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Extensive reading UNIT 7
Unit 7

1 Listen to the succession of sounds from the tape.

1 Write down the associations you have.
2 Report them in class.
3 Compare and see how many of you have the same associations.

2 A. Read these words aloud and match them to the sounds from the tape.

a) murmur
e) scream

b) twitter
f) roar

c) rustle [.........................]
g) crack

d) sigh ..................
h) shriek

B. Match the words from ex. 2A to the Russian words imitating sounds.
More than one match is possible.

1 воздух                      2 шелест                   3 щебетание                 4 рык                    5 крик

6 журчание                7 треск                      8 шорох                           9 вопль                10 визг

C. Read this description aloud. Try to be as expressive as possible.
Answer questions 1 and 2.

A SOUND OF THUNDER 2

The jungle was wide and full of twittering, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs.
Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door.
Silence.
A sound of thunder.
Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex.
':Jesus God," whispered Eckels.
"Sh!"

1.  Pay attention to the
length and structure
of the sentences.
What is special here?

2. What sounds domi-
nate in this passage?
Why?

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D. Need the rest of the text quickly.
. Ignore the words or phrases that you can't understand,
. Try to get the gist.
. Answer questions 3-8 alongside the text.

The Monster at the first motion lunged forward with a terrible scream. It covered one hundred yards in four seconds, The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime (слизь) and old blood. The monster roared, teeth glittering with sun.

Eckels, not looking back, walked blindly to the edge of the Path, his gun limp in his arms, stepped off the Path, and walked into green moss, His legs moved him, and he felt alone and remote from the events behind.
 
The rifles cracked again. Their sound was lost in a shriek and lizard thunder.

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Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche (лавина), Tyrannosaurus fell.

Thundering, it clutched trees, pulled them with it. It wrenched and tore the metal Path. The men flung themselves back and away. The body hit, ten tons of cold flesh and bone.

The thunder faded.

The iunole was silent. After the avalanche. a areen oeace, After the niahtmare, mornina.

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In the Time Machine, on his face, Eckels lay shivering. He had found his way back to the Path and climbed into the Machine.

They cleaned their hands and faces, They changed their shirts and pants.

Eckels was up and around again, not speaking.

The machine stopped.
"Get out," said Travis.

The room was there as thev had left it. But not the same as thev had left it. The same man sat behind the same desk, But the same man did not Quite sit behind the same desk.

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Travis looked around swiftly, "Everything okay here?" he snapped. "Fine. Welcome home!"

Eckels stood smelling the aiL And there was a feel, His flesh twitched. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body.
 
But the immediate thing was the sign painted on the office wall, the same sign he had read earlier today on first entering.
 
Somehow the sign had changed:

1YME SEFARIINC.
SEFARIS TU ANYYEER EN THE PAST.
YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.
WEE TAEK YU THEIR.
YU SHOOT ITT.  карт

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Eckels felt himself fall into a chair. He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots, He held up a clod of dirt. trembling, "No, it can't be, Not a little thing like that. No!"

Embedded in the mud. alistenina areen and aold and black. was a butterflv. verv beautiful. and verv dead.

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"Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!" cried Eckels.
 
It fell on the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominos and then gigantic dominos, all down the years across Time.

His face was cold, His mouth trembled. asking: "Who - who won the presIdential election yesterday?"

The man behind the desk laughed, "You joking? You know damn well. Deutscher, of course! Who else? Not that damn weakling Keith. We got an iron man now, a man with outs , by God." The official stopped. "What's wrong?"

Eckels moaned. He dropped to his knees. He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with'shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again?
Can't we start aver? Can't we -"

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E. Complete the summary of the story:

A few hunters ... and
One of them, Eckels by name, was so frightened that he...
On returning back they found that...
Eckels found a ... which he ... when...

3 In pairs discuss and report in class the theme of the story.
Choose the wording that you think is most suitable.

a) Killing butterflies can change the results of a presidential election.
b) Everything in the world is interconnected, We ought to be very cautious
when doing things that cannot be undone.
c) Do not change anything in the Past. It can change the Future.
d) A man went on a safari to the Past with a Time Machine. He was frightened by a dinosaur. At that time the wrong man was elected President back in the Future.
 
4 Do one of the tasks below.

· Write your opinion of the story "A Sound of Thunder" by R. Bradbury. (200 words)
. Write your own story dealing with the same theme, (200 words)
· Read the opening paragraph of what might be Part 3 of "A Sound of Thunder".
Finish it. (200 words)

The jungle was high and the Jungle was broad and the tungle was the entire world forever. Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls with gray wings...
Eckels, balanced on the narrow Path, carefully, very carefully placed the yellow petals of the wings on the green moss...

LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Discussmg a text

I agree that...
I disagree that..,
If you look at ... you'll
see...
I can support it with...
The evidence for it is..

O. Л. Гроза, О. Б. Дворецкая, Н. Ю. Казырбаева, В. В. Клименко, М. Л. Мичурина, Н. В. Новикова, Т. Н. Рыжкова, Е. Ю. Шалимова, Английский язык нового тысячелентия, Учебник английского языка для 10 класса общеобразовательных учреждений. — 2-е изд. — М. Титул, 2004. — 175 с, ; ил.

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