Ch+7



__** Exercices. **__ 1. What clothes did George, Jerome and Harris wear? 2. What did Jerome think of the way girls ought to be dressed in a boat? 3. What was the trouble Jerome had once with two overdressed girls on a water picnic? 4. Why did their behaviour unnerve Jerome? 5. How did the young man who relieved him start rowing and what did he do when he spread more than a pint of water over the girls' dresses? 6. Why did the girls have a bad time at lunch? 7. What did Bow make them do after lunch? 8. Why did Jerome object to going to see Mrs. Thomas's tomb? 9. What did Harris think of George's job? 1. What do you think one should wear during a river trip? 2. Was Bow as dense-headed as he seemed to be? 3. At whose expense does Jerome laugh when he writes of people's interest in tombs? [] JEROME K. JEROME. THREE MEN IN A BOAT[|1]
 * I. ** **Write out the words and phrases used by the author to describe the clothes people wore during a river trip. Use them in your answers to the questions (Ex. V.).**
 * II. ** **Translate into Russian in written form the 2-nd paragraph on p. 72 ("The river ... than a belt").**
 * III. ** **Pick out a passage in colloquial style for oral translation in class.**
 * IV. ** **Pick out sentences with a touch of humour. Say how the humorous effect is achieved.**
 * V. ** **Answer the following questions:**
 * VI. ** **Answer the following questions and motivate your answers:**
 * VII. ** **Give a precis of the chaptef.**
 * VIII. ** **Make up dialogues between:**
 * 1) Two inexperienced boaters making a river trip.
 * 2) Two lazy youngsters who are reluctant to wash up after their lunch on the bank of the ri/er.