Ch+8



__**Execises.**__

1. What is "trespassing"? 2. Why did the caretaker disappear instead of chucking the friends into the river as he had threatened? 3. Do you think people should sing at a party if they are asked to? In what case had they better not? 4. What do you think of the importance of the words of a song? 5. What do you think of the joke two students played on Jerome and his friends? 6. Must people openly admit that they don't know something or other or needn't they? Ask your friend who is putting on airs, to sing a song.
 * I. ** **Write out the words and phrases the author uses to describe the way Harris sang a comic song. Use them in the discussion of the episode.**
 * II. ** **Translate into Russian in written form the last paragraph on p. 91 ("Caesar ... altogether.") Speak of the historical allusions made by the author.**
 * III. ** **Pick out a passage for oral translation in class.**
 * IV. ** **Pick out sentences with a touch of humour. Comment on the character of humour.**
 * V. ** **Make up 20 questions about the contents of the chapter.**
 * VI. ** **Answer the following questions and motivate your answers:**
 * VII. ** **Give a precis of the chapter.**
 * VIII. ** **Make up a dialogue on the following topic:**

[] JEROME K. JEROME. THREE MEN IN A BOAT[|1]