In the text below it is the young daughter who teaches her mother a lesson of wisdom. Can the young know better?
I think that in some ways the younger generation undoubtedly understands better. For example, in feelings. Whether it's love or joy. These things cannot be analyzed, they are sincere and come from the heart. And adults, as a rule, like to analyze everything. But you do not need to analyze to be really happy. Just open your heart and enjoy your life. Just such moments, as given in the text, fill our life with the beauty. True happiness is in the small things.
Exercise 1. Choose the right variant:
1) - B
2) - C
3) - C
4) - B
5) - B
Exercise 2. Match the halves, translate the phrases into Russian and reproduce the episodes where they were used:
1) - D) spilled gold - разлитое золото (жидкое золото)
2) - E) perilous highway - опасная дорога/шоссе
3) - B) radiant bloom - яркий цвет
4) - F) bleak day - мрачный день
5) - A) magenta breasts - пурпурная грудь
6) - C) flutter of jewels - побрякивание драгоценностей
Exercise 3. Find in the extract the equivalents of the following words and phrases and make up your own sentences using them:
1) оранжево-розовый цвет - salmon
- I want my nails salmon color.
2) процветание - full bloom/bonanza
- Tulips are in full bloom.
3) резвиться, проказничать - frolic
- My dog was frolic.
4) гореть ярким пламенем, сиять, сверкать - blazed/blaze of glory
- I see a red blaze.
5) наклонный, покатый - sloping
- I walked across the sloping bank.
6) опрокидываться - tip
- The dish was tipped.
7) неохотно, без желания - reluctantly
- I reluctantly went home.
8) луковица цветка - bulb
- I planted Tulip bulbs.
1. What does this piece of contemporary writing remind you of in terms of its genre? Suggestions: fairy tale, fantasy, fable, parable, novelette, essay, sketch. How are they different?
О чем напоминает этот фрагмент современного письма с точки зрения его жанра? Предложения: сказка, фантазия, басня, притча, новелла, эссе, очерк. Чем они отличаются?
Novelette.
2. What is the message of the text? Does it appeal to you?
Какого послание текста? Нравится ли оно вам?
To show the beauty of the world and that everyone can do it.
3. Writers often resort to basic human senses in their descriptions, e.g. colour contrasts, to strengthen the impression and clarify the message. Collect all the adjectives of colour to illustrate the author's method.
Писатели часто прибегают к основным человеческим чувствам в своих описаниях, например, цветовым контрастам, чтобы усилить впечатление и прояснить послание. Соберите все прилагательные цветов, чтобы проиллюстрировать авторский метод.
4. What kind of graphical means is used and why?
Какие графические средства используются и почему?
Red line, punctuation, font tools.
There must / can’t be universal recipes for absolute success and happiness.
Должны/Не должны быть универсальные рецепты абсолютного успеха и счастья.
Maybe it exists. But I think that such things too individual. Because we are all different and everyone of us have his own picture of happiness.
