage was so (1) _______ that it looked like a (2)_____house. There were two (3)_____windows at the front. A (4) _____ tree stood near the cottage. It seemed so (5) _____ and (6) ____ and so totally away from the earth. • Who could live in such a house? (Кто мог бы жить в таком доме? )
Miss Honey invited Matilda to come in. a) Put in the missing words and you will know how the room looked like. kitchen You can come to the (1) _____ and help me to make the kitchen tea, " Miss Honey said, and they went into the (2) ____. It was not much bigger than a clothes cupboard and there was one small window (3)_____in the wall. shelf Near another wall there was a (4) _____ for preparing food shelf and a (5) _____above (над) the (6) _____. cupboard They made tea and Miss Honey said, "Let's have it in the living room (7)_____" and she went to the other room. The room was small and bare as a prison cell (пустая, как тюремная камера). The daylight (свет) window came from a tiny (8) _____ in the front wall, but curtains there were no (9) ______. The only objects in the room were boxes three wooden (деревянный) (10) ______. That was all. There pictures carpet were no (11) _____ on the walls, no (12) ____ on the floor. boxes Miss Honey put the tray (поднос) on one of the (13) _____. "Sit down, my dear, sit down, " she said, "and we'll have a nice hot cup of tea. " • Listen to the story to check.
Which picture can be an illustration to this story? Why? • Was Miss Honey rich or poor? Why do you think so?
Role play. Imagine that Miss Honey has her new house look like? I've moved to a new house. There are. . . rooms there. There is. . . , . . . and. . I've bought. . I. . . new curtains. I. . . a lot of tasty meal. And I've invited all my friends.
